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• Darkroom Series – B&W Developing for Beginners

  By GrumpyTechie on January 28, 2013 • ( 0 )

  After writing a lengthy reply on a forum about getting started in the B&W darkroom, it occurred to me that there’s a lot of pages on the internet, and a lot of tutorials, which tell you all the important stuff… Read More ›

• First look at the Raspberry Pi

  By GrumpyTechie on January 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday my Raspberry Pi arrived, and today I had some time over to set it up and have a first look. First of all, I don’t see this becoming a desktop machine for anybody, it’s just too slow to be… Read More ›

• Movember Pro Tip – How to Handle Unruly Beard Growth

  By GrumpyTechie on November 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  A lot of guys this month is probably either growing a mustache or a beard (depending if you’re enrolled in the program or otherwise just bad ass). I at least find that when exiting the shower, my beard is usually… Read More ›

• How to Distort Shapes in Visio 2010

  By GrumpyTechie on August 3, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  I’ve had this little problem now for a while, and today it came to a point were it needed to be solved; I haven’t been able to transform/distort shapes in Visio 2010, which I clearly remembered was possible in older… Read More ›

• Annoying PoE Errors

  By GrumpyTechie on August 29, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Last week I updated the core switches at one of our sites to two new fancy HP 5406zl. Along with all the nice new features that came with these two beasts was PoE on all ports. All was good and… Read More ›

• Interesting “feature” on the Canon 5D Mark II

  By GrumpyTechie on February 15, 2011 • ( 2 )

  Apparently the shutter speed and the vibration of the strings on the double bass are sufficiently close to each other to create the interesting interference pattern seen in the video. Keeping in mind that the lowest notes in the double bass… Read More ›

• Medium Format and TLRs

  By GrumpyTechie on January 28, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Recently, I bought a Yashica-Mat 124G of eBay, mostly because I was intrigued by both the Twin Lens Reflex camera system and the film format. Somehow, I’ve got the feeling that TLRs make for better photographs in certain situations than… Read More ›

• The Guide to Everything Kodak

  By GrumpyTechie on January 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  This PDF, Kodak Chemicals and Formulas (PDF), contains just about everything you’ve ever wondered about Kodak B&W products, including recipes for most of their old-school developers, even down to D-1, Kodak’s own pyro-developer.

• Went out to buy Ilfotol, ended up with more.

  By GrumpyTechie on January 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Ilford on Kodak Originally uploaded by sstorholm Last Tuesday I went out to buy some Ilfotol since I couldn’t get a colorless washing liquid here in Helsinki. When I came into the shop on the other side of town (http://www.telefoto.fi)… Read More ›

• Over-development with Kodak HC-110

  By GrumpyTechie on January 11, 2011 • ( 6 )

  Freezing Originally uploaded by sstorholm I recently switched from Ilford ID-11 developer to Kodak HC-110, mostly because of the increased shelf life of HC-110 (syrup as old as from 1979 kept in half-full bottles have been known to work). It’s… Read More ›

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