With considerable sadness I start this
column where, in a way, I started the last offering. For in October, I
mentioned having had a long and interesting chat with Mr. C.H. Cowling of
Hinkley.
Mr. Cowling, I regret to record, passed
away soon afterwards. He will be greatly missed by his many friends in the
Club. Although we had not met I received many letters from him and often
conversed by telephone.
Cyril was a dedicated ‘weigher &
Mixer,’ and kept meticulous records of his findings. He was also an
enthusiastic member of the C.R.C. and will be a loss difficult to replace.
I offer my sincere condolences to Mrs. Cowling and his family and
friends.
MOTHERS’ CAKES.
Bill Wilson;: Leader of Area 18, pleads for more C .R. C. members to
attend meetings. . . . “Come and see what a REALLY good slide looks
like” says he and underlines his plea with a quote from a notice which
caught his eye in a cake shop window - “Cakes like your wife makes: 2p
each. Cakes like your wife THINKS she makes: 20p each”.
A useful philosophy, don’t you think?
Could be adopted and used in a C.R.C. recruitment drive.
COPY FROM THE PRINT
Also from Area 18 Newsletter is a
reminder that good quality transparencies are possible from colour prints
by the simple expediency of copying from the print using, of course, a
colour negative film.
By this method it is preferable to use
glossy rather than matte or lustre surfaced prints as the shiny type will
copy more successfully. An added advantage is that by ‘going in
close’, using either a macro lens or extension tubes etc. one is able to
choose just a section or so of the original.
A good black & white print can’
also be made from a colour negative using Kodak PANALURE paper.
GOTTA FAULT? THEN COMPAIN!
A member of Area 11, Roy Johnson, had an unusual fault with some Agfa film. I advised him to complain to
Agfa-Gevaert, sending some unexposed film. After all if one suspects a
fault in manufacture a reputab1e outfit will usually jealously guard their
good name - as they should. And no one will question, surely, that, Agfa-Gévaert
are a reputable outfit .
And this’ film, which I saw, certainly
did look like a “rogue” length - all 30 metres of it. The fault was
tiny, barely’ discernable hair-like marks on the BACK of the whole
length. The fault would have been difficult to condemn as a factory one
had these, mostly intermittent ‘scratches’ been on the emulsion side.
Grit on the light trap of the cassettes or the camera itself could have
been the culprit.
But the sample submitted had not been in
either a cassette or camera. Full marks then to Agfa-Gevaert who accepted
the complaint ... though with the usual proviso ‘without predidice’.
Roy’s happy, though, for he has received a ful-length replacement.
Just proves that it is always worth
complaining if one suspects shoddy, below standard goods.
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What a miserable lot you are out there!
Roy Salmons offers a quite glittering array of prizes for his Photoworld
slide competition.... and only 16 members respond. Shameful I calls it.