Hello from South Cambridgeshire.

[photomi7ch]

Hi John the electronics bit sounds interesting.

[B&W Neil]

Hi John and welcome to FADU.

I used to do a lot of colour printing a few years ago (both from slides and negs) but now I am completely mono! Colour is very challenging and rewarding - you will enjoy yourself I am sure :-)

Neil.

[Rob Archer]

Hi John - quite a growing East Anglian contingent here! Welcome!

Rob

[John51]

Thanks for the warm welcome! I have loads of bits coming via ebay so it will be a while before I get set up, and I am also in the process of selling stuff from my vintage radio hobby that I've decided to give up, to make some room. To me, the great thing about photography, analogue cameras in particular,is that the sort of stuff I could only dream about as a youngster or whilst bringing up a family is cheap as chips now!
I shall soon be the owner of several Olympus SLRs, and hopefully a colour enlarger or two.
Thanks for the advice thus far, questions from me will soon be forthcoming!
John.

[Barry]

Hello John and welcome to fadu.

[Gary Holliday]

Hello from Cambridge!

[Mark Burley]

Welcome John - from sunny Bedfordshire...

[John51]

Collection of equipment has been good! 2 x Olympus SLRs, a selection of lenses, A Kaiser and an LBL C7700 enlarger, a Paterson set including yet another enlarger! I'm now going about equipping the darkroom, having sold off a good bit of my vintage radio gear. I shall start in Black and White to get some enlarger experience to begin with. Did my first camera repair with an OM 30 which had a cracked viewfinder, swapped with another from a rough one. Timing/resetting the film speed dial made me think a little, but I think it's correct. Both need new felts/seals so I'm trying one (kit) off Ebay.
Has anybody got any good ideas for temporary window blackouts? I have some pro audio lift off hinges which I thought I could hang boards from, with draught excluder tape to seal.
John.

[Roy_H]

Welcome John - from someone who likes to think I'm in East Anglia, having lived in Cambridge for 14 years, but now in sleepy Hertfordshire, down Bishop's Stortford way.

For blackouts, I used to use old recycled lightproof window blind material, cut up to size and fixed to the window frames with velcro. Not sure where I got it from, an old school I think. In my youth, I used black plastic photo paper bags, taped together with Sellotape - not very aesthetic, but it worked at the time!

[John51]

Thanks, Roy! I finally decided that I didn't need one window at all, so it's got an MDF panel over it, permanently.. Is it me, or should I be posting elsewhere?

John