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Good call. Cheers

I need a new rubber presta gasket thing for a Hirame head. I think they are sold in packs of three.

Does anyone know of a UK stockist?

I like the first one. There’s something cool going on with the motion-blur shadows. Great subject.

Developer choice has more of an influence than film

Yes. Chemicals and method.

I’ve been nerding out on b&w film over the last two years mostly processing in Xtol and Rodinal and these are my brief thoughts on some of the films out there.

Kentmere 100/400, FP4/HP5 - baseline films. Push and pull just fine. You just get larger apparent grain with the Kentmere film and not quite the insane latitude. TriX behaves exactly as HP5 as far as I can tell.

Ilford Pan 100 - A smidge more contrast than the above. Therefore a little less suitable to push (I still shoot it at EI 200 all the time but wouldn’t go further). Poor man’s FP4.

Pan F 50 - A bit slower than box. A bit more contrast again and just kinda beautiful. Process straight after shooting essential.

Adox HR-50 - High detail. Low lattitude. High contrast. A bit of red sensitivity built-in but looks good with a yellow filter too (requires a bit more care shooting and processing than the films above). Thin negs are best. Clear base. Benefits from a prewash. Easy to scan. Cheap.

Rollei Retro 400 - very similar characteristics to HR-50 (and nothing like other ‘400’ speed films such as HP5 or TriX). Some grain. Moody shot at 400. Benefits from a prewash. Very cheap.

Tmax 100 - very, very fine grain. High detail. Pretty high contrast. Red sensitive (which I really don’t like for portraits but is good for landscapes). Needs lots of fixing and washing. For some reason is like it in 120 but in 35mm I’m not sure maybe I need to hone my times for Xtol for this to get the tonality I see others get. It’s also really expensive in 35mm.

Tmax 3200 and Ilford Delta 3200. I’ve not shot enough to say anything other than … I liked both best @EI 1000 and it didn’t look any better than HP5. Mad grain.

Foma 400 … I have 61 metres of this in my fridge but haven’t shot any yet.

Sorry for the long effortpost.

All three are great

Forward facing drop outs make sense but I’m not a fan of the huge gap I would have to leave between my wheel and the guard at the BB bridge.

I’ve only done it with road frames. Their dropouts are relatively short and more downward facing. Unless the tyre is inflated the gap needn’t be big.

For year-round fixed the advantage of forward facing drop outs (over track ends) is it’s easier to drop a wheel out to fix a flat, whilst running full, long mudguards.

I can’t really think of any other reasons off the top of my head.

I think the OM XX cameras are all sweet with LR/SR44 batteries - no issues. There’s a possibility of corroded wires, which will effect the meter. A test against a free Lightmeter app on a phone is easy enough. They’re usually within half a stop or completely obviously off (or non-functioning).

https://www.the-darkroom.co.uk/

Excellent for E6 processing which I believe they run several times per week. They’re also good people. Last time I was in they were busy processing 20+ Velvia 4x5 sheets for some maniac. Don’t be put-off by the website.

That indoor shot 😘👌

Thank you.

Leica M4-P. Most are the Voigtlander 25mm f4 Color Skopar (the rangefinder coupled version). Maybe two are the Voigtlander 40mm f1.4 Nokton.

Expired Fuji Sensia & Illford PAN 100@200 in XT-3. VM 25/4 & 40/1.4. Scanned with a dusty Plustek.

The French will now want every TDF stage to be 6 hrs 300k + epics.

Amazing.

Ban race radios.

Definitely don’t put the battery in your bin. I’d expect your local recycling centre to take batteries (go on your council website to find where that is). Failing that just the used battery boxes as found in many supermarkets would be ok.

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Function + yes

This should knock the ‘scales’ (lengths) to per-track (from per-pattern).

Each of the 16 buttons is a track. The 16 tracks exist in a pattern (in a bank) lol. I hope I didn’t make things worse :D

The Kentmere film is good. I love shooting it at iso 1000 and processing at times for 1600.

It’s maybe not quite as smooth (or detailed in the shadows) as HP5 at any speed but the difference is small and bulk rolls (of Kentmere) are around half the price.

flags.

Shot!

I’d wait for the publishing of an investigatory report, if it happens.

I’m unsure why the UN and Patten feels the need to preempt with this statement.

Sorry. Not sure what you’re asking? Kentmere is about ~ £5.50. But that’s before processing.

If you want to shoot film in 2024 the best way is probably to buy a bulk loader for 35mm film into used canisters, keep it in your fridge. Bulk load Kentmere and process it yourself (in Rodinal).

There is outlay for your Pattison tank, a bulk loader and some quality masking tape, then it's pennies. Probably £4 a roll all-in.

For me the 'cost' of analogue photography is time (spent scanning - which I don't really like).

I think it’s ok. I read it as being: it’s nonsense to say ‘extreme statement x is the will of the diaspora’.

Just as it was nonsense to say x is the will of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (on the last page).

I understand how it could be read differently though (so perhaps worth an edit anyway).

You lot don't have much imagination do you?

Ok. I think I get it. His is how you form opinions. Perhaps you are best off limited to observing.

We don't know how many Palestinians now want a genocide in Israel. We had a very rough idea before Oct 7, but everything has changed.

What is your suggestion that normal Palestinians now want genocide based on? And why are you saying this?