Comments (0) Welcome my newest IPod, and this time its a Touch 32gb model. Got it loaded up with podcasts and out and about. I’m still in Sydney today, and wondering what to do with my ipod video classic 30gb. Maybe will be relegated to an external hard disk, but there are times when I will prefer the tactile feedback of a real button, so cracking my mind over it. So I now have 4 working iPods!
Here are some pictures of my first flight on the A380…
Sorry too lazy to write anything on it. One thing is for sure… legroom in cattle class is not much different from current planes.
Was looking at a roll that was developed individually this week, and the pictures when zoomed, had this leathery texture to it. First I thought it was ACDSee rendering JPEG so that it loads fast, but it showed up also in Photoshop. Looked at the other Neopan 400 developed in HC110 this week and it was not present.
So the explaination has to be with the way I develop the film. Its winter now in Shanghai, so the water coming out of the tap is somewhere around 5 degrees celcius probably. My developer is always at 20C since that’s an easy timing to remember. My stopbath is somewhere in between the two. The way I process now is I do a rinse cycle with the tap water after stopbath so wash away the yellow tint in the Kodak Indicator Stop Bath so that it doesn’t taint my Fixer which is colourless. My current theory is that I must have accidently gone from 15C in the stopbath to 5C in the rinse stage, shrinking the silver crystals till they crack and giving the leathery texture.
Here’s a 100% crop to explain the phenomenon. Scanned at 2700dpi as usual.
I don’t have too much time to do phone blogging on this trip, so I guess I’ll just go on and do a little commentary on the photos I post on this article. So, made a trip in 4 days to 3 countries… first Macau to see the casinos, but made a 7am walkaround the city centre as well, then Hong Kong for the Chinese New Year where its mostly about eating and staying around Mongkok area, and a day trip to Shenzhen for some cheap shopping.
Macau:
Everyone knows the ruins of St Paul’s Church in Macau. This was taken at 7am during my morning walk where there are not that many people around. (Leica M6, Summicron 35mm f2, Neopan 400, HC110B)
At that time in the morning, most people in the street sounded like Filipinos. I did also notice them in the casino, mostly working there. I’m assuming that they have their free time in the morning. I like this shot, although I think its a little underexposed. (Leica M6, Summicron 35mm f2, Neopan 400, HC110B)
Managed to find some time on saturday and sunday on a cold winters day in Shanghai to shoot 2 rolls of Lucky. Rating it at EI100 there was no special problem loading nor rewinding it on the M6.
Development was done in a 2 reel tank with HC110b (since I have a lot of stock solution, well, in stock). Timing was 7 mins for 2 x 35mm rolls with inversions every minute. Temperature of course 20C. The negatives came out probably thicker than I would like to have. I’ll try and reduce by 15-30secs next time.
The negatives are thin like most forums stated… you can tell that its thinner than most other european films, but one thing strange is that the new Lucky SHD100 doesn’t seem to curl up too much. Surely not as much as Tri-X. I usually hang it up to dry, weighted down with heavier clips at the bottom, and still it managed to remain flat this morning as I cut the strips and loaded it into the Printfile negative holders. So far so good. Scanning is next and I’ll report any particularities, if any.
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