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Joel, thank you for your opinion. I am on the same side, especially when have to do quite a lot of prints which are more or less technical - my wife experimenting with macro and I am printing all of it. Sometimes she is bracketing or changing a lite, and after it is hard to understand what it...

Using Foma 100 as my main film. Canon EOS 33 is the main camera, but also using Nikon and Zenit cameras. I did not have a problem with rewind in Canon, but in Zenit, where everything is manual, the rewind was so complicated that it opened the film door. Yesterday, I had a problem to load the...

Looking for darkroom Analyser as Rh designes Zone master or Analyser Pro Darkroom Automation Enlarging Meter Or similar 220v only

Thank you guys for sharing your experience and thoughts. I think I could find the way of using of this kind of device in my darkroom. From our discussion, I understood that any Analyser will not do it your way, but could bring you much closer to desired result. In case if someone will have this...

For some special purposes I have a combination of Foma warm tone paper Fomatone 132 and developer Fomatol pw. I could not tell you that it is my favorite combination, but it really gives different color schemes, but due to it is not the type of paper I am using normally, it takes me long time...

Thank you for answer. It is very informative.

To all: thank you for your answers. Actually, I am surprised of so many opinions and responses. Appreciate!

I have a permanent darkroom and printing, for example lots of macro fotos which my wife like to shoot. In this case 10-15 photos are made in the similar conditions and the only question is to find first set up and then in case of resizing to recalculate and make a test strip with new time. So...

That is my idea too. As I see it helps you to avoid the first technical trying and to do just a fine tuning. How long did it take to you to do a first set up?

Yes, I have read the support but I did not go deep to the topic. As I see, it is a sophisticated machine, which could help a lot in case if you know how to use it. In compare to RH products, it is more science device for advance users.

Actually, I understand how all this devices principály works, and even how coul I use it, but I found several threads that someone was setting up the device during 2 days and just after, it started to work as it has to. That is my main question. How hard is to calibrate it for 1 type of paper...

Yes, I agree, during last more than 100 years most photographers were printing without using any special devices as Enlarging meters, and had good results. To achieve some level is enough to do it and get more skills, but here is a question - will using of any device make my process easier? To...

Also, resizing from 10x15 to 30x40 with same result. As I tried to just recalculate it, it did not make the same result

Some prints as for example night city takes a long time to find a necessary balance of filters and doge/burn. I could spend 3-4 hours doing it and waist several sheets of paper to achieve a result close to optimal. I assume, that it could help me to do It faster and without wasting so much paper…

Oh, I mean it will improve my printing - make it more comfortable with expectable results.