More on PayPal credit card payments

The process of making credit card payments using PayPal is quite easy, but still troublesome for some customers. Customers who have trouble with credit card payments, please refer to this guide to complete your transaction successfully. As a reminder, a transaction is only completed when you see the final confirmation screen. Incomplete transactions... 

Canadian Dollars

Canadian Dollars is now available as a currency for browsing the web shop. Please select it from the menu on the bottom right. Approaching the year end, things are rather quiet in Japan. We spend our time tidying and cleaning up the home, office and of course photographic equipment. Shops and post offices will close for a few days soon, so please expect... 

Drum ‘n’ base results

Water trough in fusebententoukai temple Door to tower in fusebententoukai temple I had a vertical day it seems. It was bloody cold and windy, no sun and flat lighting. While this is Japanese temple stuff, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t happy with these first results of the drum. Fuji Acros 100 rated 64 in Xtol 1:2, 9:30 min at... 

Drum away boy

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Renewed developments

Used car sales in Tsukushino, Abiko Storage building, part of traditional Japanese house, Tsukushino I could not wait for the full two days for the bond to dry, so I took the camera out this afternoon for some careful test shots, which I have just finished developing. The negatives are still hanging to dry (naturally, on the brilliant Drying... 

A little fetishism

Kameratyp: LEICA MP Farbe: Silbern verchromt Rückwicklung: wie MP Deckkappe Gravur: Classic Bedienelemente: MP style silbern verchromt Belederung: Nappa racing green Suchervergrößerung: 0.58 Sucherrahmen-Kombinationen: 0.58 Persönliche Gravur – Farbe: schwarz Persönliche Gravur – Rückseite: Unterschrift Preis: 615000 JPY Virtual Leica... 

It’s the equipment

I have been struggling with some weird behaviour of the new view camera and while equipment is usually the last thing to blame in your photography, this time it turns out I have done everything right (well, who knows) and, to put it bluntly, there was a bloody hole in the camera! I bought it from a friendly gentleman on eBay in the UK and according... 

Hanging in there

Due to earlier unexpected popular demand, the immensely useful drying hanger for sheet film had to be taken out of the catalogue for a couple of weeks. Now it is back, although again in limited supplies and waiting periods may occur. If you want one of those under the Xmas tree, now is the time to put in the order. In other news, a customer in Norway... 

PayPal credit card payments

This web site accepts credit card payments via PayPal, an international payment service provider. Many people have reservations using PayPal, for a variety of reasons, which I accept and understand. However, PayPal is too convenient an option for payment processing to ignore. On the PayPal web site instructions are given how to make the payers membership... 

Exchange rates

We often hear our countries’ leaders complain to each other about exchange rates and how they affect trade. Most of the time, it has little relevance to us. However, when buying products all over the world, as it was made possible by the Internet, we are all concerned. The US Dollar has lost value tremendously in the past weeks again the Japanese... 

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