On Wednesday, I received the film holders for my MPP Micro Technical camera, this finally freed me up to take some pictures (having had the camera and film since before Christmas!).
I've just come back from my local camera club ('York photographic society') where we had an 'exhibition' - actually a couple of CD-roms of prizewinning entries to a couple of competitions. The first was the FIAP: " FIAP 23rd Colour Slide Biennial 2004". Now, Ok, this is a few years old now but I thought it might be interesting.
Wrong.
I now have some filmholders (double-darkslides) to go with my recently-purchased MPP Micro-Technical camera. I bought the camera at a camera fair just before Christmas and spent a few contented hours getting the shutter up to scratch and making a temporary ground-glass screen.
Submitted by namcom on Wed, 09/01/2008 - 12:24.I probably have too many cameras. There, I've said it. I cannot possibly use all of them all of the time, but I do use all of them some of the time.
Over the next week or so I will jumping onto the bandwagon currently being driven by Radiohead (but following on the heels of such net-label luminaries as Kikapu, Hippocamp, and phonocake), and will be making some of my music available for free download from this site. Higher-quality versions of the EPs will still be available on CDr (at a price of course).
I've started selling up some of my accumulated clutter in order to buy some stuff I actually want. My list (currently) is:
Of course, this is all going to take some time, and may require the shedding of a lot of stuff...
Submitted by namcom on Tue, 30/10/2007 - 22:13.At home, I have Virgin Media's cable TV service (ex NTL) and recently (well, earlier this year) they rolled out a nifty 'video on demand' (VOD) service. One cool thing is the 'catch-up TV' service, where selected programs are available for 7 days after their broadcast. This has been useful on a number of occasions when we've missed a program and can then watch it later.
Ok, so there's no such thing as a free lunch but this is close. Greasy Palm offer referral-based cashback; I was put onto it by my next-door neighbour - by signing up I earnt him money :-)
So, if you click on my referral link, then I'll get paid too :-)
Thank you
If anyone would like to have me work on a particular photographic assignment, please let me know via the Contact Form. So far, I have carried out a single assignment for a friend (portraits of their pet greyhound) which has been very well received (there's no point in spouting a load of BS at this point, I'd only get found out).
Since my experience is low, so the prices are too - I'm pretty much doing this to build a portfolio. Heck, if the assignment is interesting enough I may even do it for nothing... or at least just for expenses.
So. The Ixus. Fantastic, so I got another one - and so far it hasn't been stolen. Unfortunately, the APS film format now seems to be dying out - it never did kill off 35mm with it's user-convenience being outweighed by the smaller negative and more costly processing.
Of course 35mm (the 135 format) didn't kill off roll film - 120 film, with its 6cm square negatives is still very much alive and kicking about 100 years after its introduction. Reckon we'll still be using Compact Flash in 2094?
Submitted by namcom on Fri, 28/09/2007 - 15:03.
