Retired IT/information service management and digital curation. Now most interested in film photography. Born at 310 ppm (from ice cores!). Midlands UK (spent 25 years in Adelaide, Australia), but father, grandfather and partner of Scots!
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Last Notes npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d2ua John, these are fabulous! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…khl4 "They" are terrified of him! (These days you can't be sure if anything's true, but I read recently that there are around 100 boats where he lived, and only one of them had managed to pay council tax!) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…tkx6 Yes but no. He could definitely put him in the Lords (if he agreed), but by convention he couldn't be PM. PM has to be answerable to the Commons. Lord Home (?) stood down from the Lords to become Sir Alec Douglas-Home. I _think_ the last PM in the Lords might have been Lord Roseberry in 1898 or so! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d2ua Actually I realise that isn't true. I _have_ seen swifts patrolling some fields occasionally for insects.I was thinking back to my youth in Somerset as the swifts, swallows and house martens nested all around, and gathered on the wires in late summer. A local Green councillor has 3 swift boxes on their cottage, never seen an occupant, sadly. My sister does have swallows nesting in her barn, one family, not dozens to hundreds! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d2ua Wonderful! I haven't seen a swift for 60 years! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…vkdh That's amazing, well done! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hnhd Great photos! She had to put a sale price on her kisses? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hnhd Hi, are you making a specific referenced to "waxed" paper cups? I only ask because, since Covid, disposable paper cups have made a big comeback here in the UK... (there were efforts to eradicate before, less so now it seems). npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…tkx6 Conversion between two flavours of sRGB should do very little, and probably nothing noticeable. You're right not to worry about it! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…tkx6 They should not be different, of course. But if it's in GIMP's version, maybe the processing paths might be smoother? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…tkx6 NOT an expert in colour workflows. BUT, if your destination is mostly the web, then sRGB is the profile of choice (AFAIK). Anything else, Adobe RGB etc, tend to be wider colour spaces that might give you more editing flexibility with your colour-managed monitor, and maybe print better on your own colour-managed printer. But for web and most commercial (or simple) printers, sRGB is fine. I have only ever used sRGB. BTW that image is in sRGB already! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…fu94 Congratulations, John. That's a fantastic engraving. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Is that Petapixel article about the Leica 50 film as weird as I think it is? Maybe I'm just too tired to read it properly! It's a bit like someone heard some words and reproduced some of them in not quite the right order... Or maybe it's auto-regurgitation output? https://petapixel.com/2025/08/08/leica-monopan-50-review-is-it-just-re-boxed-adox-hr-50/ npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR I have a #MacBookPro from 2022. My previous MBP suffered from the keyboard marking the screen so this time I've kept using the Apple-provided protective sheet whenever it's closed. It's now in tatters. Any ideas on what should replace it? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 I really like that. I peered closely to see if there was a selfie in there, but nothing visible! I think it would make a great print. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…zqfp Proton drive isn't EU based but Swiss, might be interesting? Not sure about their ventures into AI, but they generally seem to be open and clear. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR "Constitutional Law during a Carnival of Cruelty". David Allen Green's usually carefully balanced analysis of constitutional issues seems to have plunged towards despair, but this blog post is well worth reading nevertheless. https://davidallengreen.com/2025/07/constitutional-law-during-a-carnival-of-cruelty/ npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Firstcall photographic have #HarmanPhoenix 1 at £7.50! https://firstcall-photographic.co.uk/products/harman-phoenix-c41-colour-film-c-41-200-135-36?mc_cid=4c9ccdb886&mc_eid=f8f7b304bb Beware their postage is expensive... npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…sczv That's fantastic, congratulations. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR . @nprofile…z98w I did a dev session today, FP4 and then #Adox HR-50. Nominal 6:30 in HC-110 1+47 (dilution E). First surprise was the dev colour when pouring it out, pretty much dark coffee coloured! Second surprise was looking at the negs when I took the lid off to wash. The clear substrate makes them look completely different to normal negs. As I was pulling them out of the tank for the PhotoFlo wash (in a separate jug) I thought maybe they were thin, maybe not? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR At last I've worked out how to turn off predictive text on my Mac. I was ok ignoring the single word predictions, but the double word predictions that were enabled by the space after the first word have really annoyed me! Into Keyboard in System Settings, enable EDIT in Text Edit, disable Show inline predictive text! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR I've just had one of those "Account suspended" #scam posts trying to get me to click a link. Reported. Stay safe, folks! