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Things I wish I had known about black and white developing
April 24, 2012 – 10:14 pm
These are of course just In My Experience, but I like to think they’re at least close to correct.
Safari colour for 2012 – apple green
April 14, 2012 – 10:19 pm
I’m calling it “apple green” because, officially, it just seems to be called “green”, which is boring. Actually, no real apple looks like that. It is more like an apple sweet. So, Haribo Apple Green Safari. The new one is, funnily enough, the green one – I include the others for comparison. The blue there [...]
Pictures from the Easter city – Lubitel 2, Rollei Retro 80S
April 8, 2012 – 12:41 pm
I got a roll of 120 Rollei Retro 80S a while ago and decided, on Friday, that it was sunny enough to try it out – so I loaded it into my Lubitel 2, went out to where the City meets the East End, and wandered about in the Easter Bank Holiday emptiness. The above [...]
Recording photo details with an Olympus VN-510
March 18, 2012 – 8:36 pm
I have problems with film cameras. For a start, I don’t know when I’ve taken each picture, and I have to guess in order to set the date properly after I scan them, which works sometimes if there is a short gap between taking and scanning and my memory holds up, but often one or [...]
Olympus XA1 samples
March 3, 2012 – 11:08 pm
I have three examples from the Olympus XA(n) series – an XA, an XA1 and an XA2. The XA1 is pretty much ignored by “serious photographers” apparently – it doesn’t have the nice electronic shutter (being completely battery-free) and has absolutely no focussing controls at all, just automatic exposure. There is something about this that [...]
Odd patterns on colour negatives
February 25, 2012 – 7:09 pm
Scanning some colour negatives that I got back this afternoon, I find that several of them have faint blurry white spots in a diagonal grid pattern on them. This mostly seems to appear on bright ones which have a lot of blue sky on them, but then that could just be because I only notice [...]
Quick camera purchase update
February 21, 2012 – 10:39 pm
I got the Olympus XA that I bid for in the post earlier today, incidentally, for all those thousands of you who are fascinated with my eBay activity. So now I have an XA, an XA1 and an XA2. That’s probably enough to be getting on with. They all look extremely similar, but are really [...]
Eyedropper update, and a little about my journalling habits
February 16, 2012 – 7:44 pm
I posted last year about the Airmail 69L eyedropper – a simple, well made, large capacity pen – and I thought I would write a little follow-up. Since then my journalling and writing practices have become a bit more regular. There are three pens that I need at any one time to be fully efficient: [...]
Omni frustrates me
February 14, 2012 – 9:21 pm
Annoyed to the _n_th degree by yet another Things sync issue last year, I migrated to Omnifocus, as it seemed at least to have working OTA sync. Which it does. It also has a very clear and well designed iPad client, and a basic but functional iPhone one. The highly expensive Mac desktop client, however, [...]