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ChrisR
@carusb.bsky.social
Retired IT/information service management and digital curation. Now most interested in film photography. Born at 310 ppm (from ice cores!). #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

Most active as @[email protected]
What are the criteria for a shitty camera?
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
You're antimony over there? If so, I already follow!
October 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Followed, thanks!
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I was going to edit my first reply to add a hash for #Deco. AFAICS you can't edit posts with bsky!!!
October 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Happened again yesterday with Patreon, which is currently the only way to read The Online Photographer's posts. I think I'm going to turn that filter off!
October 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ah, missed this reply. I foundout from another member whose email address I have, that TP was in fact up and available. After a frustrating day, I eventually worked out that the Malicious Content filter on my Deco WiFi boxes had decided that TP was a malicious site and was silently blocking it!
October 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thanks John. I'm showing some less successful images from a recent roll on Masto. It was windier & glitches were a lot less subtle, which it turns out I don't like much. Also having trouble getting believable colours in landscape areas. I don't mind them being off, but I don't want mud! But fun...
September 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
BTW are you bridged across to Mastodon? You'd have to follow bridgy fed (bsky.app/profile/ap.b...), once you've done that, you can follow Mastonauts who are also bridged (as I am). I think it's great, but the slightly clunky double-opt-in setup means too few people are federated!
bsky.app
August 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Surprises: dev poured out was almost coffee-coloured! Plus the negs look weird when first seen on the spiral due to the clear base. Happy that my "new" Rondinax 35U tank's guillotine managed to cut the polyester base, so I didn't need to mess in a dark bag with scissors!
July 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I devved #Adox HR-50 in HC-110 dilution E for 6:30 nominal in the end. Reckoned I had another roll so could try longer on that. Negs look a mix of thin and dense; reckon the thin ones were taken in a darker place in the Castle. Copied to @alexluyckxphoto.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I'm more confident with the 9 minutes for dilution H now. Kevin Allan on Talk Photography who has devved several rolls of HR-50/Scala confirmed it with good quality negs: www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/blac...
Black and white reversal film
I accidentally on purpose picked up a roll of Adox Scala 50 in Edinburgh last visit, along with 2 rolls of ADOX HR-50, allegedly the same film in different packaging. However, I was quite upset to find that none of the labs that I knew of would do it. @Kevin Allan of this parish had a roll done...
www.talkphotography.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Almost nobody talks about the negs! TBF neither do I, as long as they're not weird...
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Found this Filmdev recipe for HR-50 in HC-110 1+47 filmdev.org/recipe/show/... at 8:30! I don't think I'm going that far!!!
Adox HR50 in Kodak HC-110 1+47
Agitate the first 30s, than every other 30s.
filmdev.org
July 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Good advice. I'll have a look at Alex's post... thanks.
July 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
By participating in the Photrio postcard round 65, I've received a postcard with stickers on the back to stiffen it. For a 5x7 card, I can get www.avery.co.uk/blank-labels... which should be just about right (I hope). Avery's website is tricky to navigate, though...
164 x 120mm Rectangle, Avery Integrated Blank Labels | Avery
Buy Avery Integrated Blank Labels 164 x 120mm Rectangle. Fast UK delivery and direct from Avery, top quality labels with great customer satisfaction.
www.avery.co.uk
June 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
By the way, I wondered about the card stock. I'm printing on 271 gsm 5x7" Oyster, and it's a bit on the thin side. Yours looks like pro postcard stock. I'd really like to know what it is! (Perhaps you had it commercially printed?) Thanks, Chris
June 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I tried a search for #FilmPhotography or #BelieveInFilm and all the posts that came up had both, not quite what I wanted (so it was AND rather than OR... basically just a simple keyword search, shame).
March 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM