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I only use the Zone System for exposing. I do not like the mid range compression, lack of control, … so I skip the playing with developing times unless I am getting thin negatives. 14 stops sometimes shows up but I do not strive for it.

Because I can burn and dodge to get the rest in. Something that Ansel did too.

If a company provides MTF curves, each uses its own standard so the cannot be compared.

Magenta is not a color. Ask the Dutch troll.

With the right conditions and some luck, I have never gotten more than 14 f/stops out of any film.

Except for fisheye lenses.

No, the cameras will out live me. I am not arrogant.

Flash powder.

Send it to Quality Light Metric for recalibration.

Look at the Leica and Hasselblad prices first, then the Nikon prices feel like bargains.

I prefer to load development reels either in a changing room bag or in the dark. It just seems to workout better in the end.

Yes, but I avoid having people in my landscapes because the clothes date the photograph.

The tree branch is still a way to frame the composition. You may choose to avoid it; sometimes I found it useful.

If I leave my Widelux F7 for a long time, I dry fire it for 100 to 150 times before loading film to smooth out the lubrication and get rid of banding.

Checker cab?

. Welcome to APUG Photrio!!

Whose foot photo bombed the photo?

Lie still.

Those two places were where I found most of the Hasselblad equipment I bought.

Not a problem. Both Samys and KEH will do a CLA for free if the CLA is needed. Otherwise I include the CLA price in the cost. I do the same with 35mm and large format equipment.

Evidently KEH cannot get cameras and lenses because no one goes out to trade cameras and lenses to them because of COVID, hopefully this will get better soon.

Loading a Grafmatic 45 is possible, but tight.

If you are a vegetarian and committed to be one, why you desire a meat substitute?

"Everyone must get stoned!" Bob Dylan

Yes, the Hasselblad 100mm lens is considered by many to be too sharp for photographing women because it shows every tiny detail in each's glory.

It a lens is too sharp for portraits, add a Softar filter.

G*A*S is GOOD!!