Postcard Exchange : Round 9 - Details and Sign-up

[rst]

And anyway the 22 out of 30 were worth the 30 I sent.

Regards
-- Ruediger

 

[BWKate]

I joined in Round #5. Received all for that Round except 2. (The total for that Round was I think in the twenties)
Round #6- Received all except 1! Total number was something like 37 , we sent an extra one to Simon from Ilford if we wanted to.
Round #7- Sent out 45 and received 35. That was perhaps my most disappointing round. Still fun though but the cost was starting to get a bit high.
Sat out Round #8 because I was moving.
Back again for Round #9!
Here's hoping everyone who signs up sends their cards! I owe some prints to a couple people that I intend to honour so I better get right on it.

 

[Chuck_P]

I would like to sign up for this round. This is my first exchange and I'm only going to print about 15 cards, I want to see how it goes before I make a commitment to more cards. I'm on a very tight budget and only want to pay for postage to US folks only. Hope that is ok with everybody.

Chuck

 

[BWKate]

Usually the rounds include people from all over the world.

 

[rst]

... and only want to pay for postage to US folks only. Hope that is ok with everybody.

Chuck,

if you are on a tight budget, why don't you assign for say 10 cards around the world, instead of sending 15 cards to the US only.

If we all start with "but I want to send cards only to people in Europe" or only in the US or only in the US but not in ... say ... Florida etc. - who is going to organize the next round since we will drive Randy mad in deciding on the groups for this round

Hey, looking at the stamps I must say, it is cheap to send a card from the US to Germany compared to the price you have to pay the other way round. But that probably does not help you.

Regards
-- Ruediger

 

[Mick Fagan]

About the best thing the postcard exchange does for me, is the fact that the majority of cards come from all over the world.

That was the best incentive to joining!

Mick.

 

[Chuck_P]

I was told by Randy that it would not be a problem. I really don't think it should have an impact on how others may participate, I think folks will continue to do what they do regardless of what I do. But I see what you are saying-----this is my first time to exchange and I just want to see how it goes.

Thanks,
Chuckk

 

[reellis67]

So far, it looks like the count is right at 20 people, but as more people join in I'll update the count. As I stated in the original post, feel free to let me know how many you would like to print if you don't think you want to print the total number. Also, please be sure to PM me with your mailing address so that I have it to send to all participants.

Lastly, thanks again to all who have signed up for this round!

- Randy

 

[BWKate]

I'm on my way to spend a delightful Monday in the darkroom printing my postcards. My favourite way to spend the day. It's kind of rainy and windy outside and I just finished driving my son and two of his friends to middle school so I'll first have breakfast, make a lunch, and then head off to the darkroom I use.

I haven't picked my image yet. Maybe another one from my China trip.

 

[reellis67]

Kate,

That sounds great - I really enjoyed your last one. I've just today finished for this term (grad school) so I actualy have a life again, for a short while, and I too plan on getting into the dark quite a bit over the next few weeks. Happy printing!

- Randy

 

[eric]

I did a print session yesterday during the daytime in my garage. Looks like some prints got fogged from too much light coming into the sides of the garage door.

But at night, I banged out about 15 postcards. I'm ready. What sucks about Nova...its hard to do a lot of prints. I can expose a whole bunch of postcards, stick them in a deep tray, and shuffle like cards. With the Nova, its as many clips as I have.

I wonder if I can get those picture stamps with postcard postage amounts?

 

[reellis67]

The postcard stamps I got the last time were of butterflies, but you could always get custom stamps made. I've though about getting APUG stamps before, but I never seem to have time to do it well, and in the end I've fallen back on the standard stamps...

- Randy

 

[Mick Fagan]

Our stamps for overseas, are tax exempt, they are an export item, would you believe. As a result, we cannot use some of the real fancy ones we have internally.

I'm printing mine on the weekend having chosen the negative last night.

Mick.

 

[gr82bart]

Looks like the count of sign ups to date is around 18 which I think is good. A small number.

Regards, Art.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Our stamps for overseas, are tax exempt, they are an export item, would you believe. As a result, we cannot use some of the real fancy ones we have internally.

