Recent content by benneh

Haven't posted in nearly 12 years, ooof! But just wanted to say that I'm glad to see that you're still about, Marcel. And well done on keeping the forum going this long, when the vast majority of others did not survive! I remember our little outings with Jimmy and Pete Carr and so on many many...

Should be with Spencer by now :).

Take it up with god buddy :bonk:. (Edit, that was meant in jest..)

Sorry for the slow reply guys, they turned up on the morning I left for Spain :D, alas I am here and will send them on in the morning (just pm'd Spencer, who's next on the list).

Ooops sorry guys I've been a bit slow to respond, pm sent to neo :).

I'm using an acer aspire one AOD150 atm, so far I've tried OSX, Win 7, Eeebuntu and XP, all ran fine. I've only tried processing in XP, with Lightroom and cs3, and it was fine, a little slow, but usable. You would just need to budget a little more time for processing. Also ofc the mac screen is...

I'll be scanning. The reason I'm going with HP5 pushed is that I have 5 rolls of HP5 400 :D, and I intend to shoot in dusk/reasonably dim light. I quite like what I've seen of HP5. I might, as you suggest, shoot the first few rolls at box speed and see if I can get a bit of hands on, but tbh...

Cheers for the reply Dfhaii. I have a thermostat etc coming too :). With regards to MIcrophen, I read that it it might be a bit excessive for anything below a 400>1600 push?, and that it's not as smooth as Rodinal in terms of grain?. Again, I'm a total noob :D, so any info is good info :).

Seems that I might go for the following (as an intro to developing B+W); RODINAL 125ml. SYRINGE ILFORD RAPID FIXER 1 litr ILFOSTOP 500ml. FotoSpeed RA50 Rinse Aid 500ml How's that sound?. Any opinions appreciated :) (before I order).

Well, I'm new to developing. I'll be shooting ilford HP5 400 plus (35mm), most likely at 800, and then pushing in dev. I shoot for a medium/high contrast so I'd really like a developer that reflects that, and I'm not afraid of a bit of noise, although the smoother the better. So, film gurus...

OOh, put me on the list please :D.

That's just never going to give even similar results to a 430 and Gary Fong diffuser. Time to save those pennies.

Eh?. Metering patterns will just result in differing shutter and aperture settings (different exposures), ergo it's exactly the same as HDR bracketing. *confused*

Ouch, so there's no definite control over DOF?. Seems a bit odd.

10-20, mid 2006ish, soft as hell, taken back to jacobs/jessops and swapped. Problem solved. 24-70 end of 2007ish, came with a strange problem, basically every few hundred photos I'd get one that was odd looking, with a weird ghosting (no flash involved), taken back, tested, replaced. Problem...