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I have a paper safe that I only put in enough paper for that day's work plus some extra.

Something smells fishy

In addition to the work required one has to be around to do the work. A four to six week vacation becomes a big deal arranging for a suitable person to come in and do the needed work. My local tap water after removing the chlorine still has other added chemicals which cannot be easily removed...

How big an aquarium? Years ago I thought about having a saltwater aquarium but I realized that to be practical, one needed to be large and that takes a lot of work and care, not like guppies or gold fish.

Do not forget Big Hole National Battlefield.

Any time. Each season is unique.

Wouldn't you rather use the scuba gear and Nikonos in Hawaii? Pick up the phone, make flight and hotel reservations, get out of the snow, fly there and use the stuff.

Sea creatures as in food, aquarium additions, or Karkens?

+1 Arbitrary assumption lead to generally dull photographs. A prime example is derating film by one stop which assumes all shadows are the same and are interesting.

I have used XTOL, XTOL 1:1 and replenished XTOL and the best results were replenished XTOL every time.

I mix 5 liters of stock from powder and store in 1 liter StopLossBag™ www.stoplossbag.com. Accordian bottles do not seal out air well.

I rarely crop anything I print, cannot remember the last time I used cropped negative regardless of the format. I do my cropping before I take the photograph. That makes the darkroom work much easier.

Because there may be some unappreciated gems in the negatives. The negatives can be a treasure trove for one doing genealogical research.

In order of darkening skies: Yellow, Orange, Red 23, Red 25 filters. The last can make skies almost black. Polarizers depend on the relative angle of the sun.

I have Nikon 28mm to 200mm AF zoom lens, Tamron 28mm to 300mm AF lens and a Nikon 20mm to 35mm AF zoom. I perfer D lenses and I avoid G lenses.

We make our own decisions and live with the consequences good and bad. Hopefully we can learn from our errors.

My ex mother-in-law when she would open up the processed film envelope would throw out the negatives before she even looked at the prints. I would tell her not to do that and explain why, but frankly the door knobs were better listeners. Yes later after her husband had died, she came to me...

Is this a tangent?

How would you know? Now we all know that your eyes are brown because you are full to the top.

One needs to have a location long distance from lighting to do astrophotography. For me I would have to drive several hours to get to the desert and away from city lights.

Some people do not want to learn and some people cannot learn.

I did that a few times until I learned not to meter the snow.

OR keep batteries warm in the pocket and pop them into the camera, take the photographs, move the batteries back into the pocket.

I posted about emulsion on paper, but it will happen on any format film.

Lubricants become more viscous over time, hence the need for a CLA.

It cannot melt off If the water is too hot, it can slide off. Some places use this to remove the emulsion off a print so that they can transfer it on to a wood base.

Well AEK can be as stubborn as one ... :whistling: :angel:

The orange mask was added because the dyes in film could not reproduce the needed amount of orange needed to balance the colors properly. Then less orange is removed in the printing process so that orange balances properly. ==> Orange is added in excess and removed in lessor amounts so the...

Mine encourages me to do photography and spend money on it. The rest of you are with the wrong person. Get over that or make a change. The newer models are more flexible, have less baggage, and are more willing.

If we get back on topic now, but summer we might actually be able to pull off this workshop.