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Hi all.

Anyone use 400 colour neg film in 5x4? Can it still be got OK?

Cheers
Richard

Thanks for that Tristan, and all the best if you decide to dabble with those sorts of subjects. Loads of cctv, security etc in certain places.
Richard

Some more updates, this time in Transport and electricity. Had one or two interesting encounters with security staff. They dont like it when you photograph their power stations. Seems if you went in for long shots from roads and paths at a distance all would be OK, but get too near and there is a po...

What a coincidence. That is something that has been bugging me also recently - I think the geezer that did the site originally must have tack sharp eyes. The text colour/size is on the (ever expanding) list of things I need to change.
Cheers
Richard

Just thought I'd mention that since I first posted the original I've done more serious tweaking. All due to my lazyness in not keeping up with monitor calibration. A lot of the images looked great on my soon to be kicked out old monitor, bur really weedy on a decent monitor, so I've resized and reba...

For one thing, I'm glad colour film users maintain their film is tops, even though it only seems that way if it's digitised then printed. I can see that gives great tweakability of an image, something maybe a little complex to achieve in a darkroom unless your printing skills are great, or you have ...

So far it seems like colour film users are coming up with decent reasons, and I'd include a lot of those reasons and more when it comes to black and white film, and a big part of that is the actual print. As an example, on a recent trip I took the same shot as a mate of mine. I used Foma 100 in 5x4,...

It would be interesting to find out the youngest person here who willingly goes for film and large format. I'm 52.

Hi all First off I dont want to appear at all inflamatory by asking this, but I'd be interested to hear from other users as to why exactly is it you still use film. I'm always being asked this, and it does get me thinking. For myself it's ..... The money! I can't afford high end digital and computer...

Just done a bit of updating/tweaking, brushed off a few cobwebs. Some stuff that may be of interest from one LF'er to other LF'ers. I think my site is short of a bit of a culling though, I'm not too logical with layout, but anyway http://www.richard-littlewood.com

Julian
Skelmanthorpe, that is close by. Do the locals still refer to it as 'Shat'. Never quite understood that. If ever you fancy popping over to have a peep at my darkroom let me know.
All the best
Richard

Joanna I've tried to steer away from those highly active developers for rotary deving, although like a lot of photo chemical routes there are plenty of folks who have the results they want doing just the opposite. Personally if I were to be asked what to do from scratch, very much like the OP, with ...

For starters a decent neg that suits scanning and printing are a bit similar. Scanners seem to like no real hollow dark areas (clear neg) of a pic, or any real dense areas, so thinking a bit on the lines of making a softer neg is no bad idea. Exposing B+W film can become a science in itself - if you...

Oops!, too late at night, forgot to mention that after deving those first 3 sheets to establish N, there should be no problem with shadow detail, exposure will have taken care of that. The issue here is high detail. If all 3 sheets have (printable and scanable) blocked highs, then reduce dev time by...

I've the same set up as you and I've done stacks of FP4, T-max and now I'm on to Foma 100 - a delicious film if ever there was one. It's a tiresome route to nailing down precise dev times, but a Jobo sure helps with that. You will find out that some developers work better rotary than others. Pyro is...