Author: Marco
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My take on focus-shift with the Nikkor AI-S 50mm f/1.2 and the Nikon FM2n camera
My empirical solution to Nikkor 50mm f/1.2’s focus-shift issue. How to use it?
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The Britons at the seaside
A photographic journey of how bizzarre an Italian see the English when at the seaside.
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Manfrotto equipment for flying cameras!
I had to use quite a few Manfrotto bits (detailed below) in order to take this shot from directly above. However, I still had to block the rotation of the horizontal bar in an unorthodox way. Of course the use of a lightweight camera (Sony NEX-5) helped a big deal.
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My light version of the Italian “Carbonara” recipe
Ingredients Buckwheat spaghetti (“Fidelin del Moro”) or, them lacking, plain spaghetti – 250g White onion – a quarter Prosciutto crudo – ideally one 5mm-thick slice, alternatively 3 or 4 traditionally thin slices Extra virgin olive oil – two tablespoons Pecorino romano, grated – one tablespoon, heaped Parmigiano Reggiano, grated – one heaped tablespoon (two, if the Pecorino is…
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Self-portraits for the ugly and the shy
How to photograph shy people? And what about shy yourselves?
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The unconventional beauty of British wheelies
Rubbish and recycling bins seem to be part of the urban decor :-)
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Fuji Neopan 400 CN was designed to solve technical issues
I find it interesting that while this film was born out of a specific technical problem, nowadays it still satisfies a very specific technicality albeit a very different one. At the time, B&W chemicals were not as readily available as the C-41 process used with colour negatives: thus the original purpose of the black and white…
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Una lama di luce
Ho letto che Camilleri ha già consegnato a Sellerio il romanzo, l’ultimo, di Montalbano, che dovrà essere pubblicato alla sua morte. Penso che sia questo il motivo per cui il romanzo che ho appena finito di leggere, con un po’ di ritardo rispetto a molti, “Una lama di luce”, pecchi in briosità e originalità: l’autore…
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