Seems like a philosophical issue to me. If I were concerned with getting fast results, I wouldn't be spending time in a traditional darkroom :) Cor - I don't think that there is a trick, but one of the things that I enjoy about traditional photography is the contemplative nature of the art. I do have to admit however that my wife (who is a fiber artist) has a fancy digital balance in her studio which I sometimes use for mixing my chemicals - it is fast, but it seems so much less organic than the triple beam. Mark --- "Breukel, C. (HKG)" <C.Breukel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > A couple of other tips: > > Invest in a good quality scale (you can often get > > triple beam balances for cheap at police auctions) > > > Hi, > > beeing spoiled at work with digital balances with > "Tara" knobs and fast response measuring, I find > working a Ohaus triple beam balance at home a > "little" annoying, it takes a long time before the > arm stops swininging, and gently stopping it with > swinging isn't really speeding up things. Are there > other tricks for working a bit less slow with these > things? > > Thanks, > > Best, > > Cor > ============================================================================================================To > unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org > and logon to your account (the same e-mail address > and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and > unsubscribe from there. > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.