This damn rain!

[Ash]

I spent the good part of last evening and night starting on my darkroom - finally!!

So while the clouds weren't in the sky, I managed to move a HUGE Beseler CB-7 enlarger (for 4x5 up to massive enlargements) into the shed, along with the other darkroom bits and pieces that were stored in my room.

I just about managed one ok-ish 10x8 FB print from a 4x5 neg (the one of the Leica IIIc + Summicron.. lost the scan of the neg right now), but otherwise realised to make full use of the 4x5 enlarger.... I need to take more photo's!!!!

This rain is a real mood-killer, I'm stuck inside when I could be out shooting something, then developing it, then printing a nice copy to pin up on my bare bedroom walls!


So I'm not a fan of the rain, I haven't taken a photo since the RFF day out a few weeks back. Not only that, but every one of my cameras has film in it...ready to shoot... so I can't even be a camera-fondler!! 😱


Oh, and I realised I'm out of paper developing and fixing chemicals :bang:





Anyone else finding their plans thwarted by this weather system??

 

[oftheherd]

Well, if you can find a way to do it, send it to the US east coast area. We are rather short on it.

And remember, it keeps down the dust in the darkroom. 😀 😀

 

[kully]

Me.

This is just ridiculous, beyond a ****ing joke now.

All that PanF+ we bought, have used only two rolls on the one sunny day since 🙂

Ah well, this is the beggining of the end of the world, it won't happen like the films.

 

[Ash]

Kully,
We need to wait for the weather to clear up well enough for me to come to Reading and grab the rest of the darkroom stuff from you without getting drenched too!
I only just bulk rolled 20-odd cans from a single box. Even then it was to kill some time while it was raining outside!!

oftheherd,
Gladly!
Oh, and I'm more worried about my makeshift insulation of newpaper and bin bags (originally to test for light leaks... good enough to stay for the moment) will hold up if the rain gets any worse!

 

[Xmas]

Ash

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/weather/st_swithins_day.shtml

it rained this year, few more days to go...

Noel

 

[mr_phillip]

>> All that PanF+ we bought, have used only two rolls on the one sunny day since

I can sympathize. In April, which was just glorious here, I went out and bought a load of ADOX CHS 25 thinking we'd finally have enough light to use this film without needing a tripod. Since then we've just seen relentless, unshifting gray drizzle. At least we've not been flooded though.

 

[Mauro]

Dear British friends, I have seen a terrible report on TV about the bad weather conditions in some areas: I do hope you are safe and that you are not suffering for this terrible situation. I wish you better days very soon.

 

[Ash]

I'd be fine with all the Pan F+ iff I had studio space. I'd simply rig up the flashes and use it happily as a studio film (as recommended by RJ Lam a while ago).

Noel, that's a fair month or so left until the rain subsides 🙁

 

[TheHub]

I love rainy days. What better chance to try high-ISO films like 1600 & 3200? Night shoots in the rain are fun, too.

I went out during the typhoon that hit here 2 weeks ago:
http://life-electronic.net/blog/?p=276
http://life-electronic.net/blog/?p=279

 

[Ash]

But Japan is nice! England sucks!

 

[kully]

And. Typhoons are cool (if you survive), a constant, putrid, drizzle is super crap.

 

[Ash]

Greyhoundman!!!

"The Great English Countryside"
- that's what you want to see, but we need a nice warm summer for that 😀

 

[Ash]

Don't worry, an English passport is a fiver from most corner shops. You'll be fine 🙂

It would be great to meet you if you managed to arrange a trip over - so long as you pick the right time and I'm not out of the country!!

 

[steamer]

If you ever hear someone say they love the rainy season in Japan, politely excuse yourself and run like hell--they are barking mad. It is constantly hot and humid and then it rains lightly but almost without end. Mold grows in your house and it is like living in a bowl of soup. Thank god it is almost over and we can start to experience the relatively benign typhoon season.

 

[steamer]

G-man they say one can be obtained much faster if you cough up the bucks for an expediter.

 

[Ash]

10-18months?! Oh dear...

 

[ferider]

I left Tokyo hours before the last Typhoon hit. They also had an earth quake
the same week-end. Not funny.

If it rains shoot color.

Roland.

 

[maddoc]

If you ever hear someone say they love the rainy season in Japan, politely excuse yourself and run like hell--they are barking mad. It is constantly hot and humid and then it rains lightly but almost without end. Mold grows in your house and it is like living in a bowl of soup. Thank god it is almost over and we can start to experience the relatively benign typhoon season.

I am really glad living in Hokkaido ... 🙄 25 to 29 degrees, low humidity and blue sky since weeks ...

 

[steamer]

Maddoc sounds too beautiful--any work up there for English language editors? 🙂

 

[maddoc]

... the bad news about Hokkaido is the job market situation. You could give it a try at the university here in Sapporo but otherwise I guess ... 🙁