spirit....

excelent recomendation, thats what got me hooked on B&W in the first place.

Kubrick, you could also try to find out if there are any "community" darkrooms in your area.

Kubrick, some sound advice in here re-developing your own film however the only problem with developing your own film is.......

1) you need a darkroom to print the negs

or

2) you need to pay for individual negs printing by a lab

or

3) you need to be able to scan them into a PC

IMHO I think that option 2 is not very cost effective, option 1 is only a serious option if your prepared to make the effort (and have the space) to set up a darkroom, option 3 is a waste of time, you may as well shoot digtial and convert (this last statement will probably open a can of worms)

Go for option 1, darkroom equipment can now be be found for a very reasonable price, and you dont need a specific darkroom, just somewhere you can set up an enlarger and three developing trays...and a bucket of water to keep prints in till you can get out to wash them. obviously you need to black the room out which isnt difficult if you work at night.

If you have the room give it a go, there is nothing better than watching your images appear in the developer tray, and if your uncertain about what to do then you'll find plenty of help on this forum.

Kubrick

A better explanation for you, then you can appear more knowledgable to the staff at the lab.

the makers details ie; film type, speed and frame numbers are exposed onto the edges of the film during manufacture, this is obviously a well controled process so if the film is developed correctly then the information will also appear correctly exposed.

This process gives users a very good guide as to whether thier film is developed correctly or not, had the frame numbers on your film being black then it would have indicated the problem laid with your exposures.

Take a look at your other negs and see how the frame numbers appear in contrast to the underdeveloped ones.

Dont let the Lab fob you off, take some correctly exposed negs along and show them the difference with how the frame numbers appear, as for rescuing the images ask them to print them on a higher grade paper, you'll lose out on detail but the pics will at least look reasonably decent.

Sorry, should have added that I assume you know how to check a film has been correctly developed by comparing the manufacturers data on the edge of the film. this should be totally black lettering, if its grey then your film had been underdeveloped.

you seem to be the sort of guy who knows what he's doing with b&w film, are you sure this isn't a lab fault, ie underdeveloped?

Never really thought about this but...

if the red eye is on will the flash fire three times in P-TTL mode?

or will the P-TTL use the red eye burst as a measure for the main flash?

Just tried the "scotch" method, it doesn't work very well if your camera is on a tripod

I thought thats what fog filters were for (or have Cokin been pulling the wool over my eyes?)

OUCH!

Hi Kubrick welcome to the forum, (not related to Stanley are you? LOL)

loved the pics, just one comment tho', that guy in the gramaphone shop looks a bit out of place, I think he needs to go bald and grow a beard, great setting, wrong guy....although he probably owns the place!

There was only one pic I didn't like, wont hurt your feeling by saying which.