Re: [pinhole-discussion] Re: New Zone Plate images - 1 more

2001-06-16 Thread Joao Ribeiro
Nice picture, but I still think color works better with ZP :) Joao G.Penate wrote: Have one more image to show you, it is titled Plastic Beauty Pageant and have added it here http://members.home.com/penate/ZP120_2.html Although originally a color image (from the same roll as Kathouse, image

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

2001-06-16 Thread Joao Ribeiro
Hi folks, Have you tried the bleach and redevelopment sistem? I believe it might be a better solution, try http://www.qa63.dial.pipex.com/bleachbleach.htm Hope it helps Joao John Yeo wrote: I've only used it once... to take the stem off a flower against a back blackground. I started by

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

2001-06-16 Thread DAlfrey
If my memory serves me right, I believe Photographers Formulary , in Missoula , Montana, USA offers a compensating reducer, which dissolves the blocked up areas or the highlights first, just the converse of a compensating developer. I have never used the product personally, but have seen a

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

2001-06-16 Thread Richard Heather
Contact print the negs as is. Then scan them. Use the sun if you have to. Theoretically you can use part A of farmer's reducer until the image totally dissolves then redevelop until it looks right. Richard Heather Guy Glorieux wrote: Hi all, I just shot a couple of rolls of 120 BW film with

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

2001-06-16 Thread Kosinski Family
John Sexton gives this problem some thought and possibly offers a solution Kodak Farmers Reducer mixed according to manufacturers' suggestions is not an effective reducer for T-MAX emulsions. If you need to reduce T-MAX films try Kodak Farmer's Reducer R-4a which is included in most formularies.

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

2001-06-16 Thread John Yeo
I've only used it once... to take the stem off a flower against a back blackground. I started by mixing solution A and B together (according to the instructions) and couldn't get it to do anything at all. I asked on usenet, and Richard Knoppow advised to just use solution A alone, then soak the

[pinhole-discussion] Overexposed negatives

2001-06-16 Thread Guy Glorieux
Hi all, I just shot a couple of rolls of 120 BW film with my pinhole camera and they turned out to be massively overexposed (due to my own error). Any suggested treatment from anybody? I hear that the stuff to use is Farmer's Reducer but I've never used it. Does anyone have experience with

[pinhole-discussion] Panoramic Pinhole Plans

2001-06-16 Thread Benno Jones
I recently came into possession of a 5x7 dark slide that has been cut in half to give to approx. 6x17 exposures on a 5x7 piece of film. I have a fairly decent 5x7 camera (Kodak 33a) and would like to use the setup to make some pinhole panoramas. However, once I fashion a pinhole lensboard, I'm

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Re: New Zone Plate images - 1 more

2001-06-16 Thread Mike Vande Bunt
G.Penate wrote: Have one more image to show you, it is titled Plastic Beauty Pageant and have added it here http://members.home.com/penate/ZP120_2.html Nice. I have been surprised and pleased with how well the bw Polaroid shots I have been taking lately (using one of the zone plates you made

[pinhole-discussion] Re: New Zone Plate images - 1 more

2001-06-16 Thread G.Penate
Have one more image to show you, it is titled Plastic Beauty Pageant and have added it here http://members.home.com/penate/ZP120_2.html Although originally a color image (from the same roll as Kathouse, image #59 at http://www.pinholeday.org/exhibition/ ), using photoshop I turned it into a BW to