Had the chance tonight, for the first time in about five years, to do a couple of things I haven't done for ages. First, I developed a film! Yes, I know, you guys do it all the time, but for family reasons, I've most recently shot mainly colour neg, and this would be the first B&W I've done in all that time. HP5, rated at 800 ASA, in ID11 at 24C for 6 minutes (when the ambient temperature is 32C, ya gotta make some compromises!). The negs look really good, plenty of tonal range, I'll be very keen to scan them in tomorrow and see how the sharpness, etc looks. Might even do some wet darkroom work on them!
Next, while the film was washing and drying,I took myself on to our deck, sat, drank coffee and Armagnac, watched the city lights and listened to some 1950's jazz (Chris Barbers' Jazz Band, for those who know it). Way cool! and I noticed a couple of 20 somethings in the apartment above were sitting out listening for the whole two hours of the CD too! May be able to educate them yet! Pure heaven! John Coyle (and yes, my wife is away helping to look after our twin grand-daughters, so I can be totally self-indulgent!) Brisbane, Australia - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
