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I found a multi part video interview of Ansel Adams. This includes segments watching Ansel Adams work. This is well worth watching for any photographer.

Ansel Adams talks about becoming a photographer after seeing pictures by Paul Strand. He talks about some of his pictures and how they were taken, how photography differs from painting, black and white versus color photography, and several other topics.

What did Ansel Adams think about electronic imaging? Watch the video and find out.

One rare treat is seeing Adams’ personal art gallery in his home.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Here are more Ansel Adams resources

Unblinking Eye published this article about mixing developers. The nice thing about this is the summary of the common chemicals used for developing. If you don’t see your developer there, and you want to see your developer’s traits, check out the package of developer for the active ingredient and then look it up in the article.

It is concise and worth keeping as a quick reference.

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What are BTZS Tubes? As the video mentions, they are tubes from Phil Davis the writer of the book, Beyond the Zone System.

OK, so this 4×5 Part 1 video is a bit strange, but it shows BTZS tubes in action.  BTZS tubes are tubes used for sheet film development.

4×5 sheet film development in BTZS tubes Part 1: This is the “classical” video

4×5 sheet film development in BTZS tubes Part 2:

Here is the 8×10 sheet film development in BTZS tubes video:

These were from Fred Newman at the view camera store.

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