Mick's Motoring April Adventure

[CitroJim]

A few black and white photos from our adventure - fresh out of the developing tank...

AA Box 530

Sheringham Railway Station on the North Norfolk Railway...

Thurne Staithe...

All photos taken on a Canon EOS 500 loaded with Kentmere Pan 400 film. Developed in Ilfosol 3

[mickthemaverick]

Well I'm afraid the photography sect will have to treat me as an ignoramous but I just don't get the point of monochrome nowadays. In fact they give everything an old fashioned out of date appearance to me! :

A similar shot for comparison

[CitroJim]

I love monochrome Mick

Always have. I think it stems from spending many hours during my formative years in front of black and white tellies. Colour did not arrive in our part of the world until 1975. Even then it took a while to catch-on..

The more remote parts of Somerset are still in black and white even now...

[myglaren]

Sometimes colour is just a distraction and monochrome can make things look so much better.

[mickthemaverick]

As I said I'm the ignoramous here but I think monochrome is best left to text and maybe engineer's diagrams Colour every time for me, and I didn't get any sort of TV until 1964 and then colour came in the mid seventies when the old set gave up the ghost!! Rediffusion rental for the first few colour years as buying was out of the question for us newly weds!!

[CitroJim]

I should add that most of my TV viewing in the 70s was from the back of the set via a mirror on the wall at the back of the workbench

Many of that was either viewing the test card and thinking what a pretty girl Carol Hershee was or at a crosshatch pattern when adjusting the convergence on those new-fangled colour sets...

Some test card music was good too although more usually Radio 1 on 247m belting out from a scruffy old workshop radio...

Very happy days