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    This pinhole image shows my roses that have suffered from the heat wave in Melbourne. The smell of smoke and smoke haze from the catastrophic bushfires in Eastern Victoria (East Gippsland) was present when I took this photograph.
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    I wanted a great depth of field and as I photographed it early in the morning it was very still. Even wide open it was hard to focus through the ground glass so a small aperture compensated for lack of definite focus. Since I used my lens cap as the shutter the long exposure compensated for any vibration when I took off the cap and replaced it.
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    Has anyone wired up a portable system? I have a phase one H20 back that I use tethered to my pc or apple desktops. I mount it either on my hasselblad 500C or motorized elx body. I have a hp laptop with firewire port and a belkin external firewire powered port that I intended to use in the field but I could never get this to work for me. Cheers Peter
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    Hi Greg, How have you wired up your portable system? I have a phase one H20 back that I use tethered to my pc or apple desktops. I mount it either on my hasselblad 500C or motorized elx body. I have a hp laptop with firewire port and a belkin external firewire powered port that I intended to use in the field but I could never get this to work for me. Cheers Peter (Kanga)
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    Thanks - glad you like the results. Cheers Peter (Kanga)
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    Alan, I am glad you liked the results. Cheers Peter (Kanga).
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    Hi carbon_dragon, Here is a photo of a negative from the 35mm 36exp roll of CMS20 ii that was developed in 500ml of solution (1cc of concentrated rodinal). It was taken against a cloudy sky with some patches of blue (which accounts for the blue in the shadows). I relied on the exhaustion of the developer in the highlights to help control contrast. When scanned at 4000 dpi the negative is effectively grainless. Cheers Peter (Kanga)
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    POTA a phenidone only developer works with techpan so does very dilute >1:200 rodinal. Caffenol probably would too. Cheers P.
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    Or use electronic flash when possible : ) Cheers Peter (Kanga) P.S. Do you do carbon printing?. I have bought some materials to give it a go.
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    Hi Joe, Yes and No. The only dedicated film scanner (4000dpi optical) I have for when I want a digital file is a 35mm scanner. To me the scans from CMS20 ii almost appear grainless whereas I can see grain in TMax 100. I prefer the look of the CMS20 ii. When I am going bush and want to use film the 35mm system is very compact. When I don't mind the bulk I'll use my 4x5in or 8x10in cameras with the economical fomapan 100 and if I need a scan use my epson v700 flatbed at 2400 dpi. Cheers Peter (Kanga).
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    I must try this sometime - photographers seem to like the results from caffenol. On the adox.de site they mention hc110 as an alternative dev. with an EI of 3 to 6. Cheers Peter
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    Hi what developers have you used and how did the negatives come out? Cheers Peter
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    I shot off a roll of high resolution cms20 ii film exposed at 10 iso and processed it in rodinal at 1:500 dilution at 17 degrees C for 2hours using stand development. I wanted to see whether I could get a range of tones without using the expensive adotech IV developer. The negatives were very thin and the developer exhausted itself in the highlights giving a brown colour to them. However the negatives exhibited a good tonal range. I have attached a photograph taken with my 100mm macro rokkor at f/8 with flash lighting of a hoverfly on a native (Australian) white frangipani flower.
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    Whilst photographing wallaby grass seeds for the National Herbarium of Victoria. I felt like being creative with a couple of species for my own portfolio using new and old methods of photomacrography the first species was Rytidosperma monicola I took this with a reversed 36mm movie camera lens at f/5.6 on 13mm of extension with my canon 7d as a stack of 100 images. When turned upside down the stacked image reminded me of a new guinea man dressed in traditional costume. The other species Rytidosperma caespitosum I took with my 4x5inch view camera using a 121mm angulon lens at a marked aperture of f/45 on 570mm of bellows extension yielding a magnification of 3.7X on the film. I took both the dorsal and ventral views of the seed on different sheets of film. I then scanned and processed the negatives in photoshop. - The set up - peterkinchington.com
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    Hi again Joe, I would rather have low contrast than high contrast negatives as I can compensate with high grade papers (I used to like Gr.5 agfa brovira? paper) or by scanning the neg. and adjusting in photoshop. In Australia we generally have high contrast ambient light. Cheers Peter
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    Hi Joe, I like rodinal because it is forgiving in a variety of circumstances and the concentrate is very long lived. My other go to developer is Beutler's high acutance developer. I am going to try the Pyrocatechol staining developer described in Ansel Adam's book - "The Negative". Cheers Peter
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    Hi Gary, I generally use stand development at 1:100 dilution of rodinal at 20 degrees celsius. So the result I am seeing is attributable to lower temperature. Cheers Peter
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    I recently read that at low temperatures their is less grain/clumping when using rodinal. I found this to be true for Fomapan 100 sheet film when stand developed in 1:100 rodinal at 13 degrees for 2 hours. The following images were developed using this technique. Senescent River Red Gum Lilydale Lake in Fog peterkinchington.com
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    Photo taken with RF3 300mm f/10 process lens. Exposure was 15min @f/90 with fomapan 100. peterkinchington.com
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    Hi Paul, Here is a shot of Treeferns and Mountain Ash in the Dandenong Ranges National Parki. It was taken when their was a light fog/mist. I used Fomapan 100 4x5in with my 300mm process lens at f90 @ 15mins.
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    Hi Robert, Australians were also killed in the missile attack on flight MH-17. Regards Peter
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    Great shot - who was the memorial commemorating! My wife has a Ukranian background. Cheers Peter
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    Very Nice.
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    Hi Ben, I find that if I stick with a film in this case fomapan 100 (arista edu 100) and learn its characteristics that is more important than switching films for relatively minor differences (although I do like Ilford panf 50 and tmax100 in 120 roll film and 35mm format). When Kodachrome was around I used it almost exclusively for all my colour nature work with 35mm format and got to know it characteristics well - I will see how fuji velvia 100 works in large format and learn its characteristics for colour work. If you want to see how I correct for exposure in photomacrography work for fomapan 100 you can see this in my recent article for View Camera Australia. Bye for now, Peter
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