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A rare example of a frosty Rolex!

My bad. I have to brush up on my technical knowledge!

The film as stated clearly above is not too contrasty. I believe that you are dealing with an Operator Assisted Failure [OAF]. OAFs have been known for years to cause undesired results. OAFs can be a real pain. Please check your area and get rid of any OAFs. That should help.

The shutter is mounted upside down.

Based on what? Your PhD in Mechanical Engineering? Do you have any published technical papers that you can show us? Vast experience in camera shutter design? You cannot make such sweeping statements without some proven technical reason that you can point to.

"No More" is what was meant and typed.

Which volume of the Thesaurus did you swallow? Maybe all the volumes.

Has anyone besides me attempted to diagram the sentences in this post? I even feed the post into sentence diagramming software and the software just barfed it back out and screamed "No More!"

So you lost your marbles. :D

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+3 ADOX thank you for stepping up and setting the facts straight.

An opinion probably based on what he had for breakfast, not based on fact.

Finally something we agree on.

Welcome to APUG Photrio!!

Minolta SRT-SR ... also had horizontal shutters. The engineers determined that a horizontal shutter was the best to use. Use the camera and enjoy it or buy another brand.

Saddle soap would not make a difference due to the wear. I cannot match the leather. Hence see my previous remarks.

My only leather straps are on my 30mm Fisheye and 500mm Hasselblad lens cases and I hold the lens cases when I use the straps because they are old and one shows signs of wear.

During the Alan Ross class I metered each filter and compared them to the filter factors. Basically pale, less dense filters metered accurately but the denser ones, Orange, R29, 720, did not.

I have Hasselblad straps and OPTECH straps, both are good.

That is what I do. When I attended the Alan Ross class at Yosemite he strongly advised the same thing.

Alternately, take off the film back and fire the lens. That should clear it, but post #2 and #3 are the way to go. We all have this problem every once in a while.

I very rarely, maybe once a decade or two, drink coffee and when I do it is Greek or Turkish coffee straight. I would rather have Gin & Tonic or Dry Gin Martinus [only one, if I wanted two I would order a Dry Gin Martini].

Well damn it, in that case, I will not offer to buy either now!

Sometimes you can find used Hasselblad straps in good condition at KEH.com, KEH eBay, Samys eBay, and the other usual suspects, even at Photrio Classifieds and Large Format Photography Forum Classifieds.

The Hasselblad CX, CW, C/M and many others do not have electronic shutters. There a plenty of reasonably priced qualified Hasselblad repairmen around. Stop looking for excuses, please.

I have developed film and toned prints at the kitchen sink for decades. Before I start I remove anything related to food and cooking from the area including sponges and towels. I have separate sponges and towels for photography which I use to thoroughly scrub down the sink and counters. I use...

High Valerian

It is not that hard to do what you want. You need a changing bag, scissors, a tank, reels, developer [XTOL is a cheap one], stop bath with indicator [again cheap], hypo aka fixer [again cheap], some clothes pins, some nylon to hang the film. It is as easy as learning to fall off a motor cycle...

A post like that will get the Kodachrome stupids in a frenzy and we will have to put up with their poorly thought out demands for the impractical. The rest of us have put up with almost a decade of that crap and are fed up with it. It was never funny.

It has not been a joke for years.