The Home Depot Gods Have Spoken!

[Andrew O'Neill]

 

[AgX]

I do not see the use of these chargable LED lights for our field.

 

[albada]

Do they have equal stock of XTOL?
BTW, your pic is kind of black and white, and kind of color, as if you couldn't decide.

 

[grahamp]

Now someone has to find D 76!

 

[Sirius Glass]

XTOL forever!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Do they have equal stock of XTOL?
BTW, your pic is kind of black and white, and kind of color, as if you couldn't decide.

That was a consciously done... I don't like over saturated pics. Same when I do colour gums.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

XTOL forever!

I will NEVER abandon Xtol. It's just too good. HP5 loves it. I've got heaps of it. My X-Ray and Pan F negs love D-23, though.

 

[AgX]

But when will you tell us about those Gods' verdict?

 

[mshchem]

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Looks like a global supply problem, thankfully there's XTOL back in stock

 

[pentaxuser]

It's very simple. It has nothing to do with life's essentials such as photography. Andy got the punctuation wrong in the title. It should read The Home Depot! The Gods have spoken

It was a command by the Gods( wife and mother-in-law) to go to the Home Depot for their much demanded home DIY improvements

pentaxuser

 

[DREW WILEY]

If Cheapo Depot did sell film developer, it wouldn't work more than once anyway, just like everything else they sell.

 

[Moose22]

I will NEVER abandon Xtol. It's just too good. HP5 loves it. I've got heaps of it. My X-Ray and Pan F negs love D-23, though.

I have yet to use anything else. So I can say without a hint of an issue that Xtol is the best developer I have ever used.

That said, and without sarcasm, it really does look great with HP5. I have done a dozen roll sow and I prefer my xtol dev'd HP5 to the D76 the lab does, though those look just fine, too, when I'm not zoomed in to an 8000px scan snooping the grain.

 

[jay moussy]

If Cheapo Depot did sell film developer, it wouldn't work more than once anyway, just like everything else they sell.

And watch the developer returns!

 

[Craig]

Now someone has to find D 76!

At the Calgary International Airport.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

At the Calgary International Airport.

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It's a "sign", I tell ya!

 

[AgX]

Andrew, now after 5hours I got it.... I must say it was one of those in-crowd jokes, not funny for those un-initiated.

 

[Craig]

It's a "sign", I tell ya!

A large one too! Really hard to miss. I had a chuckle when it was the gate our flight departed from.

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Sorry, I got distracted by the McGill t-shirt. Did my BA ('03) and MA ('08) there!

 

[gone]

At least you found it Andrew. I'd make a hefty wager that if you asked the Home Depot employees where aisle D-23 was, you'd have to ask about 3 of them to find it. Most of the shoppers I see there and other places have given up all hope of finding a knowledgeable worker (or any worker, period) and use their phones to find out where things are in the stores.

 

[DREW WILEY]

One thing I do like about Depot : the vending machine outside the front door, stating : "Five minutes life insurance for fifty cents", in case something tumbles from a top rack on top of you, or if an untrained forklift driver runs over you. It works just like their "lifetime" product warranties : you have to redeem it in person at their corporate home office to collect, regardless whether you died in one of their stores due to an accident, or in a home fire when a flimsy halogen floor lamp they sold fell apart.

Otherwise ... Where's the PYRO sign?

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Sorry, I got distracted by the McGill t-shirt. Did my BA ('03) and MA ('08) there!

You my friend were one fortunate dude! And Montreal is a great city!

 

[Sirius Glass]

Andrew, now after 5hours I got it.... I must say it was one of those in-crowd jokes, not funny for those un-initiated.

Isn't funnier with the long pause?

 

[AgX]

Without Craig's posting I would never got it, even if hinted at that label.

(I grew up photographically without seeing any Kodak developer at stores, even none of their b&w films. And after this riddle I went through those photochemistry textbooks at hand in several languages, no mention of it either.)

 

[Craig]

. And after this riddle I went through those photochemistry textbooks at hand in several languages, no mention of it either.)

D-23 has been discussed extensively on this site, there was a thread about it this week. Similarly, D-76 (or ID-11) is a standard developer that has been around for nearly a century

 

[AgX]

I am busy on all fields of photography and I just can't remember all codings. You fellows from the USA and Canada are not willing to understand that there is a world outside where Kodak did not have such standing.
Of course there is D-76 as developer of reference known, but there is so much american not even known as concept here.