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Taken about twenty yards to the right of Steve Deer's excellent pic, I think. (Rhyl promenade, right? Same subject appears in Return/Yn Ol by Rhodri Jones!)

<p>Cinepaint is uh...under development, which means it can be a little flaky.It's also based on GIMP 1.x so in some respects it lags behind 2.x infeatures.</p><p>The KDE folks have a 16 bit image editor called Krita. Again, it's underheavy development (the last snapshot I tried crashed on 16 bit grayscaleimages).</p><p>There's another option called Pixel, which seems to be a one-man project.Yet again, heavy development and, last time I tried, almost unusablealthough it has great potential (he's even implementing adjustmentlayers).</p><p>This guy suggests using PWP under WINE and also has some ideas for basiccalibration: <a href="http://www.salgarelli.com/technical/ldd/index.php">http://www.salgarelli.com/technical/ldd/index.php</a></p><p>I think you can perform photo-editing to a degree under Linux, but youhave to not care about certain requirements that many people would saywere fundamental. Rather like lens sharpness, this is something you shouldtry and judge the results for yourself.</p>

There's a Manchester group on Flickr that might give you some ideas, and if you're into Lomo stuff then try http://justshoot.org/ .

Gene,<p>I bought a 35/1.4 AI in Bargain condition from KEH for $269 a few months back. (Even with duty and shipping, it came to less than UK prices.) There is some minor internal dust (as expected for bgn grade) but the image quality is fine and the external appearance is certainly good.<p>I must admit, I won't be reselling it. Ever.

I think people should be aware that this book is more philosophical than technical; you're unlikely to find any hard information that will solve your printing dilemmas, for example.As an alternative, try John Beardsworth's "Step by step Digital B&W Photography".

In my experience, 7dayshop don't reply to emails and getting through on the phone is extremely difficult. They do, however, take action when asked - they just won't let you know that the matter is in hand.

Jem Kine's "Real Camera Company" is on the corner of Dale St and Lever St. You could also try Stephen's Classic Cameras in the Barton Arcade (upstairs).

Seconded, Jon's kits are excellent and the job is easy if you are patient. My experience is <a href="http://www.big-bubbles.fluff.org/blogs/bubbles/archives/000332.html">here</a>: <br />http://www.big-bubbles.fluff.org/blogs/bubbles/archives/000332.html

I'll let you know what I think of their processing if they ever manage to send me the right slides on their second attempt. ;-) (Incidentally, if anyone reading this is waiting for slides of their Cornish holiday, you might want to give them a call!)<p>An alternative for C41 would be to buy the Ilford mailers from 7dayshop, which are good for any B&W including XP2. I haven't experienced any scratching with their panchome processing.

I'm more than happy with mine, but I don't know what your standard is. Anywhere you can borrow one?<div></div>

<p>I have a 7660 and have been very happy with it for both colour and b/w. I don't know how it compares with the 7960, but I can't imagine the b/w output differs since only the #59 cart is critical for this.</p><p>My only niggle is that for the first few months it used to print well on Ilford Classic Gloss paper but now it shows banding in dark areas. It continues to work fine with Smooth Gloss and other papers though.</p><p>If you regularly swap between colour and b/w printing, then you might get tired of swapping ink carts with the 7660. That would be one reason to consider the higher model.</p>

<p>Apologies, p.n isn't playing ball with <ahref="http://28mm.org/gallery.php?artist=elenakachuro-rosenberg&issue=10&photo=2">the link</a>:http://28mm.org/gallery.php?artist=elenakachuro-rosenberg&issue=10&photo=2</p>

<p><ahref="http://28mm.org/gallery.php?artist=elenakachuro-rosenberg&issue=10">This28mm.org gallery</a> caught my eye yesterday, should fit the bill.</p>

Todd: It's probably unfair to compare dirt-cheap consumer Epsons to high end inkjets in terms of reliability. Nevertheless, I will suggest how you can obtain some satisfaction from it based on my own experience:- Take a large mallet and smash it into little bits, then pour paraffin on the remains and apply a match.- Buy a new, non-Epson cheap inkjet (e.g. HP 7660). You'll save money on the cost of ink for all those head cleaning cycles anyway.Hope this helps.

With VueScan, scan as a B&W negative. Under the Color tab, select Kodak asthe film vendor and look under the T-Max entries for "T400 CN" (yes, itis there!).

Al,Unless I've missed something, duotones and other toning require a slight injection of colour into a B&W print - something you won't get with just the grey cartridge. I have had good results printing a sepia image on my 7660 with the #57 & #59 carts loaded; the toning came out pleasingly subtle.Ade_ /

It would save bandwidth and improve load times for the larger HTML pages (assuming the server could take the hit), such as the unified forum view, threads, articles, reviews, etc. In turn, if the overall time to serve a response is quicker (including the compression process itself) then the server can handle more responses in a given period. Depends what the ratio of text to JPEG bytes served is.

