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[reddragdiva]

• Congratulations to deathboy and Liz on Corben the DeathSprog!

Much better today, made it to work and back fine. Tomorrow I shall be out with eyeliner297, er, somewhere. Dev 7pmish, looks like. arkady has secured a rather nice pram (£300 new, £87 on eBay) whose carry-cot should serve as an actual cot up to age six months, which saves a bit of cash in the short term.

Film developing: I think I've asked this before. I have a shitload of oooold films. Like, up to five years, probably old enough to have gone green and funny. Where is a good place to get it developed that (a) don't send films away to be done by mass incompetence (b) can do negative scan CDs simultaneously? I mean, I don't even care about prints if I can get the CDs. Scans are highly fixable.

Medium-old digital camera: I know someone, an exceedingly poor but talented person, who is doing the 365 photos in 365 days thing. They have a digital camera which was just the ticket in 2001 but is sorta lacking these days. It also has a distinct lack of manual controls. I would lend the PowerShot A40 except the interface is horribly bad and I'd lend an Ixus 400 except the non-manual thing. Do any of you gadget freaks have a 2002-or-later camera you can spare that does decent shots and has decent manual control, but whose interface wouldn't make the baby Jesus let out a volley of curse words and throw it against a wall? (Were there any 2002-2004 PowerShots whose interface didn't suck?)

Comments

[ninetimestodie.livejournal.com]

"365 photos in 365 days thing"
?

[reddragdiva]

pic365

I should do it myself, really.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Me too..

[ninetimestodie.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. I guess you can start mid year?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I use DLab7.com, who are on Guernsey. I've yet to bother with prints. Well, apart from mistakenly going into Boots or random other Kodak-powered place once or twice when thinking 'Them Dlab people can't be that much better.' Them Dlab people are indeed that much better.

[reddragdiva]

These could be precisely the people I am after. And you thinking "Them Dlab people are indeed that much better" is exactly the sort of thing I was after. Back in the days of film, I regularly thought that about my favoured film processor in Melbourne.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

GRH pointed me at them. All very fine.

[reddragdiva]

If a photo-nrrd like him thinks highly of them, that's even better.

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

The bigger Fuji point&shoots (like my now deceased 6900 Zoom) were pretty good in that department. They worked on manual pretty well and were reasonably easy to use. Pretty acceptable image quality, certainly for the time if not so much nowadays. I still think I made some of my best ever photos with mine, mind you.

[reddragdiva]

Yuh. I occasionally look for them in pawnbrokers but mostly they have film cameras at waaaay overprice. Last halfway-ok camera I saw at a reasonable price was a Fujifilm A202 (compact, 2MP, no zoom, no manual) for £20 (which was about right for a year ago).

[bassworm.livejournal.com]

Scan the back pages of any decent photgraphy mag the next time you're in W H Smiths, there are usually plenty of ads for specialist film labs that will be able to process your old films.