Got some new Ilford Multigrade . . . . .

[Ian Grant]

I need to get printing again. So some new paper and appropriate filters





Oh and some contact prints, I just need to cut some glass for the appropriate size contact printing frame.



Ian

 

[Ian Grant]

Oh when that's finished . . . . .







And then there's the 20x16 Kodak Elite, and my large stock of Multigrade Warmtone.

I have a project I'm printing 7"x5" on RC paper, temporary title is the day I lost my Wista. I'd been shooting MF for a few hours when my friend said where's your Wista, it was still setup on its tripod in a quarry, however there was no-one else around.

Ian

 

[Monsta]

I just got a box of 8x13 Kodak Bromide Airmail Paper. It is the thinnest photo paper I have ever seen but liths beautifully. The date could be any where from 1947 to 1960, it says it was tested in 1964. Glad you found the Wista!

 

[David M]

Interesting to see those multigrade filters. Are they faded at all?

 

[Ian Grant]

No the filters are fine. The paper appears to be 3rd generation, I have other older filter sets, originally the Magenta was soft, Yellow Hard.

My experience with old Bromide papers is unless poorly stored they are still capable of a good Dmax, drop speed and grade a little, no base fog.

Ian

 

[Monsta]

It really does work beautifully well. Love the old Bromesku and Bromide stuff too. Find it difficult to find much above 5x7 in size though. I have not tried normal developer as i am keeping this for Lith work as i absolutely love the look with it. It is so delicate, seems like 70 gsm ish.

 

[Ian Grant]

Glad you found the Wista!

That was the last time I shot using a120 6x4.5cm camera. I'd already realised I often needed movements, I'd been using an unwieldy De Vere monorail for around 10 years for work, so had bought my Wista.

It was a long walk, a heavy back-pack, a remote Welsh bay. Because by then I'd begun mainly shooting 5x4 landscapes I made every 6x4,5 frame work. I printed a hand made book of the first images maybe 1987, then a long gap before did some prints of the next images maybe 3 or 4 years ago, and then realised I hadn't even really begun output of the whole day's shoot. I had a planned exhibition, gallery booked back in the late 80s, then I was offered a much larger funded exhibition, I couldn't do both, while working full time.

After that experience I bought a 6x9 back for my Wista, and with AP/APX25 120 negatives are comparable to 5x4.

Other projects and exhibitions meant I forgot, or rather neglected, this particular day's images. So how did I lose my Wista, I was so engrossed in making images, I just forgot it. I guess I only had 12 sheets of 5x4, I shot around 20 rolls of 120 APX100.

This is a big project. Well over a hundred prints, possibly 200+.

Ian.