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A couple of months ago Craig and I somehow managed to arrange a meetup with the entire ex-Brighton-House group - such a thing has not happened since, well, Brighton. Well... there was one meetup where Craig joined remotely, and another where Dan sent a photo of himself (which promptly got scribbled on), and I think we were all present for one or ( Read more... )

For several years now I've tended to head to Brighton for my Christmas shopping - the Lanes and North Laines are full of so many quirky shops that are excellent for silly presents - and this year was no exception. For a change I drove down (to avoid having to rely on Southern Rail, or Southern Fail as they are known as these days), and it was ( Read more... )

Red 1468! It's a roll of Kodak Gold 200-6, and another of the Brighton films. This one consists almost entirely of photos from Ditchling Beacon... but before that, have a slice of fail from the Brighton House.

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Cross-posted to deviantArt

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Today's random film is Red 0787, a roll of Kodak MAX 400-8 dating from the winter of 2006-2007. This one seems to have rather grainy photos - yes, it's an ISO 400 film and fast films do tend to have more grain, but this seems worse than usual. I know Nikon scanners are known to suffer from some aliasing with film grain but here the same noise is ( Read more... )

Random film time! Today's mystery film is... Blue 1626! Another one from late in my university days. One evening pleaseremove was round, and we (along with most of the house) spontaneously decided to drive to Beachy Head to watch the sunset. I posted a couple of digital photos back in 2007, but I also took the Nikon F-301 with me ( Read more... )

Scanning 35mm negatives is a tricky job - the default settings have a tendency to be very dull, with a poor colour cast and no detail in dark areas. Now, I can't be bothered with trying for a perfect scan but I'm certainly happy to tweak things a little to get a better result, and the easiest tweak appears to be to tell VueScan just what type of ( Read more... )