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Disassembler, occasional reassembler
I think a zoom meetup would be good also. Does anybody have the premium version so they can initiate?
I may be able to get Karla to do that, curtesy of NYU. I'll confirm later.
I think a zoom meetup would be good also. Does anybody have the premium version so they can initiate?
There are so many unknown points from a medical, economic and social point of view.
The only sure things it we'll have a difficult time in front of us. Unemployement is already a reality. It will be worse. The virus will be around...untill a vaccine will be not available (discovered, tested, approved, produced, distributed...) the risk will be around...
And we are only in the beginning...not to speak how some politiciens are trying to get advantage from the actual situation...poverty...riots...
Take care, it is serious...
Hi Cal,
Developed a long strip of Efke PL100 unperforated 70mm, inside a Beatty Coleman Transet 70mm Back. Processed the long strip in a gallon of straight Microdol-X I started about a year ago. It gets better and better with aging and seasoning.
Man is this an old school combination, copious silvery tones, some are grey on grey on grey and it can have such a luscious quality. I love it, PL100 was and still is great old school stuff. Still have most of 100 feet left from my J&C closeout.
I silver printed four frames and will post them in our 70mm thread. Beatty made school cameras but I'm glad this one has a Graflok Back. Next I may try some unperforated Tri-X I bought from B&H when 70mm was being closed out.
Durst cones are great for building things, easy to attach them to other things. I use them frequently.
**Gear Alert**
Picked up a Sony 35mm f2.8 Zeiss for great price, Did I say sharp on the Sony
A7II!
Great lens..
Today at work I ordered almost $900.00 worth of archival boxes and a roll of interleaving paper. I am printing big time. I blew though a box of 13x19 in just two days, and now I'm going through 17 inch by 50 foot rolls. Yesterday opened up a new fresh 17 inch roll.
I tried to order some more Jon Cone Type 5 paper (Baryta coated with a satin finish), but evidently they are out of stock. Oh-well.
So things are evolving. I'm printing out proofs. The page size is 17x25 for a 13.3x20 image. I also figured out a cool way to box the "Book Of Proofs" with a ready made museum box that features a drop side.
I also engineered around these museum boxes my print sizes. New will be 18x24 for landscape (horizontals), and for portraits (verticals) 17x25.
Know that the image size for both are 13.3x20, and there will be an aditional 1 inch margin outside the borders that will allow for signature, edition numbering, and title.
Archival Methods has discounted the pricing 10%, and know that I see a deflationary spiral when I even compare the regular today's pricing when compared with the old pricing from a 2017 catalog I got from PhotoPlusExpo.
This deflation I find as really telling. Know that over the phone I received bulk discount, and I used my pretty boy charm over the phone to get the buy over ten discount pricing extended over my mix and match order. Free shipping also.
I should be leaving work in about an hour. Basically I'm still on "paid-leave," meanwhile my vacation bank is maxed out at 195 hours, and there is a program for me to collect my excess vacation time due that I would otherwise loose.
Yesterday I did a good 8 hour day printing. I also came up with another book project, and that is to make a 13x19 "log-book" that will be helpful for editing. The image size is 10x15, and this book will include inteleaving sheets that I can write on for settings, record keeping...
I found out that this little black book I keep as a printing journal very useful because it saves time. The Log-Book is an expansion of this and will be a very cool and pretty object that gets stored and contained within a museum box that has a drop side.
So my crazy gal "Maggie" now thinks our retirement destination will be in the lower Hudson Valley. This pleases me because the fresh air and lack of pollution makes it easier for me to enjoy biking. Perhaps Beacon sooner rather than later, even if I have to commute for the next few years.
Otherwise Hudson looks like where we will settle.
My new identity will be Calzone the hill billy farmer. Also know that because I'm a good analog photographer that I'm also mighty great at cooking and growing things.
Before I shut off the Cyclotron (conditioning mode to keep it maintained) I will be adding a tapped hole onto a ML-Grip that I use on my Monochrom. This will allow me to use one of those small Leica finger loops that get used on Maggie's CL and the Leica "Q" and "Q2" to be used on my Monochrom.
I still love my SL2, but it is big and mucho heavy. I will tell you though that when shooting the Monochrom it becomes evident how slow an 8 year old digital camera is, especially when compared to the SL2 which is so speedy.
Somehow I was surprised by the nearly $1200.00 stimulus check. Evidently they go by AGI and not gross income, otherwise from the formula I would of gotten only about $200.00. This windfall paid off the balance that remained for the APO 35 Cron nd SL2 that I bought pretty recently.
So with printing things are getting a bit crazy. The next step will be printing out my limited editions and trying to get my work out there. BTW the 13.3x20 inch image size is 10.73% larger than a standard 12x18, but the impact is is greater than 10.83%. Things really open up in the image in both detail and tonality.
These portraits I did of Bob from a Meet-Up at the Rochard look like large format now. Things are really starting to sing. Also know that I tore up about 60 pounds of old prints to destroy them. These earlier work prints I deemed of no value because today I am a much better printer, and I don't want these old prints to ever circulate.
An art dealer showed me this Robert Frank print he owned that was from "The Americans." Problem is was that it was just a test print and the negative displayed mucho dust. This print should of been destroyed decades ago as N-FEM-er-A.
Cal
Great to hear everything is working out printing.
Somehow I was surprised by the nearly $1200.00 stimulus check.
Imagine my surprise when I received one... and I haven't worked in the US since March 2017!
Hey, Cal...just glad to see you're alive and well.