[LargeFormat] Test - push del

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Dear Nephew Brock,

     Uncle Dick has been desperately working to get enough pictures for a
belly-dance exhibition at the start of June. He is working nightly in a dark
room, fuelled by strong coffee and stronger language. He is determined to
either succeed or murder several people and bury them in the back yard of
the studio. Right now he is searching for a shovel...

    No, it is not like that at all, Officer. All is going well, and the 11 x
14 prints are rolling out of the machine. UD has learned to his cost that he
must keep sufficient stocks of one emulsion in the fridge so he does not run
out of film in the middle of a shoot and have to substitute another brand.
They may all work, and work well, but having to do 3 different filter packs
for one dancer in the printing stage and trying to get them to
match....hence the language.

    UD also humbly apologises for not sending Nephew Brock his prize for the
last contest. It has all been that busy here. Patience - it will arrive.
Howdja fancy a box filled with 5 kilos of increasingly bizarre test prints
of belly dancers. No two exposures the same and skin tones every colour of
the rainbow.

    UD also has learned a very good lesson. He has been searching for the
perfect tripod all his life. Worse - he has been searching for the perfect
studio camera stand as well. Up to now all the ones that work well are too
dear and all the ones that can be afforded are either flimsy or far too
clumsy to use.

    Idly working round the studio this week he noticed that the Mighty Shen
Hao 12 x 10 camera screws off the wooden camera stand and you can bolt the
monorail of the Linhof E right on there. The platform of the SH then makes a
broad table top that you can put the roll film back or Polaroid back on and
there is even space at the side of the SH for 8 double dark holders. Best of
all, the whole shebang rolls round the floor on big casters and the camera
can be cranked up and down with the side wheel. I have fallen in love. Now
to try it out on a model tomerrow.

     Uncle DIck