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR So #Adox HR-50 in HC-110 dilution H (1+63), MDC says 9 minutes, while IlfoTec HC 1+31 MDC says 4 minutes. I reckon HC-110 dilution E (1+47) at 6 to 6.5 minutes should be about right? Any thoughts? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…z98w They look much more elegant than the domesticated kind! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…z98w These make a nice set, Tom. They look quite relaxed about you photoing them, which is nice. I wonder if that comes from kids with their smart phones taking photos all the time? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…zqfp Unlikely to be successful, but those who object to the implementation of the #OnlineSafetyAct should sign the petition... https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Bing Maps in the UK seems to have lost its #OrdnanceSurvey option, which is a real shame. It was only ever available on desktop AFAIK, but it was very useful and very well implemented, zooming in from the 50K to the 25K maps showing field boundaries. It was there a week or so ago, gone today when I tried to look up some footpaths for a walk tomorrow. :-( npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…z98w 7 1/2 minutes seems to work well for that. I did my second roll for 8 minutes in HC-110 dilution E, and it seemed lovely. Woodland scenes can be lovely, this works (I find about one in ten maybe work for me! Simon Baxter is, of course, the king of woodland photoing...) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Dave Whenham reports: KMZ-FT2 - RIP 😠 npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Weirdly the only Massive Dev Chart time for Scala 50 negative processing in HC-110 B (1+31) is 8.75 minutes, while the only time for HR-50 negative processing is HC-110 H (1+63) for 9 minutes! Normally H times are twice B times... npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR On a whim I bought a roll of #ADOX #Scala50 (plus 2 rolls of ADOX HR-50, which apparently is the exact same film advertised for negative rather than reversal processing). Having done a quick search and failed, does anyone know a UK lab that offers b&w reversal processing? Analogue Wonderlab used to (from when they absorbed Silverpan), but it appears to be suspended. Plenty of places offer 8-film processing kits, but that doesn't make sense for me. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 @nprofile…z98w I believe they oukd have had sails, like the Mykonos windmills in these photos https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/mykonos-greece-windmill-sails.html?sortBy=relevant npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…v55k Glad of that! ;-) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc @nprofile…v55k Are you sure your article still exists? I've tried a number of searches (including advanced search, author) for your name on PLOS One, and can't find any. There's a plausible article, but that Mike Taylor is at Wolverhampton! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…fdgy Said to be a good thing to differentiate work mode from home mode! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR This roll from a few weeks back I'm scanning now, I'd forgotten it had not gone on the spool properly. A problem with the Rondinax is you can't see or feel if something's gone wrong. Realised a problem on opening after the fix, managed to despool and respool some of the film, and re-fix. It appears I've saved all but about 4 (make that 5) frames. Phew! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 What a lovely composition, and such beautiful contrasts of tones and detail! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Out trying to make #trichrome in Holyrood Park today, I spent half the time I had, trying to unfold my travel tripod! TBF I've only used it once before. Once I finally found the trick to get my Vanguard Veo 2 into position, it worked a treat. Exposed 24 frames of Kentmere 100 though red, green and blue filters, so that should eventually turn into 8 colour frames, hopefully with lots of interesting colour glitches where things have moved between frames! #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR I have about 75 ml of my 2018 litre bottle of HC-110 left, in 2x50ml bottles. Each bottle appears to have a few mm of solid deposit at the bottom. I've been worrying about this; presumably it's precipitate, which means the chemical composition of the syrup has changed. Did a dev session last night though, and the negs seem to have nice contrast, decent blacks etc. Maybe I don't have to buy my next bottle yet! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Our local U3A photography group meeting next week has the theme "‘Arty’ Photos by Enhancement". My first thought was to try some Intentional Camera Movement photos again, perhaps this time with redscaled film (again... it helps lower the EI, increasing exposure times). However, neither produced anything I was pleased with. Then I remembered Affinity Photo has a "Liquify" mode. So I had a play, with a bluebell photo... npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Harman Technologies Ultra Large Format order window has just opened! https://www.ilfordphoto.com/ultra-large-format-and-custom-film-campaign-2025/ You can order sheet film (FP4, HP5 and Delta 100) in unusual sizes until 4 July. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t So much this! And the search for "critical sharpness", micro-contrast, overly processed images, so often seems to lead to unsatisfying results... npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t If you have the brain of a 5 year old, you're full of wonder, how can that be bad? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t The impossible every day? