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• Post #3876365

  Abstracts Floors and tables shot with my #Charmera

• Post #3876364

  Finally starting to develop the photos I shot in Florida a few weeks ago.

• Post #3876363

  Took the M3 out this morning for its first full roll. Fingers crossed that it’s pictures….

• Post #3876362

  And yes, it’s pictures. The roll on the left is kind of fogged and thin, I think, but I see frames in shot with my Pentax 17 in Florida. The roll on the right is a roll of expired Ektar 100 I shot this morning in the M3.

• Post #3876361

  Tried exposing three salt prints just now. All three had issues, mostly with my brushwork. /me sighs….

• Post #3876360

  It’s pictures. One roll of Kodak Pro Image 100 through the Leica R4; one roll of Kono Don’t You Dare Call It Standard through the Pentax 17; and a roll shot at lunchtime today in the Leica M3 of Santa Color 100.

• Post #2670365

  Was looking for some information about old Agfa film, specifically Agfa Pan 400 Professional, because I found 3 boxes of it in 4x5. It predates the APX films. Most information about Agfa black and white films is about APX. But I found this site with a bunch of old documents: http://vmpalvelin.no-ip.info/Photo/Documents/Documents.html

• Post #2670364

  Headed into the city for the Dance Parade. Laura is marching with the Findy Hoppers. Should get some fun photos out of this.

• Post #2670363

  Dinner at my favorite restaurant in the world, Veselka.

• Post #2670362

  Three rolls from today’s excursion into NYC ready for development; one roll of 120 Kodak Plus-X from the Hasselblad, one roll of 220!Kodak Portra 160NC, also from the Hasselblad, and one roll of Fuji 200 (US) from the Yashica Samurai X3.0. Nikon S still has part of a roll of Kikipan to finish, and the Samurai has another half roll of Fuji 200 (US) to finish.

• Post #2670361

  It’s pictures. One roll of 35mm Fujifilm 200 (US) and one roll of 220 Kodak Portra 160NC, both shot at the Dance Parade in NYC yesterday, both full of pictures.

• Post #2670360

  It’s pictures Third roll from the Dance Parade in Manhattan on Saturday, this one a roll of 120 Kodak Plus-X put through the Hasselblad 500cm and developed in 510-Pyro.

• Post #2670359

  Testing the Agfapan 400 Professional to see how fast it is after 40 years. Trying 200 and 100 to start; if that’s not adequate, I have another holder loaded and will try 50 and 25.

• Post #2670358

  Lloyd Doggett and Michael Shank call for the U.S. to move from fossil fuel dependence to decentralized generation with renewable energy sources, using Ukraine as an example of a country making this move. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/iran-war-energy-independence-fossil-fuels

• Post #2670357

  Okay, this is cool. Got e-mail suggesting that FM skins open. Fired up my SDR and tuned to 88.1 FM and the RDS tells me I’m hearing WJIS in Bradenton, Florida, 1014 miles from my location in New Jersey.

• Post #2282677

  So the Medalist II service manual specifically addresses the rangefinder issue I have where the halving is incorrect. The fix is to slightly move the rangefinder lenses without loosening the nuts holding them in place. This sounds almost doable.

• Post #2282675

  Had a hornet in the house. Laura isolated him in the bathroom and tasked me with dealing with him. Managed to trap him and take him outside and release him. That’s enough adulting for today. I need a drink. Oh wait, it’s 8:30 in the morning….

• Post #2282673

  KosmoFoto and PetaPixel have posted articles about Mark Osterman and France Sculley Osterman's project to make film like what was shot in the first Leicas, but this article in Rust talks to Mark Osterman and gives the best look at what they’re doing. https://www.rustmag.com/gear/2025/7/15/mark-ostermans-mo-1925-film-project

• Post #2282672

  There is undoubtedly a lesson for us Americans as well in this look at the daunting task before Hungarians in the wake of the defeat of Victor Orbán. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/hungary-authoritarianism-poland-rule-of-law

• Post #2282670

  Kind of struggling with salt prints. Made two step wedges, one at 900 units on my meter and one at ten times that and never got merged blacks, although that had bad fog. So somewhere in between. Tried 1500 and 2500 units for next step, and see no difference. I’ll keep plugging; kallitype’s easier…

• Post #2282669

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/116528610271499411 Former senior here, now retired. Best part of the job was mentoring juniors and watch them get better at my job than me. Without that, there’s no point, because all the seniors will eventually retire and die, and where do seniors come from? Juniors who have been mentored, taught, nurtured to get to that level. I’m so glad I got out when I did.

• Post #2282667

  Putin is terrified. Luke Harding of The Guardian talks to the Ukrainian commander throwing the fear of God into him: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/madyar-robert-brovdi-ukraine-military-vladimir-putin

• Post #2282664

  Calibration complete. Trying my first salt prints. #AltProcess

• Post #2282663

  The local community college has an improv group, or maybe a class, and they do their thing in front of the public periodically. Laura finds out about stuff like this and suggests we go, and I usually say yes. So that’s where I was tonight. It was a blast.

• Post #2282661

  Opened the fridge this morning and noticed this shelf turd. I think maybe I’ll have it today to mark russian Victory Day. (The beer name translates as “Putin is a dickhead.)

• Post #1832670

  Photobooths of lower Manhattan

• Post #969713

  Wishing everyone who celebrates a Happy Ether. I hope you got a visit from the Ether Monkey.