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For those of you who might be interested, the 48 x 51cm polarizing gels produced by Rosco come with an info. sheet from which the following extracts are taken. Quote - " To cross polarize, place the gels in front of the lights so that their axes are pointed in the same direction.....place the light...

I don't know if the SB800 is really powerful enough even for fill-in with LF as typically we use f22 or slower – but perhaps you shoot wider open – but as long as you can connect the flash unit to a PC socket it will "work". All the fancy electronics will be wasted though! You would be best revertin...

I don't know how far you intend to walk to carry out your landscape photography but bear in mind that the 'faster' a lens is, the heavier it is. The f4.5 90mm lens is a hefty brute, the f5.6 is not much better. As always it's a trade-off between weight/cost/convenience.


Richard

I'm just waiting for the Sheffield contingent to complain about being lumped in with the North West....



Richard

DJ wrote:How lucky you are to have so much choice of scenery on your doorstep, it's all a bit flat round my neck of the woods...

Ah, but we have great skies.....

Wouldn't it be just great if we didn't have to pay taxes. Just imagine it ...... :-) Yeah, just think: no army or police to protect us from our enemies, no roads or other transport infrastructure, no free schooling, no free health care, no unemployment benefit. No civilisation. Wonderful. Richard

Fortunately for me Reflections in Norwich is still functioning with both C41 and E6 lines. Long may they continue.

I don't think the perception of aesthetics is changing that much, for the simple reason that everyone follows this attitude of "whatever pleases me is right". The community does not have much of a chance to evolve if the artist is locked in upon himself. It mainly progresses by sudden leaps as indi...

I found this link : http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com/index.html What can I say ? To me they are photographs of works of art, but are they artistic photographs ? I'm not sure they're either, or rather they're both. From what I could gather reading the text on the site, the works are specifically c...

In the last week or so, I have been embroiled in a protracted thread on the French forum. I was wanting to find out what areas of photography were popular in France and how much effort they put into getting their work published, only to find out that nothing is simple. I hardly got past answer 1 be...

Just to throw in my 2p worth...I use a 90mm f8 S/Angulon on an MPP mk7 with a plain ordinary flat lensboard without any problems. Can also use (some) rising front with out having to hack away at the top of the casing. Assuming the Fuji back end is similar to the S/A then you should be able to use it...

Yikes! f90! Yes I would say you are indeed getting into serious diffraction problems. Try not go below f32, or f45 at a pinch (yes I know Weston et al called themselves the f64 group, but...). If the enlargement is properly focused the grain should be sharp even if the image isn't. Assuming you can ...

It's a good while since I used a 10x8 enlarger but no matter. I used a Kamm with a cold cathode head rather than a condenser head, but the principles are the same. Yes 300mm is the correct focal length for an enlarging lens – ideally one computed for up to say 4-5x enlargement – though you could use...

I have heard that he is, errr, snowed under with orders...

And yes, it seems he has had a major falling out with APUG/Sean.





Richard

I too use a Combiplan. Once you get the hang of loading it, allow for the slow input/draining of solutions (I make sure dev time is 10mins+) aand remember to agitate it in line with the film (as stated above). I also found a tendency to leak 'juice' while agitating – cure that by arranging to have t...