I think you have some Competition stuff there but I'm not saying as you may enter them against ME !

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K10D all with 18-55mm 'kit' lens: 400 ASA rating in the museum shed, outside 200ASA and some with a fill-in flash.

I've got a copy stand made out of a Gnome enlarger stand and a copy arm I got for £4 odd years ago from a British company called 'Gamer' - now defunct as usual- and I got my first 'good' enlarger from them, a Gamer Universal 6x9 cms to 35mm. I use two 100watt household bulbs in reflectors I got for £3 at the camera club annual auction, or two Braun Hobby flashes at 45 degrees to the paper.

Very clever ! I can't even put a shelf up ( but I DO know how to develop FP4 in ID11 !)

Thanks for all the kind replies so far: it's not often I win anything-loads of tries but mostly NO LUCK! I support the Pentax User magazine comps. - usually win something to get a return on the subs. I tried my first ever submission in digital for the next issue- let's see how I get on against all you digital experts!

Had a bit of luck in the Daily Telegraph/Curry's 'Our Lives' photo comp. where I was in the last 45 out of over 34,000 entries, and had to go to London on Saturday to see if I had won anything- as it turned out, ALL the 45 entries had won something! I was a runner-up in the 'Our People' category and got one of the Olympus MJU 760 Digital cameras . The overall winner, a Chinese student from Thamesmead, SE London won £8,000 of travel to anywhere in the world. I met David Bailey who gave out the major prize and had done the judging. I will give the camera to my daughter as an 'advanced 10th Birthday' present as my boy has been given three good cameras already; Yashica LM44, Konica Autoreflex, Olympus OM2n with also a 75-150mm Zuiko lens.


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I am holding the Spotmatic I used, with the 24mm f3.5 SMC Takumar, with Tri-X film home-processed (Ilford Ltd Printed and framed the winners) Wash my mouth out- here is the Dreaded OLYMPUS !


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Daniel : I found the link where you told me and had a go at 'e-mailing' them - well, what a palaver ! An hour spent searching out papers from the original order, typing in all the story with pasted in photos as on here, then when I pressed 'send' it would not go as it said the order number had not been recognised- I kept on checking, then put in the number on the paper where the inks were, still would not allow it to send ! Had to give up as I had to go out. Will try to telephone but will probably get an hour of music before getting through!

I had a look at all the options in the 'Help' section, clicked on one which said 'I have been sent a faulty or damaged order' and it came up with 'Your order is not allowable for return' .....There does not seem to be an 'ordinary' e-mail address or telepone where I can contact them to tell the story and send the photos.

Not sure if this is the right section to complain about AMAZON sending out fake Epson Inks but do so as a WARNING ! I was replacing the Light Cyan and a box came up saying' Not Compatible with R265' although it said 'Epson Claria ink' but I notice a couple of the boxes are different in style and I have the Cyan one next to replace - I went out to Curry's Digital and paid £6.99 for one Light Cyan cartridge. When I tried to complain to AMAZON they have hidden their e-mail very well ! There is no place on their site for 'complaints' . Here are pics : FAKE on the LEFT


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Was it in fact taken at full aperture f1.4 ?