Well, don't feel bad, Somthing went terribly wrong with my faithful Ilford
MC head, and both (!) bulbs burned out at the same time, and one half of the
heat absorbing glass on the bulb side of one filter melted and broke.
I then completed the installation of the Beselar enlarger that I got, and
had to get back into using filters. It didn't go all that well, but they are
done and shipped.
BIll Pearce
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 4:22 PM
Subject: [OM] Warped with no sense of humor
>I finally got the "Wet-Prints" exchange prints finished. Whew, what a task.
> Once you have EVERYTHING set up and rolling, making a print or ten of
> something is usually a pretty easy task, but when rebuilding a darkroom
> and
> getting everything rolling again after a two-year hiatus, it was anything
> but simple.
>
> For some reason I was fighting a focus issue. I couldn't figure it out for
> the life of me. I'd focus the negative, and get it precisely where I
> wanted
> it, but when I went to make the print it was out of focus again. I'd
> adjust
> it and the next attempt it was out of focus all over again! This went on
> and on... I was blaming the equipment--always blame the equipment, right?
> So, what every good darkroom technician does is step out of the darkroom
> and
> go do something else for a few minutes. Coming back in, the neg was in
> focus
> again I hadn't touched anything. But as I'm staring at the image on the
> easel, the stinking thing went right back out of focus! I fully understand
> that my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be, but this is just plain
> nuts.
>
> I am a voracious reader and vaguely recall something I read about this
> Fuji
> 100ss B&W film--it has a thinner base and will easily warp when in the
> enlarger. When I focused and framed the image the negative would warm up
> and
> as it warmed up it would bulge up and go out of focus as I use a glassless
> negative carrier for 35mm film. So, my misdirected frustrations against
> the
> enlarger (after spending an hour tweaking and maintaining the stupid
> thing--good thing too, since I found a couple other problems), were
> directed
> to the negative instead.
>
> The question is which way should I go with the printing? Do I shoot the
> print almost wide-open for 1.5 seconds and wait a bit between each print
> (printed 16 copies altogether), or do I stop down to F11 and print for 15
> seconds so I can do a touch of dodging and burning? I opted for the long
> exposure so I could dodge and burn and get a touch better image. But what
> I
> had to do was keep the negative warm. I kept the enlarger on until the
> moment I got the next sheet of paper out, quickly shoved it into the
> easel,
> then covered the lens with my hand while I turned the enlarger back on for
> five seconds, off, removed my hand and pressed the go button. Doing it
> this
> way, MOST of them stayed pretty sharp. :) No biggy, as the image is
> kinda
> dreamy looking to begin with.
>
> What an adventure. Just a note for the curious, that Fuji 100ss B&W film
> is
> pretty funky in a multitude of ways. I'm glad it was as inexpensive as it
> was and I'm also glad I tried it, but sadly, it ain't no Ilford film. I'll
> go back to shooting PanF and the Deltas without regrets.
>
> AG
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