klauscembike

I live in Dublin and recently traveled from here to London and should warn you about high ASA film. Up to this point I've traveled with ASA3200 B&W film that I didn't check in but carried on my hand baggage. I showed to the guys in the x-rays and after looking at it just let me take it through. Now they don't care about how much you complain... everything goes into the belt and through the x-rays, so the chances of ruining the film are high. Just be aware. Buy it at your destination and try to have it developed before you go back to an airport. These squareheads just need any excuse to switch off their brain and make no exceptions.....

For process, Conn's cameras here in Dublin do a reasonable job at developing and there are some posts in photo.net pointing to pro labs here in Dub.

Also, although maybe it's too late for you, Ken, but avoid at all cost Heathrow. It has the worst security lines that I know. Just a nightmare to add to these day's increasingly humiliating travel experience.

 

By the way, anyone else knows of Dublin labs with good quality/service/knowledge without having to use pro-only lab? I'm on a budget, I shoot B&W and can't find many places where they accept it. Decent enlargements are a rip-off or simply not an option in most places.

Best of luck! this island is quite photogenic.

Well, yes, it was a very good deal (30% off the regular price), but is always risky to buy a second hand flash... they're too delicate. Anyway I thought this dirt would go much more easily and anyway it should be replaceable... maybe i was too eager...

Hi! I recently purchased a second hand Metz 54 MZ3 electronic flash

unit. I didn't think too much on scratches and dirtness in the front

of the reflector lens. I cannot take the dirt away and the scratches

are easily seen, near the center of the "lenses". In the unit manual

says that "dirtness (don't know in which degree) on the reflector

screen can burn the material (dirtness?) or damage the reflector

screen"...

My question is: do those scratches affect to the light output? are

they dangerous somehow? or little dots scattered all over the

surface are not that dramatic?. Thanks a million in advance.