Recent content by chrisfowler

Me too for the fountain pens - I use a Parker 51 and love it. I also have a collection of safety razors and straight edge razors. In fact (before my daughter came along) I had a small side business making my own shaving brushes!! All these are my own work...

I honestly had no idea what interesting reading this would be when I posted the first question! So I suppose no one has really answered the key question - is one of these two films superior to the other? Of course disregarding the person controlling the camera/exposure :D

Same here - bought a couple over ebay for a few £s each and they've been great. Gas mask bags or occasionally referred to a bread bags I think.

Tried my nearest (Staines) again with no luck.

I looked in our local poundland and couldn't find any- what section is it normally in?

These were all scanned at tesco- so I'm assuming all using whatever automatic settings their machines have...

Since picking up a couple of 35mm cameras, I've limited myself to the cheapest film I can find: Kodak ColorPlus 200. I've been buying it for a little over £1 a roll (24exp) and although it does have a slightly odd colour tone, the results have been good: [Fujica AZ-1 w/28mm lens] I then...

Thanks Asha - will try that.

I've just run an old roll of film through a few times and it seems to be behaving, but the batteries died pretty quickly and that seems to be what's doing it. I'll have to pick up some decent AAs and see. I think when the batteries start to die the camera 'forgets' where it was and thinks it's...

Thanks! Not bad for a £4 point and shoot Ricoh :)

Waterloo Station this week:

(The last shot was converted to B&W in Flickr) I think the results are good - it copes with low light well and seems to set exposure well in mixed light conditions. However it does have a problem.... 24 exp roll - 12 shots came out blank.... the winding mechanism seemed to go a bit haywire and...

I recently picked up a Ricoh FF70 cheaply - it's a point and shoot 35mm, fully automatic Here's a couple of the results with Kodak ColorPlus 200 (cheapest film I have available): Continued.....

Just bought a 35mm compact from a charity shop and it had a roll of film in the back - I think someone else here recently had a similar conundrum... get it developed or bin it? I'm interested to know what the last owner took snaps of, but also concerned at getting a mystery film developed...

Not sure I'll be keeping it as I don't really have a use for another camera, but it's in immaculate condition and came with a roll of film for very little money :)