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Max Does anyone know if there is an alternative supplier of powder (that's the powder itself in small quantities)? - couple of specific colours needed that Armourtex do not carry...
You can sometimes get the powder from industrial suppliers under the RAL system which is a colour coding system used for industrial colour matching and weather proofing.
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Only place I can find them is here
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WOW!! New developments.... I looked properly at the frame and realised that it had been re-sprayed and the transfers were just on top of the paint!! I noticed that on the fork crown and the bottom bracket shell there is an old style looking T. I assume the guy i bought this off thought it was a Trek because of the T.
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images/Italian/Tomasini/TomoArt1.jpg
Well, those who know, know that this is the Tommasini logo!!! Jan at BLB and I had a look online and found that it was this frame
http://velospace.org/files/toommaasssiii2.jpg
So, for £34, I have a Dura Ace covered original hand build vintage lugged steel Tommasini pursuit frame! Friday is good!
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TobyOne -BoBoB- [url=http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mercian-Super-Vigorelli-Track-Pista-frame_W0QQitemZ290203036619QQihZ019QQcategoryZ22679QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem][/url]Hubba hubba....
looks like mine

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Got a surprise today! The lo-pro arrived and to my glee all of the components are Dura Ace!!!! That's headset, front derailliuer, shifters, cranks, ring... even seat post bolt!!! £34!!! it's a lovely steel lugged lo-pro frame!!! £34 ! I'm happy today, have a stinking cold, but am happy!! off to the shop to get some parts!!!
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When I went up to Bob Jackson for BLB I talked to the builder there about the geometry of the BJs being a little bit more relaxed than say a Mercian, with more clearence - and he talked to me about path frames. He said it was a regional thing and in the past, when they built a lot of full team orders he would do many more Path frames for Northern England where grass track was/is more popular.
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MrSmith ...so are you saying that the image from a scanned piece of neg film 21mm x 16mm is the equivalent of a Imacon or phase one digital back at 30mpixel? (they make a 30mpix and a 39 which is the biggest)
No, not quite - it's just relative. An original 1st exposed print that has never been through a projector is the equivalent of 30 megapixels - it essentially has 4800 rows of exposed chemicals on average, it will vary depending on the shot. The scan is incomparable really, as it's all down to the resolution of the scanner.
A big budget modern movie like Superman will be scanned fame by frame at 4000 lines high will contain digital files equivalent to 30 megapixels. It costs £5000 per 400ft to scan, and then hundreds of thousands to go back to film.... It's the price of the processes means that digital is better for stills.
My Girlfriends father owns Elichrom lights, u must know them if you are a photographer.... and The Flash Centre in Bloomsbury who deal in PhaseOne, and specialise in digital. His main issue these days is that the top digital backs can produce such excellent image quality in the chip that even the best Blad lenses cannot realise it unless you shoot right through the sweet spot of the glass in the center of the lens!!
One thing I know for sure is that the movie industry will not be going digital for a long time - film is what everyone knows, and also (even though there is a camera in the works that shoots 4k at 24fps - the RED camera) who would swap 39 megapixel quality for the 2.1 megapixels of HD??


A double order has been placed for next month