Photographic terminology and words you love

Black Dog

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Kentona
Zonie
Nikkor
Fisheye
Kodaker
 

Bob Carnie

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we need to pump up those highlights a bit.

damm those shadows are blocking up.

you do not know shit from shinola about printing
 

Maris

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I like the Scheimpflug condition. Photographers who have never used a view camera are amazed at what it can do. It's best said Scheimpfluuuuug to echo the focus-stretch effect.
 

Shawn Dougherty

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glowacious... I've read about Brett Weston busting that one out and now I tend to think of certain lighting conditions that way.
 

baachitraka

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Balgenkamera

Zweiaeugige Spiegelreflexkamera

Messsucherkamera
 
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cliveh

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Wayne

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I love all words that describe analog photography, but Neo-Autochromists has to be near the top of the list. So is heliography, apochromatic, anastigmat. Oh, and that most magical word: Film
 

Bill Burk

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"Hey what reading are you getting?"

I love that phrase because it can mean one and only one thing... I'm out photographing with friends.
 

pdeeh

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bath
 

pdeeh

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sensitive material
 

baachitraka

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Sequestering Agent
 

baachitraka

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Base and Fog
 

dorff

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I like "photography" - literally, drawing with light. It is worth remembering where it all started.

I like puns and ambiguity, especially in words like focus, composed etc. They often make for phrases with double entendre that can be both fun and meaningful.
 
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cliveh

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Metol Formula 1
 

dorff

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Ain't no such thing as a free lunch. It's not a photographic saying, but I never realised how true it is until I started shooting and developing film.
 

Black Dog

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Vortograph
Hektor
ULF
Velox
Acros
Plastika
Ilfomar
POP
 

randyB

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Azo
Portralure (a long discontiued portrait paper from Kodak with beautiful brown tones)
Heliar
Protar
Elmar

just to name a few.
 
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