I owned several MF TLR cameras including one SuperDolly folder with a wonderfully sharp Zeiss lens and a Mamiya C330 with the 65mm, 80mm and 250mm lenses and every option known in the known world. I traded in the later for a Hasselblad 503 CX in 2006 and I have never looked back. I also own...
I no longer have the patience to print out every negative on every roll of C41 film, so I just send them off to be processed and printed for me so that I can look through all the prints at my own pace.
Any old light meter that is over a decade old will most likely need to be adjusted for back into calibration regardless of the type of meter. To calibrate a light meter to a standard source includes more that just the reading accuracy, there drift adjust measurements that need to be returned as...
I had a Jobo CPE and a Jobo CPP2. I sold the first one off. The CPP2's lift are was broken off so I lift the tank or drum up. I prefer to use the lift to raise the tank or drum and pour the chemicals though the top.
That is a wise move, as long as one sticks to the V Series and avoids buying 200 Series or 2000 Series. That way one does not get caught in the focal shutter supply and services.
I tried super glue holding the eye cup with camera. That was too stiff and it did not work well for me. I thhe ey en used Pliobond 25 and that has worked well in holding the eye cup on the camera and being flexible enough to work well.
Black & white film prewashing was scientifically, controlled and rationally addressed at length by PE. I suggest you do some research and read PE's work.
When I joined Photrio, then called APUG, I was introduced to the prewash discussions and prewash wars. At the time I had occasional rolls of film with uneven development, including Kodak and Ilford. After reading the comments and an extended PM discussion with PE, I tried prewashing. I found...
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