The great thing about digitizing film is that dust can be eliminated after the fact if you have an image that needs it (and that image is worth the time). I do my spotting in Lightroom Classic. There are programs and scanner drivers that can do it automatically, but they usually don't get it all.

If you have some form of water bath temperature control for tanks and chemical bottles, go for it. I haven't personally used it, but watched a video on it on YouTube by a guy I trust. https://youtu.be/kU2vLRITu7A?

The keys are

> accurate temperature control in the developer (±0.5°F) (use a sous vide temperature control device)
> accurate timing and precise agitation technique
> CLEAN containers and mixing equipment, and follow mixing instructions precisely
> total darkness when loading film into the tank
> wearing chemical-proof gloves throughout (most videos don't show people wearing gloves, which with C41 is a Very Bad Practice)
> proper bottle labeling
> if you reuse chemicals, proper recording of the number of equivalent rolls of film developed
> proper calculation of the new developing time for subsequent batches/rolls.

I would use distilled water to mix chemicals, to avoid any reactions with residual dissolved water treatment chemicals and minerals.

Most of this is covered in the PDF instructions you can find at the link you listed.

No matter whose kit you use, C41 solutions are nasty and dangerous, so avoid getting them on skin or clothes or countertops. BLIX can stain, and it smells funny. I always used funnels, separate measuring beakers for developer and bleach/fix, and permanently labeled dark brown glass bottles. I had gloves that went half-way to my elbows. My Nikor tanks didn't leak if I twisted the tops after pressing them on. I preferred stainless steel tanks because they conduct heat quickly.

I did a lot of E6 back in the 1980s, which is harder than C41 because it has more steps. But C41 bleach fix (BLIX) is nastier stuff. Protect thyself...

Dry film in a dust-free place like a bathtub with a shower curtain I hung a clothesline from the shower head to a cuphook on the opposite wall, and used spring-loaded clothespins on the line, with additional clothespins as weights at the opposite end of the film.

Even if they don't last as long on a charge, two of them will likely outlast one Canon by a wide margin. At $60, that's a steal. I have used Wasabi batteries and chargers for five years with no real issues.

Indeed. I use Apple Mail, and it has that right-click (Control + regular or left click) option.

One good reason to record 4K if you will release in 1080P is to CROP in editing. Focus has to be dead on to do that, but it's like having a two-camera set with only one camera, if you plan it right.

Great story! It's always great to run into someone you worked with or went to school with a long time ago, and have them recognize you.

Most smart TVs sold in the last decade have a jack to plug in a USB flash memory device and display JPEGs. Some have a way to find a network drive and show images from it, too. Consult your TV manual. Be sure you update your TV to the latest firmware (operating system).

The 1960s and '70s were a very divisive time due to the Vietnam war. I think a lot of the recognition of veterans today is an effort to make amends for the way many service members were treated when they came home from Vietnam. Those who served did so either selflessly, or as the result of a draft, and in both cases, deserve ultimate respect and honor for their service. I taught my kids as they grew up that they should always honor those who serve in any military conflict, because freedom has a price. Regardless of what we think about the justification for a war, those who participate are doing some of the most difficult jobs that exist.

My Dad was a signalman on a supply ship in the Pacific in WWII, and again in Korea. He NEVER talked about it. He just wouldn't, and wanted nothing to do with the VFW or any other veterans' organization, or anything that would remind him of war. Mom told me in my teens that he had lost several good friends who were on another ship that sank in the Pacific. The scale of WWII was so large, nearly everyone knew someone who lost someone. I knew a few who went to Vietnam, but they all came back alive. Two of them had serious PTSD.

Send to Junk or Spam folder...

I would never do business involving money with someone I haven't met, or haven't been referred to by a trusted friend or professional. The Internet is full of thieves.

If you're posting to YouTube, 1080P 30 fps (29.976) is plenty of data for most purposes. If you're making a film, 24.000 fps is the standard. For sports, 60 fps can help stop action. In bright sun, I carry ND 8, ND 64, and ND 1000 neutral density filters, so I can record at a shutter speed twice the frame rate (1/48 or 1/50 for 24 fps, 1/60 for 30 fps, 1/120 or 1/125 for 60 fps). Higher shutter speeds make choppy video! Some Panasonic cameras have a "shutter angle" setting, which will give you the right shutter speed for the video frame rate you are using, if you set it to 180°.

4K is a resource hog. I don't use cards smaller than 64 GB. Even 128GB is a small card in some modern cameras, if you're recording at the highest frame rates and data rates. For post processing video on Windows, you really need a PC with a powerful video card, HUGE SSD, HUGE spinner hard drives for storage, and minimum 16GB RAM. Any M1, M2, or M3 Mac can handle moderate data rate 4K video, so long as you have sufficient SSD space, storage drive space, and 16 GB minimum RAM. The Pro, Max, and Ultra versions of M(x) Macs can handle high data rate video with no real issues.

I always carry three fully charged batteries when recording video, and I keep a car charger in the car and an AC charger in my camera bag. When a battery is older than five years, I recycle it and buy a new one. I number and date all my batteries to be sure I don't get caught with an old one. A freshly charged new battery in my camera usually records for over two hours without stopping.

One of the advantages of using the Adobe suite is that you have access to the largest body of educational and training resources in the industry. Just click here:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lightroom+Classic+training — and be amazed.

Of course, 80% of it is weak, and 20% of it is strong, but you soon figure out who has the good stuff, and which trainers you respect for style and intelligibility.

Think of LrC as a HUB of your digital workflow, with all other applications as SPOKES or SATELLITES. It works with any image file format, but it is especially valuable if you use a raw file workflow, because of all the additional tools in Adobe Camera Raw that work on raw files.

In that scenario, Photoshop and Topaz products are satellites. Photoshop is integrated well with LrC, because you can send files straight into it from LrC, and they go back to the catalog in LrC, saved as new files.

Yes, there is a lot to learn, but it isn't rocket science. Just take it one step at a time. It will take time and practice.

For best results if you print your images, calibrate and profile your monitor with a kit from Datacolor or Calibrite. That's how you get prints that look like what you saw on the monitor.

Replacement is usually more expensive than it's worth. I've blown out four of them and replaced the whole microwave each time.

The usual things that go bad on microwave ovens are the Magnetron tube, the high voltage transformer, and the door switches. If you have a glass turntable, don't drop it! It costs over $100 to replace one.

We have a full size GE stand-alone microwave we bought 15 years ago that still works great. But we're on our third over-the-stove GE unit in this house. The first one was here for 20 years. The second one lasted five years. We just installed the third one a month ago. They don't make them like they did 25 years ago.

Yep. Just shutting down the browser is probably enough. Don't go back to that site.

I get 5 to 10 "You have won..." emails every day. All of them are phishing expeditions. I block every one of them. They all seem to have graphics in the subject line, and use weird fonts not common on US operating systems. Most of them contain spelling and grammatical errors. If you hover the cursor over the sender line, it usually reveals a bogus email address like PvN3O4@OU812.nl.

Get a Toyota or Lexus. Most of them run like Swiss watches if you follow the maintenance schedule. One exception: change oil and rotate tires every 5000 miles so your engine will last over 250,000 miles. All our cars have over 100K (2009 Prius my son drives has 212K). They just keep saving us money. I've owned Toyotas exclusively since 1977. They just kept getting better and better.