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    Re: Wide Open

    Front stairs of the old London (Ontario) Normal School for Teachers. Taken with my "new" Ilex 90mm, F8. This lens is said to be a clone of the Super Angulon (looks it to me).
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    eta gosha maaba, aaniish gaa zhiwebiziyin ?

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    Re: Wide Open

    Quote Originally Posted by Donald Qualls View Post
    My hypothesis is that there is much more developing agent in the robusta beans commonly used to boost caffeine levels and reduce cost in lower priced brands (though caffeine itself exhibits no developing action -- decaf works just as well, and No-Doz doesn't).

    Generally, then, I'd expect the cheaper instant coffees to develop more silver, other factors equal...
    donald,
    i had a feeling you were going to say that ..

    now, if we could only make fixer out of condensed milk and crums from a baguette, i would be all set!

    --thanks!

    john

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    From the 12" IWSWGon, wide at f/5.6.

    Someday I'll learn to do a decent scan...
    "I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."

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    Have you been studying for your PhD general exam Mark?

    It looks good on my screen!

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    Re: Wide Open

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Sawyer View Post
    From the 12" IWSWGon, wide at f/5.6.

    Someday I'll learn to do a decent scan...
    OK, I'll bite. What is a IWSWGon? Enlighten please. Looks good!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Galli View Post
    OK, I'll bite. What is a IWSWGon? Enlighten please. Looks good!
    Just a home-assembled lens; I have three 12" IWSWGon's and one 17".

    I wanted to give them a name, but couldn't think of what to call them. The one day I was looking at some other lenses, Paragon, Acugon, Astragon, Ultragon, Rodagon...

    I decided to call mine the "I-Wish-She-Wasn't-Gon". Seemed to fit...
    "I love my Verito lens, but I always have to sharpen everything in Photoshop..."

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    Re: Wide Open

    Quote Originally Posted by jnanian View Post
    donald,
    i had a feeling you were going to say that ..

    now, if we could only make fixer out of condensed milk and crums from a baguette, i would be all set!

    --thanks!

    john
    If you're desperate enough, you might be able to make fixer from onions. There is a significant amount of thiosulfate in onion juice (supposedly, enough to kill a dog if it eats a whole onion -- we have much more tolerance for thiosulfate than dogs do, apparently, because I eat a lot of onions and don't so much as get sick), but it's not in a directly usable form, so there'd be some effort in extracting it and removing the undesirable cations to give a reasonably pure thiosulfate in solution.

    For the foreseeable future, though, it'll be simpler to buy hypo crystals from chemical suppliers, and probably cheaper as well (given the number of onions you'd need to get a pound of hypo). As long as folks swim in chlorinated pools, there'll be a market for industrial quantities of technical grade sodium thiosulfate pentahydrate, rice crystals, because it's a very efficient sequestrant for excess chlorine in water -- and there'll always be someone around willing to buy up a rail car or container load of 100 lb bags of hypo crystals, repackage it in 5 to 25 lb plastic buckets, mark it up 300%, and ship it to you and me (and still beat the photographic suppliers by 50% or more on final cost). Since sodium sulfite is used for the same purpose as well as being a very widely used preservative (for both food and non-food items), it'll be around a while, too, and you only need hypo crystals and sulfite to make a perfectly fine fixer...
    If a contact print at arm's length is too small to see, you need a bigger camera. :D

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    Re: Wide Open

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Sawyer View Post
    Just a home-assembled lens; I have three 12" IWSWGon's and one 17".

    I wanted to give them a name, but couldn't think of what to call them. The one day I was looking at some other lenses, Paragon, Acugon, Astragon, Ultragon, Rodagon...

    I decided to call mine the "I-Wish-She-Wasn't-Gon". Seemed to fit...

    I had it all wrong. I figured it for a "It's-Whatcha-See's-Whatcha-Get-on" I have a few of those.

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    Re: Wide Open

    Yes I have posted this in a different thread, but it's wide open. Plus the other is too.

    Both on ERA 100 in T-Max shot on aero ektar wide-open with negative tilt.

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    Re: Wide Open

    Tessar 105/4.5, stopped down slightly - was trying to get enough speed to stop the kids. Didn't. Arista.EDU Ultra 100 in HC-110.

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