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I use Barton 1972 on my Leicas (all three are black paint). I haven't bought a strap from them in years but the model I have is the Composer which has a little leather bits to prevent the rings from rubbing against the body. My straps came with a shoulder patch which I removed not because it wasn't good, comfortable or well made (it is all three) but because I prefer a simple strap. I've used these straps extensively over the years and am very pleased with them. https://www.barton1972.com Leica M4 with 50 Summicron | Flickr Nikon FM3A Nikkor-H 85/1.8 Kodak Portra 400 Strobe Hasselblad Flextight X1

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Stockholm, 2020. Flickr 203FE 40/4 CFE Ektar X1

Excellent shot Rog. This made me smile. It's a brilliant slice of Swedish life.

Hello Graham I'm surprised that you've set curve low/high to 0,001. For the longest time I've had them at 0,25 and 0,75 respectively and get nice and flat scans in both b&w and colour. I have a screenshot in my workflow article – https://philipus.com/my-workflow brgds Philip

This was Trial Support in the Office of the Prosecutor, which supported prosecutors during trials and appeals at the ICTY. Many staff members worked here, most paralegals. They organised the necessary evidence to be used in court by the prosecutors. Before the electronic court system (imaginatively called eCourt) was introduced they created a great deal of very large and well-organised binders which were brought to court with the help of grey trolleys. With eCourt things got a bit easier as evidence could be called up with a few mouse clicks. But things also got more difficult because all of the thousand upon thousand of pages of evidence had to be digitised and OCRed and tagged and organised to be accessible which was exceptionally time-consuming, as everyone of us who's ever spent time scanning knows. At least they didn't have to dust spot their scans. Flickr 203FE 40/4 CFE Ektar X1

Truly a terrific photograph Marc. And fantastic colour throughout as well, bravo! Yes indeed. Great photos Steve. That Mission film has a nice palette. Let's hope it ends tomorrow. I can't even begin to imagine having a Putin supporter within the EU. It's enough with Orban. This is jaw-droppingly good Marc. It's easily one of the best shots I've seen. Worth waiting for to, to quote Carlsberg.

This is a photo from my project from the ICTY in The Hague – The Tribunal – from which I posted some frames earlier. I'll be boring you with a few more of them in the near future. This is the accused's bench in Courtroom 1, which I find very topical today with war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly even genocide again being committed on European soil. It was from this bench that Slobodan Milosevic held his long political tirades before three very patient trial judges and it was here that the Bosnian-Croat general Slobodan Praljak committed suicide upon having his 20-year prison sentence confirmed on appeal. Flickr 203FE 40/4 CFE Ektar X1

As with so many of your compositions, Rog, this one sends my mind racing. Yin-yang, good-evil, dark and light side of the force and all the shades of pain and pleasure in-between. That tear in the left-hand panel is worrying, as if the forces of evil have managed to grab a beachhead from which further attacks will be launched, disturbing the peace. Disturbing and so terribly current, somehow. What a true feast for the eyes, well done Bernd. That is one heck of a basement. I bet this would look great printed very very large.

Here's another wardrobe shot. I was quite surprised to see so little grain in the shadow areas. Flickr M4 50/2 Delta 400 CS9000

Outstanding Phil, what a true feast for the eyes. Thank you very much for your kind words, Ken. I'm happy to find a fellow Diafiner The instructions include a table listing suggested EI for certain films. I being me have completely ignored that table but it could be a start to find a film-EI combo that works. I have also had rolls come out poorly but I'm not sure if it's because I made bad exposure decisions or because the film was expired. I look forward to seeing some results of your Diafine'd films. Thank you very much Steve! Thank you Otto, yes I was surprised too. T grain films and their Ilford and Fuji equivalents are supposedly a bad mix with Diafine but since I'm a bit like the bumble bee and flying I developed both T-Max and Acros in Diafine before reading that, and since I got OK results I threw Delta into the tank too just for the heck of it. Merci Henri, yes it's an old jacket. Very old actually. Almost as old as my adult self. Oh wait, I haven't grown up yet

I like Pan F but if I am honest I prefer Rollei Retro 80S.for a fine-grained and easy to scan film.

I use the simple plastic cassettes one can buy in packs of ten or something like that. I've used the same ones for some 7-8 years now and the felt strips have not yet worn out. I also have a few FILCAs and thought about getting more because, hey, it's nice to have original Leica stuff. But since I travel a lot and always bring a lot of film they'd simply be too heavy to bring. The plastic ones work great. I buy 5222 in 400ft rolls directly from Kodak and for bulk loading I use an Alden loader that takes 200ft of film. I've forgotten the model number but possibly the Alden 100, or 200? It took me a while to find on Ebay but they do pop up from time to time. It's very easy to use, and yes it ticks once per frame so it's easy to count frames as one turns the crank, unless one wants to check the cog on the side where it's also indicated. The trick is to set the counter to two stops before 0 and wind two stops after however many frames on wants to have in the roll. Yes, the film closest to the cassette's spool will be exposed to light when one attaches it to the spool. The solution is evidently to do that in a changing tent or changing bag or a pitch black room. But I don't do any of this because it's just too much of a hassle. Occasionally the very last frame on a roll might have some light damage but it doesn't bother me. Philip

Ahoy everyone Like James, I've also got bad conscience for not having been able to be active here for a long time. Unlikes James, however, I am not in Singapore. I felt a bit bored last week and decided to write an article about Diafine, which I've put up on my site – https://philipus.com/diafine. I know, I know, it might be frowned upon to blow sunshine up one's own backside like this, but it's all for the greater good of getting more people interested in this great developer. Here's an example I shot recently and developed in the batch I mixed in 2014. Flickr M4 50/2 Delta 400 CS9000

I have an Alden loader that takes 200ft rolls. But spooling smaller rolls, while a bit frustrating and warm, should be possible in such a tent (I have the same one).