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This is a continuation of a series of posts on making film negatives from digital files. (The previous post is here... ) The purpose is to allow me to print the images in my darkroom. In summary, so far, the experience has been quite good. My next print from film made
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I am getting a lot of use out adapted Mamiya 645 lenses on my Fuji GFX 50s ii. I have considered getting into DSLR scanning for my film work. It is supposed to be better than a flatbed scanner and faster but I find that hard to believe. My understanding
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This is a continuation of a series of posts on this subject, Part 1 and Part 2 links. I am back in the UK now and have started to look again at my 'film from digital' project. I have also received the negatives from Bayeaux in London. Bayeaux
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Introduction Last summer I spent a wonderful evening photographing on Lake Pend Oreille looking back at Sandpoint during a thunderstorm that was blowing over the town. I wrote about framing another print from that evening here... As I was using my Fuji GFX digital camera then I had a large
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February 06, 2023 The other day I was out with my dad for a drive and as usual every trip is a scouting opportunity. The lake here, Lake Pend Oreille, is massive but has very few public access areas. Part of it is geography due to steep mountains but most
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- January 30, 2023 I recently was laid up for a week with what I would guess is Covid. Almost three years dodging it and it seemed to finally catch up with me. It was with great relief to get out and about the past couple of days for my
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A couple of weeks ago I began to re-explore getting film negatives from a digital file. The motivation was to take some of my newer digital images and print them in black and white in the darkroom. I explored two different vendors Bayeux in London UK and Gammatech in Albuquerque,
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- January 16, 2023 Having arrived back in Sandpoint a little over a week ago, I find the weather much changed from when I left just before Christmas. At that time I drove down to Spokane in sub-freezing conditions but have returned in much warmer weather, often 10 degrees or
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The next phase of any lith printing I do has a tendency to be toning. I never feel in control of my toning, but I manage to stumble into some interesting images as a result. Today I played with some sepia and gold toning but didn't really get
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After much upheaval in my personal life living a semi-nomadic existence in the USA and UK I have not been in the darkroom for some time. My last effort was at the very end of May just before my move to the USA. I am back in the UK for
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I am revisiting this subject of how to put a digital image onto a piece of film. The motivation for this is to be able to make silver gelatin prints in the darkroom from digital images. Since I bought my Fuji GFX 50s ii digital camera, I have been blogging
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In a prior post I discussed the use of ‘old glass’ on the Fuji GFX 50s ii as a means of keeping the cost of the camera system reasonable. Coming from film cameras, I find the use of old manual lenses natural to use and not terribly troubling once I