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I, too, live in Long Beach and used Terry's for A&I. I guess A&I cut many shops like Terry's out of their program as film is taking a hit due to the digital surge.

 

Your best bet is to use A&I mailers; drive to A&I and spend a few hours around there (which I've done); or Pro Photo in Irvine.

 

I came up with a unique solution: I just pretty much quit shooting color and develop my own b/w :)

 

Good luck.

Hahnemuhle Photorag. The best, hands down.

Jobo Expert. Pricey, but well worth it.

Print out this .pdf (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/articles/ZoneDial.pdf), carefully cut out the zone strip below the spotmeter photo on page 1, and use a glue stick to adhere it to the spotmeter. That's what I did, and it works wonderfully. Cost me a sheet of paper and five minutes of time. I didn't have to go anywhere or buy anything. I like solutions like this.

The experience Gary G posted in the thread-starter is what one should expect when shooting icons in popular NP's during the height of tourist season. No icons, no problem. I don't see any other photographers or tourists when/where I make my photographs.

Absolutely! I don't bracket exposure or composition, so the one exposure I make has to be perfect. After I make the exposure, I double check <I>everything</I>: focus, shutter speed/aperture, etc. Doing so has paid off a couple of times, expecially when I'm working quickly and errors of haste are more likely.

I use both (4x5) and develop in Rollo Pyro with a Jobo 3010 drum. Both look extremely similar in tonality, grain, and sharpness, but IMO, Acros is a touch sharper with slightly better contrast using identical developing methods.

 

I only use both to keep my costs down (Acros for long hikes and backpacking and Delta for shorter hikes where weight is less of a concern). If Fuji would release Acros in cut sheets (as I have requested of them in writing) I will cease using Delta.

 

Both are excellent.

Hahnemuhle Photorag has a very pleasing warmth IMO, especially compared to Epsons Archival Matte. Photorag is NOT inexpensive, but it is a great paper and is generally regarded as having the highest dmax.

The site design is simple yet elegant, and I enjoyed many of your images but agree that tighter editing could be done on your landscapes portfolio. It's nice to study landscape photographs from a a part of the world we don't commonly see in landscape photographs. Nice work.

Assuming the output from the printer is on the same paper (for both printers), any differences between the Frontier and the Chromira will be virtually indistinguishable.

<I>That's odd, Michael, Dave's galleries work perfectly for me. Win XP, Netscape 7.1.</I>

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Hmmmm. I'm on Win 2000 Pro, IE 6.0.28, JS enabled. I even lowered my security settings to minimum with no change.

Dave Rodenbaugh: I've tried to access your site through your photo.net links a number of times, and all of your images are improperly linked.

<I>It's a shame, such a great film should be available in every shape, size and form</I>

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I agree completely. I wrote Fuji about releasing it in the U.S., and although I got an ambiguous answer, I don't expect any fast action. I also asked them to get rid of that damn hole in the corner!

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I develop Delta 100 and Acros 100 in Rollo Pyro, and can find virtually little difference between them. Acros appears to have slightly better contrast and smoother grain, but at 'normal' enlargements sizes, I think the prints will appear identical. As a result, I carry Acros QL's on long hikes and backpacks (to save weight) and Delta in regular holders for shorter hikes and less expense.

Forget the Valley and forget car-camping, that is unless you want the typical Yosemite postcard zoo-like experience. Pack your 4x5, head for the high country of the Tuolumne Meadows region, put your pack on, and go for a long walk to make photographs that haven't been seen a zillion times.

 

There's a number of sub-ranges in the Tuolumne region where plenty of different and good photographs can be made, and numerous trails lead in all compass points that won't be packed by hordes of tourons.

With b/w films, I am almost always scanning as positive and inverting in PS. Better results, for sure.

<B>sorry to hijack, but i have to ask: why does nobody want to say the name of that popular auction site?</B>

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If you read his subject title, he's apparently talking about the "e-pay" "action" site. Must be a sister site to ebay. ;)

Your second paragraph answers your own question.

 

My 1.5 year old Epson 7600 is already being technologically surpassed by the 4000. That technology will show up in the wide-format printers shortly. The inks and media have plenty of room for improvement. The biggest problem of course is that the technology is ink ON paper (not IN paper). This results in a horrible outgassing problem with RC papers (glycol outgassing) and gloss differential (or bronzing). These two issues to me are the biggest issues to deal with in inkjet printing technology. Eventually they'll work it out.

 

I've learned that if you hold off waiting for the best *whatever* for the money, you'll never buy. Everything changes constantly. Obsolescence is the only guarantee besides death and taxes (some people have found ways to not pay taxes, but no one has figured out immortality).

Photoshop User published by NAPP is an excellent magazine for Photoshop users (duh!). It used to be only available to NAPP members, but I now see it on the Barnes and Noble shelf every month. The cover price is (gulp!) $9.95. You'd be better off joining NAPP for $99 a year and getting the magazaine included in the membership plus add'l benefits.

<I><B>A warning about velvia though.....its often not used as much in professional photography.</I></B>

 

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You're kidding, right?

<B><I>"It gives detailed descriptions of where to place your tripod"</B></I>

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Does he provide UTM coordinates for the tripod holes? ;)

This kind of stuff is to be expected when you're shooting roadside from the same tripod holes that thousands before you have used.

 

Go for a walk and do something different. I have never had such an encounter, and rarely even see other people.

Ditto. It's Bureau of Livestock and Mining land, so there are campsites and fire rings everywhere. Pick a spot, and save some cash.

<I>At 30,000 feet over arctic Canada, with the purest imaginable sunshine blazing through the cabin window, I took a second look and the contact print was suddenly in a different league.</I>

 

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A case for a totally new and different style of exhibition? :)

Take a look at my post on how I added vial levels to my Shen-Hao: http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=006LIY

 

I believe the vials were acquired from Bender. Bender's site did not list the vials back then but maybe they do now, or you can just call.

If you like Epson's Premium Luster (PL), I strongly suggest you try Ilford's Galerie Smooth Pearl. PL sucks next to this paper. Much better handling of the gloss diff./bronzing issue, better, more durable surface (not prone to scratching and scuffing like PL, even straight off the printer). Photographs simply look better printed on the Ilford paper in a side-by-side comparison with PL.