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As someone who's spent most of his career in imaging and signal processing of one sort and another (usually at much lower resolutions - broadcast TV) I'm watching this with interest... one thing which hasn't been discussed - and which the somewhat vague datasheet for the IQ180 doesn't specify - is e...

Surely it couldn't be because a lens for a hundred quid with twenty quid VAT looks much better than one for a hundred and fifteen with a fiver vat... (which incidentally also gives away the dealer's markup)?

I'm such a cynic...

Received, thanks!

I'm not at all sure the comparison with a writer is valid. The fundamental point about the writer is that it is his words which tell the story. Whether they are mediated through a typist is immaterial; the typist may as well be a speech-to-text program and has no input save the mechanical transcript...

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The only concern I would have with keeping it in a fridge is to ensure it is brought slowly up to working temperature before it's used; condensation on the film might otherwise be an issue. Certainly I'd want to bag it and add some silica gel as a drying agent while it's in the fridge.

Send me your address, John, and there will be negatives. Disposable, so do with them as you will! Most will have images, but developing flaws. Another information overload shot - not as crisp as Joanna's, down to the scanner I think - here: http://www.nailed-barnacle.co.uk/bigimages/0015.jpeg (bewar...

Are you happy with failed developer-test shots? I.e. a complete lack of any artistic effort, and not necessarily a wonderful image?

I've had a ten-year old box of FP4+ on a shelf in an unused bedroom for, well, ten years. It's got no noticeable issues...

Neil

Interesting stuff, Alex. Overall I think it works best for portraits - I particularly liked Carl's and yours - but I'm not sure I could live with the 'technical' deficiencies... I'm a broadcast engineer and I've spent a career ensuring the best fidelity possible, and deliberately encouraging defects...

Would love to, Alex, but I can't see quite how to.

Neil

You have PM

Neil

Meh.

DO NOT LIKE websites which insist on using flash to scale images to suit my display. Just post the pdf and be done with it.

Annoyingly, it just got worse: I just got some contract work so now I can't do *either*...

Damn, I'd love to do this, but I'm expecting to be carrying a paraglider up Mont Blanc that week...