My favourite photog book, and one that has been a huge influence on my (previously rather random) photography. Some of the shots emphasising shallow DOF control are particularly fine. The only problem, as you say, is that there seem to be no other books like it.<p> Sanderson also wrote "Handcolouring & Alternative Darkroom Processes", which is also full of excellent images but contains a lot of wet darkroom-related material that may not be of interest to everyone.<p> He has some stock photos at <a href="http://www.trevillion.com/">Trevillion</a> and owns a gallery with his wife in Holmfirth, W. Yorkshire, UK ("Sanderson, George and Peach").

If you are beating yourself up and feeling guilty over a "hobby", maybe it's not such a great hobby for you. Watch the football and take photos when you feel like it - the results will probably be better anyway. And if you don't feel like it - consider that at least you're not a pro who has no choice in the matter.

I admire your grit. :-)You may want to look at GIMP v2, which is supposedly due out soon with many new features (early development releases are already available). Btw, NeatImage is supposed to run under the WINE emulator.You can use the VueScan licenses on any platform, so one key should be sufficient for both your Windows & Linux partitions.Picking a Linux distro currently isn't easy, with Red Hat in transition to a "community development" model, Mandrake in financial difficulties and SuSE just bought by Novell. I've used Red Hat for years myself, but Debian looks like the safest option right now.

<p>Accessories? In a UK shop?? You'll be lucky. Jessops list the 6T in their catalogue so they will be able to order it.</p><p>Otherwise, try <a href="http://www.nipponcamera.com/">Nippon Camera</a>.</p>

<p>Most Epson printers, even recent ones, are supported by <a href="http://gimp-print.sf.net">GIMP-Print</a>. HP have released their own inkjet driver for Linux (<a href="http://hpinkjet.sf.net">hpijs</a>). Only Canon is a dubious proposition. See the <a href="http://www.linuxprinting.org/">Linux Printing</a> site for more info.</p><p>You should consider running PhotoShop under the Crossover product. However, I don't know if this will address the colour calibration issues that are not easily solved under X Windows (although if you're mainly working on greyscale images, is this a problem?). I use the GIMP myself and am quite happy with it, but then I don't know what I'm missing with PhotoShop. (My secret for calibrating the colour is ...erm... I don't bother. Gasp at my shocking amateurism!)</p><p>You <em>may</em> be able to get all this working out of the box, but you'll stand a better chance if you're comfortable with building and installing software from source, and Unix in general.</p>

<p>You're welcome. From a quick Google search, it looks like the Chapel St place is "Professional Colour Laboratories" at 101-115.<p>Ade_<br/> /

Mikael,I suspect most of the larger chains here (Boots, Jessops, possibly Max Spielmann) will offer the digital service you want. In the past, I've had scans returned on CD-ROM so I don't know if they have an online offering.The cheapest processing I'm aware of is at Jacobs on Cross Street, but they send films away to a Kodak lab of variable quality.However, for customer service and friendliness, I prefer Advanced Photo on John Dalton Street these days. I've had a few scratched negs on one occasion and a slide mount with a hair through the middle on another; however, I'm not paying for pro service, my expectations from high street labs are fairly low and the crimes committed by the others have been far, far worse (Jessops in particular).If you want guaranteed quality, I understand there's a pro place on Chapel Street. Alternatively, use one of the mail order labs like Peak Imaging.Ade_ /

<p>APS? Ah yes...got me. A few years ago I decided to buy a "decent" camera, small enough that I would have no excuse not to take it everywhere and would thus have a far better record of social events, etc. So I bought an IXUS II. (I admit I did no research. At the time, I wasn't much interested in Photography.)<p>In terms of features, it's a great camera - remote control, zoom, tiny profile, all the advantages of APS. In terms of taking photos, it's a crock. Every print is noticeably soft with poor contrast and bad grain. I hated the results, and so hardly used it (the opposite of my original intention).<p>Few shops will now take these cameras in part exchange. They're worth almost nothing on Ebay. I note that sellers often say "Takes great pictures". I can only conclude that either the other IXUS models have better lenses, their expectations are much lower or my particular camera <a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/edit-presentation?presentation_id=206847">is a lemon</a>. (I also note that the digital IXUS models appear to be much better.)<p>So I still have it. I sometimes think its small size means I should keep it with me all the time, but the knowledge that I'd regret the results stops me from bothering.<p>I suspect "mistakes" in purchasing are due to three things:<ol><li> Poor understanding of own individual needs (exacerbated by hype or hearsay).<li> Reluctance to spend outlay required to fully satisfy needs.<li> Genuinely bad gear.</ol>It's the last category that needs publicising.<p>Ade_ /