So with the passport issue going nowhere fast. we went to Representative Lynn Woolsey's office and told them what was up. They got right on it, and within a few days got everything straightened out -- daughter has a passport on the way! Just wanted to pass on the info the Woolsey's people really know what they're doing. Thanks, guys!

I just love it when a company goes the extra step to make it's customers happy. I recently had the chance to see two such instances of this happening.

First, there's Stone Mills Company. I was looking for some enlarger bits and pieces, and found what I needed at their site. Unfortunately, one of the things I needed was twice the price of another website. I told Stone Mills "I'll order everything but that one thing", and they asked me "Is it the price?" Read more

I asked around about my negative issue (see the previous post), and got some good pointers at APUG. I tried them out and here's what happened. Oh, and each image here also includes a little bit of fully-exposed film tongue to check density with. Read more

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p>So I finally developed my first negatives since high school, some 18 years ago. I have three different developers: pyrocat-HD, rodinal (or at least Photographer's Formulary paraminophenol), and some D-76 (well, close...Lauder Chemical formula 76). Wanting to run before I could crawl, I'd decided to do some stand development with the pyrocat and the rodinal.So I finally developed my first negatives since high school, some 18 years ago. Read more