This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. If you haven’t read it, you should go back and take a look. It has been said about adapters and tilt: “They all convert a good copy of a lens optically into the equivalent of a bad copy of the lens. Or a great lens into a much… [Read More]
Current work
There’s a lull in testing while I wait for the Zx cameras to be delivered, and I’ve been making use of the break to do some real photography. As some of you know, I’m starting a series of images of what comes out of our (really, my wife’s) garden. The name of the series is… [Read More]
Silent shutters and psychology
Before SLRs were the predominant big-boy cameras, shutters were reasonably quiet. The leaf shutters in press and view cameras, as well as those in twin-lens reflexes like the Rolleis were unobtrusive. Even the focal plane shutters in the Nikon, Canon, and Leica rangefinder cameras weren’t that bad. Then the flapping mirror made its entrance, and… [Read More]
Bracketing
Back when I was using 4×5 and 8×10 sheet film, if I really cared about an image, I would make two identical exposures. I’d make the first normally, then flip the film holder over and do it again. When I developed the film, I’d sometimes do all of one side of the holders in one… [Read More]
Goodbye to the darkroom sink
I moved into my present house in 2000. When construction started, I was still doing some chemical photography, so I put in a darkroom and moved my 1980’s era Cal Stainless sink in. By the time I got settled — oh, that punch list — that phase of my photographic life was waning rapidly. I hardly… [Read More]