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The DSLR isn't going to go away any time soon, though, says me tempting fate. It's based on 50 year old principles, as regards the mirror and so on, but if it works it works. Something there akin to the statements about 35mm film not so many years ago when I was enjoying using my nice Contax SLRs. ...

When I flagged up the Enamel Sign exhibition I had intended to come along, living near Falkirk and all, but life got in the way and I had to go to Perth and missed the walk. Superb photos, and the ones of the signs are excellent. I had gone when the show opened, and took one photo of the Black Cat s...

Might be worth a visit to the enamel sign exhibition on at Callendar House, among their other permanent exhibitions:

http://www.falkirk.gov.uk/about_council/news/press_item.aspx?pid=2419

Good selection of old signage, and some info on how they were made, many in Falkirk.

E.P.

There was a very well attended film show presented by John Hume of the RCAHMS in the restored Bo'Ness Hippodrome last Wednesday morning which contained some excellent black and white film of the shale oil industry, covering underground working and haulage, distillation processes and equipment, and d...

The same foreign folk also did a very neat 35mm enlarger which folded down into an attache case. Very James Bond.

I remember buying one from by boss in John Browns as he had moved on to something more flash. And less portable.

Excellent photos and an excellent insight into the shale industry. The RCAHMS has some photographs online showing the scale of the bings. Scran has shale images too, including details of the haulage employed on the bings. For the construction of the Central Scotland motorway network the contractors ...