Category: Photography
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When the camera makes the picture
They say it’s not the camera, but the lens, that makes the picture. Especially with film, the camera is often irrelevant. Yet, this image taken in the Wharton Park could have hardly been done without the useful spot meter of my Contax 167MT. The rest was taken care of by the old Sonnar 135/2.8 with…
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Camera bag for Bronica SQ?!
Surely I cannot expect manufacturers to create new bags for an old Bronica SQ system. Yet, I believe I found a a very good one to carry a bulky Bronica SQ-A, with a 150/4.0 + hood, a metered chimney viewfinder, and a 120 back, all mounted together, and still have a little bit of space…
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Best CAPTCHA for photographers
I found only today the best CAPTCHA for photographers ever, on the forum registration of Manual Focus Lenses! You actually have to indicate which lenses are not Auto Focus. I say that this goes beyond the meaning of a “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, reaching probably the sophistication of…
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Tilt macro lens for Sony NEX cameras
I reckon there are easier solutions, but the most complicated one I could find is this one. I bought a Sony NEX-5 (obvious), then an adapter to fit Bronica SQ lenses onto Nikon bodies, then theLensbaby to mount Nikon lenses, with TILT, onto NEXes, and finally a Nikon extension tube – but I also have…
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Wim Wenders, photographer
Wim Wenders makes good 3D movies because he’s a photographer in the first place.
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Paper!
What would you do with some 3D-graph paper, black Indian Ink, and a Johnson&Johnson cotton bud? I did this… …and this… …and this
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Fotografare per soldi
Alcuni soggetti fotografici sono incompleti e vengono prodotti pensando a un completamento che avverrà per mano di qualcun altro Ieri ho fotografato uno di questi soggetti. Spero possa finire nelle abili mani di un abile disegnatore, avido di aggiungere il suo messaggio originale nello spazio bianco del biglietto… Un altra immagine con Mr Nasty si…
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The Finchale Priory is…
…a “listed building” but, more importantly, is a very, very cold place… when it’s cold. Photographically, the Priory is the first time I combined my “new” Minolta Spotmeter with my Bronica. B&W or colour, that day I had 400 ASA film that did not prevent the camera shaking due to photographer’s shaking due to the…
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Behind the scenes of a hanging
Well, hanging without a bar to hang from is hard. This image is available for purchase on iStock.