Drift Away

Trev drifting the BDS Danger Board through a damp corner at Ash Ranges

Cheers Trev

Met up with the boys, Trev, Gra, Rob, Paul & Ian for a skate this evening over at Ash Ranges.
Arrived a bit later than them and had raindrops on the windscreen all the way there.
By the time I was halfway between the carpark and the slalom hill it started raining a bit heavier.

Luckily the army had erected some tents for us to shelter in. Then we had hailstones, then more rain, then it stopped and started to dry out.

I decided it would be a good idea to take some photos from the middle of the slalom run, it wasn't, Trev ran into me/I got in his way.
I took a hit to the jaw he got some road rash from a slipped elbow pad.
The pictures should be interesting when I get the film developed. I was shooting with the Minolta X-700 and motordrive.

Anyway, after more rain and a rainbow we arrived back at the carpark where Trev gave me this...

Cheers mate.

Maybe one day I'll explain where this came from.

Tech detail: 2 13/16" hanger, 6" axle. Fixed inverted kingpin, Bennett/ACSesque hanger.

Really Sirius

Bought this lens off of ebay t'other day.
Collected it from the sorting office this morning.

Sirius 18-28mm Zoom. It's for the Minolta X-700, just a tad wider than the 20mm Vivitar.

U1 on the X-700

Got my prints back after finally using the film up.
Verdict? Need a wider angle lens or stand further back.

Shame I cut DaveH's head off in this one.

Minolta X-700, 20mm lens, generic flash, Fuji 200asa

...A-Ah Saviour Of The Universe

Remember the other day I said I'd got a Minolta 132PX?

Well today it's mahoosive brother arrived in the shape of the Minolta 360PX.

Tilt and swivel, bells and whistles. Syncs with the motordrive on 1/16th power but only at 2fps using normal batteries, seems like I've got to find the Power Grip 2 to sync at 3.5fps.  

Oh yeah, I've also ordered an off camera flash lead and 132PX instruction book for the and a kook friend in Kentucky has bought, paid for and is going to post me a wide angle diffuser to fit the 132 (of course I'll refund him his costs) thanks Adam

Back In The Darkroom

Back at college again, hopefully the course will run as we were short of people this week.

Did some tweaking in the darkroom.

Black and white print from a colour negative, in fact it started out as slide film, cross processed to produce a print and then I did a black and white print from it.

And here's the cross processed colour print.

MD's And Rokkors

Bought myself a 50mm lens off of ebay for the Minolta X-700 with some of the money my parents gave me for my birthday.

When I popped round a few weeks later my dad said he had a lens for me that he'd got from a car boot sale.

A 50mm lens for my Minolta X-700. Doh!

Turns out they are different though.

The one I got off of ebay

The one my dad got from the carboot

Comparison

The MD (above left) has a min aperture of f22 whilst the MD Rokkor (arove right) has a min aperture of f16.

Guess I'll have to do a comparison roll of film.

Shoreham Sequences

Shoreham was rad.

Took loads of pics. Including some with the Minolta Motordrive.
Last 3 frames of the film, pity could have done with a couple more of the ride away.

If they ain't moving click on the pics and they should animate themselves...



Oakley Liddell inverts one.

Ricardo floats one Frontside

B&W MSN

A couple of pics from Midsomer Norton last week.
Taken with the Minolta X-700, Vivitar 20mm, expired Kodak Tri-X Pan 400.
A bit grainy but hey ho. I've filtered these a bit with Noiseware a great free bit of kit.

More pics on Flickr.

Minolta Motordrive

Got an early birthday present of a 2nd hand motordrive for my Minolta X-700.
Here's the camera with the motordrive and the Vivitar 20mm f1:3.8 lens.

3.5fps baby!

Latest Freecycle Freebies

Picked this up this evening...

Minolta X-700 with a 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 zoom.
Sun 2x teleconverter
Vivitar 20mm f3.8
And a 36exp roll of film about 5 years old (estimated by the guy that gave it all to me)

Biennale Mondiale de l'Aerostation

Every other end of July/beginning of August on odd numbered years would find us heading for an ex Nato airbase on the French-German border.
The largest balloon meet in Europe, great countryside to fly in, great farmers and great cheese.
This shot was taken with the Minolta Vectis 2000, an APS camera which was set in panoramic mode for this. Must have been taken by the wife I think as according to my log book I flew both morning and evening of the 1st that year. I bought the camera from Argos and planned to use it then take it back under their 28 day money back guarantee unused, unfortunately I dropped it denting it, I still have it.