Over the past couple of months, I’ve significantly increased the number of Islamic reminders, rumination, and rejoinders that I post to this blog, and in my zeal, I’m afraid that I offended some family members and old friends. I’ve also begun responding to uninformed and/or specious claims about my faith or my ±1.6 billion brothers and sisters in …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
Happy Anniversary, Hanabibti and me!
It’s been three whole years! Can you believe it?
Going on Holiday…
… from social media for a bit.
Apples and Errors
I got off work yesterday at 2:30pm and arrived home by 3:15 or so. I had a very brief nap, shot a quick unboxing video of the SP-445 and had it posted by 5:15. By 6:15, I had two negatives drying in the shower and was changing clothes to go mow the lawn. I expected …
LensBaby +10 Macro filter and the Graphic View
Come to find out, the Graflex Optar 135mm f/4.7 has the same 37mm filter thread as the LensBaby Muse… I rearranged my office last week and came across the +3 and +10 filters that I’ve rarely, if ever used, looked at them, noticed the similar size, and decided something had to be done.
SP-445 Success!
Three, nearly four hours, a freshly mowed lawn, and a quick shower later, there are two 4×5 negatives, mostly dry, awaiting scanning (InshaAllah tomorrow), and a nicely dried, recently-used SP-445 4×5 processing tank chilling in the developing cabinet. How did it go?
Unboxing the SP-445
The new SP-445 Compact 4×5 Film Processing System arrived today. Now to go shoot some film and test it out! https://youtu.be/47lWB801WNA
