Recent content by sterioma

I believe the author @Denis OLIVIER is a member of this community, so he may be able to chime in. I am not entirely sure about the "camera shake" explanation; there seems to be a 100% correlation between that kind of look and some films, but not others. That the issue never occurred with some...

I have found this web page very interesting. It's not new, but from a quick search, it doesn't appear to have been shared here previously. https://www.denisolivier.com/cross-tests-17-films-120-with-6-developers

I am the first in my restricted family to have taken an interest in photography other than "snapshots". so I don't have a body of work passed down from previous generations. We have the usual "shoe" box with photos and other personal items (the oldest being a pocket watch from my...

Interesting: this is what I see

You should be able to just click on the photo. I had put the URL and photrio.com replaced it with the preview. Otherwise try to click here.

Interesting blog post. I took a lot of photos of my children until they were toddlers, and then life got in the way (including moving to a different country) and I substantially reduced the amount of family photos - and (obviously) now regret not having some candid portraits of my kids as they...

I like Ligthme for iPhone; I actually mostly use it for the focal length preview feature and the black and white viewfinder, even though it's marketed as a light meter.

Are you referring to Carl Zeiss Softar filters? Is it your direct experience that they are supposed to be used at wide apertures? The "Hasselblad Manual" from E. Wildi suggests that "the diffusion effect does not change while opening or closing the aperture" (p.264 on the 5th edition). I...

This. Before YouTube was a thing, those Ilford PDFs got me through my first rolls. After that, I went deeper with The Negative from Ansel Adams. Good to see that there are plenty of online resources now, I am an avid watcher of printing sessions (the more the better!), as I feel I have so...

So do I (as you can see from my profile picture )🙂

For what is worth I can see the smiles, but then again I am not Brit either 😁

This video may be useful:

This thread makes me feel lucky about the two times that I brought my Hasslelbad to SF for business trips before the pandemic. Some of the pictures I like most were taken there. Such a beautiful city.

+1 on this. ZS is about being aware of the light falling the scene and how you can somehow control the relationship of these tones in a print (within limits), by a careful choice of exposure, development and print controls. "Shadows on zone III" is just a starting point, often for a literal...

Always check the paper box is closed before turning all the lights on. I have fogged a couple of boxes when I was first printing in my bathroom, and now it's an automatic reflex :)