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Just think, all them idiot gangsters in the 1980's went for Cossies when Chesters three wheeler was a tenth of the price

Chester, In comparison a picture printed 'wet process' onto photographic paper is at 64,000 dpi. Your printer might be 'long in the tooth' but the newest ones have a way to go.

Like I said Moody, 'you takes yur chance' WHEREVER you go. You can go to the best darn lab in the world, and have your pictures printed by the best printer there, BUT, if SHE (not being sexist as females make the best printers as their colour perception is better than the male of the species) is having a bad day.......... The best advice I can give you is to begin by shopping around, get used to looking at your negs and seeing the quality therein. Begin to understand what sort of picture you can expect from your photo's and become able to go back to the shop with a genuine complaint and get it put right. The best way to learn is with black and white which wont cost you much to set up but is not really practical in this day and age of digital images. Ask around and find a Camera Club in your area, go along and see where they get their films done. Be careful though as a lot of these clubs are dominated by (watch your words H V) people who have a higher opinion of themselves than others do. COLAB are good, but then so are an awful lot of the labs advertising in AP and the like. As for cheap........ The last machine printer I purchased (1998) cost me a shade over £130,000. If you think you can have a film done on that for £3.99 you are wrong!!! Whereabouts do you live Moody? I will see if I can call in a few old favours

Jeepster is very correct. Speed, Like age is a relative concept. I have ridden a motorcyle at 135mph and driven a car at 138mph.......... It WAS a thrill but something that you get used to which, in itself is the very problem.

Lol Chevin, Missed that bit, yes there is a pier matey, and it's the closest I usually get to the mainland other than in my boat I don't like the mainland it's full of funny people. Don't worry about ducking for cover, my shotgun is only good for a couple of hundred yards can't quite get you

And Peter, You might find out on checking that the Kodak Lab has been closed. Not 100% as I have been out of the game for three years but I understand that Brunswick Lab is the only one remaining.

Morning Peter, Don't want to turn this into an argument I also have some experiance of the photoprocessing scene, I owned the three Kodak labs here on the Island for 10 years and also owned a ProLab doing work from the mainland. I have personally printed in excess of 1,000,000 prints by machine and hand. The point I am trying to make is by making the staement, "I always use boots......." you are reinforcing the public perceptions that Boots is doing the work. I think the point you have now reinforced is that your local branch of boots gives you a good service and that is fair enough comment to make. The point I make is that this is not indicative of every branch, it is up to the individual customer to comment on each individual branch. With my prolab especially I would detail one of my printers to one of my customers so that there remained some similarity between work and the printer got to know the customers likes. You take a chance whenever you have your work done on the quality of the work returned due to multiple factors. I employed a girl once who had some experiance at another Lab. During training something wasn't adding up. I found out she was colour blind :confused:

Can I join please. But I dont want to wear no bloody stupid apron

My son has a volvo, are they similar

Oh God.... How easily we are influenced by advertising. Wrong Hugh! I still make a large proportion of my income from photography. I use Boots because, of all the high street chains, they are the only one that I have found that I can trust, and their enlargements are good. Locally, for enlargements, they use a pro lab of reputation that does a very good machine print indeed. Advertising has nothing to do with it, but the results do. Peter, Your Boots lab uses Kodak 'B' Company ( as it used to be called) to do its ancillary work. Exactly the same as probably used by every high street chemist and camera shop in the area. Used to make me laugh when I saw either Boots or W H Smiths or who ever getting awarded 'High Street Photoprocessor of the Year' by whatever mag and they all use the same lab for work......... Like I said, the power of advertising. Answer me a question, How many producers of film are there in the world and how many producers of batteries?

Jeez, How fast do you have to paddle

Fitted about my fourth finder to my boat about 6 months ago, I have always used silicon without any problems at all. Get a tube of silicon and cot the whole end off, not just the pipe but the whole end of the tube, when squeezed out the silicon comes as a huge lump without any bubbles or gaps. put it where you want to fix and make a large great dollop of silicon twice the size of you transducer. gently push transducer all the way in. leave for 24 hours and away.

