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  • #31
    Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

    Originally posted by mel View Post
    Dabbled a little in processing Ektachrome slide film years ago. The temp controls had to be very accurate or your film would be ruined.
    Processing temperature had to be +/- 1-degree F. or else you would have color shift so a bucket of ice and a tray of warm water was always necessary in C-6 processing.
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    • #32
      Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

      Originally posted by mel View Post
      Yep, 14 - 83 is old school UHF. Back in the mid and late 1980s, when cell phones were mostly analog, you could pick up random cell phone conversations by tuning into some of the higher channels on the UHF dial of your TV. That was kind of strange fun back in the day.
      I can remember when I was younger, we used to be able to get people's phone conversations through the speakers of our computer. That was always bizarre, especially when you're sitting at the computer and you start to hear voices..

      I ditto your opinion on Holga. I should just simply buy one. The non-flash model is $20. Depending on what you want to do with the camera, not using black tape around it may "add" to the photos with the light streaks intact.
      No matter how much tape I wrapped around my holga, I always had light leaks. It did 'add' to the photo though, you're right. Ah, I've been meaning to add some of my holga photos up in my online store, maybe I'll do that this evening.


      A friend of mine had 2 view cameras. I don't ever recall him using it. Second to that is the Mamiya RB67, which is a giant size 120 roll film camera. I used that a few times to take group shots of people at our school. The big negative cameras allow you to make collosal size photos if you have the paper and room to do it!
      Oh we have two Mamiyas at school -- one is the twin lens reflex and one an SLR. We had six of the medium format cameras altogether, which was wonderful because there were only four students in the photo class! The medium format cameras are trippy though, because you're looking through the viewfinder and everything is reversed. It can take a minute to orient yourself. Especially when you're looking through the view while walking!

      And yes, with the large format cameras we ended up printing on 16x20 paper, but one student in my class chose to print 20x24. Really nice looking.

      Printing black and white may be time consuming (and can be expensive) but I've always enjoyed it. It's relaxing, when I don't have five prints due by the following morning.
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      • #33
        Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

        Originally posted by sophielynette View Post
        Printing black and white may be time consuming (and can be expensive) but I've always enjoyed it. It's relaxing, when I don't have five prints due by the following morning.
        Printing black and white was a passion of mine decades ago. I would come out of the darkroom smelling like Dektol. Everytime I have to go get an X-ray done the familiar smell of that developer wafts thru the air and brings back memories of dodging and burning
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        • #34
          Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

          Yep, long ago I did the whole black and white film developing & print processing. If I remember correctly film developing was with D76 and the print developing was with Dektol, and then fixer, and then stop bath and a wash. I still have several of the photos I made in a box or on albums. Even scanned a few of them so that I have .jpgs to display on my computer and in my iPod.

          One thing about doing stuff in the darkroom was that I seemed to loose track of time. I'd go in the afternoon and when I came out it was like 9 or 10 at night!
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          • #35
            Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

            Originally posted by mel View Post
            If I remember correctly film developing was with D76 and the print developing was with Dektol, and then fixer, and then stop bath and a wash.
            I think you need to flip the stop bath and fixer steps. Then be sure to add one of those lovely heated print dryers at the end.

            I will never forget the scent of stop bath, permanently burned into my sinuses. I spent far too many years in the darkroom in high-school and college (I designed and supplied the first darkroom at the community college I attended.)

            I also put a sign on the door that said: "Do not open the door, or you will let out all the dark."

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            • #36
              Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

              Originally posted by Leo Lakio View Post
              I also put a sign on the door that said: "Do not open the door, or you will let out all the dark."

              I love it! The darkrooms at my school don't have doors, but rather something of a labyrinth of walls that zigzag back and forth, and black curtains right at the entrance to the darkroom. Of course, it was always a bit jarring when you go to walk through the curtain and you slam into someone coming through the other side.

              Darkroom and glass blowing are the main reason I've never owned nice clothing until just recently. What was the point when everything was going to get sweaty and stained? When I started out I used to wear an apron and rubber gloves but it just got to be such a pain. My teacher still yells at us for grabbing prints out of the chemicals with our fingers instead of tongs.. but those dumb tongs are so frustrating..

              I actually lost a set of those earbud headphones to darkroom chemicals. The bud fell out of my ear and into the stop bath tray. Of course, I hadn't realized it until after I'd replaced the earbud in my ear. Yuck! Chemicals in the ear, not pleasant. The earbud itself actually fell to pieces, which is a bit disturbing.
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              • #37
                Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                You guys ever put pennies in the fixer to silver plate them?

                The dark room was kinda fun, but major time consumer.

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                • #38
                  Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                  No but I wish I knew about that back then, that would have been cool.
                  Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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                  • #39
                    Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                    Originally posted by GeckoGeek View Post
                    You guys ever put pennies in the fixer to silver plate them?
                    Originally posted by craigwatanabe View Post
                    No but I wish I knew about that back then, that would have been cool.
                    That only worked if you had fixer that had been used so much that it had built up enough silver in the effluent; by that point, the fixer was no longer any good for photographic use as it was too saturated, so we had usually dumped it by that point. I never got to try it.

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                    • #40
                      Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                      Originally posted by Leo Lakio View Post
                      That only worked if you had fixer that had been used so much that it had built up enough silver in the effluent;
                      True. Can't do that with fresh fixer.


                      [/QUOTE]by that point, the fixer was no longer any good for photographic use as it was too saturated, so we had usually dumped it by that point. I never got to try it.[/QUOTE]

                      So, how do you tell when the fixer is shot? I can't remember. I went to public high school. The fixer probably was a bit "used". Still, I think it may be a bit of exaggeration to say it's no good if it can silver a penny.

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                      • #41
                        Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                        We always had a little bottle of something or other that you dropped into the fixer -- if it turned milky white, it was no good.

                        I always just got into the habit of mixing a new batch of chemicals anytime I went in to print. Who knew how long that stuff had been left there?
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                        • #42
                          Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                          I think if the stuff turned like really black, it meant that it was old and had to be replaced.
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                          • #43
                            Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                            Originally posted by GeckoGeek View Post
                            So, how do you tell when the fixer is shot? I can't remember. I went to public high school. The fixer probably was a bit "used". Still, I think it may be a bit of exaggeration to say it's no good if it can silver a penny.
                            Originally posted by sophielynette View Post
                            We always had a little bottle of something or other that you dropped into the fixer -- if it turned milky white, it was no good.
                            That's what we used, too (Hypo-Check, if I remember right.) A good rule of thumb in those days was that you could expect a batch of fixer to be good for about 40 prints.

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                            • #44
                              Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                              Originally posted by Leo Lakio View Post
                              That's what we used, too (Hypo-Check, if I remember right.) A good rule of thumb in those days was that you could expect a batch of fixer to be good for about 40 prints.
                              I suspect they just made a batch every so often - once a day or twice a day or something like that.

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                              • #45
                                Re: LPs, VHS & 35mm Film

                                A few hundred 3/4 inch tapes plus 2 or 3 u-matic decks

                                A few thousand Beta tapes and 4 decks

                                Several thousand VHS tapes and maybe 3 machines

                                Still have tons of audio cassettes, 45's, LP's, etc.

                                If anyone wants to dump their old 3/4 inch tapes, beta or VHS from the 70's or 1980's with off-air tapings let me know.

                                Aj

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