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PonySoldier

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Coming back to 35mm Black & White Film Photography after nearly sixty-year hiatus! I think I last photographed with 35mm about 1961 and transitioned to using an 8x10 view camera. Fast forward to today and I am back to 35mm because large format becomes too burdensome for everyday "schlepping" after a certain point. During the next few weeks I will be doing the rote film-testing routines with TMX and TMY and Kodak TMX Developer (maybe a few excursions with Pyrocat HD) to check density range at various dilutions and times. This is a "strange" routine for me after so many years of being able to process each exposure individually so it is a compromise solution given that I am now looking at processing 24 exposures! Also a big departure from using a spotmeter since I am determined to use the FE onboard meter (in manual mode) for all of my (walk-about) photography.

At 76 I am retired from the U.S. Army and the surgical products division of Johnson and Johnson and live on a 76 acre farm where we formerly raised Arabian horses. My wife and I recently fostered a day-old whitetail deer fawn whose mother was killed in a collision with an automobile near our south pasture gate and, along with our two dogs, two cats and three old "retired" Arabian show horses that constitutes our family. 

This appears to be an interesting and active forum and I look forward to learning from you all.

Joel



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Snorky

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Welcome to the forum. :)



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Welcome to the forums!

Going from the larger formats to 135 is not easy as you have to let go of the control available with sheet film, or even 120 with different magazines rated for different development procedures. I went mostly digital in 2001, though.



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Welcome!