safe haven for tiny formats

[Tin Can]

Thanks for posting, it was cold here and line of sight was poor.

[jon.oman]

Very nice Bryan!

[Corran]

Thanks guys!

Randy, it got down to 23 degrees here, which for us is real cold. My wife and I went out to a local lake/hiking area and I brought our 20 degree sleeping bags that unzip to sit almost flat to use as giant blankets, along with lots of other blankets. We don't really have good cold-weather gear (nor do we generally need it) and my hands/feet were numb by the time I packed it in. But it was fun to watch and it was very clear.

Gotta mix up some fresh C-41 chems and develop the 4-hour exposures I made on 4x5 Portra. Not sure if I got what I hoped for / envisioned but if I do I'm sure I'll post it .

[Tin Can]

A bit colder here, but I cannot drive at night.

I am sure you got something good!

Thanks guys!

Randy, it got down to 23 degrees here, which for us is real cold. My wife and I went out to a local lake/hiking area and I brought our 20 degree sleeping bags that unzip to sit almost flat to use as giant blankets, along with lots of other blankets. We don't really have good cold-weather gear (nor do we generally need it) and my hands/feet were numb by the time I packed it in. But it was fun to watch and it was very clear.

Gotta mix up some fresh C-41 chems and develop the 4-hour exposures I made on 4x5 Portra. Not sure if I got what I hoped for / envisioned but if I do I'm sure I'll post it .

[jp]

Thanks guys!

Randy, it got down to 23 degrees here, which for us is real cold. My wife and I went out to a local lake/hiking area and I brought our 20 degree sleeping bags that unzip to sit almost flat to use as giant blankets, along with lots of other blankets. We don't really have good cold-weather gear (nor do we generally need it) and my hands/feet were numb by the time I packed it in. But it was fun to watch and it was very clear.

Gotta mix up some fresh C-41 chems and develop the 4-hour exposures I made on 4x5 Portra. Not sure if I got what I hoped for / envisioned but if I do I'm sure I'll post it .

Those sleeping bag ratings are always optimistic marketing, even for warm blooded me. 20f rating means 20f when the only hole in the sleeping bag is a tiny breathing hole AND you've got something else warm under you and over you, and you're wearing long clothes in the sleeping bag. The idea of layers in the cold does not go away because it's night!

[Corran]

Very true. I shopped long and hard to find decent bags that weren't complete scams in the ratings and found some that have performed well in normal use at around 30 degrees - but indeed, by normal use I mean in the bag and zipped up tight and wearing many layers.

Last night I had 4 layers on. I need to buy some heavier-duty base layers but they simply don't sell them much down here! I know very little about typical cold-weather clothing/preparedness.

[Tin Can]

I used to heat stones in the fire and wrap them in newspaper for the bottom of the bag.

Some say stones may explode, so I pick dried out stones. The paper is sometimes charred by morning. Cotton bags won't melt. I have a huge one from Cabelas, it will go in the thing below, used to be in my Westfalia.

Now I am building an insulated cargo trailer with fresh air furnace, cook top and DC fridge.

It's my bug out bag...but I won't get anywhere far...

I have a friend my age, his bugout plan was his motorbike to ride out of Hell on the railroad tracks, until I pointed out that the bike will get out of Dodge, but he won't, as he will shot off it, and so on down the line. Last man riding...

Save the last one for yourself.

[Peter De Smidt]

[nomennominatur]

Although visible grain seems to be abhorred by many LF shooters, this is supposed to be a safe haven, thus I dare to post one of my „gets no grainier than this“ images here (as an afterthought, I could have used Rodinal instead of D76 1:1 on this HP5).





Higher resolution:
http://www.galerie-elsner.de/pictures/M7-019_0063.jpg

[ M7, Summicron V 50mm f/2, B+W 090 (light red), HP5+ @nominal, no PP but global levels & curve ]

[Tin Can]

Feb, 2000 shot with X-Mas toy digi microscope

sqfingers by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr