Recent content by tcolgate

It's OK for the process to be more important to you than the final picture, because it's OK for your photographs,(and yes even your *art*) to just be for you.

Some entries do mention it on a note, but it's very rare. (I've seend it on some of the pyrocat entries where it'll say it's suitable for a palladium print). I just assume they are a very vague starting point now.

"put it back however you found it", is probably a solid starting point though (since it sounds like the original arrangement).

There's a comment on the large format format suggesting that linhof iii did have a fresnel "forward of the [ground glass]" "The earlier 45 III backs did not have a fresnel, the later models had one in foreward of the gg, as did the later models until sometime during the Master Technika...

5 rolls of PanF, and 4 of Ortho 80 (all in 120). I recently was given my wife's great grandmother's Agfa box camera. The shutter is supposed to be around 1/50th, and the aperture is fixed at f/11, so I needed something slower. It's also a red-window loader so I thought the Ortho might be a...

I'm not sure that's true for all cameras. I'm sure I've heard of cameras (maybe just MF?), where the fresnel goes on the inside. And on my Ensign Cameo, the matt side of the ground glass is on the "outside" (toward the viewer). The matt side still sits on the film plane though, the bulk of the...

No camera can show you the literal result before the picture is taken. Some can give us a better preview of the result than others. SLRs and TLRs have lens DoF scales too. If I'm using zone focusing I don't need a rangefinder. Critical focus is not judged at f/11. On almost all SLRs you'll...

It's a guess in the sense that you cannot see the result.

One thing rangefinder folk never seem concerned about is inability to preview DoF. DoF is a useful compositional tool and without a through the lens view, you're just guessing. That doesn't matter for a lot of use cases, but it is still a trade off.

We don't let just anyone into the Schlock Printers Guild you know! Maintaining crooked, soft, mushy, muddy bland prints, with blocked highlights, and just the right amount of dust, for print after print after print, that takes a (low) level of effort and care that few people can maintain!

It seems that at least one artist has parted ways with the gallery in question. Jim Krantz, who knows a thing or two about work being abused...

While not a specific photograph, Robbie Maynard is doing wonderful things, a lot of it pollution related, with a lot of climate related things in there too. Excellent photography (and yes, he's probably the best photography thing on youtube).

You've not said what kind of photography you do. If all I wanted to do was street photography, I'd go with a TLR. People seem to find them a lot less threatening. But if you want a small SLR, Olympus is a great option. If you want the biggest variety of kit and lenses then Nikon seems to be the...

In the 80s Olympus did the training and then baked the resulting data onto a patch that sits over the shutter curtain (IIRC). The meter reads off of that curtain. I vaguely recall that the Leica M9 (and maybe M10) use the same approach.

Someone else suggested this, but notching the rebate area might be an option. Though this is a good case where home dev of B&W can save the day.