A photographers prayer

F80p said:

Something for FUJI!!!!
I love its films more than The yellow guy.

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Maybe a Buddhist prayer?

Christopher Walrath said:

The Halidic Commandments.

Honour thy Nikon and thy Canon.

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What about the others?
Just because I use Pentax doesn't mean I honor pentagrams!

Sirius Glass said:

0101010101 binary = 341 decimal = 155 hex

So your point is???? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

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Just that a straight forward binary sequence to indicate the idea of digital as this sort of basic programing is used in digital circuits. I certainly wasn't clever enough to think of rendering 666 in actual binary sequence form. I've bombed more than once onstage. ;-)

lxdude said:

What about the others?
Just because I use Pentax doesn't mean I honor pentagrams!

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I shoot Minoltas and a 4x5 behemoth. So don't feel left out. I merely did not want to promote my own above others. And I did not want to be wordy, like mentioning Nikon, Canon, Minolta, Pentax, Olympus, Zuiko, Leica, Rollei, Wirgin, Zeiss Ikon, Zorki, Kodak, Yashica, Fujica, Vivitar, Mamiya, Bronica, Hasselblad, Contax, Ricoh, Sigma, Praktica, Konica, Sony, Linhof, Sinar, Calumet, B&J, Graphic, Seagull, Bessa, Lubitel, Toyo, Polaroid, Diana, Holga, Gandolfi, Cambo, Horseman, Voigtlander, Wista, Koni, Kiev, Jupiter, Industar, Hexar, Argus, Zero Image, Ebony and still a myriad of others.

Sometimes it does not behoof oneself to be all-inclusive.

0101010101 binary = 341 decimal = 155 hex

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Kodak is at 343 State treet, not 341. So close . The comon number is 1010011010 or 29A hex

I took the ellipsis at the end of "0101010101..." to mean it was an indefinitely repeating series of 0s and 1s. That wouldn't translate to 343 or any other number in decimal, just binary digits on and on and on, forever...

I believe that reading out loud the developing instructions for a film or the characteristics of a paper or focusing really hard on a beautiful photograph can result to a religious experience of variable validity.
On the other hand what one does on his knees in a dark red-lit confined space under the influence of chemical fumes is his own business.
One cannot escape the religious undertones that analog photography has in its ceremonies and practices (preparation, developing, printing), but also in the concepts of faith and hope (for the picture to come out alright, for film to continue being available).

Personally, as an aspiring zen buddhist, I like to see the whole thing as a mind clearing, living in the moment, absurd ritual.