Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

Stomach now stable enough for normal food.

I just ate some cheese.

 

[raleighnut]

Most of my old stuff is 35mm colour negative - I was a broke-ish student at the time I really got into motor racing photography and slide film (and processing) was just so much more expensive.

Not to mention far less 'lassitude' on the exposure with slide film.

 

[classic33]

Maybe this? Children tend to get this at school, and bring it home to the folks.
https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/index.html
We have a couple of school districts closed out in Colorado due to this. Schools close for a few days so they can sterilize the school, and keep the kids away from each other as well. Tends to break the chain of contagion, provide less vectors for the virus.

Six confirmed cases in Northern Ireland.

 

[classic33]

It's not the what, but the how. Google to the rescue.

Both are the right way round pictorially - unless you put them in back to front. Slides are less faff because it's colour positive film, so it's scan and you're away. Colour negative film, you have to use the "negative" function in your image editor (in my case Photoshop CS2 - old but still good) to flip the colours to what they should be.

Just have to pick what it is that is being scanned, negative or slide, to get a positive image.

 

[Illaveago]

I went out and made my bike dirty this morning. I thought the sunshine was too good to pass up. It was nice and warm but the roads were still a bit wet. I did 9 miles.
The roads on the return journey were muddy from builder traffic .
I washed my bike and my freshly splattered jacket when I got back home .

 

[classic33]

I went out and made my bike dirty this morning. I thought the sunshine was too good to pass up. It was nice and warm but the roads were still a bit wet. I did 9 miles.
The roads on the return journey were muddy from builder traffic .
I washed my bike and my freshly splattered jacket when I got back home .

How'd you fit the bike in the washer?

 

[Reynard]

Not to mention far less 'lassitude' on the exposure with slide film.

That too, but it wasn't the main consideration when doing photography on a student budget...

When I had the chance at a used Canon D60, I jumped at it. It lasted me a year before the shutter called it quits, but it paid itself back in the mean time. I still have it - and the EOS 5 it replaced - stashed in a cupboard somewhere...

 

[Reynard]

Just have to pick what it is that is being scanned, negative or slide, to get a positive image.

Not on a 20 year old scanner, you can't...

I chose well with this one and it still does the business.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

I’ve been to my eldest’s school parents‘ evening. There for 2.5 hours! Spoke to 10 different teachers. Lots of walking around the school. It was the best parents’ evening my son has had, and the first at secondary school. He’s a good lad, and I’m a proud father.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Not to mention far less 'lassitude' on the exposure with slide film.

I have Kodachrome slides I took of the Thunderbirds flight line at Peoria with F-100 Super Sabers in nineteen hunnert and sixty-four that look great still. Kodachrome positives, make copies on Ektachrome. Because Kodachrome doesn't like bright light, but in dark storage, it will last 100+ years.
P.S. I was four years old, but my Father set up the camera with proper exposure and the like, while my Mother took films of him doing so.

 

[Reynard]

I have Kodachrome slides I took of the Thunderbirds flight line at Peoria with F-100 Super Sabers in nineteen hunnert and sixty-four that look great still. Kodachrome positives, make copies on Ektachrome. Because Kodachrome doesn't like bright light, but in dark storage, it will last 100+ years.
P.S. I was four years old, but my Father set up the camera with proper exposure and the like, while my Mother took films of him doing so.

You were lucky, I was made to learn the basics using 126 and 110 format stuff... And then the single use 35mm camera things.

I inherited my dad's Pentax P&S with a zoom lens when he lost interest in it, but it was pretty pants for motorsports other than pit & paddock snaps, and I bought my first SLR in fairly short order.

Well, it was either buy an SLR or smash the Pentax to pieces in frustration. I'd have got into trouble whichever choice I made...

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'm quite older. There were no point and shoot cameras, just very basic cameras, and a few folks, mainly skilled amateurs, and professionals, and those between, who had good cameras. They were the ones who got called when someone was having a family reunion, or some other occasion when people didn't see the need for a professional, but wanted something better than their cameras could do. It was still like that well into the 80's-90's, when point and shoots became the rage. By that time, I was working in camera stores, as journalism had given up on me, and many others, and the point and shoot cameras were selling so well I had to sometimes make bank runs in the middle of the day and at the end of the day around Christmas. But that's also when the smaller, narrower group of those photographers who were enthusiasts began to die out, and digital destroyed the remnants of the photographic culture as it were. Now pictures are a dime a dozen, something no farther than your phone, and of no greater rarity than a sneeze or a cough.

 

[slowmotion]

I've given up watching the electioneering on TV. All the parties seem to be promising me milk, honey and a hundred virgins. The prospect of disappointment has become too much.

 

[biggs682]

Bright and frosty outside so no early morning ride

 

[Illaveago]

Bright and frosty outside so no early morning ride

It's best not to risk it and go oops! crash bang !