Re: Shooting long range negs?
Many thanks for all the suggestions, which I hope to take up -- within the scope of availabilities of materials here. I know films and papers can be ordered internationally, chemistry is often rather more restricted, even within the US, I note. So using widely sold (?) commercial developers or those I can make from locally available raw chemistry is the path I must pursue. My efforts so far have been directed to table top still lifes with continuous lighting; that's another complication. Last shoot I paralleled the 5x7 320 TXP with 4x5 320 TXP, switching cameras to use the same lighting setup and exposures so that I could make conventional prints from the 4x5s (my enlarger only goes to 4x5). These enlarged prints were very successful by my standards. So I sized and sensitized some Arches Platine (a very skilled Pt Pd printer here in Sydney believes that Arches Platine doesn't need more sizing -- opinions?) and made 3 prints today. They were better, but didn't have the range of the Ilford MG WT versions, which may just demonstrate that the negs didn't either. I'm off tomorrow to shoot a new bunch of negs (well 4 anyway, I only have 2 5x7 film holders at the moment), I'll apply some of the advice from you all. I'm using Fomapan 200 rating it at 100 ISO. Regards - Ross =========================== Ross Chambers Blue Mountains New South Wales Australia maelduin@ozemail.com.au ===========================
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