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My Dublin Shopping List on Monday, Please help .
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Off Topic, my Dublin shopping trip on Monday .
Yes, thanks folks, I’m definitely buying a few polarisers ( Nikon , Bronica and Sony fit – Nikon fit the Mamiya and Panasonic cameras ! ) when I go to Dublin on Monday – it’s taken me 44 years to get around to it , sheeeesh . ( I’m an Old Pro started up again, you can never quit this addiction, a nurse out of the the local Mental told me I haven’t a hope , has a whole ward full of Hopeless Photographer Cases , he grinned ! ) .
What’s the best shop for polarisers in Dublin ? Gunns as usual ?
I also have to get a camera to flash cable for a Courtenay Studio flash and broll set in my small home studio, a cheap version of the wizards if I can find them anywhere in Dublin , as although my Fuji Finepix S2 Pro is flying it still after 8 years, I think the Courtenay set ( bought cheap in Halesowen, West Midalnds, England, Fire Stock , and still brand new though it was manufactured back in the 1970’s ) , may not be safe for the Fuji as it could be reverse-voltage ( the cable being for my Bronica SQA and Mamiya 645 ) . Maybe infra red triggers would do, where in Dublin ? The Fuji S2 , being a Nikon F80 body, will take up to 250 volts, so that’s OK .
Careful – many Canons only take 6 volts maximum from electronic flash !!!
I prefer to shop in Gunn’s of Wexford Street , a fabulous couple of people run it , they look after you genuinely , I wonder right now if Gunn’s would have what I want , anybody have an email addy for them , I’m here in Kilkenny .
Studio Backdrop – I’m thinking of simply painting the wall white for a Home Studio, any particular specialised white paint ? The only spare room ( ground front room ) I have is tiny , only 12 long by 12 wide , but 15 foot ceiling , so I wouldn’t have any space to squeeze for a proper backdrop, I’m thinking ???
I also want to buy a top 2 1/4 square enlarger , of anybody knows where, or has one for sale ?
( I often shoot on film SLRs and scan to computer ) .Hey, and where in Dublin will I find the cheapest copy of Photoshop ? ( I’m on Free GIMP ) . Anybody have a copy for sale, I’ll buy that too .
( There’s no truth in the rumour that they’re letting me out for the day on Monday ) .
Thanks very much , Michael .
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Mobile 0879145714There’s a Wien safe hotshoe adaptor for flashes ( safe with your delicate Canons too ! ) , wonder where I’ll buy that in Dublin , Gunns too , hopefully .
Best place , I find, for good cheap grub when in Dublin is The Students’ Old Dining Room in Trinity – went there years ago, and though my old Professor and lecturers there swore serious Holy Oaths never to talk to me again for life ( yeah, I gave them that hard a time ) the few left vertical are beginning to soften with ancient age in recent times . Anyway The Dining Room serves everyone, even me :-)
It’s delightful there , brings memories back of a time I tried to run Trinty back in the Sixties – I’ll be the Old Fogey with a camera sitting there at the table by the old fireplace in there at 1.00 p.m. on Monday next , May 3rd .
If anybody wants to come and haggle , please do , hehehe .
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