You’re an old photographer if you can remember: The smell of a freshly opened canister of Kodachrome 135. When those canisters were made of aluminum and had screw-on tops. Having a bunch of those aluminum canisters in your camera bag to hold various small bits. Buying 35mm film in 100-foot rolls and loading the cassettes… [Read More]
DNS maintenance in progress
Some of you have noticed intermittent unavailability of this blog with a 502 error message. My hosting service, which is currently running the domain name server for the site, says the problem is with their name server, and is unlikely to be fixed in the near future. They recommend switching to another name server. So… [Read More]
Leica Q2 highlights at ISO 100 — images
This is the 13th post in a series about the Leica Q2 Monochrom. You can see all the other posts in the series by looking in the Category List drop-down menu on the right side of the page. The more I try to understand what’s going on with the Q2M ISO highlights, the more complicated… [Read More]
An AA workshop in the golden era
I posted this picture of Ansel Adams on the DPR medium format forum. I made it in August, 1983, at one of the annual Friends of Photography Ansel Adams workshops at Weston Beach in Point Lobos, never printed it, and found it yesterday when I was going through some old negs for scanning. The workshop… [Read More]
How to practice
Someone on DPR asked about one of the Ansel Adams Friends of Photography workshops that I attended in 1983. In preparation for answering the question, I consulted a notebook that I used for every workshop I’ve taken. My first session was with Ruth Bernhard, who had brought her assistant, Michael Kenna, along. One of the… [Read More]
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