Recent content by Dustin McAmera

I had much the same experience last summer. I found three 120 rolls of Efke IR. The internet seemed to say that it might have lost some speed, so I shot one roll of it at lower than box speed - can't remember exactly what: maybe a stop?. I just did a few street corners on a sunny day, so it...

That brochure/manual says you push and turn the knob to use rise. That seems to suggest the knob might be spring-loaded. The knob on my CC-401 (the long model) isn't spring-loaded, and it turns easily whether pushed in or pulled out. I think it's been through a few owners, and I think one of...

No it doesn't; you wildly misinterpret the text, that was accurately quoted in full in the post you replied to.

But there is no doubt about 'Night blooming cereus'; it shows a child, whose sex we can't be certain of. No sexual parts are shown, and the child's nipples are covered by the two large cactus flowers. And we can't know the child isn't wearing jeans, socks and shoes, and a top hat for good...

I use my photos straight out of my M50 without adjustment, more than nine times out of ten. I got the camera (it's my first serious digital) because I ground to a halt with film photography - I had a backlog of film to be developed, and another of developed film to be scanned, and it all became...

I think burning is the preferred method.

Off topic, yesterday I went to Waterstone's after a morning shift, meaning to buy 'Hold Still' - I even checked they had it in stock before going. But once I was there I bought Robert Frank's 'The Americans' instead. I think it's because I went after work - why read long text when I can just...

My most-used camera is an EOS M50. It's not so different from the M6; it has a viewfinder built-in, where you have to add a shoe-mounted one to the M6. I also love how well the camera keeps going as the light fades. I have bought adapters to let me use several of my old film-camera lenses on it...

I doubt there will be charges. I think the process Alan mentioned (hang on to the photos without justification until it's too late to return them to the exhibition, then release them with neither charges or an apology) is what they will probably do. However, I read that the people objecting to...

We have read about Mann's early experience, when she got her friend to be nude for photos she presented at school. This isn't exactly the same as her later photos of her kids; we are told her kids were routinely naked on a warm day, so the nudity 'wasn't done for the camera'. Nevertheless, I...

I only ever had one winder; a third-party device, made to fit Canon A-series cameras. After the initial novelty, I found it more trouble than it was worth. It depended on contact between two little spring-loaded electrical contacts and matching ones in the base of the camera. Even when it was...

I guess it's likely to be hard to tell what sex a child before puberty is from a photo that doesn't include the face. I see the comparison to Julia M Cameron (althoughI think she would have made it clear what she was getting at - 'Miss Elsie Thompson as "Flora" ' or some such). I don't think...

'after the exhibition is over'? That would be to deny freedom of speech without taking a judgement whether the photographs had offended against anything. You advocate arbitrary state action with no legal process. That would be pretty much the worst response. Having caved in to the objectors...

What that excerpt describes isn't the girl realising the wrongness of what she and her parents had done, but the meanness of kids who knew no better, and the failure of the teacher to teach at a critical moment. If the knee-jerk giggles and mockery of a class of junior school kids were enough to...

Welcome! You say you 'put the film in for scanning'; I suppose the same people did the developing too? If you're getting consistently disappointing results from one lab, you might just try another one (I suppose it's also possible they can develop film well, but their scanning is no good; if...