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It arrived today. Very nicely made. It has a a bayonet mount. When I use a pinhole lens on my Nikon SLRs I can see through the prism will enough to line up the frame and see the subject barely. I was happy that with the prism I can see the subject, barely, and see the edges of the frames...

I am not the only one to see the difference. As in the Life cereal tv advertisement, "Try it. You will like it. Even Mikey likes it."

Back then the world was black & white, now we have color.

This thread just shows that some people have way too much time on their hands. Go shoot film.

I am too busy in the darkroom. Do your own side by side tests. <<wink>> <<wink>>

Frustration is the point. If you are not frustrated, you are not pushing your limits and learning.

I use Tri-X. Not the same results.

"Stock Xtol produces identical results to replenished Xtol". I disagree. Replenished XTOL gives much better tonality, tonality smoothness, and better sharpness. Otherwise I would not go to the trouble. Stock XTOL does not produce identical results to replenished XTOL.

When I shot slides I did that. When I took slides of people skiing I got great tonality showing the shapes of the snow and everything else as too dark for detail. When I used the palm of my hand the photographs improved greatly, but the best results came when I took the palm reading and closed...

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Whatever just do not use photochemicals as soup!

XTOL in much safer if it is used to develop film rather than taken in as soup. Please correct your development and wording.

The film industry removed cadmium from film when it was deemed detrimental to rivers. Radium was removed from lenses when it was realized that it was not safe. No problems with film that cannot be overcome.

While some developers do not work if they are too cold, but it does not matter because some pull the prints when they want the development to stop. Others time the development and if there is any variability, they will adjust the exposure.

The best I ever got was 14 f/stops.

Wine and Whiskeys are aged to improve the taste. Why not add the aging ingredients in at the beginning and save the aging time?

If everything worked making the first print, you must have messed up something. Start over and keep repeating until something goes wrong.

If i cannot find the times, I use the 1:1 times. That has worked well. Also ask on this website.

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Hasselblad killed my GAS. Once I got all the Hasselblad lenses that I wanted, GAS just disappeared and never came back. Hmmm, another reason to buy Hasselblad.

Now is the time to strike! Women love being photographed with Hasselblads. Sell everything and buy a Hasselblad and lenses now.

I use box speed and then use the Zone System to bring out the shadow details and develop normally. Since you are not printing the photographs yourself, that will work well. Modern films no longer require changing the development times.

My first slr was the f/1.Minolta SR-7 in college. I later moved up to the SR 101, SR 201, ... X700, f/1.4 58mm, f.1.4 50mm, f/2.8 28mm and the f2.8 21mm lenses and Vivitar 70mm to 203mm zoom [which lacked the contrast of the Rokkor lenses]. Wonderful well built cameras. Real work horses.

A F5, I would drop it like a hot potato! Sell, trade ... for almost anything. It is too heavy.

Many years ago I took my brother and his wife to a nice restaurant for dinner, to celebrate their cross country to visit me. A photographer asked to take photographs and sell them to us. I as the host politely said no. The photographer got huffy and said that maybe the other two would want...

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I never said buy the machine new. I bought two different used ones and kept the one I liked the best.

For example when one has finished a meal in polite company in Australia, one should not say, "I am stuffed."

I can dream. On the practical level, I can set the camera on a tripod, use the normal lens to set up and then switch to the pinhole.