slow night, let's chat

[FrankS]

Hello Hjfischer. I was listening to Q107, a classic rock station from Toronto. It's funny how the songs you listened to as a teenager and coming of age, are still among the best.

So, the darkroom work is done. Three 8x10s and five 5x7s (RC paper). Got to call the couple now and let them know their prints are ready.

 

[darkkavenger]

I'm just petting my Kiev-II in the recliner while listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack 😀

 

[FrankS]

I am happy to get that job out of the way. Today has been a funny day weather-wise. It doesn't know whether it wants to rain or be sunny, so it is switching back and forth doing both. It's good that I didn't go for a spin on the motorcycle because my back wheel is bald and that gets pretty slippery in the wet.

 

[rover]

Hot and icky today. I escaped with Sammy to the Mystic Aquarium and then USS Nautalus at the Groton Submarine Base for a few hours. Finished up the roll of film in the M6 and planning on watching the weather channel hoping the cold front heading my way will get here soon.

 

[Socke]

I'm just petting my Kiev-II in the recliner while listening to the Lord of the Rings soundtrack 😀

From the movie? Try Bo Hanssons "Sagan Om Ringen - Music inspired by the Lord of the Rings"!

 

[darkkavenger]

I'll try that, Socke 😉

 

[Roman]

Finished packing for my trip, cut & sleeved the negs from the concert I went to last night, and edited some of the pics I took with my new (to me, at least) Canon G5 - the band playing was Rewolfinger, a slightly tongue-in-cheek Austrian alternative country band (check out their web page www.rewolfinger.at - it is in German, but you can listen to their songs and look at the pictures), gave one of the guys (who I still know from my wild youth as a bass player in a punk band) some B&W prints from their last concert (to be seen in my RFF gallery), and got CDs and free beer in return; also made vague plans for a future photo-shoot with the band.

Now I'm having a last beer before going to bed - want to be fit tomorrow morning for the long drive to Lake Balaton in Hungary, we are going despite the nasty weather (rain & thunderstorms all day today).

No RFF for a whole week, how am I gonna survive that? 😉
Well, at least I will meet another RFF member - 'denishr' from Varazdin, Croatia...

Roman

 

[back alley]

say hi to denis from us.

he has been m.i.a. lately.

joe

 

[Roman]

I've been in contact with him - he had to work a lot recently, and he might be (or is going to) staying with his family at the Adriatic coast for a few days.

Roman

 

[Uncle Bill]

I worked this weekend, considering how nice it was outside, what a waste. I got listen to canned music all day in the store. Next weekend will be much cooler a) I have it off b) I am trading in my Canon Ae1 and some lenses for a Nikon F body with an FTn meter head. I can't wait, after the Leica M3 the Nikon F is the classic camera. I have one from dad's estate which has the eyelevel viewfinder and she is has an early serial number so I don't want to take that far and wide.

Bill

 

[FrankS]

Just got back from a motorcycle toot. Saw an even older BMW than mine. It was probably a /5 series 500. Gave each other the thumbs up sign.

 

[cp_ste.croix]

i got sunburned watching the canadian youth rugby finals in burnaby...you Ontarians cleaned up this year!

 

[bmattock]

I was asked to present a class about 'digital cameras' to my photography club tomorrow nght. So I spent the day writing a treatment. Might clean it up later and try to sell it. I dunno. Tried to strike a balance between those who understand cameras and those who don't as potential audience. Hmmm.

http://www.growlery.com/digicam/Crossing the Digital Camera Divide.html

Didn't mow my yard today - too bloody hot! Watched 'Clerks' on DVD. It was ok, not as good as the hype.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[kbg32]

Spent the morning and early afternoon printing and addressing wedding invitations. Went to the main post office for stamps and get them on their way. Rest of the day was spent doing grocery shopping and developing files from a freelance shoot this past Thursday. Need to get them to the client early Monday morning.

Looked here for a nice break and to see what was going on.

Cheers.

 

[XAos]

Just spent a frustrating hour+ messing with a neighbor's spyware infested worm riddled pc. I was about read to tell them the PC was in a better place(TM) but just had to tell them it needed professional help instead.

I'm a professional computer geek, and remember when this was just people did because they were curious or paranoid. Ordinary people should not have to invest this level of effort to keep malicious people, or even ANY unknown people off their PC's. Sure I keep my PC up to date but the local dairy farmer (no it's not a Dell) kind of gets the glazed look earlier attributed to teens and educational attempts when you attempt to explain why their favorite amusement is actually spyware.

 

[vha]

Just got the XA repaired, Thanks Ernesto !, been digging in my pile of chaos in the office for batteries that works and will do some test-shots of it tomorrow.
Now it´´s time to log of and consider the idea of going to sleep . . . zzzzz.

vha

 

[hoot]

Shot about 60 rolls of film this summer. Got to develop them all, then review them... argh. Wish I had an assistant.

 

[24x30]

Shot about 60 rolls of film this summer.

Uh ... that's a lot of stuff ... why not developing it directly after shooting?
I use 2 Jobo 1530s, thats 10 rolls 135 or 12 rolls 120 film. So normaly I
got all films of a trip developed at 2 sessions of 1 hour 30 each (including
to fill the Jobos).
But I'm also behind schedule ... means a lot of negs. to print 🙂 .

/rudi

 

[FrankS]

That is a lot of film! I've got a tall plastic Patterson tank that handles 5 rolls of 35mm film at once. I usually wait until I have 5 rolls to soup and then do them and not let them pile up. Figuring it out, I've shot 20 rolls of film over the last 2 months.

 

[hoot]

why not developing it directly after shooting?

I usually wait until I have 5 rolls to soup and then do them and not let them pile up.

Well, yeah, but when you're constantly on the move, all you can do is unpack your bags, drop the rolls on your desk and re-pack your bags. So those 60 rolls sort of accumulated on my desk by themselves. Now that I'm permanently back home for the rest of the year, there's no excuse. Just gotta pull myself together, roll up the shirtsleeves and begin souping the stuff.

If only that was all there was to it! Then comes scanning each strip of six negs, reviewing it on my monitor, deciding what to scan decently and/or make a wet print of, and finally (and this is what makes personal photo projects so much more demanding than commissioned ones) deciding what to do with the darn stuff.

Had I only stuck with poetry! :bang: