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Just thought I'd try changing my login email address again, a year on from last attempt. I see this time I cannot even find where to change it ... never mind the problem last time that the change wouldn't save. I see, for the Personal Details section of my account, I'm presented with a message saying "Photo.net Photography Forums - Error. You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action." I feel my work here is done ...

Is a mirror lens still a viable sensible purchase at all these days? They're tricky to focus, dim viewfinders, horrible ring effect to out of focus points of light blah blah, as we all know, but the real killer for me that you never read about is their lightweight means you need a tripod head mounted in concrete to avoid camera shake. Just say no. Move on. You don't need one.

Been trying in recent weeks via Account section. It just hangs with a "saving" message, but never saves. There's one or two other faults with the website, like you can't contact anyone, so hence this attempt here. Is the website dying, as some do where the founders have perhaps drifted away or even died themselves ...?

Hmmm, I was just looking for some clues, or awareness of others with recent funny experiences. I've been wanting to change my registered email address for the last few weeks. Whenever I try, and click Save Changes, or whatever the button is, the website just shows ".... saving", in red, alongside the button but never ultimately saves. It just hangs. Tried contacting Photo.net via whatever means they offered on the main pages ... again, working from memory ... and its just hopeless or impossible. Recall just getting blank black screen save for some sort of logo across the top.

<p>For info, I meanwhile, tried AG Photo Lab. 15 rolls of 36 exp, and generally very pleased and will definitely use again. Nicely packaged in snug fitting cardboard box a bit like the ones you get with most Amazon stuff, delivered by Interlink (a courier company I've also long rated, partly for merely sentimental reasons). Sturdy feel plastic mounts that easily go into my 140 Carousel magazine, not tried with LKM but guess they'll be fine there too, and a real boon to have the month and year stamped on the mounts ... I rather suspect AG Photo might be the only people bothering to do that thesedays. On the slight downside, the numbering is a bit erratic ... some numbers repeated and then a jump to suddenly talking about 88, 89, 90 etc on a 36 exp. film?! and a couple of frames have some sort of glue smudge on them and worse still a cracking sunset pic has a fine scratch up it ... but then again that sort of thing has always happened with slide film (not, in my experience, with Peak Imaging to date) but certainly with Kodachrome Fujichrome in yesteryear so definitely happy to give AG benefit of the doubt.</p>

<p>Peak Imaging don't number, nor date. They're my better-the-devil you know sort of place and no real complaints as such, but the date/numbering thing niggles along with their fiddly bit of info here, bit of info over there, sort of piece-together-the-pricing+postage arrangement that's making me think I might want to try elsewhere for a change and so here I am searching for ideas.</p>