Tag: film
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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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Basic Flash
Understanding how and when to introduce a flash to your photography is the first step for many into professional level shooting. So what’s a flash? Basically a flash is an artificial light source that can be attached to your camera (direct flash) or used remotely (off-camera flash) and adds light to an image where more…
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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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Travel Cameras & Lenses
I was on one of the Olympus FaceBook sites yesterday where a woman* photographer (this is a relevant piece of information) was asking what lenses she should take on a vacation trip to the Far East? Seems a friend was willing to loan her a bunch of Olympus lenses including some PRO zooms and other…
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Develop Your Film
It’s easy to develop negatives from your film camera. Unlike digital camera older film cameras produce images that many photographic artists find very pleasing. One reason is film still has a greater dynamic range (the ability to record the varying shades of grey from pure white to absolute black) than most digital cameras. Setting your…
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Pushing Film
There’s a lot of confusion about how to “push” film. What people mean by that is how to make a slower film act like a faster film. For example back in my day hockey arenas especially in small towns weren’t very well lit. Even shooting black and white Tri-X at its recommend ASA 400 wouldn’t…
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RTFM!
Read The Furbished Manual is not a criticism but a gift. If you’re on any of the popular FaceBook photography pages especially those dedicated to specific cameras you will see the same basic questions coming up at least weekly if not even more frequent. What is happening is these simple questions are coming from new…
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Projects
Who is that with Marion? Why it’s Glenn Gould the world-famous Canadian pianist. They’re sharing a bench outside of the CBC Building on Front Street in Toronto. It’s the middle of January and yes it’s cold. This photo was taken during a photo walk with the Toronto Film Shooters group. And why is this basic…
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Street Scenes
Did you watch a few of the videos about street photography mentioned in the last post? What did you notice? When I watched a lot of them I noticed there appeared to be several distinct styles of street photography. One was more documentary than anything else. Images of buildings or statues and artwork showed the…
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The Light Meter
I have owned a Sekonic L-300 light meter for decades. I now have two more external light meters including a better Sekonic meter (L-358) and a (Lunasix 3). Plus every camera I currently own including two old film cameras (Nikkormat and FM2) and my Olympus OM-1 and OM-5 all have light meters built in. Why…
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