Hardware

Canon FD 85-300mm f4.5 disassembly

This is work-in-progress Instructions might be out of order Required tools 1. Wera 118022 JCIS PH0 screwdriver 2. Mount removal 1. Loosen 3 grub screws around perimeter for covering ring, the ring will be able to drop down into the cavity left for it 2. Remove 6 screws which hold

Color negative film

Don't dry your developed film with 99.9% isopropyl alcohol

This was experiment to see if developed film could be dried fast with almost pure isopropyl alcohol after development instead of standard photo-flo and hang dry. However after isopropyl only bath, film becomes pretty much opaque and visible crystal fractals form on it... Scanning those images resulted in images for

Coolscan

Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED - Missing lines

Recently I have experienced issue with my Coolscan, where after certain point in the picture blank lines started appearing. Above you can see example of the picture. After disassembling scanner, CCD sensor board flat flex connector was bent over, due to the way it was positioned, likely part of it

Black&White film

Ilford HP5 Plus 400

* EAN: 01949857457 * Model: HP5 * ISO: 400 * Process: B&W * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 017534

Color reversal film

Kodak Ektachrome color reversal film E100

* EAN: 041771884574 * Model: E100 * ISO: 100 * Process: E-6 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 100/21° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: ±½ * DX Number: 903824

Color negative film

Fujicolor C200 2x36exp

* EAN: 8712928122062 * ISO: 200 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 200/24° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 106254

Color negative film

Voigtländer V200 24exp

* ISO: 200 * Exposures: 24 * DX Code: * Film speed: 200/24° * Exposures: 24 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 001293

Color negative film

Voigtländer V200 36exp

* EAN: 4002451197021 * ISO: 200 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 200/24° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 601304

Color negative film

AgfaPhoto Vista 400 24exp

* EAN: 4250255100086 * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 24 * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures: 24 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 806283

Color negative film

AgfaPhoto Vista 400 12exp

* EAN: 4250255100086 * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 12 * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures: 12 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 013991

Color negative film

Ilford Ilfocolor 400 Plus Vintage Tone

* EAN: 4027501226193 * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: Not available Notes So far used up 2 spools of this film, however development process was not successful in both cases. When using daylight developing tank from Lomography I was unable

Color negative film

Santacolor100

* EAN: 6429810609236 * ISO: 100 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: Not available * DX Number: Not available

Color negative film

Harman Pheonix 200

* SKU: 1182193 * EAN: 019498182198 * ISO: 200 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 200/24° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 017765

Color negative film

Fujifilm 400

* EAN: 4547410465020 * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: 906284

Color negative film

CineStill Film 400D

* Model: 400Dynamic * Name: CineStill Film 400Dynamic * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 36 * Color balance: Daylight * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: ±1 * DX Number: 753916

Color negative film

Perutz Color 400

* Name: Perutz Color 400 * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: * Film speed: 400/27° * Exposures: 36 * Exposure tolerance: +3-1 * DX Number: Not available

Color negative film

LomoChrome Purple Pétillant Edition

* SKU: F436LC21 * EAN: 9007710005760 * Name: Color Zealous 200 * ISO: 100-400 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: Not available * DX Number: Not available

Color negative film

LomoChrome Color'92 Sun-kissed

* SKU: F436COLOR23 * EAN: 9007710636148 * Name: LomoChrome Color ’92 Sun-kissed * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: Not available * DX Number: Not available

Color negative film

Wolfen Color - NC500

* Model: NC500 * Name: Wolfen NC 500 * ISO: 400 * Exposures: 36 * DX Code: Not available * DX Number: Not available

Color negative film

King Film - Color Zealous 200

* Model: CZ200 * Name: Color Zealous 200 * ISO: 200 * Exposures: 36 * Color balance: Daylight * DX Code: Not available (printing is non-conductive and will not work on film cameras) * DX Number: Not available

Networking

Load balancing outgoing DNS queries

Sometime in life you might encounter, that limits enforced by single open dns provider is simply not enough... Work around this issue by simply load balancing your requests to multiple providers! Sample configuration for your Mikrotik device: /ip/firewall/nat add action=dst-nat chain=output comment=DnsLB dst-port=53 nth=

Linux

Get IP address from CLI

CURL curl ip.hexide.com DIG dig -4 TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com dig -6 TXT +short o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com

Flight controllers

ExpressLRS receiver not working on MAMBA F411 25A AIO

I have recently encountered an issue: my ELRS receiver (FLYWOO TCXO 2.4G ELRS EL24E RECEIVER) appeared to not work when connected to the flight controller. The LED on the receiver stayed on and did not blink like in the documentation or various YouTube videos reviewing it. This prompted me

Hardware

Dell R720xd fan speed control

I run R720xd in my home lab setup. The very first thing was to resolve fan speed crisis, as default +16k rpm results in unlivable conditions. This might also be suitable for other 12th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers, like: T620, R220, R320, R420, R520, R620, R720, R820, R920, M420, M520, M620,

Ceph

Ceph PGs not deep scrubbed in time

Due to the nature of my single node Ceph instance, pretty much from the beginning, I have configured my scrub intervals to be a lot bigger than the default. However, I kept getting warnings, that PGs have not been deep scrubbed in time (code PG_NOT_DEEP_SCRUBBED). This puzzled