I bought my first enlarger off of ebay recently - a fujimoto "Lucky Enlarger
60m."  It is in perfect condition except for one thing: it's missing the
negative carrier.  Does anybody know where I can get a carrier to fit my
enlarger?

When my mother-in-law passed away the task of scanning the several
hundred family photos fell to me.  While going through the prints and
negatives I found about a dozen negatives that I believe are 6x9.  They
are black and white negatives with what appears to be colored tape

As being novice, I have limited experience in different film -
developer -combinations. So far I have mostly done Agfa APX 100 with Rodinal
1:50 and Kodak TMX and TMY with TMAX 1:4 developer.
I have now shot a few rolls of Pan-F. Which one of these existing developers

I'm thinking about the possibility of building a simple densitometer
along the lines of that outlined in Phil Davis' _Beyond the Zone
System_.  I'd like to use some sort of blue LED as the light source
so I can look at negatives processed with PMK.

Would there be a difference in reciprocity failure between, say, an
exposure of 60 seconds and 900 subsequent exposures of 1/15 sec?
I've shot a night-time industry scene on Portra 160 VC, yesterday, used
a Mamiya 645 and a Noblex in parallel, and the negs from the Noblex are

I just picked up a pair of Premier 5x7 safelights on eBay. They came
with both red and amber filters. All I've used in the past is
red...those round patterson safelights.
Is there any benefit of one color over the other, or is it largely a

Hi, I recently purchased an FX-2 kit from the photographer's formulary.
After unsucessfully googling for times with Tri-x and/or HP5+, I
decided to shoot some test rolls.
I did a first test with Tri-X (tx400 - 135), giving it 15' at 20C. My

Last week I bought a special offer of this paper and at the shop I was told
it was RC but this evening I printed a couple of sheets and it felt like
fiber based paper. The label on the enveloppe just says "Grade 2 bromide
paper, matt surface"

Trying to re-format my HD, and Windows (booted from CD rom) won't get past
"starting windows" on the blue screen setup. The monitor goes black, and
never comes back (sorry).
Can anyone help with this problem? I uninstalled just about everything I