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    Re: Outage 2 recovery

    Thank you, Brian!
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    Re: Outage 2 recovery

    Thank you, Tom!
  3. Re: The Most Photographed Generation Will Have No Pictures in 10 Years!

    Sad, but true. Smarter phones, dumber people. Here's some related data...
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    I was thinking mostly of distribution to friends & family members, but local institutions would be nice.

    I just finished making a photo book containing 80 shots from a recent family wedding and...
  5. Re: The Most Photographed Generation Will Have No Pictures in 10 Years!

    To transmit photos far into the future, print multiple copies of important images, label them well and send to as many people as you can. Some of them will survive for centuries.
  6. Thread: What is Azo?

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    Re: What is Azo?

    I attended a workshop at George Eastman Museum a few years ago and was surprised to find that it's not very difficult to make your own AZO... aka "gaslight" paper... using commonly available artists...
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    Re: Bausch & Lomb lens identification

    The lens barrel and focussing screw look very much like the telescope on my grandfathers survey transit, which was made around 1901.
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    Re: New55 instant film instructions

    Ray, thank you for such a clear and concise introduction. My first pack of New55 is arriving soon and this will be a big help.
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    Re: Portable darkroom for wet plate

    Looks very nice. Ruby window on the top?
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    Re: Sally Mann, great article in the NYT

    Like her children, Sally was an innocent, slow to understand the lack of boundaries in our culture of images. She thought of her photos as separate objects that could exist apart from her actual...
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    Re: Heathkit Darkroom timer revealed glory!

    Compare Heathkits to this:

    http://www.radioshack.com/littlebits

    We live in a plug & play world now.
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    Re: Mortensen, the Antichrist...

    Those are some pretty powerful images. Shock value, horror, gore, sex and violence are the coin of the realm these days. Mortensen would fit right in.
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    Re: How Kodak lenses are (were) made.

    The sheer scope and scale of that lens making operation is awesome. Aside from increased automation and precision, how much of this process has changed over the past 60 years?
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    Re: Instagram and the "Shelfie"

    I would estimate that at least 90% of the stories in the "professional media" are sourced and researched by browsing the Web. Except for the most important breaking stories, it has become too...
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    Re: Instagram and the "Shelfie"

    What's wrong with people taking pictures of deliberately arranged objects to please themselves and their friends? Sure, the Instagrammers are acting like they invented the still-life photograph, just...
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    Re: Kodak Flash Supermatic shutter question

    Minimum opening is 2mm, so 203/2= f101.5. That's getting into pinhole territory.
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    Re: Kodak Flash Supermatic shutter question

    Jim and Dan, thanks very much for your help. I do have a caliper and will do the math.
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    Kodak Flash Supermatic shutter question

    My Kodak Ektar 203mm is in a Flash Supermatic shutter. The highest marked f stop on the scale is 45, but the iris can stop down quite a bit further than that. Does anyone know what that unmarked...
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