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Posted: Wed Sep 30th, 2020 13:04

rmoser

Joined:	Tue Apr 17th, 2012
Location:	Flower Mound, Texas USA
Posts:	39
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Back in the day my favorite film/dev b&w combination was Panatomic X exposed at ASA 25 and developed in Minicol. Wonder, smooth 35mm portraits. Neither still exists although I do have the formula for Minicol, so that's still doable. Naturally, I still have a bunch of Tri-X in the freeze and I sometimes give my F2's a little time out of the house. I have an F5 but I only use it if I'm also shooting with my D4s.

We really are spoiled with excellent auto exposure and focus in hand these days. I stumbled on a batch of negs the other day that I took at an air show back in the middle 1970's using a Nikon F (which I still have in the safe). I just look at them and wonder how I did that. Manual focus, manual exposures, no motor drive and only 36 pictures before a re-load.

I still have my 4x5 view camera and haul it out sometimes but I think I should get a digital back for it :). Sheet film, processing and scanning is a serious investment these days.

Rob