Today

I had a good day,we are building and testing some HD kit at work.I am trying to get our media network sorted out,proving more difficult than I thought partly due to my lack of in depth knowledge on Networking.
Loaned lighting kit as a favour,turned out to be more effort than it was worth.
Interesting discovery that a Canadian CGI house use a sort of 1/2 HD res. as there working res. 960x540,quite clever as it saves render time and storage and can be easily upped to HD.
Got a lot of photos back from the lab,cost a fortune,should have looked at how much MF scans are.They had discounted it a lot but it really caught me out.
I have got through quite a bit of Velvia 50 ,120 size in my Rolleicord.It is a hell of a lot better than 5-6M pixel compact digital,that being said the new Pentax DL looks good,got a reasonable review in AP.
Here is a picture from Bath taken on Kodak Portra NC,I like this film outside for its neutral balance,even though its aimed at studio work.

Cameras!!!

Well I bought a 5x4 large format camera on Ebay,should turn up Wednesday.This was a little impulsive but I have used one briefly before and got good results.
To help pay for it I am selling my Penatx LX on Ebay,great camera,but I hardly use it.
I prefer my good old MX bodies,lighter etc.
So I now need a 5x4 processing tank and some dark slides etc.Ebay again.
No film developed today as my local labs machine has packed up.

While on the subject of Ebay,we had our work account suspended some 6 months ago for reasons we dont know.After 6 months and 7-8 faxes we are still not back in business.
Our experience of Ebay customer service is ,at the moment,as bad as it gets.
They cannot say if they have received any faxes or tell us what info. they require.
Be warned Ebay is great while it is working,if things go wrong it is pretty hopeless.

Got 2 more great books on Linux,would seem very geeky to some,but Unix seems to be the future in tech. support in the media business.

Havent cycled to work for a week,will probably tomorrow,I need the exercise.
Here is a picture I took on my ride from Lands End to home,St Michaels Mount on a grey day.

Down at the Harbourside

Its the 40's weekend down at the Harbouside,looks like it should be fun.
I took these pics. with a digital camera as well as taking some film shots.
Weather was a little overcast,and today,as I write,large black clouds are coming into Bath from the Bristol direction so my afternoon cycle ride with a colleague has been postponed.
I took some more pictures this morning, in Bath, and found out that they plan to allow parking on both sides of the road in the Royal Crescent which means good pictures will be even harder to obtain for locals and tourists alike.
Had eyes tested,age has some advantages,my short sight has gone,not worn glasses for 2 years now.
I have been taking a lot of Meduim Format slide film,you cannot beat seeing 2 1/4 sq. transparencies for quality.

My first blog

Good day at work,
I took some nice pictures this morning by the harbourside in Bristol on the way into work,I got chatting to a jogger and we agreed on what an ugly development the new harbourside is,they have built a boring glass fronted office block,the sort you see in any town or city up and down the country,right on the waterside in Bristol.
Surely it could have been a chance for a real 'Landmark' building we could be proud of.
Good day in the office,costed up some more equipment for a project,video editing just gets cheaper all the time.
Put our second Xraid on fibre all went well.
This my first Blog,I will put up some pics. over the next few days