MattKing
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FWIW, with the version of software used here, it probably should be PC for "Private Conversation".
Private message, direct message. I get my terms confused.
FWIW, with the version of software used here, it probably should be PC for "Private Conversation".
The people here left junior high school decades ago. That idea gets shot down at this website on a regular basis.
Where’s the “don’t like” button?
Need I mention my film safe dark room is located in my attic in a luggage closet and in the summer it gets to 100+ degrees humid and no airflow? When do I need that room? In the summer. At night. When it's hottest. There's also a metal pipe that supposed to be a hanger line at the same height as the back of my head.
Now picture all that with hand slitting and re-rolling 70mm down to 120. I can do about 4 rolls before I've soaked through and start messing up the film. I've got a collection of 80's sweatbands that come into good use.
Just in case anyone is reading that has a stash of 70mm bulk in there freezer. Give me a DM, I'm interested.
Yes, firmly off topic for the most part...
I’ve done 180 mph on my Honda Blackbird on two-lane country roads. 150 mph routinely. Heck, I’ve been over 150 mph riding two-up with my wife on the back. Since I was a kid, every bike I’ve had I’ve gone as fast as they will go.
Here in Texas Hill Country, I can’t do that high speed stuff due to the deer population. Now I mostly just see how fast I can go in the corners.
I probably get 32-35 mph on the bike, but for the way I ride that’s not bad.
What I need is one of those modular helmets so I can use my film cameras better. It’s impossible to look through a viewfinder with a regular full face helmet.
You know all the cool bird names have already been taken by the time they get to having to use blackbird. Then again at least they got that before having to go with Honda Budgerigar.
I've recently discovered that affordable digital IR goggles have come out that operate in the 940nm range. Even 850nm should be reasonably safe for most film, since HIE is long gone. While I'm primarily interested in being able to develop panchromatic film by inspection, the idea of being able to actually see what I'm doing in the dark appeals to me.
Depends on what is considered affordable.
Where's the "like" button?
Depends on what is considered affordable.
I did use a 90's camcorder with 'nightvision' to roll 220 once. Issue was that there's a small red LED that projects the beam. It didn't affect the film but I'm not going to risk it again.
$150 (USD) to $300 range. The 940nm emitters put out a very faint visible glow, but I suspect it's not an issue. Far dimmer than an indirect low-wattage safe-light.
I must be.
Not only am I guilty of that but I shoot old film that lives in my freezer for years before I use it. And I put that manual focus stuff on modern AF cameras too.You're looking at your AF slr. Great lens. Always gives sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Always gives you the results you want. And yet you pick up that manual everything, no meter, maybe even guess focus relic..
Why do you do that to yourself?
Guilty as charged.
You're looking at your AF slr. Great lens. Always gives sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Always gives you the results you want. And yet you pick up that manual everything, no meter, maybe even guess focus relic..
Why do you do that to yourself?
Guilty as charged.
I much prefer the expense, unpredictability, slowness and frequent disappointment of my old Nikon F2 and Nikkormats. Even the F3 feels a bit too much like an easy ride.
Gosh, I don't know how we coped all those years having to use those old rattletrap cameras. Sometimes it was just all too overwhelming, but somehow we persevered, undoubtedly through sheer grit and determination.
Do you actually think that shooting film with a Nikon F2 or Nikkormat is a complicated and exhausting ordeal?
Gosh, I don't know how we coped all those years having to use those old rattletrap cameras. Sometimes it was just all too overwhelming, but somehow we persevered, undoubtedly through sheer grit and determination.
Do you actually think that shooting film with a Nikon F2 or Nikkormat is a complicated and exhausting ordeal?
My thumb gets tired.
You need to up your sheer grit and determination game. Or check into getting a winder or motor drive.
Motor drive is heavy.
This isn't a kvetch thread! This about really doing stupid torturous pointless things just because.
Carrying a non-prismed Nikon F with an MD is not so bad. Doing the same but the MD is powered by a belt pouch battery pack? That's more like it.
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