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Stephen finds a multitude of grays where most people never notice.

Almost abstract. I like it a lot. Great eye!

I would not crop it either. The original composition is perfect.

Absolutely correct. The horizon is not always horizontal. There is something called land formations.

A bag that carries the camera to your side works if the weight does on throw off your back. I prefer top loading backpacks.

Kodak and Ilford keep chugging along. Kodak makes color and black & white negative films and slides. Ilford only makes black & white negative film. Those are the only heavy lifters we have today. There are smaller companies, but we need to support the two heavy lifters if we are to have film...

Digital pushed film out of the mainstream. Cell phones pushed digital out of the mainstream. Both have exacted a cost.

I agree with all these remarks.

So humor is not your strong suit.

But if you follow the advice of Mike at Samys Camera on Fairfax, you do not leave your lenses for prolonged periods because you are firing each lens for 10 to15 times at 1 second every three months.

And without the faces, the eye is not distracted and caused to dwell on the faces. That is a big plus for this composition. Why does every photograph have to look like ducks in a row?

Why would some people want interchangeable lenses for range finder cameras? Because there are no zoom lenses for those cameras.

When I got my 500mm C lens from KEH it jammed. They paid for shipping both ways, disassembled the lens to get to the shutter, recollimated the lens, and shipped it back to me at no cost.

Yes, but remember the 1000 and 1600 were designed by watch makers and were not robust. The V series has a different shutter design which was designed by camera and lens designers.

Ben Franklin has a choice of which was positive and which was negative, he made the wrong choice. Lightening can go from clouds to ground or ground to clouds. There are no polarization rules for clouds. Also diodes are not involved.

I am glad that you found the source of the problem. Now go and shoot more film.

The same for me.

Flash not only disturbs others, it can fade paintings.

When my children got to around 7th grade and they started thinking logically, they started commenting on such paradoxes. I explained that as they continued to grow and learn that they needed to think things through, consider the logic and consequences of each action, be logic and act as an...

Different products have different spring handling criteria. There is no one size fits all. I only stated Hasselblad's criteria, not criteria for every product ever built.

How long since it was manufactured was is before it snapped? Seconds? Minutes? Days? Weeks? Months? Years? Decades?

And my Hasselblad repair man at Samy's disagrees and said only replace springs when necessary.

Thank you for a perspective that I have never had.

Notice that I have only been commenting on Hasselblad because that is the only one that I have documentation on this subject. I never commented on leaving Mamiya TLRs cocked.

How do you know that they would not have been better off left in the cocked position. You have no information about that.

The springs were designed to last a lifetime. Back in the day that there were the lens engineers still working and around to write articles and be interviewed, they stated that the springs were designed to spend decades in the cocked position regardless of how many times they were fired. I...

A bit hard to put on a 35mm camera or even a MF camera.

+1

I have similar thoughts. What film speeds are you using? Hand held with ISO 100? Does the lens need collimating?

Use split grade filtering. The magenta will separate the tones in the lower half of the scene: people and ground. The yellow will bring out the clouds better. Then burn in as suggested by @AnselMortensen.