Recent content by chuckroast

If you dig around or ask am AI, you'll see references to this pre-AI lens being known for some flare and ghosting. I have an AIS version of it and do not notice this at all. Then again, it always has a hood on it, which no doubt helps. It's a really nice lens but I sometimes wish I'd gotten...

Based on the dye I see being washed out of the pre-wetting water, they've definitely put some effort into anti-halation.

Today's Updates: I continue to see good results with SHD 100 exposed at EI 80 and processed in PMK Pyro 1:2:100 for 11 min @68F I am finding that with the two factory cassettes of 135x36 rolls I've tried, the first exposure is slightly fogged on one side. This would be indicative of an...

I actually think it is rarely, if ever appropriate until their demonstrated behaviour shows them to be bad actors. Even then, it takes some inspection to understand them. It is surprising how many times I have met people who I was pretty sure were bad people based on their "associations" only...

There is a word for judging people based on what group they belong to rather than on the basis of their personal character and behaviour ...

I have used the Zeiss premade stuff but kept the spray bottles so I could make my own: 99% Isopropyl Alcohol 1+2 Photoflo 200 5-6ml/l I spray this on to a microfiber cloth and use the cloth the clean lenses, smart phone screens, computer screens and keyboards, etc. Hereabouts, nearly pure...

But both of those pale to what they were selling when the 500 cameras were their bread and butter (I suspect, but do not know this for certain).

So rather than cutting costs, you'd prefer they just go out of business? Hasselblad - for whatever reason - tried to live on their legacy products, missed the digital revolution until way too late, didn't control their manufacturing costs, and got gutted by a new reality. All commerce is a...

As someone who loves to shoot detritus, decay, and collapse, I must protest. All art is derivative, no matter how indirectly. That doesn't make it nor worth doing. All art is a lie. That's doesn't mean it can't tell us something about the truth. All art is unique to its creator, even if its...

There is no incentive to make that billing and reconciliation process more efficient. The providers' primary model is to maintain opacity of pricing so they can bilk insurers whether private or public.

I'm not sure that's quite fair. AA was trying to maintain a profitable business enterprise through his work. Weston was too busy chasing skirts to spend much time on that ;)

The issue of aluminum is open and has only been shown to be slightly correlative, not causal, much like the recently touted study that shows a correlation between hearing loss and dementia. So I avoid it with an abundance of caution. But there is nearly no question that microplastics are nasty...

Well, there's a place for all the above. But for myself, the building pictures I most resonate with are the ones that are abandoned, falling apart, or otherwise decaying. They are visual interesting. There is beauty in the chaos. Most of the rest of the building pictures I see tend to...

I would hate to see Endura go, but I'd be delighted to see all aluminum cans for drinks disappear. They are lined with plastics (which then show up in your system as microplastics over time) and the aluminum is implicated in dementia. Long live the glass bottle for all drinks of this sort.

Realistically, the market for Hasselblad products peaked decades ago. What's left is a shell of the company that likely struggles to remain profitable with higher costs and lower revenues. They are very much a niche play now and have to do what is necessary to remain solvent and profitable...