what is a recommended bulb for a durst 605 for black and white
development.
i recently bought a used durst enlarger but the bulb was missing and I
can not find the specific bulb needed for it.

For viewing proof sheets. In expensive is good, too.
-Lew

I'm starting a darkroom.  I'm starting with black and white and I'm
confused already.  I bought Dektol developer power.  On the bag it says
mix with 3 liters and add the powder thus making 3.8 liters or one
gallon.  I bought Kodak professional polycontrast III RC paper.  The

I printed a picture this evening, first on MGIV-RC and then on MGIV-FB.  The
following was obtained with each of print.
  I decided to tone each print with Kodak Brown Toner and used some from a
container that indicated I made it up in May 2005.  After six or so minutes, I

Anyone have any opinions of these products?
-Lew

i am not really know what the term 'Push' really means in darkroom.  if i
pushed one stop for a negative to exposuring, what i will do in the darkroom?
just N+1 develop it?
sorry for such a fool question.

digital camera
HP 215
1.3 MP, 256meg card
excellent shape, works great.

Anyone have any experience with both of the Fuji 100 ISO films?
Apparently Fuji is still making the older SS emulsion. I picked some up
yesterday with dating of 9-2007!

First of all, can anyone confirm the tradeoff between ISO and ASA when using
PMK Pyro? The recommended ASA's in the Formulary pamphlet are aprox 20% less
than ISO's.
Secondly, are there any pyro developers that give full film speeds?

I don`t know if anybody makes their own FX-37, but they might be interested
to know that Geoffrey Crawley has made a small change to the original
formula.
The only difference between this and the original formula is an increase of

Got a question - I've recently bought a camera that supposedly came
with lenses. The camera takes the infamous x-fujinon lenses (which is
why I bought it - I have some of those and another x-fujinon camera -
the one I started with). The lenses, however, aren't x-fujinon and,

In the Amateur Photographer magazine is a column written by Geoffrey Crawley
called Geoffrey Crawley`s Dictionary Definitions, in the latest issue, he
describes a constituent called Metoquinone as follows:
METOQUINONE: An addition compound of two molecules of Metol & one molecule

my parents have just recently bought a new house. and the room that
would be mine  or would be the hangout room for my brother and i has a
very small closet area under the steps. it is maybe 8 feet long to the
bottom of the steps. so i will have maybe 5 feet of usable space. it is

I have a customer that wants basically a 24x36" clip frame with a glass
front.  I've been unable to find any and perhaps question the safety of
such a frame.  I don't want to use plexi/acrylic because its tacky to
me.

Since I've started using Efke-25 film developed with TFX-2
I've noticed that sometimes the negatives come out of the wash
with a brownish scum on them. It wipes of easily under running
water as long as the negative doesn't dry. Once it dries I haven't