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I've changed my digi camera, to black and white only..so do not discard too many...but with 5x4 and half plate I don't discard at all.. I think what it is, is that with one shot only you really look at what your taking. and you are much more careful when you process it.

bob

hi andrew, its just based on two boxes made with 2mm ply and 5mm board, one box fits to a 5x4 dark slide and the smaller box slides inside. so you can make a rough focus, then it's fastened and final adjustment is made with the lens focus. I made a focus screen by replacing the centre of a dark slid...

That caffenol is looking nice Neil,. As soon as I get my darkroom set up, I'm going to try some with paper negs., I've some old Agfa 10x8 here which can be the first victim

regards
bob

charles, making ground glass is easy. you need two pieces of glass. cut to the right size. then you need the stuff [carborundum] that people use to polish stones with. put one piece of glass on a pad of newspaper. put some of the powder and a little water on it. and then make a sandwich with the oth...

the new gimp 2.8 will support the import of 16bit raw files ,it's due for release at the end of the year????????
but what it does with the 16bits it does not say. see this link
http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp ... april-2010

regards
bob

That is very nice neil, shows a lot of skill and hard work

bob

Neil,
there good... what formula did you use?. I've got a out of date 35mm colour film in the canon which when used up will be developed in coffee

bob

Looks good Neil...looking forward to the rest

bob

Look forward to it.Will get my train pass out, and visit Arts bank Which I've been meaning to to do for sometime/

bob

neil
you need to get a good instant coffee ,Nescafe, I used some own brand cheapo stuff and it didn't work/

bob

coffee and washing soda is about the cheapest developer you can get

http://www.caffenol.org/

not sure about fixer.

bob

I like
1 The strong diagonal
2 the texture and detail in the pier
3 that includes the shadow detail
4 the quality of the light in the sky.

so it looks like I'm going to get my train pass out. and have a look around

bob

Evan,
I really like that little 6X9 camera...I've just one question.. What do you use to hold the film? did you make your own holder .. or Buy one??


bob

Just a thought.. did you invert the negs in the scanner? or in image software,? I find I can get better results if I do it in the software ..GIMP in my case...

bob

Neil.
I've got a simlar lens and shutter,mine came off a voightlander, and it does cover 5X4 ok, but it's not coated
so I've never tried it with colour film, But Black and white reformance is ok.

bob