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Some pics taken in Saltwell Park Gateshead. These are the last ones I consider worth sharing from my Fuji C200 film taken with my Yashica FX-D.

Fuji C200 lab developed, home scanned. Yashica FX-D with 50mm lens Littlehaven Beach, South Shields, October 2022

Right, that probably explains it. Even with the 2 stops extra exposure mine were only just visible.

Yeah those things are really weird-looking. I reckon the artist was on something when he came up with that! :)

The strange 'seat' is part of a stone sculpture in Herrington Country Park called 'site lines'. Each one points to a particular part of the landscape. The 'Parthenon' type building is a Penshaw Monument - a Victorian folly. Here's a couple of links...

Just to put this saga to bed, here's a few other shots from that roll. It started out as a revival of shooting on film but ended up as a miracle of digital image recovery - the images on the negs were so faint I had trouble telling which way up the strip was). As it happens, I found a magic...

Did you expose a couple of stops extra when you took the later pics FF? There was one shot at the start of my roll that was taken when I loaded the film (my habit was to take a shot after the first 'wind on' after the camera back was closed), and this is of the room in our old house (we moved...

Still buggering about with this. I reckon the attached is the best it's ever going to get with the scanner & software I have available. I did the orange colour cast correction & inversion in the editor after scanning as a positive and using the actual colour cast from an unexposed area of the...

Some look very underexposed to the point that virtually nothing comes out on the scan except noise - that's probably down to me as it's a long time since I've used a film camera - but some look fine, apart from the overall dark tint of the film (even on the unexposed edges). The scanner is...

Yeah, at best it gave me something to do for a while. Even with tweaking in the edit they're still basically crap (though if I had the nerve I might try to pass them off as artistically aged lol).

OK, just out of academic interest, here's some samples. These ones are straight out of the scanner (I had to turn all the knobs to 11 to get anything out of it, ;) hence the noise). I've been bored tonight so I've been trying to enhance these in the editor (without great success) - I might post...

It came back. It's not very good (understatement). First impression of the film was that it was uniformly black (no trace of the usual orange tint), but with a bright light behind it I could just about make out a few faint images against the black. Oh well, I had to try. I'm doing a few scans...

Well it's been processed and will be posted off within 2 days. Maybe I should have gone for somewhere with a quicker turnaround - the waiting is killing me. At least there must be something on the film, as otherwise they apparently ask if you still want it sent back or have your postage...

The only advantage that I can see for hydrogen is from the point of view of the good old fossil fuel companies. They can produce hydrogen from natural gas (allegedly green, but in practice not at all). Transporting and storing it is tricky and producing it wastes a significant amount of energy...

You used to be able to pay a bit more for 1 hour development & printing from some photo places. We used to do that with holiday snaps so we could look at them while we were still there. Happy days.