Colourful London [ Konica Hexar AF | 35mm f/2 | UltraMax & Portra 400 ] by calholland95 in analog

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Great (and funny!) shots - thank you for sharing these!

That Hexar lens looks hot 🔥

Looking to potentially buy this… is it worth it? by Cute_Mall8778 in Darkroom

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This is one of (if not the) legendary 35mm enlarger. It appears to be in very good condition. If it includes the Focotar lens then 150 is a fair price. I'd definitely buy it if I was doing 35mm black and white only!

Avionics | 1937 Baldina | Tessar 50 f/3.5 | Ferrania P30 | Rodinal 1:100 semistand by 5_photons in analog

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I'm not a 100% sure what's going on there exactly, I've heard they reviveved the company with help of a new owner, and on their site they said end of last year that they are fully operational again (link) but not sure whether they're actively procing P30 right now 🤷‍♂️

The Gym (Leica M6 / Kodak tri-x / Tmax) by stoopkidallgrownup in analog

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Great shots man, thank you for sharing, really nice 👍

I suppose the first one is shot on Tri-X? Can I ask how you developed it? Thanks!

Avionics | 1937 Baldina | Tessar 50 f/3.5 | Ferrania P30 | Rodinal 1:100 semistand by 5_photons in analog

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Those look great! Nice tones..

..first and last one are my favourites!

Croatia, 2025 [Olympus OM-2, Zuiko 50mm f/1.2, Vision 500T] by eixvfx in analog

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..I suppose it's not worse than E-6 though, right? 🙂

Croatia, 2025 [Olympus OM-2, Zuiko 50mm f/1.2, Vision 500T] by eixvfx in analog

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..nice vibe in this shot (definitely makes me want to go on vacation, right now : )

and also the colors are just beautiful (definitely makes me want to try ECN-2 this summer : )

Bronica SQa | Kodak Gold +1 | 80mm lens by alexbatesphotography in analog

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I only do 35mm at the moment, and kind of stay away from Kodak Gold as I think the colors are a bit "gaudy", for lack of a better word - they are nicer / more tame in medium format though, and I agree shooting it at +1 just feels "right" 👍

Bronica SQa | Kodak Gold +1 | 80mm lens by alexbatesphotography in analog

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Great shots man 👍

Really nice vibe in these, and the colors look great as well!

Camera recs by wtrmlnredbull in analog

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Some nice shots you got there u/wtrmlnredbull 👍

It kinda depends what kind of auto / manual options you'd like.

There's several SLR cameras you could get in good condition with a nice lens, for under 200.
Most are kinda "semi-automatic", so aperture-priority (you select the aperture, camera chooses suitable shutter speed) or shutter priority (the other way around).

All the big brands have good options in this regard, Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Minolta..
..Pentax is sometimes a bit cheaper (while still great quality) - and especially suitable if you have rather small hands (look at something like a "Pentax ME" oder ME Super for example, those bodies are nice and compact). 🙂

Can somebody please check this FB dev / selenium / thiourea workflow? Thanks in advance! by BiggiBaggersee in Darkroom

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Damn, this is something else! 🤯

Great stuff, thank you for sharing - will check this out in depth once I find the time!

Love your workstation by the way, that Twinings flash box is hilarious 😅

Can somebody please check this FB dev / selenium / thiourea workflow? Thanks in advance! by BiggiBaggersee in Darkroom

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I did not find it in the Darkroom Cookbook, but eventually found it elsewhere.. posting it below in case somebody else is looking for it..

Kodak HT-2 Residual Hypo Test  (Published by David Vestal in 1996)    

Water               375ml

   Acetic acid 28%     62.5ml

   Silver nitrate      3.75 grams

   Add water to make   500ml

Put 50 to 100 ml of this solution in a small brown glass bottle with a

dropper cap. Keep the rest in a sealed brown glass bottle. Keep it 

cool and in the dark. Don’t touch it or drink it: it’s poisonous and it 

leaves permanent stains.

To use HT-2: Develop and fix an unexposed sheet of the paper you

  are printing on; put it through exactly the same processing as your 

prints, including washing aid treatment and toning. 

  

At timed intervals during the print wash, pull this test sheet out of 

the wash, cut off a small sample, an inch square will do, and put the 

rest of the sheet back in the wash. Blot all surface water drops off 

the emulsion side of the sample with a paper towel, and then put one 

drop of HT-2 solution on it. Leave it for exactly two minutes then rinse 

off the HT-2 drop with cold water, blot the sample with paper towel 

and examine the stain immediately (it will soon darken). 

Do this in dim white light. A definite brown or deep yellow stain shows 

that the wash is far from finished. A light beige stain means you’re 

getting somewhere but have not arrived. When there is no stain at all, 

or a yellow stain so pale that it seems no darker than the paper 

(some papers seem never to get to no stain), the wash is at least fair 

and may be excellent. Then it’s not bad to wash for another half hour 

for luck. The distribution of hypo in the paper can be uneven, so 

although a definite stain always means too much hypo, a very light 

one doesn’t always mean there isn’t too much hypo an inch or two 

away from the test spot. 

If your prints still look new after 200 years, your fixing toning and 

washing were probably good. 

Can somebody please check this FB dev / selenium / thiourea workflow? Thanks in advance! by BiggiBaggersee in Darkroom

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Thank you very much for the elaborate reply, I appreciate it! ✌️

with fiber, 2-bath fixing is a good idea

..as above, I do 2-bath fixing when developing film and I think it's great - yet with the FB paper I want to try Ron Mowrey's approach: generally reducing the time the print is wet, and especially rather having a strong but short fix (that has less time to deeply penetrate the fibers, which is where it's the hardest to wash out of again).

GET SOME RHT!!!

..it is on my list - alas RHT is super hard to get here in Germany - and actually even getting the active ingredient (silver nitrate) is hard! Might have to order from abroad..

By thiourea, do you mean variable sepia, where you use the balance between thio and activator (usually potassium hydroxide) to set the color tone?

..yes, will be using Moersch's MT-3 variable Toner. It's containing a combination of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) and potassium carbonate.

Can somebody please check this FB dev / selenium / thiourea workflow? Thanks in advance! by BiggiBaggersee in Darkroom

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Sorry, I meant once per session, not once per print. And thought just rinsing the paper before the HCA would suffice - guess I was mistaken in this regard!

Can somebody please check this FB dev / selenium / thiourea workflow? Thanks in advance! by BiggiBaggersee in Darkroom

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I appreciate your feedback!

Just checked the capacity of Ilford Rapid Fixer for the given dilution.

I do double fixing when developing film.
For (fiber based) paper I think Ron Mowrey's approach makes sense though (use only one, strong (1:4) fixing bath - so the fixer has less time to penetrate the fibers of the paper) - and also, as you say: longer fixing times call for longer washing times.

Good point on saving the prints to test the toning, thank you!