Recent content by benderscameracorner

I'm still very early in my camera repair learnings, but the primary motivation is to simply bring back old cameras back into working form. Already though I do realise if I want to take it past a relaxing hobby - and a way of getting cameras I'm interested in on the cheap - there's a need to...

No, Digidirect in Australia. Ironically enough I got an email from them three hours after posting the above, saying that the film is still on backorder and their distributor now can't give an ETA (despite previous efforts). LOL. So yeah, March 2027 is probably realistic at this stage. Silly...

This thread just reminded me the Provia order I put in late February is still waiting for stock. It was supposed to come in mid-March. Hmmm. The price was good so I'm happy to ride it out - as I have before in order to get hold of Velvia. Patience seems to be the necessary part to attaining...

That's always been my understanding too. Unsure if whatever IR sensing/imaging that is used for production line monitoring and QA can be set well beyond 1000nm to avoid the 900-950nm limit of HIE/EIR but I'm assuming there's good reasons why it isn't. The other very real consideration is...

I used to shoot a tonne of EliteChrome and BW400CN 25+ years ago. I could live without the latter now I dev myself and 1hr minilabs don't exist on every corner, but the world hungers for affordable slide film. Oh, and add me to the HIE/High Speed Infrared list... it was a pain, but it got results.

The aeroplane composites remind me of similar work by Tasmanian photographer Herbert John 'HJ' King in the 1930s for an airshow here in northern Tasmania. He's perhaps more better known for his composite of the thylacine ('Tasmanian Tiger') looking over Cradle Mountain. King was by...

Old Manfrotto three-way head I bought in 1998, though it's sitting on somewhat newer legs that I acquired from an exgirlfriend. Heavy but stable as. I have used the RB67 with my lightweight carbon hiking tripod (Leofoto 255CEX) for certain trips (ie. the ones with a 1000m climb up a mountain at...

Yes, but taking off 50+ year old dust and crud-filled Photomic that no longer works anyway, and snapping on a basically NOS plain finder is like peering through a fresh pair of 'glasses. (not to mention less bulk)

Pistol grip for an RB67. I didn't buy it, in my defence, but was given it with a bunch of other stuff. I mean, it does make the chonky Mam' a more manageable melee weapon, should you have the need ;-)

Certain scenes/lighting situations can definitely benefit from a bias towards warm or cool. It's fair to say Ektachrome isn't warm-biased but I'm not so sure it's as cool/blue as people make out. I shot a bit of E100 over summer bushwalking and honestly the slides came out pretty darn colour...

Plenty of money in wedding photography... a growing taste for film images too. Just need to (a) be a very good photographer and (b) thrive in a very demanding and occasionally hostile environment ;-)

#2 is on the plateau of Mt Olympus, taken last year during the turning of the 'fagus. For my efforts in dragging it all the way up there through offtrack rainforest (about 700m elevation gain in a couple of kms) my RB decided to throw a light seal and generally marr a few rolls of Portra 800...

That, my friend, is when the magic absolutely happens. Super exciting to see Hotham/Perisher get their first serious snow of the year. Sadly the front wasn't quite as spicy this far south, just windy ;-)

Velvia 100 has been relatively available in Australia of late, but still waiting on a Provia backorder. Sigh.

Yes, been shooting Ektachrome as my general slide film for 'special occasions' - at AU$55 a 135 roll, it demands a worthy situation! Getting hold of Velvia 50/100 hasn't actually been that difficult in the past 12 months or so, and sometimes at excellent (for slide film) prices, but I find...