This is a thing of beauty!
On Monday when we returned from break, we received a nice delivery. There are now over 100 rolls of Kodak Tri-X film in our possession. Where were you when we were handing these out?
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LEARNING THE CAMERA: The Details of the Shutter
Most of you know that the button on the top right magically takes a picture when you press it; what you may not know is how that button controls the shutter. I have written the second handout pertaining to film exposure that I mentioned in Saturday’s entry. We will spend Friday’s lab time learning the…
LEARNING THE CAMERA: The Details of the Lens
For those of you who only recently joined our group shutterbugs, I have taken the liberty of expanding the old camera basics post with a newly-expanded handout dealing with the basics of the camera lens; another handout detailing the use of the camera shutter will be coming soon. This is quite a long handout topping…
Regarding the paper development issues we’ve been having lately…
After doing a bit of research and doing some experiments in the darkroom today, I think I’ve come to realize that the problem we’re having is that our chemicals have been sitting here too long. This doesn’t mean that they went bad, it just means that we need to decrease the water dilution a bit.…
FILM DEVELOPMENT: Step-by-Step Temperatures and Times
I drew up the final handout for the film development portion of the class that discusses optimal development times and temperatures. If you want to take a look at it, the handout is here in PDF form. Please print a copy of it and keep it for future reference or ask me for a copy for…
In This Entry: I spend over $2k of someone else’s money.
I was told we have 24 hours to spend $25k but I can’t possibly spend that much on things we won’t need so we went through the darkroom during class yesterday and compiled a list of things we needed and proceeded to budget out how we were going to spend so much money on camera…
FILM DEVELOPMENT: Loading The Film Reel
I have made a step-by-step handout showing how to load the film reels, for those of you who haven’t got around to sticking around for that particular lesson or simply want to have detailed instructions. These will also be on the wall of the sink room in case you need them for immediate reference when…
Supply shipment
Mike’s Quality Camera came through with our new stuff today. 24 rolls of Kodak TX-400 film, two steel film retrievers (the best there is), D76 concentrated developer, concentrated stop bath, and four 25-packs of 35-mm archive sleeves. Those of you who want to try your hand with another roll of film before we go into…
Accidental Masterpieces
“There are no accidental masterpieces in painting, but there are accidental masterpieces in photography” – Chuck Close, painter & photographer
Chemistry
As you guys could see in class today (for those of you who showed up) the chemistry while being a reasonably exact science, is not very difficult. I realize that there is a lot of numbers to learn but we just have to make sure we read the directions on the developers we use. The…