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The XTOL sudden death has been dead for over a decade. It had to do with early packaging problems that have not reoccurred.

I found that XTOL has very smooth tonal graduations, fine grain and very tolerant of small errors in timing. It is the most forgiving developer that I have use.

No, it is very easy. Just use XTOL. Try it, you will like it.

How about taking the television or computer out of the darkroom? That is the obvious solution.

Fold the 6x7 slide over itself and then you can use a 6x6 projector.

Advance film slowly in cold weather because advancing quickly can cause static discharge which messes up the negative.

Wrong. Mix Solution A completely then add Solution B. See post #46 for some of the reasons.

Exactly my point. 138S stated that since the LX did not do that one thing that the camera was the worst ever built and sold and that the company should have been destroyed and erased from history. I would hate to see the reaction if he had trouble snapping the paper tab on a 120 roll of film...

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I never had an illumination problem with Super Slides in a Kodak Carousel projects. Actually I never heard of a 35mm projector having any problems with Super Slides since all the projectors easily handle portrait or landscape formats.

If someone cannot figure out how to set a camera for back lit subject, I feel sorry for them. If that is the camera's only problem, that is not much of a deficiency.

A pair of 7x50 binoculars would be good for seeing the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn Monday at sunset. The last time we could see that was 800 years ago.

Test strips and to put under the grain focuser.

Call and ask to speak to Michael to make an arrangement.

I added a snap on cold shoe and bought an inexpensive bar shaped range finder. I used the ranger finder to get the focus distance and set the distance on the camera.

It always cost less to repair film backs. You are either misinformed or you have the wrong repair person.

Have Hasselblad repairman check out and adjust the back and take a look at the back's light seals.

If the lamp base does not come out, use the needle nose pliers to grab the edge and give it a hard twist, grab an edge near that spot and repeat. Repeat around the base until it comes out.

COVID cause me to cancel three trips that I had planned. So no more trips are planned for now.

French security officials can tell someone off very well in English, but refuse to understand spoken English.

Uneven cooling caused projector bulbs to blow out one side with a bulge.

I use the Nikon SB strobes for all my cameras.

Not just Heathrow, in De Gaule Airport in Paris, they did not even pay attention while I was asking for a hand inspection. They just threw the camera bag in the X-ray machine.

What you experienced with defective equipment is the exception not the rule. If the industry has a wide spread problem, they would have shut down decades ago.

FreeStyle accepts returns or issues credit for defective items returned in 30 days. Call them.

In Rochester when it snows stop signs and traffic lights are merely advisory.

Yes

The cost of shipping developed film is the same across the country as from next door.

In northern Virginia, the forecast of snow causes all stores to be emptied of white bread, milk, eggs and toilet paper [must be some pagan rite that causes great gastric distress, IDK] and the minimum acceptable speed on any paved road regardless of width, traffic or weather conditions is 70...