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February 7th 04, 09:12 PM

On 07 Feb 2004 06:57:52 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:

In article , Leo
writes:

On 05 Feb 2004 20:00:23 GMT, (Len Over 21) wrote:

snip

Poor baby. Your imagination giving you poor pictures again?

Develop them. I suggest Kodak D-76.

Now THAT brought back memories - rolling 620 Verichrome Pan film into
the developing tank under that @#$%^ dark green safelight....mixing
the developer and getting it to exactly 68 degrees F.......another
hobby, another time - long ago.

D-76 is good for B&W film only, though. These discussions are far too
colourful for anything less than Ektachrome.....definitely Kodak
moments, though!

You had a safelight? I was so poor I had to catch fireflies and keep
them in an old jelly jar for a safelight. Only had the red-orange fire-
flies in my growing-up town, no green. :-)

My flies all died, so I bought the light. It was so dim, it took
about 10 minutes before you could vaguely see anything at all in the
darkroom. Finally gave up and learned to load the tank by
feel....still remember the bright light (caused by static electricity,
I suppose) when removing the tape at the end of the 620 film, securing
it to the backing paper......looked pretty cool in the dark!

I'll omit mentions of Microdol, forced development to extend Super-
XX film speed, Promicrol film developer or FR monobaths, the lovely
odor of acetic acid stop-bath, DuPont Varigam filters, bulk-load 5-
roll-packs of 35mm and double changing bags, SLRs and the
ability to hold depth-of-field as you wanted it while composing the
picture in the pentaprism viewfinder. Those have nothing to do with
amateur radio policy discussions about Janet Jackson's breast
or her sister Michael.

Or Kim's callsign.

I still have the old developing trays and print dryer, long since
converted to etching trays for PCBs and a heater for the trays to
use the last, loaded ferric chloride etchant in the jug.

All my photography has gone digital and "processing" done in the
computer.

Same here - never did get in to colour developing using the old
chemicals anyway - too buggy. Photoshop is much better, and a lot
easier to clean up!

All but one of the PCTAs in here buy ready-made rigs, don't
make their own. The holdout PCTA "designs his own ham
equipment" such as the Elecraft K2 kit he made. :-) All are
"advancing the state of the amateur art" and showing "the unique
ability of the amateur to extend good will" (as stated in FCC's
47 C.F.R. 97.1). :-)

How a boot dat, ey? :-)

Len, I tink you got dat right fer sure, eh?

LHA / WMD