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Apr 23, 2024 20:44:19   #
lamiaceae wrote:
... I guess I may be the only one on the Hog that listens to Radio.


You are not. Im addition to short wave stations, ham radio and satellite/space communications, I regularly listen to NPR. Radio is magic - a window to the world.
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Apr 22, 2024 23:35:19   #
selmslie wrote:
Cibachrome was tolerable considering what we could get from Kodachrome slides. I still have a couple of prints that have never faded after 40 years.

But I scanned the original slides and the results are just as good.

Loved Cibachrome - beautiful ultra long lasting media. I stopped doing color when Cibachrome paper and chemicals became unavailable - no interest in Kodacolor prints although I still have a color darkroom. The reason I asked about the 2 part C-41 process is that I have a lot of 120 Fuji Velvia and NPS that’s been in the fridge for years that I may go shoot, develop and scan if I can simplify the developer/bleach/fix (or blix)/stabilizer process. I agree the bleach was nasty stuff, even with good ventilation - wonder if the 2 part bleach is as bad.
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Apr 22, 2024 19:22:16   #
Muddyvalley wrote:
Roger Corman

Sorry, you are correct.

Just rewatching Forbidden Planet on TCM (for at least the 4th or 5th time)
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Apr 22, 2024 19:21:24   #
planepics wrote:
I listen to the radio on a daily basis. My personal favorites are a jazz station broadcast by a local university and NPR, who had 3 hybrid digital stations, the "normal" one, a jazz station and a classical station. I sometimes listen to other stations through my Denon receiver "Tune-in" app. you can search by type of music or location - some stations overseas are broadcast in English and some in the native language...Greece is fun to listen to, or Hawai'i.


Let me suggest the Radio Garden ap (free) for simple to navigate thousands of streaming stations all over the world. Just pick a location from the world map, and a list of statins and the type of music appears, then just click on your selection to listen in real time. I’m finding that music from areas where European and Middle Eastern music intersect, such as Turkey, are interesting.
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Apr 22, 2024 19:11:06   #
Has anyone tried the CineStill 2 bath C-41 color negative processing chemicals? I’ve usually used the 4-5 chemical process, but this is getting excellent reviews and the pricing is very reasonable.
https://cinestillfilm.com/products/cs41-simplified-color-processing-at-home-quart-kit-c-41-chemistry?variant=30376678593
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Apr 22, 2024 18:59:04   #
As long as we’re discussing film, has anyone tried the CineStill 2 bath C-41 color negative processing chemicals? I’ve usually used the 4-5 chemical process, but this is getting excellent reviews and the pricing is very reasonable.
https://cinestillfilm.com/products/cs41-simplified-color-processing-at-home-quart-kit-c-41-chemistry?variant=30376678593
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Apr 22, 2024 12:04:49   #
I’ll just add that to my eye, the resolution from my medium format film camera (Mamiya RB67 Pro S) is superior to any of my digital cameras. Plus for B&W, personally, I prefer the look of a silver halide print. I do shoot mostly digital, but, I still have my film cameras and darkroom.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:30:04   #
Let me suggest Attack of the Crab Monsters (on You Tube) directed by Harvey Corman no less.
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Apr 18, 2024 20:39:20   #
TriX wrote:
Not to butt in, but to minimize wear on your vinyl, I’d try 1-1/2 G if your arm and cartridge will track at that weight. If not, try 2G.


Please ignore - missed your second sentence that you had sold it before I replied
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Apr 18, 2024 18:46:48   #
fourlocks wrote:
To the best of my questionable memory that was what the specs called for. I sold my vinyl setup for a pittance a few years ago when my hearing started getting lousy. I now rely on cd’s and YouTube Music. Not as good sound but at least I can pull up just about every concert and song I ever liked.


Not to butt in, but to minimize wear on your vinyl, I’d try 1-1/2 G if your arm and cartridge will track at that weight. If not, try 2G.
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Apr 18, 2024 10:57:45   #
jerryc41 wrote:
Wow! I bought an AR turntable in the late 1960, and that considered very good at the time (Acoustic Research). I placed the order for the whole setup with a store in Manhattan. I drove down, parked outside the store, and loaded everything into the car for the ride home. Everything still works.


Very simple and excellent turntable. AR (Acoustic Research) became well known for popularizing the acoustic suspension (closed box) bookshelf loudspeaker, particularly the classic AR-3(A). It was direct competition for the well respected JBL L100 Studio Monitor,
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Apr 18, 2024 10:53:51   #
fourlocks wrote:
I'd be suspicious of (very expensive) gimmickry. There were tables in the '70's that didn't rely on gravity but they never won out over traditional tables & tone arms because of inconsistent tracking. I had a Thorens table with the Shure SME high track arm and a Stanton 681EE cartridge that perfectly tracked deep in the center of the groove and kept a constant 3 gram pressure. Its sound still beats any digital format. I suppose the Miniot might appeal to a rich Millennial who wants to impress his/her friends but who doesn't know any better.
I'd be suspicious of (very expensive) gimmickry. ... (show quote)


Nice setup - the tracking force seems a bit high - do you find that necessary?
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Apr 17, 2024 23:46:09   #
BudsOwl wrote:
Age related macular degeneration, AMD, can make photography difficult, if not impossible. I’ve been tested for and eventually getting injection's in each eye for over four years. I’ve reached the stage now where I need a magnify glass to help me read and also will have to stop driving before the end of summer so I will be selling my cameras and lenses. Watch for my addi in the next month or so. I will first try Craig’s list for local photographers .
Bud


Sorry to hear that Bud.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:07:35   #
burkphoto wrote:
Newspapers by and large were unable to see beyond their paradigm. They were given the new model by Apple. Only a handful took it and ran with it successfully.


Agreed. I’m now reading The NY Times and the Washington Post.
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Apr 17, 2024 11:01:08   #
burkphoto wrote:
Give me... violence.
Kill the... silence.

That's S!CK — https://youtu.be/5IS53CZjT6o? (the music video by The Warning)

To the OP: Gary Larson is one of the all time great cartoonists. Thanks for resurrecting this from the archives! Of all the things I miss from local daily newspapers that were once worth reading, cartoons and editorials are the things I miss.


That and Doonsbury… I started every day with the Raleigh News and Observer for almost 40 years, but it just became a shell of its former self. The editorials were gone, the “main section” dropped to 8 pages, stopped printing the obits and the delivery became sporadic (farmed out to a 3rd party) along with offshore billing management run by crooks. RIP N&O - a sadness.
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