Photography using film cameras
A different wander today. If your hobby is astronomy, as mine has been since I was ten years old, expect to wander in all sorts of directions. Why? Because astronomy touches many areas, and you can as a result acquire many other
Above is a standard digital photo taken with a modern mirrorless digital camera using a 24-70mm lens. It has had some minor editing in Lightroom including some cropping to change aspect ratio, and to balance the exposure of the sky and foreground.
Before I get started, a bit of an apology. I forgot to update the blog about the Sinar and the Lake District. The cause was it was a failure – the plate I’d bought for mounting my Nikon does not fit a
Time for a progress report on the project with the RB67. I realise I have been a bit remiss in not providing an update on the saga of Clee Hill. Eventually on the Saturday following the aborted attempt I did succeed in
I did think of branding this post as: “The Trials and Tribulations of Photography in the UK…”. For my university course, I need to take some landscape photographs. I have chosen a location, and I undertook at digital test shoot in January.
I don’t yet have all of the needed facilities at home to process films, so I’m having to do that using the darkroom at university. I recently processed the film I took last year when I visited the luthier. The intention of
Time for an update on my adventures – or more often misadventures – with medium format photography. As you know, this is a completely new territory for me. Until last autumn when I shot some university project work with a TLR 6×6
Part of the plan for Day 1 was to try using the 5×4 camera for the first time, now that the plate to hold the digital camera had arrived. My view is that managing a 5×4 camera is essentially a two-man job,
I realised that the original post ‘Large Format Adventures 3’ didn’t make sense as where were posts 1 and 2? The answer is that they were originally posted on another of my blogs. I’ve consolidated them into one new post. Large Format
I had an abortive attempt at talking to camera repairers. I know of one company in Liverpool and after a chat with them, I rang later to speak with their technician. It was like something out of a comic parody of dealing