No no no no no no!! As an amateur photographer for the love of god pleeeeease don't buy a £10 eBay camera, the lenses are really rubbish!

Photographs are likely to very sporadic, as I don't photograph everything and I only have my 35 mm colour-reversal film processed, once I get to the end of a roll.

Russell, you're not so far from my childhood home in Lochee, Dundee, Angus. My nursery-school teacher used to take me to RAF Luchars in Fife, to see the English Electric Lightnings take off.
The methods you describe, only remove surface rust and rust-scale. They will NOT remove rust from any small-diameter pits unless your abrade away the surrounding steel, which might leave your items very thin.

The methods you describe, only remove surface rust and rust-scale. They will NOT remove rust from any small-diameter pits unless your abrade away the surrounding steel, which might leave your items very thin.

Yes yes. I definitely agree it is all about the lens, but a used camera is just as capable as a phone with camera,

I still have a Box Brownie No.2.

I use this for rust areas on panels (plus rust converter and wire brushes).

http://www.frost.co.uk/spot-blasting-gun.html

I think we are getting somewhat off topic, with this in depth discussion about the relative merits of various types of digital and film cameras. Perhaps it might be better to transplant those posts into a dedicated topic thread (like the appendices in my research thesis) and incorporate a link in this one.
At £30 + £24 these look like a useful rust-removal tool, but I would certainly need a MUCH cheaper alternative to their blast cabinets.

http://www.frost.co.uk/spot-blasting-gun.html

http://www.frost.co.uk/pvc-reinforced-hose.html

At £30 + £24 these looks like a useful rust-removal tool, but I would certainly need a MUCH cheaper alternative to their blast cabinets.

If you want a blast cabinet, get one from eBay for £50, they are all exactly the same, you'll need a big compressor though, something that's 100l and produces at least 14cfm, for one of those you're looking at £250ish, then you need media, £100ish.

Which is why I said that it works out more cost effective to take things to your local sandblasters.

http://www.shotbeadaquablasting.co.uk/contact

There you go

I have the opportunity to salvage some brown carpet from a late-model, 1979/80 Triumph Dolomite 1500 HL Automatic, which appear to be in better condition than some sections of my Triumph Toledo's black carpeting. I want to retain my existing exterior & interior colour scheme, so I am wondering whether it would be possible to re-colour the brown carpet using black dye of some sort?