Tis funny. Regardless of how dispondant I get with a lack of progression in my photography I never stop learning new things. Unfortunately those lessons normally come at a cost of some sort.
This week I learnt that when you're pre-mixed developer which has been sitting on the shelf in the garage for an unknown period of time turns brown there really is little point in trying to develop a film with it. That'll be one roll of Neopan 400 straight in the bin then.
I've also learnt that when shooting through fences at acute angles, even if you think you've got between to lines of wire in the fence you probably haven't. That'll be a load of film wasted because they've got blurry fences in them then.
Split image focus screens don't work with lenses below F4 unless you have really good light, my eyesight is terrible, giraffes and elephants don't stand still long enough for manual focus, I still can't load a film into a reel without creasing it (but I blame the reels for this), passing the squeegee over the film twice doubles the likelihood of scratches, metal grips get so cold in winter that even gloves don't stop your fingers from freezing and the gripped, prism'd, 250mm SQA weighs a bloody ton.
It's not even the end of the week so there's plenty of time for more lessons yet (especially as I'll be pushing Neopan and HP5 to ISO1600 for the first time).
Pics to follow, don't hold you're breath in anticipation though, disappointment is a given.