NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Say it aint so! Remove a darkroom?????!!!!! What is the world coming to?????? An outdoor kitchen??? what is that? it only cooks food. You can buy cooked food!!!! A darkroom creates!!! It's magic!!! Sigh. Why cant we all just stick with film??? Why oh why??

go for it. and most places will burn your prints onto cd for you to download onto your computer. you might even like it so much that you decide to start up a darkroom. Hint, if you're going to do black and white, dont take the film to your local wallmart or places like that. they batch process the film and it will come out flat. Best to find a custom lab and let them know what sort of results you want from the negs. Keep a log of what you shoot, what lens, aperature, shutter speeds and lighting conditions too. These factors impact on how your neg will look and what you want from it. Sorry about the ewwwww. I'm a forensic investigator and we have a rather different sense of humor. Its all i can do to keep from posting blood spatter photo's on here. lol, just kidding.

Ah yes Misah. I'm familiar with the 8000. We used one at work for a while and it became so annoying that it accidentally got dropped on the pavement in the rear parking lot and run over several times by an unidentified forensic lab van. We eventually wrote it up as a suicide. I'm looking at an epson which will do up to 8x10 slides which is great since i work in 35, 120, 4x5 and 8x10. It has a pretty good track record and does great scans. The other is a canon slide/neg scanner but it will only do the 35mm. Decisions decisions.

Ah, the old pentax. i used a pentax k1000 many years ago when i first started in forensics. A good work horse camera. I remember I once dropped mine into the chest cavity of a corpse we were doing an autopsy on. cleaned it off and it still worked great. So, you should learn to use the 35mm. It will help you understand and take better pics with your digital.

Ah, the sorrow of a lost camera. I too just suffered a loss most grevious to me. My scanner. But I have compensated by using my new Canon EOS 300D camera as a method of recording my prints till I can replace the said scanner. Instead of wandering the halls, why not pick up a 35mm and take some pics? My heart goes out to you

Ah yes, I have already optained 3 price quotes on a new scanner. Problem is, I have medium and large format negatives and slides to consider. A high end flatbed scanner can scan these for me but do lack in quality. Decisions decisions. Thank you for the note of sympathy. Yes, Prima was my first, cheap, er, I mean good scanner. Ah well. time to uncork a bottle of wine and consider the options.

Why do women always notice the abs????? Sigh. I have abs too. Somewhere.... I know there here. I saw them once,,,, I think. Excellent photo D!

PEANUTS! GET YOUR PEANUTS HERE!

Well as an officer of the court I believe it is my duty to ensure that continuity of the evidence is maintained, therefore I am confiscating the said evidence from the gavel happy Michelle and locking it in my bar, er, evidence control unit........

Hi Tristan. Michelle, shame on you for lumping film with digital, lol. You didnt think an old fashioned traditionalist like myself would let that one go? I'm new here as well Tristan and I look forward to seeing your work posted in the gallery. Everyone here has been great in welcoming me into the site. One of the great things about digital is the unlimited ability to experiment with the shots and see how they will turn out. Even better if you have a lap top handy to download while your still in the area. I'm using digital more and more in my work, but I'm clinging desparately, it would seem, to the film medium. See you in the gallery

And here's a wider shot showing scanners, printers and notice the close proximity of the fridge where I keep some very fine white wines.

Hi Dizzie: Great macro shots. Shooting at extreme close up changes the dynamics of your depth of field and allows you some very interesting opportunities. As practice, pic one object, plants are always great because they have curved surfaces and objects on different planes. Photograph in macro with different focul length lenses and at different apperature settings. This will give you an idea of your depth of field at various distances with the different f stops. I'd use a tripod because your shutter speed will decrease significantly. If your not using daylight as a light source, use an off camera flash and keep it away from the subject and at an angle, otherwise you'll flatten the image and lose wanted texture. Ring flashes are good in some of these situations but can also flatten the image. I'd prefer off camera flash.

D76 is an excellent basic developer and will give good grain results. HC110 is also an excellent developer and allows for serveral different working solutions which can be made from the stock solution. the working solutions vary depending on the film type making 110 very versatile. As for dektol, if you have any questions about this or any other chemicals or films let me know. I keep an extensive library on all chemical, films and papers and kodak sends me stuff all the time to keep it current. try exposing a test strip, just shoot anything that moves, doesnt move or is in your line of sight and run it through the dektol. it will require a stronger solution then normal and extend your time, but given the subject, you might like the results. One thing I learned during my years of "manual" photography, I always look at what i'm going to shoot, decide what film to load and how i'm going to develope it (chemistry, time etc...)before I take the shot. talk to you later

Okay, I included a caption but it doesnt seem to be there. This photograph I call "After The Race"