jnanian

What's next, a defense of dust spots as artistic expression?

maybe ?

a dusty and horizon tilted, splotchy, poorly exposed, poorly printed, photograph of something interesting beats a dustless perfect horizon of something uninteresting all day long.

the world isn't going to end because of dust or a tilted horizon line or poorly exposed &c image

I believe that's self explanatory and I've already answered that several times in this thread.

ive read the whole thread and i am not really buying what you are selling.

it doesn't really have much to do with mindfullness but it has to do with

someone uploading what THEY like, and you don't, so you are complaining about it.

And I'ld rather have a forum of differing opinions chime in on subjects like this in hope the folks who do these kinds of things with their photographs will read and be more mindful.

what does being mindful have to do with a straight horizon line ?

It’s (PM) already been suggested on the first page, and ignored....

That dog won’t hunt.....

 

“A little disingenuous to “Like” it there and rant on it here.

Why don’t you simply send her a PM with a little praise and tactful opinion?

We call that other stuff “two faced” around here....”

oops, sorry i must have missed it !

It's No Words forum for a reason. There's millions of images of pretty much the same type of scene and subject. I don't think it's my place to intrude on what amounts to someone else's own journey

i didn't mean in the thread i meant via PM

there is a guy here: https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/autochromes.11665/ ... who is making his own autochromes ...

long lost process made from potato starch. thread started a few years ago and now somebody is doing it..

Hmm... cuz most of them

would wind up in prison...???

http://bayouline.com/o2.gif

i meant style-wise / photographically speaking ..

i wasn't speaking outside the "scope of this thread"

but you do have a point i suppose...

none of the scouts i know now or when i was a kid

pay much attention to the cover of the pamphlet. they

just see " a kid with a camera" nothing more than that.

its too bad beekeeping and bookbinding aren't offered anymore ...

local camera shop ( last one in the area ) said

been selling 300 rolls of film a week ..

manager has been in the photo business a long time

and was happy and surprised ..

no longer for sale

thanks

up for sale is a used toyoview cx45 and a handful of accessories

the camera is the standard with accordion bellows and copal cut hole ( 4cm )

included

bag bellows in box ( excellent almost like new )

deep/recessed lensboard ( 1" ) lens board

speed graphic to 110x110 adapter

ektar lens in a speed graphic lensboard

1 film holder

dark cloth ( black cloth nothing fancy )

$700 + shipping + insurance

PayPal

usps money order, international canadian post money order

thanks!

OP ...

do what you enjoy and enjoy what you do.

why does it matter what someone else is doing ?

You CAN develop Poloroid negatives in the traditional method? Could I ask you to elaborate on how to do this, please? I have several boxes(just about a case) of unopened Poloroid Type 58 film I am hoping to use- but they are all dated 1978, and my late father listed them as "dead?" on the box... If I can develop them normally, it might be a fun experiment!

 

Thanks!

not sure about #58 but #55 film was a panatomic x type film

this flickr thread has a starting point for pan x developing times

Panatomic-X development time | Kodak Panatomic-X | Flickr

i develop by inspection and use either caffenol of something like dektol / ansco 130

good luck!

Have you done camera movements with that lens?

Since it is in the Press Shutter it was probably also salvaged off a Polaroid copy camera.

Have you tried comparing it to a lens like a Symmar or Sironar on the same shot?

hello bob

the speed, has no movements other than whatever rise /shift is on the standard on the toyo, yes, but nothing drastic ..

i don't have a symmar of that focal length, still its image circle isn't as large as a symmar

( i never suggested it was or that it has massive coverage ) ... i don't own a sironar ...

sure the tominon doesn't cover as well as other lenses, .. it won't cover a 5x7 sheet but that's ok ...

when i use it on a 5x7 i expect it to vignette a little ..

polaroid was about 2 minutes away on the other side of the charles. levines used to get a lot of used polaroid copy stuff .. :)

I was hoping someone has first hand knowledge, who had tried it out.

hi john

yes it covers, or at least mine does ...

it came as the "taking-lens" / "attached lens" on my speed graphic ( 4x5 )

when i bought it from e.p. levines back when they were on 150 lincoln street in boston,

i've used it for 30 years on that camera and a toyo view camera with no issues whatsoever ...

a variety of distances from the film plane, portraits, architectural-stuff / site work

and at infinity, never a problem ( negatives and chromes ). its a nice little lens ..

and mine was sold in a self cocking copal type press shutter ...

good luck !

up for sale is a well loved and well used pentax auto 110 KIT

camera ( NOT super )

telephoto lens

portrait lens (50mm )

normal (24 mm )

wide (18mm )

2x teleconverteer

winder ( with usual broken latch, slip zip tie is how i got it, works fine )

manual

leather pouch ( kind of worn )

extra 50mm lens ( scratched )

4 cassettes of unboxed, foil wrapped fujicolor film

b/w available through normal suppliers

film slitters and ways to reload your favorite films a posstbility too

9 assorted filters

37,5 mm ( T43, T86)

25,5mm(S16, UV, SKY LIGHT, S31 )

30,5mm (W21, SKY LIGHT, UV )

recently used

has batteries

see photograph for additional details **

** please note ONLY 4 film cassettes

120+shipping

paypal, will ship world wide

look for an old polaroid passport or portrait camera

all the work is already done for you .. and they cost a lot

less than a speed or crown graphic !

hi gerry

it was a technical discussion, about lighting &c.

critiquing the images or model's choice of eye liner

would like someone going to a mechanic-classes for a technical discussion about

rebuilding a car engine and someone critiquing the style of car or the driver.

they have nothing to do with eachother.

i see and understand what you are saying,but ...

i view mislead to be the same as manipulate

and every image made has been manipulated somehow

whether it was the intent of the person who made it or the "medium" itself.