Dear Friends, I have decided not to make New Year's Resolution. Instead, I am going to make impassioned pleas to manufacturers and institutions. This year it begins with: 1. Please make LF shutters - particularly Copal 1's and 0's - with a flash connection that is easy to use. Perhaps a 6 inch length of sturdy PC cord from the side of the shutter and the PC socket out on the end of that - then when we want to change flash connections with the lens under a compendium we do not have to fumble under the lens in the dark. And the socket cannot break off the shutter body. 2. Please make Polaroid 4 x 5 sheet film and get it to me in Australia before it goes out of date. 3. Please make Fuji 4 x 5 instant sheet film to fit my Polaroid holder. Uncle Dick