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After using several developer, I prefer XTOL in the form of replenished XTOL.

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Send them all off to a testing facility and have all of them calibrated to standard source and then that will not be a problem.

Ansel Adams did not have the advantage of split grade printing which is a valuable tool with or without the Zone System.

And that is why I shoot film at box speed and adjust the shadows with the Zone System exposure set the the shadow level I want instead of the same adjustment for all photographs.

One of the early photographs of mine with a Kodak Browie Harkeye camera when I was 12, had a WALK and DON'T WALK sign hanging out each of his ears. I did not notice the signs, but my brother did, breaking out in laughter. That was my first awareness of "a mandate to avoid verticals sticking up...

I suggest the Nikon F100 which cost less and weighs less than the F4 or F5 and yet has the same capabilities.

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No, you are not a Philistine. I have always used box speed, except to the time I experimented with derating the film speed, and a use the Zone System exposure adjustment when I want more detail in the shadows.

I too push the lid down evenly and then I double check before I turn the lights on or remove the tank from the changing bag.

History has shown that prices for film, paper and processing continue to go up over time. Therefore I found that stocking up on film has always been profitable for me.

I have a Nikon SB-800 for any fill in and any other flash needs.

I copy the RAW and JPEG files to a memory stick and to my PC laptop. Later the files are copied to my Mac tower. No post processing is done on the Mac since it is too out of date, but that will change when I replace the Mac Pro Tower with a new model. I only work with the RAW files using...

Any reason is a good reason to stock up on film, so one might as well use the cost of silver.

I started taking photographs in 1958 and developing and printing film a few years later. In 1966 I got my Minolta SR-7 and have been hooked on SLRs since then. In 2007 when I bought my Hasselblad 503 CX I purchased the 45 degree PME prism, removed the WLF and used it that way ever since.

I have found that for me using only the exposure part of the Zone System, great success with color print and black & white film. I look at the composition, choose what I want Zone V to be and which Zone II, III or IV for when I want the shadow exposure based on the film box speed. Then is...

For $6 million back when the show came out all that could be made would have been an arm the would send out a shower of sparks when it moved and then it would have burst into flames leaving a smoking pile of burn metal, electrical components, circuit boards and other debris.

I am using spring stainless steel arms and plastic paddle tongs.

Ignoring digital photography from spacecraft, I too am a recent active digital photographer. I am using Nikon Z7ii. I have chosen to shoot both RAW and JPEG simultaneously, however I am doing post processing on the RAW files only with Light Room and PhotoShop Classic.

It appears that an empty lens board is mounted in the front.

The source is dirt in the film path including on rollers and pressure plates.

I would and have chosen to have a CLA much sooner. Besides it could correct problems that you do not know that you have with the camera and lens. Also my Hasselblad repairman recommends that every three months one should fire each lens and each body, should you own more than one Hasselblad, be...

I prefer count up counters, but I use which every the camera I am presently using have. While the Hasselblads count up, the NIkon AF cameras go one way or the other, each having made up its own mind without ever consulting me.

I have fewer contamination problems and fewer mistakes when I use tongs simply because it fully engages the brain when I have to stop and think "Which hand and which of the tongs to I need now?"

Welcome to Photrio! I have a dry darkroom for the enlarger and drum print dryer, that was a bedroom. The wet darkroom is my master bathroom, where a put a board across the two sinks and place four trays. The bathtub holds the print washer. That is a very nice thing that you are doing for...

The second eye's cataract was not very developed at the time and it took five years until it needed to be removed.

My first choice is Samy's Camera in Fairfax in Los Angeles. If they cannot do the repair, Steve's Camera in Culver City has come through. For my Nikonos V I use Dean's Camera Repair. Otherwise, I use KEH.com for repairs and of course Hasselblad in Southern California.

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No, I don't have any dream cameras. I let the GAS drive me to buy the cameras and lenses that I wanted. That got me what I wanted and cured my GAS.