Author: Eddy Young
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You win some, you lose some
These are the “you lose some” from a roll of Fomapan 200 exposed with a Nikon FM2. What happened here is that I opened the camera back with the window of the Shirley Wellard film cassette still open. The winding lever was sticking every few frames, and so I rewound the film and opened the…
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Shirley Wellard film cassette in pictures
Here are some pictures of the Shirley Wellard metal film cassette.
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Farnborough International Airshow 2024 on film
This year’s Farnborough International Airshow pictures were shot on film with a Nikon FM2 and a Nikon FE2. The lens was a Nikon AF-S 300mm f/4. Both colour film and black-and-white film were used, although only the colour pictures are shown here. First, there were the fast and loud. *** Then came the fat and…
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Shirley Wellard Universal film cassette
The Shirley Wellard Universal film cassette was too much attractive vintage photography equipment to pass on. I bought two of them on eBay and successfully used one today with my Nikon FM2. The Shirley Wellard’s beautiful design and solid build are not my only reasons for buying them. In fact, having recently started shooting with…
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VueScan RAW + RT Film Negative = Good Colours
In March, I experimented with using a DSLR to digitise negatives and liked the results more than those obtained from my low-end Epson Perfection V200 scanner. However, this sentiment is now reversed because I can produce better images from the scanner. Previously, I scanned a negative with VueScan (using Lock Exposure and Lock Base Color…
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Nailed it!
Those pictures mentioned in my post about playing with artificial light? They were a total loss. I messed up the development. I was not very happy about this costly mistake and needed to know what went wrong. So, I loaded another roll of film into the Nikon FM2 and drove straight to the country park…
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Fooling around with artificial lighting
I bought a fresh roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 to test the film in daylight and under artificial light. I set up some LED lamps and flash lights and took pictures with the Nikon FM2. I also shot the same pictures with a Nikon D200 for later comparison. Here are the D200 pictures from the…
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Laparans
P and I spent an amazing evening at a concert in Crawley where Blakkayo was performing. The concert tickets were my birthday gift from P. Besides the great atmosphere, it was nice to reconnect with our Chagossian friends.