Month: September 2023
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A brief appearance of the Nikon FG-20
Previously I wrote that the Nikon FG-20 is not a suitable camera for practising photography. I argued that its flawed ergonomics got in the way of a pleasant shooting experience and could even cause exposure mistakes. And yet I found myself retrieving it from storage, loading two fresh LR44 batteries and a roll of expired…
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Back to BASIC
I fancied doing some BASIC programming yesterday and wrote a prime sieve in PC-BASIC. It can list primes up to about 10,000 at a decent speed but struggles with larger numbers because of memory and data type limitations in BASIC. Here is a screenshot showing the program and its output. Besides BASIC, other old computer…
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Playing with expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film
This evening I developed a roll of expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film, which I bought on eBay. It was ideal for testing because it had only 12 frames, which I could shoot in a single day—a 36-frame roll can take months. The flowers planted by my mother and me were perfect photo subjects, as was…