Tag: film-photography
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The Preset Problem
Everybody it seems is selling presets. There are presets specifically for use in Lightroom by the thousands and there are presets built into some raw editors like Exposure 7 and others. Presets, especially for beginners, can seem like a great idea. After all a preset is merely a small program that adjusts the sliders on…
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Don’t Let Perfect…
Don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough. Online there are no end of things you can buy. You can buy a new camera and “better” lenses and new camera bags (I’m up to seven and counting.) and more editing software. And it’s software that is interesting me as now I’m scanning a…
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I’m New! Now What?
So you’re new to photography. Maybe you’ve got a new digital camera or an old film cameras or maybe a cellphone with a camera? (This group shot take a few weeks ago was from the 200-plus CineFilm Toronto photo walk.) Doesn’t matter what camera you have. What matters is like any tool you’ve got to…
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Film Speed – ASA
Newcomers to film photography often are confused by the different types of film and especially the different speeds of film. When it comes to speed which is indicated as ASA (ISO when we’re speaking of a digital sensor) the basic rule is the slower the film speed the better the quality of the image. So…
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Buying A Pentax 17?
Should you buy a new Pentax 17? It depends. The Pentax 17 is the first new film camera offered by the venerable Japanese camera manufacturer in a long, long time. And who said film is dead. LOL. But there are some things you should know before you consider this purchase. First thing is this is…
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The Zone System
After 60 years of shooting pro and amateur I am still not sure I am the guy you should ask about the Zone System as described by master photographer Ansel Adams. Invented by Adams 80 years ago the Zone System is used in black and white photography as a relative quick way of determine the…
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How To Fail
I did not have the heart to reply to the guy on FaceBook who was attending a motor sport event soon and wanted anyone who had used his camera (Olympus OM-1) to share some pics and some settings. This is the perfect storm that will lead to frustration and failure. There is no useful information…
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Medium Format Shooting
Photo by Vivian Maier When it comes to street photography one of the great challenges is to shoot medium format. Essentially medium format is any camera that shoots film or a digital image that’s larger than 35 mm and less than 4″ X 5″ or certainly 8 X 10″. So what’s so desirable about medium…
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Wedding Gear
When it comes to shooting weddings what gear do you need? In the Nikon world the standard wedding photographer’s kit goes like this: That’s it. That’s all you need and the price of all this goodness is well north of $10,000 and that’s another reason why you can’t be charging $2,000 per wedding. That’s a…
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More On Light Meters
When shooting film here’s another good reason to buy an external light meter. In your 50-year-old film camera the built-in light meter is likely not working anymore or if it is the meter itself may no longer be delivering a precise, accurate and predictable meter reading. Built-in light meters just aren’t reliable enough after all…
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