I'm practicing darkroom work for about 5 months now as a hobby using
Tri-X and X-Tol(1:1) as my film/dev combo, printing my 35mm Neg's on
Multigrade RC-Paper from 18x24 to 24x30 (cm), so my experience is pretty
moderate.

Is it true that in the days of B&W film and optical track audio, that
the films were formatted differently in different countries?
When magnetic videotapes were the norm, USA and Canada used NTSC,
France and Russia used SECAM, and the rest of the world used PAL.

While going through an old book on Photography by
L.P.Clerc(Photography: theory and practice), I came across the
following interesting piece:
"Sulfite solutions do not keep well, therefore preparation of solution

A while back, I picked up a small Sabre s+35 enlarger (also labelled "an
R$H Product" in a yard sale. While I realize this is only good for 35 mm
film, I am restoring it as much as I can.
It is missing its negative carrier. From looking at the unit, it looks

Hi, becaise it no more possible to find lith film I need to try with a
qute common film to obtain very high contrasted pictures. I have Efke
KB 25 and Rollei PAN 25 at home. Can anybody suggest a developer to
have extremely contrasted subjects?

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After a long phone odessey with Kodak (and some help from Chaim in B&H's
darkroom department and one of B&H's buyers) I've discovered that Kodak
does still sell the ready-to-use Flexicolor C41 developer (no separate
starter and replenisher required).  It's no longer packaged as ...

September 27, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,
Recently I posted regarding a print developer
I've been playing with lately: Edwal 102
(Potassium version).

I've been using Ilford Multigrade paper and filters for years, with the
filters, in the above-neg position, being the usual (so I hitherto thought)
range between 1 and 6 in 1/2 grade increments, ranging in colour from a
light orange to a dense pink.

I had to go into town today and felt well enough to stop at a camera
store on the way home. There are two with darkroom supplies and I
went to the one I prefered in the past.
I was surpised, a few years ago it was full to the brim with people

October 14, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,
Some time ago I posted about a darkroom
material called Colorine bulb dipping paint,
made by Rosco, the company that makes gels

I may have to do a project which uses RA4  type color paper, but want to
end up with a B&W silver image. Can I process the silver in this and get
rid of the incorporated dye somehow?
gr

For all the beautiful girls of the group!!! I give you a Rose:
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does anyone have this spare lens for sale ?
if so, email
hsf18@epix.net

The recent posts with the titles GUY MACON, COLLEGE EDUCATION
or COLLEGE DEGREE are forgeries from a spammer who apparantly
didn't like having his spam blocked. Mr. Macon had nothing to
do with them.