Easy enough Chesters. Save the images from left to right as jpeg1 jpeg2 etc etc. thatway I have a reference and can piece them together. If it don't work what have you lost?

1) as per my post, the quality will degrade but the larger the picture the further away you view it so that the perception is for a similar quality photo. 2) Slide film has 300 levels of brightness compared to negative film's 100. Slide fils therefore gives a clearer better picture, however once made into a print, the paper can only accept 100 levels of brightness so the advantage is lost. 3) Slide film can be printed easily although in this day and age most of it is done digitally by scanning the slide and printing it with 3 colour laser printers. The best print you can have of a slide is a cibachrome print which is expensive and usually done incorrectly. 4) A colour negative film will be marked 'C41' a slide film will be marked with an E number dependant on process.

Oh God.... How easily we are influenced by advertising.

How big are the images Chesters, I only have dial up (for another 2 months) if they are smallish, you can send them to me one at a time, if large maybee you could burn them to a CD. It's just a matter of making multiple opaque layers in photoshop.

A bloke starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. The first is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does this a huge fish jumps out and bites him. To show the others who's boss, he beats it to death with a spade. Realizing his employer won't be best pleased he disposes of the fish by feeding it to the lions, as lions will eat anything. Moving on to the second job of clearing out the Chimp house, he is attacked by the chimps who pelt him with coconuts. He swipes at two chimps with a spade, killing them both. What can he do? Feed them to the lions, he says to himself, because lions eat anything. He hurls the corpses into the lion enclosure. He moves on to the last job which is to collect honey from the South American Bees. As soon as he starts he is attacked by the bees. He grabs the spade and smashes the bees to a pulp. By now he knows what to do and throws them into the lion's cage - because lions eat anything. Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo. He wanders up to another lion and says, "What's the food like here?" The other lions say, "Absolutely brilliant. Today we had fish and chimps with mushy bees."

In Photoshop you can do it easily chesters, If you cant figure or still unsuccesful give me a shout and I will do it for you.

Don't do it like that myself anymore Toerag as I can't bend down!!! Like you say, blast frozen baits from ammo work better, but nothing beats the real live thing. Not making life difficult for myself matey, you can have endless fun chasing the little buggers and it's good sport! I used to spend hours with an old fork tied to a stick chassing flatties around Newport Harbour, never ever caught one but the fun was in the chase.

This was the post I was referring to not the mneumonic post. Freeze the balls off a brass monkey was a term used in the Navy which 'came ashore' later. As for the general use of Mnemonics, In actual fact they have been around in the Military for considerably longer. Two funny ones that I remember. The definition of 'Drunk' Pupils Dilated Incoherent speech Smell of Intoxicating Liquor Staggering and unsteady on feet Eyes Glazed Dilated pupils And following changes to the sexual offences Act allowing sex between 2 males subject to.... Private (must not occur in a public place} Over 21 (both parties must be over the age of 21 Only 2 can play (obviously 3 or more was weird) Free consent, (both parties must consent)

Snatch, Use a blunt knife to gently move across the sand when it has a very small covering of water like an inch or so. When the blunt knife touches them they will dart off, be quick and you will catch them (dependant on reactions and amount of Millers in blood stream ) Low tide and calm conditions. Yup, pop them in a bucket of sea water from where you have caught them. Lay them out individually on a tray so they arn't touching and freeze them. When frozen then pop them in a box or bag. Although I have to say that frozen eels are not a patch on fresh/live. Better to catch a few at a time as your freezer is not as good as the blast freezer the bait commercials use.

On that subject Salar.......... two lads fishing Newport Harbour Friday...... One pulls in a nine pound bass, (witnessed by the harbourmaster,) lad goes back to his car, gets his camera and scales. Fish is weighed and photo'd before being returned alive........ I don't know who you are mate, but if the message gets to you get on AN. Saturday night Newport Quay is covered by fisherpeople but only a few eels caught. Bream here soon Salar............

and not to forget............... freeze the balls off a brass monkey