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Forums > Living in Kunming > Civilized Kunming

@Janjal
A civilised city is one in which there are profiles in the sidewalk to guide the blind and wheelchair ramps at banks even when there are no blind nor wheelchair users.
In my neighbourhood there are lampposts on the guide profiles for the blind and the ramp at the bank is so steep that one cannot take it with a wheelchair and on top of that there is a flowerpot on top of it.

I wander why only banks have wheelchair ramps. Maybe wheelchair bound people do a lot of banking.
A step down at the subway elevator makes perfect sense. If not the subway will be flooded when it rains ;-)

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Photographic Film prices and development

@[]tto
As I said before Good riddance.
By using film you sustain an outdated technique which was and is a serious polluter.
The film photographic process is so dirty that if it would be invented today it would be forbidden. Only because of its historic position it is tolerated.
I worked long enough in photography to know that serious amounts of pollutants from this process enter the environment.

You ever wondered why nobody wants the old film stuff anymore? Indeed you can buy second hand top of the range analogue cameras nowadays for nearly nothing. This is because they are too expensive in film and film processing. They are unreliable (top of the range professional cameras need a yearly check up and removal of old lubricants and fresh lubrication; a very expensive process, amateur range cameras use silicon oil seals that are expected to last the design life of the cameras which is about 10 years). The batteries these cameras use are often not available anymore. Rubber parts like many of the shutter curtains and mirror dampers are disintegrating. You say you are travelling. I would not travel with such a piece of unreliable equipment.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Photographic Film prices and development

@[]tto
Do the maths. Digital is way cheaper than any form of film based photography. For the price of a few rolls of film you can buy your own digital camera. Absolutely no need for a full frame camera unless you have to make high quality metres wide printouts.
You are not experimenting with film if you have it elsewhere developed and scanned. To experiment you will have to the dirty chemical work yourself.

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