This should have been posted 2 weeks ago at least but I didn’t have the time. Came back from Shanghai after 4 months with the following to develop:
2x Ilford HP5+ at EI400
1x Ilford HP5+ at EI800
6x Kodak 400TX at EI400
1x Kodak 400TX at EI1600
5x Kodak FP4+ at EI125
Going to take some days to get them all developed! That’s on top of all the colour film rolls of course, I’m sure Ive gone thru at least 10 rolls of Provia, Velvia and Kodak 100VS but all developed in Shanghai since its only 15RMB per roll of slides in sleeves.
Am back in Kuching for a holiday this week. First thing I did was to transfer some of my favourite records into MP3 so that I can listen back where I am most of the time. Talk about nostalgia! Just digitized Ce Ce Peniston’s Finally, Janet Jackson’s Go Deep in the Thunder Mix, and now I have Cassa De X in Dubfire’s Deep Vocal Mix. FUnny to see BT and Deep Dish in a record, didn’t know that it was them since I never read the record labels! Got another 30 more records to go before I finish, I’m sure there’s not enough time to do them all.
How is it done? From the record it goes via an Ortofon cartridge (the standard for scratching records in the mid 90s) into a Technics SL1200 turntable (the old grandpa of scratch turntables), into a Gemini PMX15A mixer (apparently Portishead’s DJ uses it), into a Griffin Technologies iMic, into a Powerbook G4 and using Final Vinyl to digitize into WAVE file. Will do the conversion into MP3 back in Kuala Lumpur on the PC since its faster.
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