jarrod_connerty1

I have 15 sheets of 4x5 APX 100 that I bought in December, and since

then I've decided I'd rather exclusively shoot dr5-compatible 4x5

films while that process is available because I just like looking at

transparencies on the light table. I tried to give it away to

another photo.netter, but he no longer shoots 4x5. Yours was the

first response with the contributor icon in the thread regarding

Agfa's deceasing 4x5 film(<I>aka "Bayer's right to freewill business

decisions in an attempt to make profits"</i>), but you have no

published email address...so I post this here. Email me your address

@ jarrodconnerty@hotmail.com and I'll mail it, free. Should you

think of a favor you can do for me some other day, I'd be glad to

take it. The $9 or so of film/shipping is miniscule compared to the

utility value for another of an irreplaceable resource.<p>On another

soapbox, I find it a bit annoying that many frequent contributors

here can't give twenty-five damn dollars to this site, just once, to

justify their existence. Contributing your hard-earned knowledge is

fine & dandy, but cash is a hell of a lot more important to the

future of this forum. And for the record, I did just that-but my

login with the contributor icon quit working a week or two ago so I

had to employ this one.

I use a 804, the older version of 814, with a Wista VX & lenses up to 300mm-sometimes with a flash, finder & Linhof grip attached, too. That rig weighs plenty! I use either the Linhof 3-Way Levelling Head or the Linhof Large Levelling Head, both with an Arca-type QR base. The latter is speedier & ligher but less precise, the former great for demanding exactness of architecture shots.<P>I think you'll be very happy with the Slik. I genuinely prefer mine to the 1228, which <i>is</i> a critical bit taller with the column down but is also heavier, equipped with highly annoying leg locks & not sturdier in my opinion.

Stroboframe's anti-twist plate for Mamiya (<I>catalog #300-MAM</I>) works effectively for the Contax 645.

Take the actual film out of the holder in a changing bag & then transfer to a normal double box, or otherwise find an extra quickload box to keep them in. If you seal the end of the seam of the Quickload it should be light-tight.

Kevin's argument is a classic example of the losing side of

prisoner's dilemma. As brief as it goes, if police aprehend two

suspects but need testimony from one to get at lease one conviction

for the suspected crime, the technique is to isolate both of them and

offer each the opportunity to go free in exchange for damaging

testimony versus their cohort. Thus each suspect is faced with a

choice; if both don't talk, both go free. If one talks and the other

doesn't, the one who attempted to work as a team goes to jail while

the one who attempted to thwart his cohort goes free. Invariably

both choose to talk.

This applies well to why cartels such as Opec rarely succeed in their

efforts to raise the price of the good that they could control with

cooperation.

If everyone elected to get less for their money and buy as locally as

possible on each purchase decision, there would be plenty more

(inefficient) jobs available to the populace. That much is certain.

But to think that this idea can perpetuate is foolish, and in due

time this will be realized by the Kevins of the world as well as all

middlemen distributors who seek to maintain their windfall profits

per unit.

Nonetheless, even I guilty of taking the loser's side of prisoner's

dilemma in an effort to be an idealist. I choose not to own a gun

nor knowingly maintain a friendship with anyone that does, vainly

hoping that if no one had a gun we'd all be safer in the process.

Nonetheless, if I'm shot I'm sure my dying thought will be that I'd

wished I'd had a gun just before my killer tried to shoot me.