Well I haven't had photographic fun since I was at the workshop in Montana last September...so it's time I had some and I plan to carve out some time for me!!!!!
This is supposed to be fun? I thought it was about trying to outdo everybody else by accumulating the most esoteric, huge and expensive photographic gear.
No... seriously - I'm having fun. Except when I don't have time to shoot (or when I've got 40 large format negatives waiting in the pile to develop - ugh! Better buy a JOBO tank and reels).
Thanks for the reminder; I've only read a couple of his things. He wrote Solaris, didn't he? (Haven't read it yet)
My favorite in the sci-fi / spec-fiction genre by far is Theodore Sturgeon. He's got hundreds of unbelievable short stories (available in a collection of 12 volumes or so from your favorite online book sellers) and a handful of decent novels. More refined than P.K. Dick, more experimental than Vonnegut, and he explores a lot of genres and often omits anything sci-fi at all (example, a couple of good westerns, etc), but other times beats you over the head with it, albeit subtly and to good purpose (e.g. a saucer of loneliness & the man who lost the sea).
Needless to say as light only returns on February, I could print but I've just dragged a 'new' enlarger to my darkroom and I dont have yet VC filters...where on earth one finds 120x120 mm filters?
Last night I had so much fun, I broke my own record and came out of the darkroom with eleven (11!) prints - and after reviewing them I decided I like them all.
Now that is so much fun I can barely contain myself, like I broke a record or something...
Needless to say as light only returns on February, I could print but I've just dragged a 'new' enlarger to my darkroom and I dont have yet VC filters...where on earth one finds 120x120 mm filters?
I was wondering about the same, until I discovered that a pack of AGFA CC filters I had all but forgotten about was a perfect fit in the filter drawer of my Durst 138S. Just pick a suitable Y or M filter density for your negative, and that's it.
Of course, printing on graded paper is much easier.
I'm having fun. On the "gear front" I've acquired a panoply of 35mm and MF gear to give me unheard of flexibility in shoot ops and styles.
Long way from when all I had was by Nikkormat FT-2.
Yet, more important, I've found this site. It is a key part of my "support group" to encourage my commitment to film photography.
I've shot more film in the past two years than I had in the prior ten. In large part because of the encouragement this site provides to go out and shoot.