I'm printing mine on the weekend having chosen the negative last night.

Mick.

Are you sure about that, Mick? As far as I know, you are allowed to use any Australian stamp for overseas postage. I do it all the time.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Kevin, I'm positive, I send a real lot of overseas post. The stamps for export all have, "international POST" written, which is reversed out of blue.

If you don't use these stamps, then you may not have paid Australia Post enough postage to cover their charge + GST.

I believe that International post is the only post that Australia Post can refuse to take and/or deliver, if the package/letter is understamped.

For instance we send stuff to Germany and the letter charge is $1.80. Using International POST stamps that is all we pay, if we used normal postage stamps, the cover value of the stamp has to be $1.98.

International stamps cannot be used internally, no GST has been paid.

Mick.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Well, there you go. You learn something every day. Thanks, Mick.

 

[Pete H]

Yes, I've just learnt that the real reason for having negs that print straight is so that you can print 30 postcards in an evening

 

[mikeg]

Looks like the count of sign ups to date is around 18 which I think is good. A small number.

I think 19 is a much better number, so I'll join in again for the maximum.

For those who are a bit daunted by printing 20 or 30 cards, it's not too bad if you print them all at once and then develop them in batches.

How I do it is I have two old empty print boxes. I count out the required number of sheets and place them in one box. Expose each sheet of paper, putting the exposed sheet back into the other box. At the end of the printing stage, I use 10x12in trays which will take 4 Ilford postcard prints without overlap. I develop the cards in batches of 4 moving them between dev, stop and fix as required.

I can usually churn out 30 cards in just over an hour, even with a bit of burning in. Also, try and keep your exposures short. I try and use a base exposure of about 5 seconds. Usually, working out the correct exposure takes me longer than printing 30 cards.

Cheers

Mike

 

[rst]

... For those who are a bit daunted by printing 20 or 30 cards, it's not too bad if you print them all at once and then develop them in batches.

Is there another way to do it?

Regards
-- Ruediger

 

[kraker]

I'm thinking of joining this time (I've been wanting to ever since I saw there was such a thing as a "postcard exchange"), but I really don't want to "over-commit". Reading through the posts, seeing numbers of 20-30 postcards... No, that's too much for me. I'm willing to commit to 10, max. If that's no problem, and if I'm still in time, I'll PM my details later this week.

 

[reellis67]

Here are the people that have sent me their real-world names and mailing addresses so far (24 to date!)

ingobohn
Bob F.
Chuck1
bmccarthy007
Black Dog
eric
blackmelas
Buster6X6
Mark Fisher
gr82bart
MattKing
PepMiro
Don Grindstaff
jeffeb
timeUnit
BirgerA
rst
Pete H
BWKate
TimVermont
Mick Fagan
simulatordan
reellis67

If you would like to be in on this round, and I encourage anyone who is interested to give it a try, please PM or email me with your name and mailing address so that we know where to send postcards. If you email, please include your APUG user name as well so I know who you are. Thanks!

- Randy

 

[reellis67]

I'm thinking of joining this time (I've been wanting to ever since I saw there was such a thing as a "postcard exchange"), but I really don't want to "over-commit". Reading through the posts, seeing numbers of 20-30 postcards... No, that's too much for me. I'm willing to commit to 10, max. If that's no problem, and if I'm still in time, I'll PM my details later this week.

10 is no problem - there are others who are not printing the entire amount this round as well, so don't worry about it. You should have seen the round where there were 50 of us! Man, I printed my butt off on that round. It was after that when the option to print less than the total number was added to the exchange. Just PM me your name and mailing address so we know where to send cards sometime before the end of December and I'll get you on the list.

Once everyone has sent me their info and the first of January comes around I'll send out the address for everyone to send cards to.

- Randy

 

[BWKate]

Thanks so much Randy for taking on the postcard exchange! And a big thank you to Nige for doing such a great job before that!

You guys Rock!

 

[Tom Kershaw]

Randy,

I'd like to join Round 9 of the postcard exchange now Darkroom 1.5 is up and running. I'll send you a PM.

Tom.