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Bought myself a pack of Ektar 100 as I fancied trying something different from Portra,

I haven't shot any yet but from looking around it looks like I'm going to get very pink skintones with it if I shoot te kind of stuff i usually like to, but that this is reduced by not shooting in direct sunlight

any suggestions of how to get the best out of it?

It's just a total different type of flying all together

I was lucky enough to be in the cockpit for a landing like this when I was on a flight to belfast on my own as a kid, before the terrorist went and ruined plane journeys for kids everywhere

I used to love going up to visit the captain

I thought it would be fun to do a good image search of stabilised gifs, I was very wrong.

There are loads of the JFK assassination

I only shot one roll with her, I wish I'd shot more!

My latest offerings...

Kodak Portra 400 & My Pentax 645 and scanned at home, I'm still super happy with getting everything processed at Rapid Eye in shoreditch if anyone is looking for a mini lab, going to give vuescan a go on my next roll and see if the results are any better

I've been scanning all of mine with a canoscan 9000f, its a flatbed so not too compact, but it can do 35mm and 120 and wasn't too expensive as far as I can remember

I've just been using mac image capture software to get everything onto my machine as the software that came with it is a bit clunky, but that does have more control than the mac utility, but I have been considering a third party bit of software like vuescan so I can handle things in a more raw format

If anyone has any recommendations on that front I'd be really grateful

I can't hear the name Coober Pedy without thinking of this..

Why can't god-botherers spell?

It could be that my Dad was right in one of the few (I believe) profound things he said: 'religion is for people too stupid to understand science or politics'.

god botherers sounds bit like people poking god with a stick saying "do some magic!" rather than christians

stupid people is stupid regardless of religion

You've got to let people talk

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/messages-from-creationists-to-people-who-believe-in-evolutio

Face-palmed hard at number 4 but only because its quoting half a law

Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD - YouTube

The first 13 minutes are pretty dull but it picks up after that

I love my pentax me if thats any help

one of the smallest 35mm slrs around I think, you only really get aperture priority control, but the 50mm 1.7 that comes with it as standard is a lovely lens

my used to belong to my dad and has been going 30 years or so without any major issues

There is a little bit of me that is tempted to splash out on this...

http://www.hardgraft.com/collections/camera/products/hangcamerastrap-heritage

^^Why not Gandalf the Gay? or maybe he is rainbow coloured?

I thought about that, but I wasn't sure if leather was going to be the best thing to go with

Does anyone know of a decent make of camera strap?

I'd like to get something nice to go on my pentax 645, so I thought something traditional but quite beefy would be nice
(bit of a wanky question, I know)

What labs do people in London use for developing? My mate had a bad time with The Darkroom and is looking for somewhere else.

Since I got the medium format camera I've been taking everything to rapid eye in shoreditch

Nice people, they seem like they know what they're doing and have a tendency to give random discounts

If it gets held its worth calling parcel force as soon as it clears.

When I got my pentax 645 from japan it cost me about £70 (got valued at about £200) in customs charges, but I'd been tracking it online so as soon as they'd charged parcel force and paid over the phone rather than wait for them to send me a letter saying I'd been charged.

It meant I got it a few days sooner, which was perfect because I'm a child that can't wait for things

I'm not sure I'm afraid, is it C41 as well?

I think if I shoot another roll of it I'm going to push it rather than pull it to get some dutty contrast

Thank you very kindly. Although I'm not 100% sure about XP2 anymore. I was a really big fan of it, but having tried portra I'd rather stick with it for now, as it does look rather nice if you desaturate it in post

Nice weather for shooting most of this weekend!

Had fun overexposing a roll of XP2, I really like it when it's overcast!

I think it was mentioned on here a while ago that xp2 at least, and probably other films can benefit for a little over exposure, which results in a reduction in contrast.

I've been looking into up/down rating my film and I just wanted to make sure I fully understand the process.

I was hoping someone might be able to answer a couple of questions I have, I've been doing a little research but have not ended up more confused.

Firstly is it correct that if I'm exposing something that is ISO 400 as if it was 200 will be downrating the film, and so this will need to be pulled in the lab and if I under expose it will need to be pushed in the lab.

OR

Do I up/down rate the film as I choose while shooting and develop as normal? My only concern there being that I am then scanning at home rather than doing a traditional print and so do not have the same flexibility