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t @nprofile…8l0d The AI folk at Edinburgh University used to complain that everything was AI while it was impossible during research, but as soon as it worked it became an "application"! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…3wy7 That's encouraging, but the process is still too clunky. I wanted to follow a few folk on bsky that I miss from the dead bird place, but when I explained they had to follow the bridge, most were either suspicious or just didn't bother. :( npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Fair warning, for my own sanity and timeline protection... if anyone posts multiple times in quick succession on the #FilmPhotography or #BelieveInFilm hashtags, AND uses more than ~ half a dozen hashtags. I'll be forced to mute them. I normally only mute for 24 hours, but could be longer. Pixelfed seems to be the main source of culprits, perhaps they've come from that Insta place where apparently multiple hashtags are A-ok. They are Z-crap for me! Sorry. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t That's a lovely video, Ewen! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…sue4 Keep seeing references to these things. Never had them when I was voting in SA... but that was over 30 years ago! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t Weird though, it seemed like Everyone was talking about TWL a few weeks ago. Not seen it, clearly don't need to, thanks! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d0dx @nprofile…y54t TBF the Daily Fail, Express and Star existed before online churnalism! (Australian alternatives also presumably exist, but I can't remember them!) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 What a fabulous tree! Great image, Rom. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t (I was more thinking in the context of right wing hate speech, TBF. These people honestly do hate who they say. Not good with that.) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t It's a good model to aspire to, even if impossible if we are to survive in society (domestic, local, national etc). I wish "don't say words in anger you don't mean" applied more widely! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d0dx I always thought there was a case for smaller sensors for wildlife and bird, as the crop factor ups your reach? But maybe smaller sensor cameras don't have long enough lenses anyway? (I particularly remember Tom somebody who produced amazing photos from his Nikon 1! That's maybe a bit extreme ;-) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…2mn4 @nprofile…fynq Hmmm. Brits offer you Boaty Mc BoatFace as the name chosen by the public for a new research ship... So, on that (wide!!!) sample, option 2 seems likely ;-) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…fdgy Interesting. Your lovely moorhen/coot downloaded at 515 kb for me, max dimension 2048, so I think there's a lot of silent compression going on! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Just wondering what sized images most folk post? I've been using 1024 pixels as a guide, but it appears the default for #Mastodon could be quite a bit larger? (I couldn't find anything saying that Mastodon.scot requires a smaller limit than the default.) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…2ath The tech bros care about stock prices, and so do a lot of people with retirement portfolios, so market fall is a good way of signalling problems for both, IMHO. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…z98w @nprofile…ytt6 A nice thing to do once you have a decent collection is to make a book from them (or more than one). That increases the chances your family will actually end up with something other than slides in box, files on disk, or paper in box. And you get to provide context in captions. Can be fun, too. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 That's a great photo, the people, the setting, and those distant fading hills! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…07t5 Weirdly, I looked at that date and though, OMG, a hundred years old! because no-one writes receipts like that today, obvs. So (c) and of course (d), as per the other responses... npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t I was promoted to be a team leader very early in my career. Went to talk with my boss, how do I make these decisions? Ah, he said, get the best information you can, make the best decision you can, and then: make it work! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc Likewise web forms that INSIST (sorry) I put the county in, when I've already put town and postcode. So which county is Edinburgh in, then (or Bristol, I guess)? Weirdly, it doesn't care, as long as you put something! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…60lz Not sure all recommendations should be followed, there are considerations not within the purview of any enquiry to take into account. But they should certainly be addressed and responded to within a reasonable time (and obvs followed if possible). npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Anyone else not getting a lot of images today? Just getting blurs; clicking on the image still does not display it. I restarter my browser, which caused my own images to show up, but no-one else's. Frustrating! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…fef6 Not clear you could have done any better with extra time. There's so much in that portrait, fantastic job! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Just canceled my membership of The Guardian (which had auto-renewed without notice) due to concerns about the alleged sacking of over 100 journalists and the new deal with OpenAI. The latter is mentioned in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2025/feb/14/guardian-media-group-announces-strategic-partnership-with-openai npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d92l "A photo is better with a heartbeat"... advice I too often ignore! