When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school...

Though I have about 100 images on a webpage (free storage), I'm working on building my website. Should be ready this month.

Well. Hummmmm.

I'm pretty sure it smelled like fixer but I don't want to argue about it.

arrrgh!

BTW, Happy New Year to you. I'm FIX-ing to sip a beer to toast the New Year in.

The following is an excerpt from a note in a Blog's helpful hints on keeping salad and fruit from turning brown.

"Ball, the canning supply company, makes Fruit Fresh, which has been used forever for this purpose. I think it's citric acid with Vitamin C added. Works like a dream to keep things like fruit salad from turning brown for hours and hours.

http://www.fruit-fresh.com/

Your sister may have used lemon-lime soda because it was handy and it worked pretty well. It has citric acid in it but, as you say, also sugar, but much more likely HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), since almost no soft drinks use sugar any longer. I suppose you could use diet lemon-lime but the Fruit Fresh is probably much more dependable.
Acidulated water would also work but not for as long a time as Fruit Fresh.
Vinegar is acetic acid and will give a sharp taste to your fruit."

Only somehwat? Where did I fail you, my friend?

Furthermore, the medicinal use for sodium thiosulphate is for rashes caused by a fungus. It's common name is salicylic acid and it's an antifungal that is used topically on skin ONLY.

Here is the warning for it:
" How should I use this medicine?

This medicine is for external use only. Do not take by mouth. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Wash your hands before and after use. If treating hands, wash hands before use only. Wash, rinse and dry the affected areas before applying this medicine. Shake well and apply a thin layer of lotion to cover the affected skin and surrounding area. Do not get this medicine in your eyes. Take your medicine at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Take all of your medicine as directed even if you think you are better. Do not skip doses or stop your medicine early."

Incidentally, those super (or multi-coated) Pentax (Takumar) lenses are some of the sharpest lenses around. Most of these were prime lenses (not zoom), very few mfr compromises, and hardly a dog or lemon in the bunch that they made:

"Super-Takumar lenses featured an early form of lens coating (to prevent flare) and a more sophisticated stopping-down mechanism. There was a switch on the lens to select "Auto" or "Manual" modes. In manual mode, the lens would always be in the selected aperture. In Auto mode, the lens would remain wide open (at maximum aperture) until a pin on the rear of the lens was pushed in. This pin would be automatically pushed in by the camera when the shutter was tripped.

"Super-Multi-Coated (later SMC) Takumar. These lenses introduced Asahi's lens multi-coating process. They also introduced a lug on the rear of the lens which moved with the aperture selected. When used with a camera body which could read the lug, this enabled the use of open-aperture metering.

Now what did I say? I'm a kumquat in contrast to and from some old guys I spent time around not learning until sometime later and not so well.

I'm a mix, I like photo as art, but also as much more inclusive.

The bottom line is..photography is fine and sometimes it's art and other times it's plain fun. Darkroom photog is art and pure alchemy and is a whole other type of experience.

I spent a little time in editing rooms in the fifties. Wish I had taken my Brownie.

Truth is, I considered film editing as a career but was off on my medicine zoning in (slaps self). I probably could have wiggled into it. I know women were far between in all that, but that didn't faze me at the time - consider medicine then... editing might have been more likely.

pretty neat

other women did it.

Thanks for the info. The camera is still a magnificent thing. I love it . . . but I just can't carry it around with me. I did for awhile. I also did some free lance photography for awhile.

I had a Canon Ftbn that I adored and did wonders with for decades and then some frigging little part went squeegy. I have been trying for years to find a replacement on e-bay, and have never produced as high a quality photo since despite all the money I've spent on new equipment.

God, I love taking pictures.

If you are still looking to buy a very good Canon Ftbn used in great shape, look on E-bay now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Canon-FTbn-QL-film-camera-extremely-good-condition-/230353719814?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item35a226d206

However, the place to get parts might be a tougher nut to crack for a 36 yr old camera. If you're looking for parts, I can give you some 'likely' resouces. Is it a mirror or shutter issue?

I'm not a camera maven.

It's the little Q shaped thing that you line up for "auto" exposure.

I took my camera to more than one camera shop and they all said the part needed is no longer in stock and so I suspect I need to replace the entire camera.

OK, finn, I don't care what you say on politics, you're ok.

... it was to the "god, I love taking pictures" bit.




Maybe there is hope for peace in the world.




On, no, never mind.

UImmm ... do you mean the match-needle metering is dead?

Hence my posting a hyperlink for Ebay where there's a really good used Canon Ftbn camera.

Probably

I'm exploring the e-bay offer

Thanks

osso

I've no doubt that a fair percentage of the folks with whom I do battle here on A2K would find me quite charming in real life.

I know this will come as a surprise to many, but most people I meet think I'm quite swell. If they didn't, I would not be as successful as I am. Besides, I am quite swell.

I have been in high stakes business for many a year and met many a person who would be pleased to see me fail, and yet there have been, literally, no more than two with whom I could not enjoy a drink and a conversation. Neither of them had anything resembling a sense of humor, and both of them now reside in the dust bin.

This forum is either more or less of the real world, but it is not the world in which most of us operate.

I've been nasty here, because I won't be nasty in the real world.

A2K members are, in the main, one dimensional, and I am happy to face them on that flat plane.

Of late I have exposed to this forum much more of my personal side than I ever intended.

I value the connections so many made, but I am not so naive to think that some late comers responded more for the community than me.

I'm taking them all at their word and will respond in kind.

It won't take long to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I never wanted to be part of the A2K community, and I'm not sure I do now, however I can't dismiss what I perceive to be true compassion, no matter how vitriolic past exchanges have been.

Since everyone can see all of the threads posted here, some members chose not to respond to the one I recently posted. I've no problem with that. We now fully know where we stand.

Those that did, have my gratitude and my forebearance.

I think many of us on a2k are just beginning to learn how to disagree, express ourselves cogently, here or in so called real life. This is part of why I value the place, the effort and play in the effort. All sans the reverberations if any of this took place at work.