AREA
3/15 NEWS
Area
Co-ordinator, Roy Salmons continues to give an excellent service to
his `extended` membership, since taking on the late Bert
Sanders`group. His use of colour from his computer and printer keeps
getting better and better. His main article is on how to make
Handwritten and Stencilled slide titles. This is an on-going article
which will, surely, appear in these pages at a later date.
A
number of his members have replied to his request for communications
on their latest activities and interests. E.G.
Norman
Davies asks for anyone knowing a formula for Kodak`s latest Colour
Reversal paper or is the Photocolour Chrome Kit suitable. Is there
any formulae for W&M? Is there a simple RA4 formula and what is
the difference between `glycerin` and `Glycerine? John Salter is
experimenting with Slide Duplicating producing duplicates from his
favourite film, Konicachrome. Any advice!
Mike
Puttick says he would like to see more articles in the CRCN on AV
progressing from one projector to two or more along with hints and
tips. How about it, AV users?
Ian
Little, LRPS, explains his pride on having one slide and print
accepted in the Nature section of the Southport Open Exhibition. He
has also had success in the RPS Nature Group Open Exhibition with
three prints - two overall, a Highly Commended and a Commended. He
also had a couple of slides accepted which are going around various
Clubs. Roy says that if he can have a couple of prints he will
reproduce them in his next local news,for all Area 3/15 members to
enjoy. This is what I would like to see happen in the CRCN, if we
had the necessary equipment. Our laser printer should easily handle
B&W prints, but colour would require a scanner and colour
printer.
Noel
Dean is Roy`s main contact on his venture into Digital Photography
and colour printing and is planning to send an article on this
subject when time allows.
Elwyn
Davies sent Roy a 127 size roll of Dufaycolor slide film. It was
`only` 48 years out of date, but Roy had a go at processing it...
sadly it was a total
failure. However sticking to 127 size film Roy also produced an
interesting article telling of a German contact for a D-I-Y 127
machine! This film went off the market some while, albeit, a rather
expensive, foreign source is still available, but with the thought
of many photographers possibly having perfectly good cameras
gathering dust, this machine could get you up and running again by
being able to cut down from a 120 size roll film.
I
don`t wish to produce Roy`s full article here so if you are
interested give Roy a ring and he will be pleased to give you the
full information. Again, using his digital printing, he has produced
a very fine colour image of this machine. As indeed, he has also
done on the reverse side of this article of a superb B&W picture
of a model steam loco, if printed on a higher resolution printer
would be a full quality B&W print.