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ChrisR
@carusb@mastodon.scot
mastodon 4.7.2Retired IT/information service management and digital curation. Now most interested in film photography. Born at 310 ppm (from ice cores!). Midlands UK (spent 25 years in Adelaide, Australia), but father, grandfather and partner of Scots!
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Joined November 15, 2024
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Roses and windows.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax A 24mm f/2.8 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome #FensterFreitag
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Dying oak... but still hanging on!
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax M 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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Brandon Marsh 5, the path.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax A 24mm f/2.8 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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Brandon Marsh 6.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax A 24mm f/2.8 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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East Chase Farm.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax M 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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That track through The Common.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax M 35mm f/2 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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Brandon Marsh 4.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax A 24mm f/2.8 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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Brandon Marsh 3.
#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax A 24mm f/2.8 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
#Monochrome
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In Abbey Fields. EDIT: #MonochromeMonday#Pentax MX, SMC Pentax A 24mm f/2.8 lens, yellow filter, #Kentmere100, home developed in Adox HC-110 dilution B.
#BelieveInFilm#FilmPhotography
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@BenRiceM@mastodon.social This whole thing is terrible, Ben. I'm so sorry for your friend. Here, no-one is allowed to mention in court the reasons these acts occurred, in case the jury acquit (as is their right). And recently the group who attacked Elbit were tried for (I think) criminal damage (fair enough) but then sentenced as terrorists, for which they were not charged or tried. It's appalling!
(Also, the huge majority of "terrorists" now are folk who sat on a ground with placards!)
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@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social Two things occur to me, being well past my biblical span. I spend a lot of time pootling about with an old film camera making a photos that maybe a dozen folk think are worth the emotional energy to fave... but what brings joy is not that tiny dopamine hit, but when the subject I've found, the light, the lens, my position, mood, timing and luck all combine and I think, yeah, that could work!
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@davidallan@mastodonapp.uk I looked for the petition on this, and seemed to have found it, but couldn't find a way to add my vote. Maybe turning off cookies is a problem here? Anyway, they've "only" got 47K votes which, sadly, is unlikely to change any minds. Hope they're successful, though HE is seriously strapped these days!
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@mayintoronto Not sure how this plays out on Masto, but when my (Scottish-born) wife started teaching in South Australia, she was surprised when the kids sniggered when she spoke of a rubber, but were totally fine asking for the Durex (a brand of sticky tape there)!
We also had the zuccini & egg plant things to contend with...
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@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social The second is from the past, vanishingly rare in the present, when I'm with a person, maybe in a bar, having a simple chat, and feeling there is a sympathetic, understanding ear.
There's at least one other thing, also from the past, and I'm not totally sure it was about joy.
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@WiteWulf @Tamami @gsuberland I had a bunch of humming bird hawk moth caterpillars on our fuchsias a year or so ago. Loooooong!
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Opposite kinda story (apocryphal?) told by a friend some 50 years ago. His dad had been a chemist in a big chem company in Australia; they discovered this film that stuck to itself and commercialised it as cling-film. Dad's mate said, darn it, we found that stuff too, but we couldn't find a way to stop it sticking to itself!
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@bosak I believe D76 and Ilford's ID11 are the same thing (one or other of these might be cheaper in some parts of the world).
(I use HC-110 myself, never wanted to get into mixing powders. I have enough trouble with Mrs R complaining about my "chemicals" as it is, despite any pointed comments about the bottles of nasty stuff under the sink!)
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@nigelpstanley@mastodonapp.uk That is lovely Stanley. A friend once asked me why I keep on taking pictures of bluebells, to which the only response is, I haven't got what I want, yet! Looks like you're there?
(Doesn't help that I'm mostly black and white, and BBs are the PITS in black and white!)
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@ewen@social.ewenbell.com Shortly after that, you will NOT be able to find the stepping ring you need (or possibly, any stepping rings!)
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@petrikas Feels like the difference between a record and art. I guess you could process the JPEG to look pretty much like the developed RAW, but nevertheless, this is the best illustration yet of the power of RAWs. (I'm a film photographer and have pretty much relied on JPEGs for the past 15 years!)
