I had 3 customers come thru before I realized my Pentax Spot Meter had gone wonko - the negatives came out too thin to do P.O.P. prints.
Not wanting to admit that I screwed up, I been pondering what to do with the thin negatives (short of giving a refund). In rumaging thru the darkroom cupboards, I discovered I had a box of 20 year old poly-contrast paper. "Hummm" thought I, "I wonder if I could give some body to those negatives?"
I pushed the RC II to max contrast and printed 8x10s - they came out fine!
I'll shoot the 8x10s with my 4x5 to make new negatives to do the POP contact prints and nobody will ever know I screwed up the first shots :-)
The Pentax is fixed.
(In making musical instruments I discovered that "skill" was not nearly as much doing it right the first time as it is in knowing how to recover from your mistakes!)
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