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Yeah, I have a new mac so I guess I have to find a firewire adapter. I don't know how I could go back to a version before Mojave (the one I have), but I'll look around. Thanks for the info Ben.

Great picture and scan! So which scanner did you use to scan this? Some of the scanners you mentioned only do medium format, eg, the canoscan 9000, did you stitch the image from multiple scans? Thanks, Peter

Thanks Doug and Ben for the quick reply and mentioning used scanners. I actually started looking for used scanners on ebay but I heard horror stories about how it's impossible to run them because their driver requires an old operating system, etc. What's your experience?

Hi All, I'm an amateur experimenting with 4x5 photography. Does anybody know if there is a camera club in the Philadelphia area that has a "digital darkroom"? - I would rather pay a membership fee and be part of a community than pay for an expensive scanner for a format that I'm not yet fully committed to. I checked a few places in the area that have scanning services, but the price of $12 a sheet is ridiculous (have about 30 sheets that I want to scan that I developed myself). I also tried the digital camera approach but I'm not getting great results for some reason and it's very time consuming. Thank you. Peter

I have the same workflow, except for 6x7. I use a tablet to backlight my negatives on a cheapo printer/scanner (canon/pixma). I know it sounds tacky, but for choosing frames to enlarge or for sending it to family members is much better than you would think. I am OCD for printing but I don't care about scanning for these 2 purpose.

Projection Print Scale, Projection Light Meter, I need to look into those.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. I received a lot of useful info. Yesterday I made more prints, this time paying attention to time. The prints turned out to be the same because it turns out I was pretty close to the recommended times when I was working "by eye". Don't get me wrong, I 100% agree to and have accepted your advice. So in my paper/developer/exposure combination it goes like this: after first 5-10 secs patches start to appear and at about 40s the development seems to stop. The recommended dev time is 1 min, and I am pretty sure I developed each print that long. Again thanks for the feedback.

Hi, Yesterday, I started printing my black and white images as a hobby. I did this as a teenager 25 years ago, but haven't done analog photography for many years. Most images came out nice, but some had harsh highlights that needed burning. I was able to fix some of the highlights pretty well, but only if the area to be burned was large and was able to cover the rest of the image with simple tools. When I was done with the session, and was packing my stuff, I realized in hindsight that I had not followed the recommended development times for the paper (ilford multigrade). Instead, I was watching the image develop and when I thought the images kind of stopped changing, I proceeded to stop/fix. So my question is, is it a good practice to let the paper develop as long as recommended by the documentation (regardless of whether I see anything changing under the soft red light) in the hopes that some of the highlights will develop more detail? Thank you, Peter