Dear Fediverse #HiveMind, my grandson needs some advice for a (used) #DigitalCamera. He is 11 & interested in birds, which he'd like to take photos of. He's not particularly interested in #Photography per se, just as a means to an end, and probably not particularly careful. I'm thinking a #CompactCamera like some of the Panasonics; his father was wondering about a #BridgeCamera. We have a XQ2 he can use (24-100e zoom) but I suspect he'd be better with longer reach. Maybe £200 budget. Any ideas?
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@peternlewis I'm in the same boat, and can't even update to 18.7.n from the vulnerable 18.5! My wife upgraded accidentally and now can't do lots of things she used to be able to (I'm sure they are there, just hidden away).
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@serichards@mas.to I've not used the process myself, but I've not read of anyone having similar problems.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange For me there was a LOT between steps 2 and 3, including rewriting the whole presentation on the train/plane, if not the previous coffee break!
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@Billthoo@mastodon.art Wonderful, Bill. SO brings back memories of nights camping under the stars in mid-north SA, with the stunning milky way wheeling overhead, keeping me awake, and emus padding through the camp!
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@thereisnocat@toot.cafe @andre@mastoart.social The word in South Australia when I was there (over 30 years ago now) was "shack". Any kind of holiday property was a shack. Some were a bit mansiony!
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@upmultimedia This mob might be able to help. At least some are East Coast, but still... https://pixelsandgrain.photo.blog/about/
@Billthoo
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@NunavutBirder@mas.to I moved from #Aperture to #C1Pro a few years ago. C1 said it could apply the equivalent of Aperture edits; in practice results were awful. I then used ApertureExporter, which iterated through the A Library, calling Aperture to apply edits and exporting the results. That worked really well. I kept the unedited originals (raws) offline, but I've only gone back to a couple dozen. I don't think there's a similar tool for LR, but it's possible manually, I guess.
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@geoff_eg@mastodon.social Great read, Geoff. However, I tried to add your blog to my RSS feed and it said feed not found. Would it be possible to add RSS or Atom? (TBF, I don't know how to do this!)
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@paulwalk@mastodon.social I thought the article you shared was about an Anthropic report; this seems to come from a different source (FF itself) and make different claims. But it always seems unclear to me whether it's just someone else amplifying the anthropic claims.
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@paulwalk@mastodon.social That is effing extraordinary! The meat of it, rather than the writing, which is wonderfully OTT, but like Pascal's letter, perhaps he did not have time to make it shorter.
Any #CaptureOnePro users on here? I have a perpetual licence (16.2.6.7, C1P 23), but want to experiment with the new negative conversion features of the latest release. If I download a trial, will it cause problems with my existing version? I would make a new catalogue for the trial with some Raw files in it. #FilmPhotography
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@serichards Which Street Candy did you have? I ended up with two rolls of ATM 400 from a bulk expired film deal, taken one so far at EI 250 and, mmm, yeah, nah! (Not terrible TBF)
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@anewsocial I'm guessing you still have to get your hashtags in the first 300 characters to get used in search etc over there? #bridgy #bsky
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@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social Thanks. Yes, the situation I'm thinking of seems the opposite of dopamine. A calm contentment.
Oh BTW, I don't think I can bring these situations about!
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@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @pthane@toot.wales Quinine is also supposed o help (Mrs R gets cramps); tonic water is a good source. maybe try to rotate the different kinds of work as well.
Otherwise, hope you are enjoying it!
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@JohnAltringham@mastodon.online Actually I realise that isn't true. I _have_ seen swifts patrolling some fields occasionally for insects.I was thinking back to my youth in Somerset as the swifts, swallows and house martens nested all around, and gathered on the wires in late summer. A local Green councillor has 3 swift boxes on their cottage, never seen an occupant, sadly. My sister does have swallows nesting in her barn, one family, not dozens to hundreds!
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@paulwalk@mastodon.social But OTOH there's this: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozilla-anthropics-mythos-found-271-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-150/ Of course it's Ars, which I increasingly suspect of AI puff pieces...
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@f4grx@chaos.social @datenwolf@chaos.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social For me, the problem is that I had a group of "friends" on the bird site, 2/3 of whom went blue. I signed up for bridgy, but it didn't really help as I couldn't persuade folk there to sign up to bridgy too. I do wish the original bridgy "federation" proposal had stood!