[Also see Amateur Photographer article]
Austin Mitchell has an 'Early Day Motion' (EDM) currently running in the houses of Parliament regarding the clarification of the laws of photography in public places:
Submitted by namcom on Mon, 17/03/2008 - 12:14."Head and shoulders will leave your hair up to 100% free of flakes".
Up to 100%? Up to 100%??
So even if it doesn't work at all, it does exactly what the advert says.
I had a birthday party (of sorts) last weekend* and invited friends etc. over to our house for drinks/food/chat. In light of the recent announcement by Polaroid that the production of instant film was to stop, I decided that this would be a good time to have a go with Polaroid... I picked up a camera from freecycle, bought a twin-pack of 600 film from Boots, and I was good to go.
My collection of photographic equipment grows ever-larger - got a HP Combi-Plan developing tank from my wife and her parents (Hooray! Now I hope I won't scratch my 5x4 negatives), and am getting a decent tripod from my parents (Manfrotto 055xprob + 808RC4 head - I really need to keep the MPP still!).
Submitted by namcom on Wed, 27/02/2008 - 11:34.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'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
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.
