Picture(s) of the day....

[myglaren]

Or hang your coat on.

[CitroJim]

Should stop the seagulls from pinching your ice cream.

[Stickyfinger]

Pond in the field I look over has its yearly duck....first swim for the young-uns

[CitroJim]

That is truly magical Alasdair The perfect harbinger of spring

[mickthemaverick]

Can anyone think of a good use for this?

BFTW

Details here!

[bobins]

Ideal for very efficient growing of mustard and cress, obviously

I love their spelling of 'substrate'

[mickthemaverick]

Ideal for very efficient growing of mustard and cress, obviously

I love their spelling of 'substrate'

I missed that when I read it, certainly is a cracker, I was going for mint!!

[CitroJim]

Ideal for very efficient growing of mustard and cress, obviously

Never heard it called that before

I love their spelling of 'substrate'

Last thing you ever want is a crooked sub

[Gibbo2286]

I wonder if it's a sneaky advert by the cops to see who's buying.

[CitroJim]

I wonder if it's a sneaky advert by the cops to see who's buying.

If not, it would be a good ploy to adopt...

[CitroJim]

A tulip in full bloom in my garden They've bloomed before the daffodils... I have other tulips that are yet even to bud... These are incredibly early...

I do like the juxtaposition of the snail shell and leaf...

[CitroJim]

Something a little different today...

I finally got your negative scanner fired up James

This is what it did with one of my home-processed negs Not bad for its 5MP resolution I'm rather pleased. Thanks hugely for the loan of the scanner James

Ilford HP5, 400ASA and processed in Ilfosol3

The bridge in the photo connects our parish church with the cemetery. It is notorious for being struck by Luton box-vans. Hence the sign...

The processed film did show up a problem with the shutter in my £10 Charity Shop find Canon EOS 500. It was found to be suffering contamination due to disintegrating foam shutter 'bumpers' and causing it to be a bit sticky and intermittent in operation. A common problem now on lots of cameras over a certain age it seems...

Now fixed (fingers-crossed) by cleaning the shutter leaves with huge care using naphtha (lighter fuel), strips of card and cotton buds...

I've found Reddit has a brilliant subreddit dealing with analogue (film) camera repairs

[Hell Razor5543]

I am glad it is of use, Jim. You can borrow it for as long as you need it, but I will let you know if I spot them on Aldi/Lidl website. The bit I couldn't get to grips with (due to lack of knowledge/experience) is adjusting the colour balance for 'distorted' images.

[CitroJim]

I am glad it is of use, Jim. You can borrow it for as long as you need it, but I will let you know if I spot them on Aldi/Lidl website. The bit I couldn't get to grips with (due to lack of knowledge/experience) is adjusting the colour balance for 'distorted' images.

Thanks James I'd very much appreciate if you could look out for one in the usual places

I've got to grips with it very well. No problems using the colour balance settings and I found if I did need to do any post processing I could import the scan into the GIMP and work on it from there... The image above is straight out of your scanner with no adjustments or post-processing

I've just sent you a PM about it

[mickthemaverick]

This is the one I've got Jim which works very well I think!!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mini-Digital-F ... 1_6?sr=8-6

An example image from a 60 year old negative found in a bin:

MTMO