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I think somebody really needs to do a Holga/Lomo wedding.

I havent' figured out how to cock the shutter on the rb. Maybe if I put some more thought into it....

Really? Bizarre. I would guess that pretty much anybody with photographic knowledge was pressed into some form of military service. Jack (J.W.) Mitchell, who did a lot to advance the theory of the latent image, made some pretty important contributions to high speed photography during the war...

Indeed it seems this chapter 11 thing is by far their most successful marketing ploy of late...! Maybe they should have announced they were going to stop doing digital about 10 years ago... Polaroid products had a similar dead cat bounce.

Freestyle still has some very good deals.

Is it rare now? Too bad. I also have the mini sheet and plate holders for it. You might try and get your mits on a 6x9 back and see if it'll go on there, it wouldn't surprise me, it has that graflocky mechanism...

Alan, I think the grand connection is that for some of us, Kodak was a symbol of what US sci & tech innovation was... and should be. My other blog rant was that companies like Apple and Google and FB don't seem to be producing many jobs... yet if you ask most young kids where they'd like to...

Ah yes the pre-SD ones have a narrower throat, right? So goofy. I dont know whether you can get the 110 to fire at 400, I haven't tried, I just hand shutter. Anyway, if the 110 and 50 are goign to be important then I would advise simply to pick up an RZ body, which can take all (as far as I...

I'll try to make a less flippant response than I did before. Like most people I know who do what I do, whether in my day job(s) or in photography or other creative pursuits, I do wonder if certain tendencies are gifts or curses. I don't know when I started having to worry about that but...

Okay you went and got me started! Watch out... I have been trying for ages to get certain administrators to realize how important it is that our educational institutions refocus on real world skills, as opposed to the google-based two-dimensional learning that so many kids get now (and pay...

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Yeah what's up with that mamiya?! Another niggle I have with the rz is that the instant film back doesn't produce a square image, the corners are cropped. Quite annoying.

Well what if I used, you know, water spiked with DMSO... I mean if it's just a solubility issue... I know, I know, it's not recommended by the manufacturer, mea culpa...

Well if you are doing macro or even tight portrait closeups then you don't necessarily even need an LF lens at all. I use smaller format lenses for macro all the time, and I recall Per Volquartz using a 50mm lens from a 35mm camera for macro work. People also use shutterless enlarger lenses...

I usually have a good inch or so of developer over the print, which allows me to run through at least ~10 prints with no changes in times or results and allows me to agitate easily. I didn't do any math, it just seems to work out that way.

Hmm. So do you remember what wasn't good about C22? I just wonder, with all the post processing that many people do now, maybe certain issues aren't as critical as they once were...

Yeah, it's a good argument for careful sealing at atmopheric pressure rather than having your valuables at neg pressure. Even the really pricey wine seals do fail eventually. And long before you notice they're failing, they are letting air in. Neg pressure is not advisable for anything really...

I am not disagreeing at all, but let me offer an interesting counterexample, just for fun. Monobath developers for b&w do their good work on the film in a minute or so, and one of the really nice things is that you can focus on agitating well for that brief period and get very good results. If...

Excellent point, hadn't thought of that. Thank you, I'll check that out. And that uld is a very sweet gem. Reason enough to get an RZ body.

The wine bottle thingies work extremely well too. Generally speaking though, I believe (only believe! no long term data for every photo chem out there) it to be best to store under inert gas rather than under vacuum, if a really long term storage is required (many months or longer). The...

It'd be my great pleasure Ralph, and I hope that you will set aside some days to come down see me next time you're in my neck of the woods- trust me you'll love it. I'm also up in DC 3 days /wk now so I could also meet up there some time. I need to collect your signature on the book :)

Ron, I was wondering about this the other day, how come there is no room temp c41 process? It seems possible. I realize it's probably a complicated issue of solubility, but maybe with a more aggressive solvent... it just seems that room temp c41 would be very convenient. Do you know if any...

Roger, if you do want to be more precise, you can go ahead and take the half you divide out and weigh that to any desired precision, and adjust liquid volumes accordingly. But... when I considered the changes people report for compensating differences at 1+1 versus 1+2 and 1+3 etc, I concluded...

Ad infinitum. I mean, I dunno, I mixed some the other day that was at least a year old. Look, if you do it right there will be zero air exposure to the sealed part. Can't remember the last time I bought D76 or ID11. Years ago. I have the stuff sitting around. Unlike some developers it is...

One more quick thing, all the RB lenses can work on the RZs. Important to remember. For some people it may make more sense to get an RZ and buy RB lenses for it.

NO. the 645 and RB mounts are totally different. We're talking about the RB and RZ, they have very similar lenses, image circles, and almost identical mounts. The only difference in the mechanical part of the mount is that the RZ lenses have some curious little pins that keep them from going...

You first toss the bag between your hands and mix it well. You can easily do that. Then you divide the bag into halves ... without breaking the seal... and twist it with roughly half the mix in one part of the bag. You can be as exacting with that as you please, but it's pretty easy to get a...

LOL you'll probably never find any! You're much more likely to find someone who had a batch of D76 "go bad". Plenty of references online to that.... and then the obvious solution is toss it out. So rather than mixing up what you will actually use... ah never mind. Anyway, like I said, it...

Ah so what she proved, by using GC (!) is that the proportions aren't exactly the same. So....? And so for 40 years you have assumed that it mattered? ~~~ Anyway.... enough, obviously this becomes an issue of personal belief, no point in taking it further. If anybody wants to spend...

What did you do Leigh, leave one side open for a day? Must have. I'd love to hear about your scientific method. My result is clear that it works well. P.S. don't presume to lecture me on science, it's what I get paid handsomely to do.