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A familiar spot. Still heavily experimenting with the dektol developer. As soon as this is solved you'll get 5 photos a week probably. So this sheet is under exposed and pushed in the developer, I like the look of it. This is just a yellow filter instead of the yellow green.

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1903 Eastman View No. 1 - Agfa Repromaster 185mm - f/45 - Kodak B/RA X-Ray - 8x10 Film - Dektol 1+10 - Unaltered Negative Scan

A quick outing on a sunny afternoon to see the tolerances of this development technique with sunny day images. Dektol handles the light very nicely. I think I will adjust the exposure some in the sun, but I should be able to make photographs in all conditions now.

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1903 Eastman View No. 1 - Schneider Symmar S 240mm - f/45 - Kodak B/RA X-Ray Film - 8x10 Film - Dektol 1+9 - Unaltered Negative Scan

More from around the train tracks. So the big breakthrough here is that the skies are not all streaked. For an entire year I haven't been able to photograph skies with this x-ray film without streaking. Turns out presoaking it was causing the streaks. With real film its just the opposite. If you get streaking in clear skies on sheet film you may want to presoak. Anyway hopefully mystery solved.

Also, one of my film photographs will in appear in the literary magazine the Oxford American.

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1903 Eastman View No. 1 - Schneider Symmar S 240mm - f/45 - Kodak B/RA X-Ray Film - 8x10 Film - Dektol 1+10 - Unaltered Negative Scan

Howdy! Where have I been ? hmm, Working hard for a bit on making some pocket money. But also experimenting with this film quite a bit. I'm about there with the Dektol. There are a couple tweaks I will pass along when I learn they are fact and not some kind of fiction. Went to an amazing photography exhibit here that had prints from Brett Weston, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Emett Gowan and many others i admire. Very inspiring. Meanwhile, I think I am back on the photo trail again. Coming to see what you've been up to.

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1903 Eastman View No. 1 - Schneider Symmar S 240mm - f/45 - Kodak B/RA X-Ray Film - 8x10 Film - Dektol 1+9 - Unaltered Negative Scan

Fine tuning the Dektol development idea. I need to make some very sunny photographs and see what happens. I enjoy this method, the total dev time is five minutes, 1 minute presoak, 1 minute dev (no agitation), 1 minute stop, 1 minute fix, rinse...

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1903 Eastman View No. 1 - Agfa Repromaster 185mm - f/45 - Kodak B/RA X-Ray - 8x10 Film - Dektol 1+10 - Unaltered Negative Scan