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My Olympus Trip 35 with functional light meter.

I just got back from a Texas to Kauai trip and 5 inspections. Here is what I found: 1) I should have carried the film in the original, unsealed...

Its just the plating coming off. You can sand those areas down without any consequences. Try to create as smooth a surface as possible. The inside of...

The C part of the formula is usually Potassium Carbonate, or accelerator will add about 25 ml to the volume of the mixed solution. The reason the...

AN N 95 mask should suffice when mixing any type of dry powder Pyro, be it, PyroGallol or PyroCatechin. Once Pyro powders are in solution they are...

I hope this will be an annual event. I am pretty much all traveled out this year, but would consider next year. Keep up the good work! -- Mark

Nice ambience Peter If it's not a security camera watching you, it's someone else. M9, Zeiss 25/2.8 Washington Ferry by tuco, on Flickr

Just came back from a two week trip. We shipped my film and some extra clothes and hiking boots. I carried on my camera bag and small suitcase with...

Thanks. I didn't know HiTech made them. I have rectangular holders and lots of different lenses so buying a bunch of round standard screw-in doesn't...

I do not prewash colour film, I do prewash with PMK but not ID11

I actually do this all the time.. I use outdated E6 film and process in C41 to create images that I then play with in PS then to gum tri colour...

Shown here is another of my Kennedy Instruments Monobar Type U cameras. This one has the standard bellows, 35mm film magazine, and viewing/focusing...

broken lcd tvs are a great source of high quality diffusion materials.

Kind words of you, thanks.

Good stuff, Ari I think a 1962 Nash Nash Metropolitan by tuco, on Flickr M9, Zeiss 35/2, Hoya R72

Thanks all. I really like the way that tree trunks and branches stay dark and provide great contrast with foliage and grass (like Peter's riverside...

maybe 7 years ago I got a free oversize 4X8' sample shipped to me in a huge box Made for LED diffusion, I have used it on enlargers ...

Agree...Ship it All I want my hands free whenever in a crowd... I have shipped stuff to myself for 20 years USPS won't pack, but they have...

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This is why the Nikkor-W (95mm), Fujinon-W (86mm) 355mm f9 G-Claron (77mm) Apo-Ronar f9 (58mm) and Fujinon-A f9 (58mm) are popular over the Sironar-N...

Last time I flew with sheet film, about a year ago, I had it shipped ups to a UPS location near the airport, picked up, shot, then had it shipped...

360mm modern plasmat lenses like this were the normal lens for 8x10, very common back in the commercial AD sheet film days. Whopper lenses like this...

With a front filter thread of 120mm I wonder who bought these lenses and for what reasons and, for that matter, why did Schneider mfg a lens with...

I certainly don't trust Fedex entirely. I've never had a problem with Airport Xrays concerning film; just left it in the carry-on and sent it...