I like the dark room.
Me too. I like printing picture much more than procesing film. My first teacher made us process on steel reels, and they were a bitch.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
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Sue - Jun 16, 2005 8:31:20 am PDT #3423 of 10003
hip deep in pie
DXMachina - Jun 16, 2005 8:33:17 am PDT #3424 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Once I got used to them, I much preferred steel reels to the plastic ones.
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2005 8:37:34 am PDT #3425 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Processing film involved fuckups that couldn't be recovered from. I lived in fear of the scratched negative. You can't experiment!
Printing, on the other hand -- so much room to play.
Sue - Jun 16, 2005 8:45:12 am PDT #3426 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Once I got used to them, I much preferred steel reels to the plastic ones.
That was the rationale on teaching us on steel reels, but I dreaded to splotches and would wind and unwind and rewind. I belonged to a co-op darkroom for a while where the ventilation was broken, and it was on the top floor of an empty building, so I associate those steel reels with sweating in the dark.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 4:01:24 am PDT #3427 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bless! As the owner of a Nikon N70, it seems my lenses will work with the very digital SLR linked to upthread.
Maybe Christmas, or maybe before Kenya. We'll see.
Sue - Jun 17, 2005 4:21:29 am PDT #3428 of 10003
hip deep in pie
(Jealous)
I don't take enough pictures to rationalize buying a new SLR right now. But still.
§ ita § - Jun 17, 2005 4:26:51 am PDT #3429 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, my current digital camera started acting up (viewfinder's off). Not urgent, but I figure that by the time I get around to replacing it, prices will come down and ... my fingers are crossed.
sumi - Jun 17, 2005 7:30:35 am PDT #3430 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I've got a stereo question.
Currently, I have my turntable, speakers and discman hooked up to my dad's Denon pre-amp.
Before, I had them hooked up to my yamaha receiver.
My problem with that is that my sound from my turntable to my speakers was disappearing. My tuner no longer worked, but my discman, which I played in CD direct was fine.
Now, I have no tuner, my turntable works but when I play cds they seem to come from only one channel or the other. (This was happening when I had it set up before.)
Should I be able to hook my receiver up to the pre-amp? And could my sound problem actually be that my speaker wire is frelled? (The speaker that is getting sound was the left channel; I switched things around and now the speaker that is getting sound is the right channel.)
Thanks!
sumi - Jun 17, 2005 8:30:43 am PDT #3431 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I would like to be able to listen to my records AND my cds see.
I have now re-hooked up my old receiver so that I can listen to cds. And through cd direct sound is coming from both speakers.
Argh. This is just so complicated.
tommyrot - Jun 17, 2005 8:34:49 am PDT #3432 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A reveiew of the new digital SLR from Nikon: [link]
$750 without a lens. $900 with. They say this is a "professional" camera.