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No Disaster

I wrote last time about my Schrodinger’s Film being in an unknown state until developed. Turns out everything was fine; unloading it in the dark bag did the trick. I wouldn’t even have known which film1 it was if it wasn’t for the leader remaining un-trimmed2 on this particular one. Some Fuji Velvia slides on a light box. There is a small light leak between two frames, but that was probably…

#developing #film

Analog data recovery

Nikon F3, right, with two empty rolls of Ilford HP6 film (in the Hobo Undertank) I had a self-inflicted1 equipment failure recently. I’d brought my Nikon F to an event, with a few rolls of film ready to go. There was still a roll of HP5 left in the camera with a couple of frames remaining on the counter, so I took a couple of quick shots to finish it off.. and tore the film. I guess I cranked…

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#darkroom #nikon f

We’re getting pretty fucking tired of your shit, America

Recently1 I’ve found it a relief to avoid buying American products. It’s not just because of the tarrifs and enshittification. It’s the pointless and arbirtrary aggression2; the normalization and amplification of complete falsehoods and unhinged bullshit; and the refusal to accept or even acknowledge consequences and responsibility. The US government is gaslighting the world, and America as a…

#rant

F and FE

FE bottom right; F top left1. My trusty Nikon FE just arrived back after some months away at a repair shop. Here it is next to its older brother, a Nikon F that I bought recently. The FE is a little smaller and lighter, but as you can see, lens choice can make the body size difference irrelevant. I’ve been enjoying the low tech experience of using the meterless and fully mechanical F. It’s…

#nikon #nikon f #nikon fe

Next in the Tank

Next in the developing tank I have two fresh rolls of Kodak Tri-X. I’m nearing the end of my stock of Tri-X, both recent and and old bulk roll from around 2010. As much as I love Tri-X, once this lot is used up I plan to switch to something else, probably Ilford HP5+. For a few reasons really, the most practical of which is that Tri-X is just so frustratingly curly (more so the fresh stuff than…

#developing #hp5 #process #tri-x

Alan Adler

I read today of the death of Alan Adler, who for 50 years ran Melbourne’s famous (and sometimes near-forgotten) photo booths. There are only four1 of the original black-and-white chemical photo booths left in the city now. I happen to live near one of them, and it’s fun to use it from time to time for a family portrait. I was fortunate recently to receive as a gift a copy of a newly published…

Become Unharvestable

Or: Content Is Absolute Fucking Bullshit. I stopped posting photos here on my blog about a year ago, after it became undeniably obvious that endless dubious generative AI startups were greedily scraping all the content they could find, ignoring permissions and evading blocks and generally showing contempt for any concept of attribution or authorship. If they were doing it for positive reasons,…