21 years. That’s how long it’s been since I was last a student here on this campus. I was a kid. A kid with a drinking problem, at that. I don’t remember a lot from my days here, but I do remember always feeling so small on campus. Like, physically small. The campus always felt…
I shot a couple of exposures on TMAX100 film using the Mamiya the day we took photos of Mikala last week. I knew they’d turn out pretty blurry because there was a very limited amount of light we could count on and I was working with a film with abysmally-low ISO. There wasn’t a whole…
Actually, that’s not a request. I need every one of you guys in class as soon as possible. For the next week or so, the school administration needs to run an equipment check on all our cameras and darkroom equipment and I need you guys (if you happen to be reading this) to return the…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Today we learned a very important lesson when doing our agitations with the film tank. For reference as to what I’ll be naming, here is a labeled illustration of the developer tank parts: A lot of these tanks are pretty old and some of them are downright cracked and leaky. So it should come as…