mathewsavage

Going to have to get my Hasselblad serviced, I should have expected it really, it's fully mechanical, and twenty-eight years old, and hadn't been used by the previous owner for a while, and you have to 'excersise' Hasselblads every month or so it doesn't seize up or that sort of thing. The shutter isn't working properly, it's fine on a tripod, but when using it handheld, I get ghost-images like this; http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/mboogie/ghost.jpg

Just finished developing my first colour film, the negative film came out fine, I'll have to scan it to see how I did though really. The slide film I had intended on cross-processing failed miserably, at least there wasn't much good on it to have ruined. Tempted to go in tomorrow to scan it, but I need to revise really, I'll scan it wednesday afternoon.

Writing retrospectively for friday (5th) Just got back in from town, I was walking home from school and noticed how brilliant the sky was, really dramatic, so I got in, got changed, took a general light reading from another camera (I didn't have a proper meter by then, and thought I'd be fine just guesstimating exposure) and grabbed the Hasselblad. Ended up walking all the way into town, but by the time I was out, it was almost the time when it would get gradually darker but I still took some shots I think I'll be proud of. I'm used to using my camera on fully manual, so I know round-about what exposure for what light level, so things shou