I can't believe it took me this long to stumble on this site. What a great resource! The photographs and discussions here are very inspiring!
I've been photographing enthusiastically since about 1990. You can see jpgs of some of my photos at www.peterdesmidt.com and www.peterdesmidt.com/blog .
I have a full darkroom, with the ability to develop color and bw film up to 20x24" sheets, and to enlarge film optically with 4x5" film and smaller. I used to be able to enlarge up to 8x10" film, but I sold that enlarger a few years ago. These days, I mainly use the darkroom to develop film.
I mainly photograph with a Toyo AX 4x5" camera, two Fuji medium format rangefinders, and a Nikon D200, which I"ve owned since shortly after they came out. I scan film with a Screen Cezanne scanner, and I make prints with an Epson 4880 with a custom carbon pigment BW inkset or a HP Designjet 130 for color.
For closeups, I"ve dabbled a bit with a Nikon PB-4 bellows and various lenses, mostly a Rodagon 80mm. Focusing precisely is very difficult! Here's a picture of some coraline algae on the glass of my salt water aquarium:
If memory serves me correctly, the colony was about 1/4" in diameter. It was taken with one exposure, and it's nowhere near the quality of the pictures on this site!
In any case, I'm happy to be here, and I look forward to learning a lot!
Hello from Wisconsin!
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Peter,
Greetings.
Looked over your blog and while reading the current entry immediately thought of this video posted by Craig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyT7l-CZego
Sounds like what you describe. Could be set up moving the camera, or moving the film, whichever is easier.
A set-up like this made for sheet film sizes and with the proper selection of digital camera and optics would be pretty awesome!
Greetings.
Looked over your blog and while reading the current entry immediately thought of this video posted by Craig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyT7l-CZego
Sounds like what you describe. Could be set up moving the camera, or moving the film, whichever is easier.
A set-up like this made for sheet film sizes and with the proper selection of digital camera and optics would be pretty awesome!
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Hi Jim (from a fellow Wisconsinite),
Yeah, what's happening at Kodak is very sad. While I expect that bw film will be with us for quite a while, color film, which is much harder to manufacture, might not last very long. I believe that Hollywood still uses a lot of it, but that will probably switch over the next 5 years.
Like you, I never really did all that much color processing, although I still retain the capability. Back in the 1990s, I used to spend about one week a year making traditional color prints with an enlarger, but over the last few years 99% of my color stuff has been done with a digital camera.
Yeah, what's happening at Kodak is very sad. While I expect that bw film will be with us for quite a while, color film, which is much harder to manufacture, might not last very long. I believe that Hollywood still uses a lot of it, but that will probably switch over the next 5 years.
Like you, I never really did all that much color processing, although I still retain the capability. Back in the 1990s, I used to spend about one week a year making traditional color prints with an enlarger, but over the last few years 99% of my color stuff has been done with a digital camera.