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March 12, 2013 at 2:16 pm

Thanks for the input miki g. I was thinking more about my film work. It seems that incident metering is the most useful there.There are small meters going for a song on eBay, so I might get one of those.

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March 5, 2013 at 1:50 pm

Thanks for the encouragement tex! I don’t have any excuse now. I’ll give it a go.

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February 23, 2013 at 6:34 pm

I generally don’t scan at all (anymore), because I don’t need to.
I use an older DSLR on a repro stand over a light table. Super quick and good enough for most purposes (95% of my stuff on the web gets done that way).
B/w negs I do properly in the darkroom anyway;
colour I get done through a mate with an Imacon 484, if I need better enlargements,
or send the very best/important stuff away for a drum-scan.
To me all a matter of end-purpose, time-management, cost, convenience etc.

Thanks Fine Print. The DSLR idea is a good method of doing it all right. I have access to a professional flatbed scanner at work, so that might be one way of doing it.

I’m beginning to think there’s a great deal to be said for making actual prints in the darkroom. My local camera club has a darkroom with a 120 enlarger. It’s just that I haven’t done any printing since my college days many years ago and I wasn’t great at it. Then again, I suppose my skills would improve with practice.

At least I have a few different options now.

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February 7, 2013 at 3:54 pm

Thanks for those leads Isabella. I’ll investigate further.

I actually have access to a darkroom and a 120 enlarger but I’m a bit wary of starting to print just yet. It’s been years since I’ve printed anything. Maybe I should…

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December 12, 2012 at 9:30 pm

Thanks for the replies everyone.

There’s no percentage feedback listed for the seller, although that’s because he hasn’t had enough reviews yet. He seems to have sold only clothing items and at a small price. He’s sold one camera. The photos of the kit are good and obviously took time and effort to do. Payment is through PayPal.

I’m not so sure about it now though…

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December 12, 2012 at 12:09 pm

As an addendum to this, the seller never sent any photos. I asked him twice about the photos and he said he’d attached them to his messages. Nothing arrived and he’s gone quiet since!

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November 20, 2012 at 10:31 pm

Thanks murchu and martin for sound advice and for the web sites too.

Having stood back a bit from it now, it does seem like a large amount of money to pay and tax of 25% would add quite a bit to it.

I appreciate your offer martin but my heart is set on the Pentax. I own a K1000 and a K10D already, so I’m a big fan! Anyway, I’ll keep looking.

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November 20, 2012 at 4:57 pm

Thanks for that redto. I’m aware there will be duty to be paid but hadn’t seen the calculator before.

I’ve tried a Mamiya 645 and quite liked it. I’ve done extensive research into MF and have settled on the Pentax as it’s considered the best for landscape. I haven’t seen many of them on sites this side of the Atlantic, though there’s an occasional body for sale on Ebay in the UK. Maybe I’m just being impatient!

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November 20, 2012 at 3:18 pm

Sirvad, I find that in my camera club you get many of the ‘nice’ landscape photos described. They’re technically brilliant but after a while I get bored with swirling water and moody skies. Same goes with long-exposure waterfalls! Mind you, I’d find them very technically challenging myself.

My own preference would be for landscapes but I love portraits, especially in monochrome. Even there, so many club members seem to go off on holiday to Asia or Africa and get shots of poor, toothless—but colourful—elderly people or children.

Maybe the thing is to try to do something different things with landscapes or portraits.

As for judges, we had one recently who praised some shots and then gave them a low mark! Another one before that actually mocked some of the photos. It’s all very subjective.

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November 20, 2012 at 10:43 am

Have you seen this?

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October 3, 2012 at 10:11 pm

Thank you both for those suggestions. Using table lamps never occurred to me. I have a few here in the house. The other things you mentioned shutterbug are easily available.

The halogen lamps are a good idea too bigal. Might give them a try. I have some sheets of coloured paper already, so I can experiment with those.

It’s true that you don’t always need the most expensive gear to produce good shots.

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October 3, 2012 at 12:55 pm

Have been a dedicated Mac user at home and at work for fifteen years and would not look at another computer. It works! No blue screens, no cryptic messages on the screen, no crashing, no waiting for hours for a process to complete (did I mention PCs!?) I had a PowerMac at home but decided last year to go for the iMac on cost grounds. I haven’t been disappointed. It works like a dream and can easily handle my photography work.

Go for it!

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August 20, 2012 at 10:52 pm

Thank you both for that very helpful advice. I’ll have to go away and think about it.

I love the work on your websites by the way. The images of Errigal are especially nice Steve.

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September 15, 2008 at 4:08 pm

Thanks lads. That’s very helpful.