Category: General
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More pictures from expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film
I developed a third roll of Ferrania Solaris 100 today, and the pictures are meh, consistent with the previous two experiments. Also, the grain in these pictures, and in the ones from previous posts, could be either because the film is old or because of over-development. The second reason is more likely, given this is…
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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 did not make for a pleasant shooting experience and could even be the cause of exposure mistakes. And yet I found myself pulling it out of storage, fitting it with two fresh LR44 batteries,…
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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…