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Well as I say, it is something I've only just started to use, and I was quite impressed with how far it got me. The "depressing" thing was a tongue in cheek comment about how little I understood what the sliders did because it moved so many of them that I never touch.

IIRC there was a guy called George Jardine who did a series of tutorials a free years back. I find then to be fantastically useful. I must try and find them

That’s a really useful way to do it. I’m going to do some of that

I suppose what I was really trying to get at wasn't so much whether it was better to use auto or not ( as I said in my OP - I was experimenting with Auto then tweaking manually ) but how the auto button triggered all these weird and wonderful slider adjustments that I'd never consider and yet...

LOL. Fair enough. I never used it until the other day myself. I guess I’m just puzzled because it uses sliders in ways I’d never have considered

Man, just when I feel I’m getting somewhere with editing pictures I find the auto button in Lightroom ( well, I knew it was there but had ignored it ) and it makes all these crazy - looking adjustments I’d never imagine doing and the picture changes into an amazing starting place to edit, often...

By no means, Chris. I find it interesting to learn how people process their films. Thank you for all the information. I have a larger syringe which comfortably measured s 15ml so that works for me because I need 500ml for my tank

Hah. My mistake. I did indeed mean Ilfotec HC. Thank you for the information. That's good to know and should make things a lot easier. I'm not sure how precise these things need to be but I will try and be as accurate as I can.

It’s in the factory container

Hi all I have acquired a bottle of Ilfotec HD. It is still sealed and well within date but I've never used it before and I'm wondering how essential it is to dilute a stock solution as Ilford recommend.. I realise this would be easier to mix but it would give me 4L of stock which I'd need to...

Sorry. I probably haven’t been clear. I admire prints from film and indeed I used to hand my own darkroom and very enjoyable it was too. I completely agree with all that’s been said about the good stuff about it. What I wondered about was if scanning - by its digital capture of the image -...

I can see why that makes sense but I was really meaning instead of using a digital camera from the start

Interesting. I suppose like every hobby, people do it for different reasons. I've just got an itch. I don't know if it is because I've got this old film gear doing nothing, or if it might be just a novelty. I suspect for me it's at least in part, a desire to tinker and get my teeth into a...

Thank you. Yes I can see it's the only way to share and I can see all the advantages of that. I do like the look of film very much and I spent some years in the darkroom in my younger days. It's just that I've never scanned a negative and I'm fearful it might make all the film work in vain. I...