Author: Eddy Young
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Sights from my commute
I pass these two sights every evening when I walk back home from the station. The tree top is usually the roosting place of two or three pigeons and is also usually bathed in sunset colours. On cold winter nights, the Topps Tiles entrance door is striking by the glowing yellow lines on either side…
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Just another tree
P and I hiked about 30 km on Saturday and Sunday. It was quite the work-out, especially since it had been a few weeks since our last long walk and it was sunny and hot. I took a picture of this tree for no reason other than I liked the colours.
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Spring colours
Yesterday, P and I went on a long hike. In addition to my Nikon D850, I packed my Nikon FM2. It was loaded with Fomapan 200 film because I wanted to take black-and-white pictures. But in the end, I kept it in the bag. Foolishly, I had not considered that black-and-white film could not capture…
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Lucking it out with old C41 chemicals
What do you know, it turns out that C41 chemicals last a very long time. My solution of Bellini Foto developer was two years old and had been used with 16 rolls before I discarded it yesterday. I suspect it went bad only because the plastic bottle cracked and let in air, which caused the…
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Exposure guide for Kodak Ultramax 400
I scanned the tab showing the exposure guide for Kodak Ultramax 400 colour film, also realising that the reciprocal to be applied in the Sunny 16 rule is 1/250 s for ISO 400 film, and not 1/500 s as I did.
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Fixing a Kenko KFM-2100 spotmeter
Last year, I found a Kenko KFM-2100 on eBay for incredibly cheap—if you know how ridiculously expensive spotmeters are—and immediately bought it. It works very well, except that the batteries last much shorter than the nominal 100 hours of continuous use. Today was my day off and a good opportunity to tackle the problem. The…
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Store closing!
This weekend we are staying indoors as P continues to recover from the pain in her lower back, which had her immobilised for most of the week. She was well enough to help me fix spikes on our garden fence, which we hope will deter pigeons and neighbourhood cats—and the occasional foxes—from climbing over and…
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Film flashback
From a ten-year-old negative newly scanned on a Nikon Coolscan V ED, a picture of a fruit vendor at the now-defunct Farnborough Sunday Car Boot.
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Walk around Minley
Yesterday and today, P and I finally hiked a new trail in Minley. It’s less than a ten-minute drive away from home, yet we put off going there for more than a year. It’s also now my favourite of all the trails near us. The terrain is quite diverse, changing from pine woodland to heathland…