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This is why you can’t depend on Sydney trains
Sigh. No commuter car parking. Cancelled services, no information from staff. Missed appointments. Having to factor in so much extra time. Yup, it’s still cheaper to drive and pay for parking once time and being stuffed around is taken into account.
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Sunny test
Can the WordPress app upload a photo? Or is this dead to me? Xmlrpc fails again. Pretty much over this.
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Why did I buy a car with a sunroof?
Yeah, secondhand mondeo. I like the car, but a couple of late summer storms rapidly made me hate the leaking sunroof. Far out Ford, worse designs may exist, but it feels like you worked hard on this one. The clue was here: http://www.talkford.com/community/topic/198169-leak-in-roof-water-on-seat-is-it-the-sunroof/page-2 But really, I know now that the stupid non return value probably […]
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Puerto Rican Day Parade
Not being from America, this particular cultural point on the calendar was not the first to spring to mind when I saw the negatives.
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Found Kodacolor
I found an envelope of film marked “A. Robinson’s USA trip – July 1966”. Sorting the film out (it had been clipped into three frame sets) I had six rolls of “Kodacolor – X”, roughly covering: Puerto Rican Day Parade – New York Niagara Falls A plant visit Washington and suburban dwellings Interstate travel and […]
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Elitechrome is colourful….
Finally, I’ve found the time to start developing my slides from the German trip last year. And fortunately they look great so far. 8 rolls drying, another 4 to go. I had picked up a bunch of Kodak Elitechrome 100 off eBay. Match to a “new” Leica that I’d only put one roll of film […]
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Why do I want a 4×5 camera?
I struggle to use my Hasselblad as much as I’d like to. Being out and about with a 6 yr old really demands a good AF system for the inevitable single handed shooting required. So 4×5 seems like nice to have, but no real purpose. I still want one. Maybe the solution is a press-style […]
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Ah, falcon central locking
Well. Today was the day to fit a new drivers door lock actuator. eBay gave me an after market part. Door lining off again. Mechanically an easy fit. But. Not. Working. Eventually, I worked out it was half phase out of sync mechanically/electrically. For me the way to solve it was to open the actuator […]
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Stuff I Found in My Old Man’s Darkroom
Or garage. Or both. So, having bought Dad a Super Speed Graphic, it was time to get his darkroom back into shape. Over the years since digital had come to fore, the darkroom had become a time capsule/storage area. A previous visit had cleaned out the old bar fridge of film and turned it off […]