https://gb244.rvi-2za.shop/priya/ Charity shop cameras and whatever film is cheapest. Sat, 14 Nov 2026 13:11:08 +0000 https://gb244.rvi-2za.shop/priya/notes-on-kentmere-400 <![CDATA[Kentmere 400 is half the price of HP5 and for most of what I shoot I cannot honestly tell the difference in prints. It curls more when drying and the base is thinner, so loading the reels is fiddlier. At 800 in DD-X it holds up surprisingly well.]]> Kentmere 400 is half the price of HP5 and for most of what I shoot I cannot honestly tell the difference in prints. It curls more when drying and the base is thinner, so loading the reels is fiddlier. At 800 in DD-X it holds up surprisingly well.

]]> https://gb244.rvi-2za.shop/priya/notes-on-kentmere-400 Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:45:00 +0000 https://gb244.rvi-2za.shop/priya/first-roll-through-a-pentax-k1000 <![CDATA[Bought the K1000 from a charity shop for £45 with a 50mm f/2. The light seals had turned to tar, so the first job was scraping them out with a cocktail stick and replacing them with foam from a craft shop. First roll was Ilford FP4 in the park on a grey Sunday. Twenty-nine usable frames out of thirty-six, and the seven bad ones were my fault, not the camera's.]]> Bought the K1000 from a charity shop for £45 with a 50mm f/2. The light seals had turned to tar, so the first job was scraping them out with a cocktail stick and replacing them with foam from a craft shop. First roll was Ilford FP4 in the park on a grey Sunday. Twenty-nine usable frames out of thirty-six, and the seven bad ones were my fault, not the camera's.

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