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These are the “you lose some” from a roll of Fomapan 200 exposed with a Nikon FM2. What happened here is that I opened the camera back without closing the window of the Shirley Wellard film cassette.… Read the rest.

Here are some pictures of the Shirley Wellard metal film cassette. priscimon.com… Read the rest.

This year’s Farnborough International Airshow pictures were shot on film with a Nikon FM2 and a Nikon FE2. The lens was a Nikon AF-S 300mm f/4.… Read the rest.

The Shirley Wellard Universal film cassette was too much of an attractive vintage photography equipment to pass on. I bought two off eBay and successfully used one today with my Nikon FM2.… Read the rest.

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Starting with v3.0, the ESP8266 NONOS SDK requires that partitions be registered in function void user_pre_init(void), like this: #define SPI_FLASH_SIZE_MAP 2 void ICACHE_FLASH_ATTR user_pre_init(void) { bool rc; static const partition_item_t part_table[] = { {SYSTEM_PARTITION_RF_CAL, 0xfb000, 0x1000}, {SYSTEM_PARTITION_PHY_DATA, 0xfc000, 0x1000}, {SYSTEM_PARTITION_SYSTEM_PARAMETER, 0xfd000, 0x3000}, }; rc = system_partition_table_regist(part_table, sizeof(part_table)/sizeof(part_table[0]), SPI_FLASH_SIZE_MAP); if (rc) goto done; os_printf(“Error while registering partitions\r\n”); while (1) ; done: } The code above initialises and registers a table of partitions, each having a type, a start address, and a size.… Read the rest.

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In March, I experimented with using a DSLR to digitise negatives and liked the results more than those obtained from my low-end Epson Perfection V200 scanner.… Read the rest.

Those film shots mentioned in my last post about playing with artificial light? They were a total failure. I was so pissed by the waste of a rather costly roll of film that I immediately grabbed the Nikon FM2, got in the car, and drove to the local country park to shoot another roll of […] priscimon.com… Read the rest.

I bought a fresh roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 to test the film in daylight and under artificial light. I set up some LED lamps and flash lights and took pictures with the Nikon FM2.… Read the rest.