Here are some pictures of the Shirley Wellard metal film cassette.
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Shirley Wellard film cassette in pictures
My copy of the Shirley Wellard came with the original case and instructions leaflet. The screw at the bottom of the film cassette can be used to adjust its fit in the camera film chamber. The top cap of the film cassette can be removed by unscrewing. The window is opened after the film is fitted into the camera and the back closed in order for the film to advance freely. The top cap of the film cassette can be removed to access the spool. The film cassette is made up a metal case, with a revolving window, a spool, and the screwing top cap. After the film is loaded in darkness, the window of the cassette is closed (in darkness). Bottom view of the Shirley Wellard loaded with film. With the window closed, the cassette can be manipulated in daylight. During loading, the window of the Shirley Wellard is kept shut. Once the back of the camera is closed, the window can be rotated to the open position. The rewind handle sits proud when a Shirley Wellard cassette is loaded. -
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.
The F-15QA showed its maneuverability during the Farnborough International Airshow 2024. 
The Royal Danish Air Force flew one of their F-16 at FIA 2024. It was probably the loudest of all the jet fighters. ***
Then came the fat and slow.
The demonstrations of the Airbus jetliners always impress me during the airshow. Their quick take-off, steep climb, and tight slow turn contradict my intuition about the maneuverability of such massive aircraft.
The first two pictures below make it seem like I am at the same height as the A321, but they are optical illusions created by the acute banking angle of the plane in its sharp turn above me.
The Airbus A321 flying demo was impressive. 
The photo makes it look like the airplane is horizontal, whereas it is flying at an acute angle in a very tight turn. 
The Airbus passenger jet airplanes have the most impressive demos at FIA 2024. ***
Finally, the cutesies closed the show.
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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 black-and-white film and wanting to cut costs, I bought a bulk roll of Fomapan 200 film, and as I had run out of used factory cassettes on which to load it and the metal reloadable cassettes ordered from AliExpress will not arrive for a couple of weeks, I was interested in experimenting with the Shirley Wellard.
The Shirley Wellard Universal reloadable cassette is a well-constructed vintage piece from the 1950s. The Shirley Wellard Universal cassette does not fit in a Minolta X300 camera, which makes it not so universal after all. But to be fair, the instructions leaflet bundled with it lists compatible cameras, all of which came out before the Minolta X300.
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Black-and-white film development is rather curious. Instead of a single process, like C-41 for print films, there are multitudes of processes with various developers (including coffee-based concoctions), chemistry dilution ratios, and development times. Many photographers rejoice in exploring all these possibilities. But I am not one of them—at least, not yet. For now, as long as I can get lost for an hour or two in taking pictures and developing film, I am a happy photographer.
Nikon D200 digital SLR 
Items of different colours used to test the tonality of Kentmere 400 film 
Testing tonality of film with hourglasses filled with “sand” of different colours ***
I also bought a new changing bag. The previous one, which I’ve had since 2009, was leaking light and causing films to fog as I loaded them onto development reels, because its inner rubber lining had broken down. The new bag is bigger and more spaceous, thus easing blind handling of equipment inside.
The improvement in quality of the developed negatives after using the new bag brought out the faults in older negatives, which had been cloudy and milky and produced scans with low contrast.
What to do with old solar garden lights and their chargers? Throw the lights into a corner of the garden and stake the chargers in the ground in a mishmash. 
This window has been broken for a few years now. Only now, I think of using perspex glass to replace it.