[LargeFormat] Introducing........

[Karl Faller]

Matt,

Oh, to be young and full of the energy for the future.
Good luck to you and it.

Karl

> Greetings all,
>
> I'm Matt Kennedy, from Arkansas. I've been a darkroom chemistry
> nut for just nearly two years, and shooting large format almost
> exclusively for the last year. I'm a biology major, graduating
> college in about ten days. I spent my student loans on my Shen
> Hao 4x5, a rodenstock sironar n 210mm, a Fuji 90 sw, Minolta
> spotmeter F, and a Slik pro tripod that outweighs all the
> aforementioned gear. The tripod makes all the other gear seem
> light on long hikes in the mountains.
>     My folks allowed me to build my darkroom into a funky old
> mobile home that sits on their retirement property. There, I
> battle mice, temperature variations, and dissolved minerals
> (iron, about two horseshoes/gallon.) I use an omega D2 with
> condensors I got from a little old lady who bought it used in
> the 50's and only took it to bingo. She threw in her retired B &
> J press with its functional graphlex 135mm and a dryer. (So
> THAT's how you dry fiber flat...)
>      I shoot Fortepan200 and soup in PMK in tubes. Now and then,
> I'll test a different dev, but I always come back to the PMK.  I
> have a calumet 6x7 back for shooting color and IR, but haven't
> had opportunity to get those films out of the freezer.
>      I bought 10 boxes of fortepan400 for an extra $1 per box,
> and durned if it isn't the exact same film. Same color, smell,
> notch code, and all. The info sheet in the 400 box makes clear
> that the film was tested under tungsten lights, and will be
> slower in daylight... No such stipulation in the 200 box. Tests
> will tell. But I'm drifting....
>
>      Currently, I shoot quite a bit of portraiture, nudes, and
> the like. I exhausted myself on landscape as a youngster
> shooting small format, but I do want to try to approach it again
> now that I'm free of educational committments... I've been doing
> some alt stuff, mostly Vandyke browns, making negs with Liams
> reversal process on APHS. I hope to try gum bichromate soon.
>
> Cheers to the future,
>
> -Matt
>
>
>
> =09
> 	=09
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