josh_randall

If you have done any experiments on film, paper, or anything else. If you have it posted online and wouldn't mind if I put a link from your site on my page, then please respond to this message with your site's url. all experiments and tests welcome. thanks.

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p.s. once i have the page up and running i will e-mail all of you that posted links and let you know. thanks agian for helping me try and add something worthwile to photography on the web.

Hello, I am compiling a website of photographic research and tests. If you have done any experiments on film, paper, or anything else. If you have it posted online and wouldn't mind if I put a link from your site on my page, then please respond to this message with your site's url. all experiments and tests welcome. thanks.

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p.s. once i have the page up and running i will e-mail all of you that posted links and let you know. thanks agian for helping me try and add something worthwile to photography on the web.

Microdol-x without a doubt. Gives me fine grain and plenty of

developing time to play with contrast. will post times and temp when

i find them.

James and Daniel,

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Must we bicker and argue. From the way I read it, Daniel was just

giving us information he found in his experiment (and ALL experiments

are valuable). I did not see him trying to convince me one way or

the other. Yes you are right James, his experiment was flawed in

many aspects and I would never use his finding to govern my

photography. On the otherhand, don't you ever just wanna know what

will happen if you do x to y? That's half the fun of darkroom work.

Everything doesn't always have to be scientifically sound, as James

warns, as long as you don't take your data and live by it.

Good luck to both of you in your photographic ventures.

I'm not really an old timer, seeing as I am still in my twenties, but

here's a tip that has always worked for me: Don't bother getting the

film into the leader clip. It's not worth the hassle. I just hold

the end of the film agianst the spool of the reel with my index

finger, and start leading the film onto the reel with the other

hand. Once I have almost all the film on the reel, I gently pull the

film forward to ensure that the film at the start is in the grooves

too and not touching itself. Finally I wrap the last bit of film on

the reel. whuala! The most important thing about steel reels is

this. IF THEY ARE BENT THEY ARE #$%^#-ING IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH!!

So when you buy reels be sure to lay them out on a flat surface

before you leave the store so as to ensure they are flat and level.

Good luck.