Don't forget to put the film in your pack when you leave home!
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Don't forget to put the film in your pack when you leave home!
While I do refer to the notes I take on each shot after I have processed the film, I realized that the real value is that they reduce my screw-ups a lot. Begin by numbering your holders so can keep track of them with the notes. If I have just noted a 25R filter, for example, I am more likely to remember to put it on the camera. It also makes it easier to avoid double exposures, even if I have not properly reversed the dark slide. (You can always put it back in the camera and flip it.) An old Fred Picker trick that has been mentioned before also helps - dry fire the shutter before you pull the dark slide to make sure you have closed the preview lever.
Just because they say you can't do it does not mean you can't! You can build a camera or two ( 8x20 and 11x14) with hand tools and put them on your back!
Just because there is some wind does not mean you can't find a big rock!
Love my B&W viewing filter!
Learn to see! Enjoy the entire process and share the knowledge!
Jim
The book is sold directly by Weber, it is not on Amazon. Here is his info, e mail him or call him and you can get the book from him.
Al Weber
145 Boyd Way
Carmel, CA 93923
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Don't talk about religion, art or pyro here.
Shoot what you can't help but shoot.
Shoot some more.
Take the time you need.
Less is more applies as much to filling your camera bag as it does to the shot itself.
---Ed
All the lenses that I have are fine. Other than the 300mm Nikkor M, none of them are in that group of "must have" lenses or "classics." Nevertheless, all of them are probably "better" than the lenses used to take various masterpieces of photography. My three element Caltar II-E was used to make my all-time favorite photo of mine. This realization has saved me lots of money over the years. (Or perhaps it has made me feel that way, with all of the used lenses I ended up buying!)
For example, do you think any of us could tell a photo taken with my single coated 240mm Fujinon A with a scratch on the rear of the front set of elements from a new multicoated version with no scratches? I can't.