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Does driving a rolls royce make you part of the nobility? No, but it might make you feel like you are even if no one else sees it that way.

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If having premium quality equipment makes you feel better about yourself then it might improve your state of mind when making images so in that sense equipment can help make you a better photographer. However, if you're crap at photography then you're crap at photography regardless of how good...

metering through a filter works sometimes and not others because meters are sensitive to a certain spectrum of light it is unreliable. Darker filters seem to cause a more unreliable result. Besides, using a filter is subjective thing and the effect it will have will be very dependant on the...

It is confusing because no one ever really knows what someone else is saying unless they are very detailed in saying what they actually mean. For example, according to Adams, N+1 leaves zone IV on zone IV, so using your interpretation then zone IV would become zone V. And since everyones...

are you talking about RC or FB ? all surfaces have their merits. It's really just personal preferance. And take your matt surface print and put it on a wall in a poorly lit room and you'll barely be able to see anything in it becasue the resulting contrast of it will be so low. so there are...

All B&W films are good. 400 speed is two stops faster than 100 speed film and 100 speed film is two stops slower than 400 speed film. The question is, do you feel the need for speed? Answer is, if you are using a tripod then its a purely subjective choice. Faster films exhibit more grain. Slower...

1 frame for 4x5 is for pussies. get one of these and your favourite number of frames will be 150 http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Linhof_Aero_Technika or one these and it will be 320 http://legendary.camera/linhof-aerotronica-69-1970

Adams says the target zone fo N+ or N- is zone VIII and N+1 means zone VII pushed to zone VIII and N-1 means Zone IX pulled to Zone VIII. So it seems evryone either can't read or hasn't read the negative or they are alll devising their own personal take on the zone system. Its no wonder its so...

Nothing is bad about it but people need to understand the difference between high resolution and sharpness. High resolution is a product of high level micro contrast and requires a good lens and prceise focus whereas perceived sharpness is a product of edge contrast and doesn't require a good...

they are for studio lighting but there's nothing stopping you from using them in an enlarger above the negative. ND is ND whereever it's used. If the ones you have aren't labeled with filter factor then you'll just have to see what they give. The Lee ones come in several filter factors but the...

for longer print exposure times you can use a smaller lens aperture or you can use neutral density filters. The following Lee ND Lighting filters work well in enlargers with a filter drawer which is above the negative. These particular ones shouldn't be used below the negative becasue they...

I mostly print an actual image size of 12x8 inches. This has several pros for me. Firstly, 12x8 retains the 3:2 aspect ratio of a 35mm neg. secondly I print to 12x16 paper with a 2 inch inch white border which looks really nice and well balanced with a 12x8 image centred in it. Thirdly I can use...

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depends which way the wind is blowing

with an slr you are looking through the lens. With a rangefinder you aren't. Therefore there is no requirement for the viewfinder to be in line with the lens. It would be nice if it was because it would reduce parallax effect BUT it is better for the viewfinder eyepiece and the rangefinder...

A couple of standards on Art. Is Photography Art? It certainly can be if you want it to be so both these books are applicable. "The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich Not a book about photography at all. Infact only a couple of pages about photography but don't be put off by that. It's a must read...

Grain in negative is neither sharp nor soft (except solvent developers may smooth grain clump shape which some people call soft). It is a solid (for B&W film) embeded in the emulsion. What is sharp or soft is the percieved contrast over edges of differing densities of grain, which in the case of...

I don't see how examining grain will show lens distortion. A negative will always have grain regardless of sharpness or focus and grain is so small that you would never see distortion in it. And grain orientation and shape is unknown so you couldn't see distortion by inspecting grain anyway. And...

Since they are colour they wouldn't last more than 20 years max printed as c-prints. At least with digital they can be printed via inkjet which might actually last a bit longer. The media, i.e. the sites you are all giving links to, expect the images that are released to them to be in colour. So...

I tried cambridge in colour online calculator and that gives same result. Its your spreadsheet which must be wrong for some reason or you haven't used the software properly. maybe mixed up feet and meters. For the figures I used they match your DoF Master figures except distance far should be...

It was said tongue in cheek. Don't panic. The QIOPTIQ software in link says that for a CoC of 0.03 using 50mm lens @ F4 hyperfocal distance is 21m and near sharp is 10.5m. If your chart is showing hyperocal distance then far sharp should be infinity for all of them. So what what actual object...

see post 46 of this topic. It does depend on quite a few factors such as wavelength you are using and refractive index of glass.

illegally dumped waste. Household or often site clearance waste which is just dumped in some place, usually down a country lane or in some woods at night when no one sees them doing it. By inconsiderate bastards who don't want to pay to dump it at offical tips (waste dumps).

Yup, there are so many variables that its impossible to make paper sizes which fit film format exactly and always match every framing and cropping ratio whether forced or by choice. But a little thinking ahead goes a long way to making things much easier down the line.

You have to plan for these things at taking stage having first asked client what frame sizes they want to use. If they change their mind after the event then its their fault if it doesn't work that way. But only if you have warned them in advance of the event. Again giving your composition in...

fig IX.4 doesn't tell us anything becasue it doesn't tell us how much neg exposure produces optimal quality. Is it ISO standard exposure for a particular film type or is it some other exposure value. Or to put it another way, does ISO standard expsoure mean optimal negative quality or does it...

Your aspect ratio calcs are a little odd. The normal way would be to have the larger value on left and then divide to get small divisor values. Both of your 645 cameras end up being very close to producing 4:3 aspect ratio neg frames which is what you should expect from a 645 camera. And from...

after the hoo haa about her last session photographing the queen I expect she just got in and out of there as quick as posible with no fuss.

There used to be a saying that "A photograph never lies". Well you shouldn't need to do much photography before you realise that all photographs lie. They are all abstractions from reality and as such never depict reality or the real truth. How far from reality is another question. After that it...