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  1. Sirius Glass

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    Hasselblad A24 film back for 120 film?

    Yes, you can, as you can use any other Hasselblad film back. The A24 back was designed for 220 film rolls, but some have used it for 120 film rolls, however than can cause the loss of one film frame.
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    Hello from France

    Welcome to Photrio!
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    Your Experience with Bulk loading 35mm Film

    For years I bulk loaded 35mm film, mostly Ektachrome which I used for long trips to Europe. At the time it was cost effective as long as the photo finishers would return the cartridges. For black & white film, I used it for mostly for 36 exposure rolls but I liked the flexibility of loading...
  4. Sirius Glass

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    Water Evaporation Spots on Film

    One of the gratifying things about participating in Photrio is to see problems being solved for people who need help and advice. So that thanks also goes to you for providing feedback.
  5. Sirius Glass

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    Mamiya C220. Light leaks?... Help!

    The light leaks may come from the exposed roll not being rolled tightly enough or light piping in from the edges. To avoid that problem I recommend using black plastic film holders. Also put masking tape or painters tape on the holder to be used to seal the exposed roll more securely than with...
  6. Sirius Glass

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    What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

    The most expensive part of setting up a darkroom is not the equipment but having the space to use as a darkroom. Choose the maximum size format you expect to use for the next few years. In your case 35mm or medium format. Then look in all the usual places on the internet and various forms of...
  7. Sirius Glass

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    Low contrast negative and high grade or the other way around ?

    Once the negative has been developed there are two main ways to handle it: Tone the negatives in selenium. Sometimes this works well, but if the negative is too thing there is not enough image to work with. Print in a method to bring out the contrast. Using split grade printing can help...
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    What's your latest new old camera ? (Part 2)

    Welcome to Photrio. No, do not need to join Anonymous Old Camera Buyers however if you want to avoid such buying you have come to the wrong place. We enable buying and collecting cameras.
  9. Sirius Glass

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    About to finish my ilfosol 3, I am looking for new developer for FP400 and HP5

    Follow the XTOL directions. Many rolls can be developed from a 5 liter XTOL package. Even more can be developed in the replenished XTOL. XTOL is one of the least expensive developers per roll.
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    About to finish my ilfosol 3, I am looking for new developer for FP400 and HP5

    I found that XTOL or its equivalents are very fine grain developers, are very forgiving and provide a small speed boost [READ: slightly more shadow detail] than other developers. I have used it as stock XTOL and replenished XTOL which has better tonality and even finer grain plus being more...
  11. Sirius Glass

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    Ball Head or Fluid Head?

    I too do not like ball heads. I had to try several 3 way heads until I found one that worked the way I wanted it to. That is a matter of taste. What is not a matter of tastes is that whether one use a 3 way head or a ball mount, the tripod must be leveled first to have the chosen head work...
  12. Sirius Glass

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    Water down the drain and a guilty conscience

    I am in a drought prone areas and am careful about my water usage. For washing prints, when I use trays I had the water running but at a very low rate. That resulted in properly washed prints with minimal water flow. Now a use a print washer for 14"x16" [~40x46] prints with a very low water...
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    Re-fixing film a weeks later

    If the film needs more fixing, then the sooner it is done the better. As @koraks pointed out, no special handling is needed, just put it in the fixer, wash and hand to dry.
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    First roll of Harman Phoenix photos up!

    Taking only 12 months to design and produce a color negative film is quite and accomplishment. I hope that the time between improved iterations is short and we will see their color negative products evolve quickly.
  15. Sirius Glass

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    Exposure/developing to keep the sparkle in snow scenes.

    Polarizing filters will remove specular reflections, glints and reflections. They are useful for darkening the sky, but when on wide angle or very wide angles lenses the sky darkness will vary by sun angle and the effect can be completely missing in part of the sky.
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    Where it goes wrong in the darkroom? Images printed not sharp enough with new enlarger lens

    The grain should POP into focus sharply is the grain focuser is working properly.
  17. Sirius Glass

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    Water Evaporation Spots on Film

    Would it work in the right side of the shower stall or only on the left? 😕
  18. Sirius Glass

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    CPE-2 film processor

    Welcome to Photrio. Contact the Darkroom Doctor, Dave Smith directly or through FreeStyle, a Photrio supporter, https://www.freestylephoto.com/black-and-white-darkroom-practice-with
  19. Sirius Glass

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    Exposure/developing to keep the sparkle in snow scenes.

    Using the light meter built in to the camera would give me dark silhouette against the snow with great snow contours, but not a good print or a slide most of the time. Then I learned two ways that I measure the light in the snow to get good exposures. The first I learned was to take a light...
  20. Sirius Glass

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    Larry Fink Has Passed Away

    Fascinating, but I am just seeing him for the first time. I have to do some more looking for his work.
  21. Sirius Glass

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    How long to let negative dry & how to remove dust

    I have found that sometimes film is still not completely dry after twenty to thirty minutes and I have taken to let the film dry overnight, In my setup, the film does not collect dust overnight hanging in the shower. YMMV
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    Visualisation After The Fact

    It is not that FX-55 lost film speed, rather that XTOL provides a small ISO boost. And I prefer the cropped composition. Cropping is not a failure, but a different approach. I prefer to crop before I photograph and even after many decades of doing that, I still find that I have some...
  23. Sirius Glass

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    Requesting for details on opening, storing, using chemistry

    I tried the glass marbles and yes they took up the empty space. However as the volume of chemical decreased the weight of the chemical, bottle and marbles increased to the point that handling the bottle became difficult. That was when I switched to the StopLossBags™ I mentioned and strongly...
  24. Sirius Glass

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    Need help with lens board.

    Instead, buy the lens you want and either have to hole redrilled/bored or buy the right size lens board for the lens you wish to use.
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    Suggestion for classified section - Shipping info on title

    If you think that is high, ship something outside of Canada.
  26. Sirius Glass

    Suggestion for classified section - Shipping info on title

    This would be a good idea, especially since many of the subscribers are not in the US. If I were elsewhere, I too would find that I could only determine if the item could be shipped to me required opening every single add, it would find it tiresome. A similar label for "EU Only" or...
  27. Sirius Glass

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    what waS your last photography related purchase?

    I have a leather holster and a black cloth holster for my Pentax Digital Spot Meter and when in either of the holsters it has been mistaken for a gun. That has happened often enough that I keep it in my camera bag until I need it.
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    what waS your last photography related purchase?

    I use the adapters for the B23, B29 and 720 filters which are variations of red to IR.
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    How would (or wouldn't) IPA affect undeveloped film?

    Also dropping the reels and knocking the two sides out of parallel. <<hic>>
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