Recent content by Richard Mullard

After an extended hiatus involving non-photography related interests and work-life balance going in the wrong direction, I foresee you'll be seeing me back on here in the coming months. And I'm surprised my user details and password still work.

Well it finally arrived and I don't know what was worse, waiting for the auction to end or waiting for it to arrive. First impressions even before I opened the the package were, how the hell am I going to get this home on the bike tonight because it was rather weighty. When I managed to get it...

I'm a great tea drinker, can't stand the smell or taste of coffee, so last night when I was having a cuppa an a smoke I thought I'd get a few quick shots with my 1Ds and 40mm 'pancake' to see what sort of bokeh it produces, if it was no good then I haven't lost anything as my Helios 44-2...

For a long time I've had a hankering to get me a 16mm cine camera, I missed out on a Bolex H16 EBM it was being sold as 'for parts or not working' by 2 quid it sold for £92, only because I didn't have the balls and the adrenaline rush was to much. So today whilst perusing eBay I came across a...

Whilst perusing you-tube tonight for 'DIY Telecine' videos I came across one guy '(super) 8mm' who had done a very good job with his own equipment. Wanting to find out more on how he did it I went to his G+ page, still looking for how he converted his gear and captured the film, scrolling down...

Hi Aldous Have you looked on the ffordes photographic site they've got an M4P aniversary chrome for the bargain price of £1875 and that's with a 50 f2 lens as well. Rich

Morning All. Been busy this morning, finally ditched the idea of 'scanning' the neg as the resolution of the final image wasn't up to what I wanted. In reply to Hamish's question here is a pic of the set-up I used. Image capture set-up. par Richard Mullard, on ipernity The only flat surface...

Hi Hamish. When I scanned it the second time, I just put it on the glass emulsion side down with a sheet of white paper and a mirror on top facing the scan head. Its reasonable just to check out the neg, but it seems to have blown out the detail in the clouds. I'm going to try back-lighting the...

Managed to get some rough scans tonight, and its highlighted the fact that my scanner glass needs a damn good clean. This is the best of the three that I managed to get, the mark at the top of the shot is on the back of the neg (I'd scanned it back to front). First scan. par Richard Mullard...

Last year I'd read with interest @Pete Askew 's write up of his D.I.Y large format camera project and it peaked my interest. And tonight I have successfully processed my first couple of sheets of 5x4 FP4+, nerve's were jangled when I thought I had filled my tank with the fixer first, panic...

If someone had a Ustream account and access to wifi, live broadcast tv comes to RPF.

Hi all thanks for the comments, my train of thought often gets de-railed and it's a bugger getting it back on track again, any-who I digress (nearly went off down the unused branch line there). Thanks Chris, I can remember most things but this one eludes me. Thanks Pete, there was a purpose...

As I said I only post when I feel I have something to share with the world in general, here is my latest offering. It was taken in the mid to late 60's by my brother Chris on his 'Kodak Brownie 127' I've no idea what film he used, but I do remember he would do his own processing. This is my 2nd...

I was going to pull your leg with a shot of the water (just my warped sense of humor coming through), there's no safe places to sail it around Reading, sorry. Ahh, another tanker, got one of those as well mines a heng long tiger and I've also got an e-flite blade cx2 which took a bit of a...

Thanks guys, the 8 legged freaks give me the heeby geebies, when I worked for an alarm company I had a late night call-out to a system in Oxford with an unknown activation, the occupant was a blind lady and when I'd done a walk round of the premises her bedroom ceiling was covered wall to wall...