Tag: film

Read Your own Meter

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Do I owe you an answer — instruction — dye transfer lab procedures. How about gossip from the past. What are you owed.. what is your google query worth?

Since I was an experienced professional color printer, am i obliged to answer your questions?

why?

why should i have kept 40 years of files, lab notes, correspondence… you ask me to show-tell, share gossip… what qualifies you to hear the answers? what makes you think you deserve answers; my knowledge, experience, effort. People on internet forum quests take 5 years to collect answers that are included in the directions for the film. These same people bemoan the death of process and product they never used. So much for market awareness at the crowded corner.

do you think you are that interesting…  

worthwhile people have made their way… and in much less time than 20 years.

ask me a question

First, one for you: do i have to answer… after all, i ran dye transfer labs, taught college classes; even more, i made specialty equipment.. don’t i owe you answers to your lazy boy questions?

most of the always amateurs have expended great effort filling out their excuses card… more time than they ever did on the action card… gossip lacks guts.

suppose you have a choice. suppose you have an encounter between two different people 

One of them has made more effort to learn than the other 

One of them thinks you owe them, the other doesn’t 

which of them do you want to give away a portion of your life .. that’s what teaching someone something is: giving away a part of your life.


why do I have to give up my life just to satisfy  your lackadaisical approach to learning … The big secret to learning to boil eggs… don’t fear the stove. make your own errors. don’t spend your life asking others — ask the water.

repair isn’t growth

The hobby of buying repairing and selling occupies the fingers .. satisfies your contribution to commerce, but exactly how creative is that …


Potter Stewart: i’ll know it when i see it.  [Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an American lawyer and judge who was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1958 to 1981.]

quickstep across

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— Although The video is not mine... it is worth my time, perhaps yours also. What does it consider?

YouTube (YT) is a key supplier of opinions. It is the Hot Media. It is widely dispersed, with sense, nonsense. Its basis is advertising, so like water in a desert it may nourish, it may also poison. YT channels stratify the field. Entry layers gaining greater advertising hits. This is like the threaded online boards, except they are in decline, with YT continuous increasing attention. Even in the time after TikTok and pulse viewing.

I wouldn’t link to a poison. I don’t know this person, not even his work, other than what is shown in the video. His imagery isn’t my reason for directing you to his video.

one video about roadtrip… my response after the video. My response is here, rather than on YT, so I can better remember my shorthand. YT responses are better for a short statement sent into the bucket. Please watch the YT version.

The nature of film is the image is not seen immediately. Polaroid was in every commercial studio as part of the solution to this boundary. Polaroid along with messenger service and a quick turn lab within a few blocks was the method of New York photography. Why we dominated. We had the community, the infrastructure nourished its own. Manhattan was home to Madison Avenue, the source of work and seemingly unlimited funds to maintain this intense group of photographers.

selected transcript from the video.
  • Travel with chemicals -[else] keep them concentrated. Process one-shot.
  • Pickup distilled water at gas/rest stops. Also, ice for temperature control of process.
  • learned to stay, shoot enough to “distil” the composition.

This equipment he takes surprises me: a scanner. His reasoning is to verify that his camera and process are producing useful results. This is a hybrid thinking solution. I carry duplicate cameras. For bellows based cameras, carry electrical tape, or “bellows” patch (scuba glue).

I suspect he is now a digital first photographer, since it seems he was using film as input to scanner. He liked the camera, had fun with film. So it goes.

Travel opens the world. The road trip is a standard of photographers. Even studio photographers make road trips (Avedon) , just rarely is that considered their prime work.

–> other bit about travel to tripod spots.

chemical photo: stuff

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January 2025. GETTING STUFF. supplies in a ebb market.

NOTES:
too much… getting too much.
choice must be clearly known to be choice.

Shops selling items for the darkroom.
In Germany, Hans O. Mahn GmbH & Co. KG brings out the Rollei products through the website Macodirect which also sells Adox products. The website Fotoimpex seems closely related to – and sells all – Adox products –does not sell Rollei papers

Stores:
the wet lab is drying out; few places remain, but here are some online sources

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