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Gas is good. Or as Yoda said, "Resist GAS you cannot. Give into GAS one must." Take that GAS energy and invest in more Hasselblad lenses. At some point then you, like I am now, be impervious to GAS. The only things photographic that I buy are film, chemicals and paper now that I own the...

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Kodak, Xerox and others even though employees warned management many times suffered from myopius huberis with the super cocky self pride chromosome.

One thing about a degree is that once earned, one can never lose or have it taken away. An education is about what one does with it.

If available consider Ilford Rapid Fixer in liquid form or other liquid fixers. I use those and the Kodak dry fixers without problems.

Buying Hasselblads only means waiting longer between buying lenses. Mamiya Cxx or Cxxx are ideal for close ups with their built in bellows and interchangeable lenses are a big plus. Lack of swapping film mid roll, not so much.

One does not need double stick tape. Just build up thin layers as necessary.

Among other things I taught Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for ten years and designed electro-optical systems but I still prefer film for many reasons including the one you stated.

If I am kept in by the Social Isolation and I see something on the internet that I was not going to buy but it was on sale so I bought it anyway, am I actually saving money?

I had the same problem. I solved it by putting a strip on the upper edge runners of the PME to narrow the clearance. You may need more than one strip on each side although I only needed one on each side. Let me know how this works for your.

The only part of the Zone System that I use it placing the darkest shadow details in Zone II or Zone III for negatives and highlights with details in Zone VII or Zone VIII for slides. The wide exposure latitude of modern negative film means that I do not have to vary the film development. The...

XTOL or replenished XTOL produces very fine grain. It is my go to developer although sometimes I use pyro for MF and LF.

That bonsai is quite impressive.

I recommend that you do not microwave those tupperware containers while the film is still in them.

I worked for Kodak and I get very tired of seeing comments that the engineers and chemists were stupid and did not know how to do there job. When the industry was in good health, work by all film and camera manufacturers continued to improve the products and use. When the film industry started...

If it was as easy as you think would it have the professional film engineers figured that out scalded ago? What makes you think that you are so much smarter than they were? Really?

Me too

I am even learning beatboxing so I can do it with my grandchildren.

Liquid chemicals are expensive to ship so I regularly drive the FreeStyle and one I even drove to Photographers' Formulary in outer Montana.

Yes as long as the sealed packages have not been opened. If they have those rolls need to be sealed in plastic bags first.

I have had this happen and I just wrap the end of the film around the outside of the reel.

On occasion will put a light shadow in Zone IV. If I put the darkest shadow that I want the detail to print, I usually will end up with a denser than usual negative and printing exposures typically take longer.

I am practicing the theremin and the didjeridus [didgeridoos], while learning a lot on both.

Every time I wanted to 220 the films I wanted were not available in that format, one roll costs more than twice 120 and processing cost more than twice 120 for slides or prints. So the costs were always out of line and the selections of films were too limited.

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The world never really beat a path to the 127 door. Getting any film manufacturer to start a new 127 is likely to happen after the twelveth of Never.

Left handed people are the only ones in their right mind.

No, you missed the point. Using a smaller aperture and the depth of field easily solves the problem which allow the photographer to expend his efforts elsewhere.

Hey, cut out the anti-left-hand bias!