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[Andrew Hately <andrew.hately@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

- Name:
Andrew Hately

- Profession/Study:
Software engineer with Eurocontrol; "The European organisation for the safety
of air navigation"
MSWindows, c++, Ada, Motif, Oracle. Formerly electronic design engineer, 
mostly instrumentation, AF analogue and small state machines.

- Country:
Scottish, resident in Belgium

- Personal history of photography 
Started as a student with various borrowed cameras. Bought a Lubitel 12.
Bought a Minolta 7000 (more by luck than design) and an enlarger about
the same time. As finances allowed I bought more Minolta stuff and more
darkroom equipment. I now roll my own film, shoot it, develop it and print
it, for b&w, slide and colour neg.

- preferred subjects:
Travel. City scenes.

- materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry):
Films: Kodak Technical Pan. Ilford XP2. Fuji Velvia.
I have tried some Konica 750. I found the results very bad indeed.
I still have a few rolls left. I hope to learn from this list how
to improve.
Filters: For the Konica I have a Hoya red 25A and a B&W filter whose
designation I cannot recall. Otherwise I use filters very little.
I have polarisers (various diameters) warming filters, either Hoya 
HMC 1A or 1B and for black and white I have yellow, orange and red
plus green for 49mm only.
Paper: I am still using up a backlog of Ilford Multigrade 3 that I bought
some time ago. I develop this in a slightly odd way: I use Agfa 108 developer
that I mix up myself but before putting the paper in this I give it 30 seconds
in K0H - I find this avoids the "step" effect of MG3 that lead Ilford to
introduce MG4, apparently. For Colour I have been using Fuji RA4 paper because
its all I seem to be able to find in the shops. For slide printing I have
been using Ilforchrome Classic - the paper based stuff, which is cheaper.
Chemistry: For technical pan I use HC110 diluted 1+149. I have also had
excellent results with POTA but it is tedious to mix up each time.
For the Konica 750 I used Rodinal (MISTAKE!).
For E6 I have recently been using Tetenal's 6 bath e6 kit. The results are excellent.
For C41 I use a Dutch brand "Acolox Negacolor" or something like that - It
seems pretty good.

- format (35mm/medium format/large format): 
35mm currently. The Lubitel has retired.

- Other strange hobbies:
Travelling, art, modern jazz, good food, beer (I used to brew my own), wine.

- How did you find out about this list:
A rumour.

- Expand on anything photographic you like:
I like to see other photographers stuff, e.g. museums (musea?) of photography.



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