Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

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Sunday, 17th April, 2005

Notes from 17th Apr 2005
[posted at 10:00 GMT]    

Whole weekend of quite intensive work on web shop. I must say that I am pretty far in modifying osComerce, the software I am using as base for my shop. For now it was mostly inside modification and not much of look and feel. I have added ability to add photos for sale directly from IMatch. Also made possible for osComerce to use already information I have about photos in my database on web server. As well I was successful in forcing osComerce to use my images stored in database rather than using or generating own images as files on file system. All and all seems to be working fine.

Maybe you bothered with all these technical informations, but I am quite enthusiastic. The reason is simple I was hesitating with putting my images for sale on-line for quite some time and main reason was this web shop stuff. I was really afraid that I am going to spent long time and having no results. Now it is more optimistic, in about three days I have almost all background tasks done. I must say that I feel very good about osComerce and I am glad that my friend Dirk recommended it to me.

I scanned all four rolls of Fuji Across and I must tell you that crazy time 9 minutes and dilution of 1:14 (which is totally out of Paterson suggestion) seems to work quite ok. Better than my other try of 12 minutes for the same dilution.
What I have also noticed that my F80 was metering sometimes very strangely, looks like this behavior happened some 2 rolls before batteries went off. It was quite funny F80 died almost instantly. I was afraid what is going on. I didn't notice anything special before and than camera was totally dead. When I put new batteries everything went ok.
So some of the frames are underexposed very very much.