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Yeah, an experienced photographer will have a vision and that vision will rise above pretty much any technical encumbrances. The vision exists completely apart from the gear. <rant> But, as a teacher, I assert that black boxes are the absolute enemy of education. I am just old enough to have...

On this subject of automation, sometimes auto is the sensible choice. I am not against automation when I want it. What annoys me is that there is no really simple, beater d$lr that compares to my fm2n or oly om1 or xa or such- simple, inexpensive little pieces that I can take with me into...

Robert, I'm afraid that I don't see what we are supposed to judge from small web versions of different images shot on different formats and also developed differently and then scanned differently... it's apples and oranges, no? Anyway, some time ago I reported my results comparing the monobath...

Sure, you can definitely get a variety of results from different film/dev combos. In order to figure out what a particular dev is doing (or not doing) for you, bear in mind that what we call 'sharpness' has many components including acutance, contrast etc. There is extensive literature on...

I like the efke PL very much with wd2d+. A bit more feeling of highlight control and good tonal smoothness. The fomapan is good but needs quite careful exposure and doesn't pull well (if that's an issue for you) and I recently heard that it is going out of production - I hope that somebody else...

Great work! Very evocative.

Let me add (or restate) one more reason to get a film slr: I think it is very comforting to use a tool that I understand completely, down to the last screw. It might be the scientist in me, but I don't like to use black boxes and then have to wonder how much of my photograph is me and how much...

It's a technical issue, the distance between rear element and film is very short in a rangefinder, and whereas film has a layered structure, most of the sensors out there have the Bayer structure, so you get massive chromatic aberration if you don't correct for it e.g. with microlenses and...

Film slrs are a dime a dozen, get one or two and play. Treat it roughly, have fun. My current fave is the fm2n. I have plenty of reasons to use it in lieu of my fancy schmancy dslr, especially for b&w. Can't remember when I last needed a battery for the fm2n, maybe a year ago? Last week I...

Well the easiest is a rangefinder ;) but... I like my fm2n with 50/1.2, now that is super bright and easy. I also like my om1 with 50/1.4.

Amazing terrain! Well done.

Sure, it's good. Do try to show the neg to an apugger in your area, she or he might be better able to see anything we cannot online. But it looks like you're off to a solid start.

It's all about final results and getting what you want, efficiently. So you must see others' negs and prints. There are so many reasons not to believe what you see scanned for online presentation, and there is also a fair amount of contradictory information (most of it unintentionally...

Rollei Superpan ('tis the season...) Ilford FP4+

:) thanks. Yep it really is superpan, I have been using it instead of Rollei IR for almost a year now. For this strong a Wood effect, you need clear spring skies, fresh foliage, a #87 filter and a 10-11 stop filter factor (with the film rated at 200).

I like the rotation idea David, I have been playing with that, thanks.

Hi Mike, thanks I have a bunch of other negs, this one may not be the most optimal one in terms of focus. About the long exposure, I tried to focus as best I could with some stronger lights on but they were too hot and the pod was moving on me. So I just sort of winged it on this one. But...

Thanks! This scan kinda sucks, I look forward to the print, I am obviously aiming for pearlescent tones on the peas and the scan doesn't really show that. Yes, sly, it was window light. Actually... afternoon open-door light.

Haha, that's great!

Interesting iron gate found somewhere around Schuyler.

Many of my favourite subjects are fresh from my garden.

Very fun camera. I like the frame orientation. My main complaints were: it's a bit noisy; the zoom range is almost too tight to matter albeit handy for some things; and eventually I simply wanted a wider and a longer option in one 'system' camera, so I jumped to the mamiya 6 system...

Well, okay, I could have just as easily have written that painting is a near cousin of photography. But just for the sake of finishing the thought, there are reasonable arguments that Vermeer was the first photographer ;) Pollock, well, that's Pollock... we probably can't relate it to anything...

Please expand on this. Real in what sense... real in a representative way? Real in terms of emotional impact? ....? As I wrote some time ago in my blog comment on this topic, the 'unreality' of b&w photography may be the reason so many see it as intrinsically more artistic. Yet when we look...

P.S. on the topic of whether we should be discussing this: I think we should. Here is a person who is using film; let us help him get the most out of that and help him present his images without unnecessary artifacts. Moreover, I do sometimes see scan artifacts in the gallery images here e.g...

Aaron, I don't think it's oversharpening, actually. It looks more to me like an ICE (ICE= image correction and enhancement) artifact. Ask them if they are running digital ICE or any other dustoff process in their scanning workflow. The way digital ICE / infrared cleaning works is that you...

I recall seeing what the scala/dr5 process does for dark skin tones and being amazed. Yes it's not colour but it is gorgeous, look at the dr5 site. Unfortunately you have to poke patiently through several individual films at the bottom of this link to find examples. My guess is that astia...

Dennis, on the fundamental level that both are about inventing new language, I think there is a kinship between art and science. They are both linguistic activities, I think. But I think there is an important distinction, when it comes to the expectation of feedback and acceptance. In the...

To me, art is language we need to invent because what we have now isn't sufficient. Art's core purpose is to expand our vocabulary and allow us to say things that haven't been said before. So, for me, art is the result of an exploratory act.