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d92l I've never seen that view before, very impressive. And the couple make it! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 @nprofile…gtch I've made 6 posts so far, one for each camera up to the early 2000s with Olympus Stylus/mju. However, I don't know enough about pixelfed to help; I don't really know how to find other people, even. The few I found were via the believe in film hashtag... and they're not really active. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…fef6 That is a cracking photo, Alfie, though I can't quite work out what's happening to the wires as the cross the edge of Fuji on the left? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Ended up with 5 rolls of exposed HP5 by yesterday, plus a roll of C41 finished in the pocket mju II. Way too much for me to dev, so it's gone off to The Darkroom UK in Cheltenham. Wasn't sure about the C41; I normally send that to Filmdev, who do excellent dev+scan for a very reasonable price (about a third of TD's!), but they're closed at the moment. So I decided I should get them done dev-only try scanning myself again! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…f5su I'm just on the advanced web interface. No socials on my phone (which is tiny anyway)! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…f5su If I click on that, Shom, I can't vote! EDIT: Found it in my timeline, and was able to vote there! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR So Happy Christmas to these little corners of the Fediverse, including the #BelieveInFilm folk! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc That was definitely a Long Read, could do with some serious editing IMHO, but generally the sentiments I saw I agree with! (I assume he made rather a meal about buying the shit PC experience... but I'd not bet against something a bit like it!) npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 That is a staggering pinhole photo, Rom! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Within the last week or so, someone on here was promoting their book on monochrome photography. It looked interesting, and I made a mental note to look into it further. But now I can't find it. I'm pretty sure the word Monochrome was in the title. Any clues? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…qltd Which lens, though? Maybe a 28 or a 35 for NYC? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…d0dx What a good idea! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…f5su I'm still after the ET-8550, looks like a good compromise between "home printer" and something that will give me better photos. Just need to find the right deal! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…f5su @nprofile…shed Thanks Shom. I think I might give the December one a go. I hope I'll have a new printer by then! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t Yes, I migrated from photog.social because of the block. At the moment I can't see a reason for it, but time will tell, and maybe I'll be back. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t I've been looking there over the past day; the film-related hashtags seem to be quite civilised. I'm just beginning to experiment with Fedy Bridge, so I can live here and see what a few folk there are up to. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…shed Hi Moni, I dropped out of #PostcardsFromAfar a month or so ago, as I wasn't getting postcards or acknowledgment, but was wondering about re-starting. But I can't find any evidence that it's currently happening. Has it all fallen by the wayside? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…acnq That's lovely, h! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…n28z 2.5 seconds handheld producing a result like this, you are a magician! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc @[email protected] The 3 articles I just read, starting with the paper you linked, Mike, are brilliant. Thank you Adam, go on, change the world man! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR Another introductory post, since I've moved to Mastodon.scot. I am an ancient, amateur photographer, almost exclusively using film. I take huge joy and solace in taking pictures, a little less in viewing my results! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hujc I would entirely agree with you, except today has been effing cold and there's worse to come! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…hlf2 Oh yes, I do like that! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…y54t That looks fabulous! I'd be nervous of something with that much grapefruit in it (has a strange effect of greatly intensifying medication) but it would be hard to resist! npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…ytt6 A massive beast (I know, tried it briefly) but unique and fabulous lenses, I believe. Top lens does look like it's had a fall. I guess you can replace them simply, unlike most other TLR lenses? npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…f5su @nprofile…4gjh I can understand that, Shom, when it's a new instance. In this case, both the instance I'm leaving and the one I'm coming to are well established with full connection between them. After some help from @nprofile…2mn4 , I think it's just that instances may have different rules for displaying likes for posts on other servers. I'd never considered that possibility before. npub1mf56z6uatufkh3ve20d9mf5c5feah633upgpdh5jsvg9y3km5e0q08sqnm ChrisR @nprofile…4gjh A quick question if I may? When you look at posts in your timeline from folk on other servers, do you see around the correct number of faves/likes? Ie does the figure you see match the figure you'd see when opening the "original post"?
