| Joined: | Mon Apr 2nd, 2012 |
| Location: | South Lakeland, UK |
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At least you still have the original slides to fall back on. I scanned my old photo's and some of my slides with my D1, things have moved on since then. I need to do them again with my newer higher resolution cameras. I have an old enlarger which I have adapted to a copy stand with powerful LED lamps which give a balanced light but stay cool, which the old power hungry Halogen lamps didn't, in fact at times I had to stop and let things cool down a bit.
I haven't been doing as much pure photography either, although I have been keeping a good photo record of my car build and since it was finished and on the road in June I have been taking it on local runs and exploring the lanes around here. Great fun because we have some quite steep hills nearby and I can let her rip up them. The car has a 3.5 Litre (about 213 cubic inch) it's the ex Buick aluminium engine and it's pretty powerful for this country with bags of pulling power.
I have made all the bare aluminium panels myself, and the stainless steel radiator grill too, made that from stainless steel welding rods, took two days just to polish the rods! I had been quoted over £200 just for the mesh to make it from. The welding rods cost me £20, a good saving.
I plan to replace the grotty fibreglass front wings with rolled aluminium ones when I get time. Something like this, which is an original 1930 Alfa Romeo.
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Robert.