Recent content by maninsuitcase

I went back into mine and the stock was replanished. So false alarm I guess. I picked up a few rolls, not gone mad as I still haven't had the stuff I've shot dev'd yet.

Spent some time making a "scanning" mask this evening from some black mount board. The aperture is a few mm oversize deliberately, 30x42mm I think, to give me room from include the data imprint from my F80s and also some wiggle room to get things in shot. I used 2 sides to raise the mask off the...

Took me a minute! Dad did offer to buy me on for my birthday but I am more or less 100% sure I don't have room for one.

I don't have a scanner so will be making a mask this evening from mount board then using my iPad as a light box for my wife's D5300 with a Tamron 90mm macro. Will see how that goes and if it's a disaster I'll look into a scanner of some sort.

Last night I finally got round to developing my first roll of B&W, and this morning i sliced it up to go in the sleeves. Has come out pretty well, can't see any issues so far but once I start digitising this may change. Was also much easier than I was expecting, only real issue was I got to...

I was going to use silverprint but they were closed until the 5th but ag was open on some days over the holiday. Wish I had now. The let it settle was I read somewhere that D-76 is more potent when freshly mixed and it tails off a touch after a day which makes it more consistent. Not that it...

This lot arrived on Friday, only just had time to open it. Wasn't overly impressed with AG Photographic as they sat on the order as the neg sleeves were out of stock and didn't contact me. Then they too over a week to reply to emails, kind of took the shine off my first dev. Won't be using...

Checked the Hemel Hempstead one today and they wanted £8 for 3 rolls.

Need to order some stuff so will check that out.

Might be worth keeping an yet on eBay now you know the part. I got a used Nikon FM/FE/FA eye piece used for 99p when new are around £20.

New Pyrex beakers arived today from amazon, got a 500 and a 250 as they were reasonably priced. After much trying to be nice to the seller I gave up and opened eBay cases which resulted in immediate 100% refunds. Lesson learnt is to not take any nonsence from chinese sellers it seems.

Didn't know that, I know the old Kodak building is now flats but figured they'd gone with Kodak Eastman. The new premisies are barely more than a mile from the mother-in-laws house!

Sounds more reasonable to me One camera, one lens, around 3-4 ish rolls. I could do that. I would still use digital, as much as I got the F80s to use my big lenses when I gout for wildlife I wouldn't want to limit my self artificially. I also doubt I would use it in place of digital on...

I think my wife would kill me, I'm dangerously close to a one in one out policy as it is! *goes to look at Trip 35s on eBay again*

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I'd manage it! I've been making sure I have my Fuji X-E1 with me everyday and while I take a lot more images, I wouldn't say they are all that much better and I doubt I even shoot more than once a week with it. Of course then there's the what camera problem...