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  1. Hi, I have 1 liter of Kodak Flexicolor developer from a friend who works on a photo lab. Unfortunatelly, it's just the replenisher, doesn't have a starter added. One roll developed in light would be enough to season 1 liter or I would need 2 rolls? Also he gave me some bleach replenisher. Can I use it as it is? Thanks!
  2. Thanks for your answer! That gives me some hope that I could do C41 at home, without the pressure of collecting 16 rolls of film and develop in 1 week all of them. So considering I have a 5 liters kit of C41 chemicals with separated bleach and fix and I am mixing 1 liter at once, also how long I can keep the undiluted chemicals? They also need to be air squeezed and kept in the fridge?
  3. I read also that Digibase C41 has also bleach and fix separated and it's based on Fuji Hunt. Do you think its' a good option?
  4. Hi Rob, I know it's an old thread, but I was intrigued by your statement regarding C41 shelf life. You say if the air is completely squeezed out from C41 working chemicals (diluted) I would have a chance to keep them working more than 2 or 3 months? Thanks!
  5. That's true, the inside wires are pretty scattered and if you want to check the body top pins (for the finder) you literally have to open the whole camera. Everything but the lens, of course. In the end, I found those old cameras like Bronica or Hasselblad very overpriced for what they offer. And I am not comparing with my 7D. I am comparing with a Nikon F100, a camera that I bought 6 years ago for 100 euros. Really, a Bronica ETRS or a Hasselblad 500 are waaaaay back on any aspect. I really don't get this hype around them anymore. I have friends with Hasselblads bought from ebay for more than 700 euros .. Full of light leaks, the lenses are barely rotating, it takes ages to make a focus. And for what? For just a little less grain in order to scan the images and post them on Facebook.. For this money you can buy 15 Zenit cameras or more. No light leaks, fine lenses, and they even have integrated light meter.
  6. Hi, I changed the battery with a Duracell one. It didn't change that much. I was receiving a red left light and a very weak 4 number from the scale of exposure times. This 4 was always shown when I was trying to measure the light through the lens. I disassembled my Bronica (left side, right side, bottom side) trying to see if maybe there are some faulty pins or contacts. Nothing wrong, at least from the perspective of an ETRS repair manual found on orphancameras. I reassembled it again, re-tested the finder and have the same results. Maybe it's something with the finder, maybe it's something with the camera.. I will never know. I returned the metered prism to the e-bay seller and that was it. I lost the shipping though, but that's it. I didn't want to open the prism because I was afraid that i could not return it anymore. Maybe next time I will have more luck, but I have the feeling that I will not order a metered prism very soon :)
  7. I tried that with a pen. But I think that pins that are sending the voltage to the finder are working as long some red arrow blinks. The problem is that the scale disappears after a short display.
  8. Hi everyone, I just received an AE Finder II for my Bronica ETRS. I installed it on the top of the camera, I set the ISO from the left dial and the set the M mode on the right dial. I pressed the AE button and I got a weird behavior: a short display of the bottom scale with shutter speeds, then the numbers disappeared and then the left red arrow continued to blink until I depressed the AE button. It's doing the same, no matter what. What do you think, it's something with the camera, with the battery or the finder? The seller says that the finder was tested and working perfectly.. (ebay seller) I filmed the image seen in the prism finder with my phone through the eye lens and then extracted the frame that show the short appearance of the shutter speed scale. I am attaching the image. It seems that it doesn't matter if I am pointing the camera to a dark area or a lighted area, the short reading looks the same.
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