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  1. Off-the-Shelf Top RF Cam Matches for Modern Lenses

    most of the cams were made to the standard focal lengths used with the particular model + some variations.

    Unless it was bought new as a set (when the cam and lens were matched), you were supposed...
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    selling photos are "Arts and Crafts Shows"

    You are correct about the accounting and writing off travel expenses.

    I am convinced, however, that he is covering his expenses including travel to Europe.

    I think it depends on what you mean...
  3. Burtynsky / china / 8x10 or 4x5 ? slides or color

    "I've listed earlier many books I own of famous artists showing different styles of art (Batemen, Rockwell, Rembrandt, Muench, Adams, etc) and you call this exclusive? What about your industrial and...
  4. Burtynsky / china / 8x10 or 4x5 ? slides or color

    Van

    Most people do not display things not beautiful in their homes, you do not display ugly furniture or anything else. We don't go hanging garbage cans on our walls or have photos of them, or of...
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    Technikardan strengthener

    (this advertisment was paid for by the campaign to elect Linhof users to congress)

    The rear standard isn't bad, but as the actress said to the bishop; it's just not as stiff as an arca
  6. N.Y. Times Article: Nussenzweig versus diCorcia

    semantics really - the case is "Erno Nussenzweig, Plaintiff,

    against

    Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, PACE/MACGILL, INC., AND OTHERS etc"

    his lawyer files the suit on his behalf

    Nussenzweig's son...
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    Trolling for opinions - website

    I had no problems at all getting in there - that side worked just fine.

    But for me the look is a bit too "vegas"

    The 3-D two tone URL at the top just doesn't work (even more so on the black) -...
  8. Why does the US seem to produce LF photographers?

    I think the relevant point is not where there is wilderness, but the historic fact that wilderness is a part of the national character here in the US (even if one never goes there).

    Something all...
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    Robert Adams at the Getty

    "The Robert Adams exhibition left me mystified as to his popularity. Technically the images were poor and the subject matter repetitious."

    I must say I remain confused by these comments. I admit...
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    Robert Adams at the Getty

    "and found his images poor technically"

    I don't understand what you mean by that - could you explain.

    For you, what are examples of images that are good, technically (and that aren't trite?)
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    Caught stealing image - now what?

    Steve,

    You are quite simply incorrect.

    There is no requirement for a work to be marked as copyright ( e.g (C) - date etc) for it to be protected. Nor is the lack of such a symbol a defence for...
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    Caught stealing image - now what?

    "There is too much info we don not know here. For example, how did they get the photo. Was it in a place that could be argued was in public domain?"

    if you are going to give advice, please try and...
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    Alec Soth's NIAGARA project

    Tese are great - I prefer them to his earlier work
  14. Dispute over African photographer's images

    this is in some ways similar to the case a few years ago where the gallery owner/negative owner was busy re-printing Atgets and passing them off as originals
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    Brooks Jensen on print pricing in Lenswork

    Ah - I see. So it's suggested photographers would do best to sell their photographs at bargain basement prices, but heaven forbid we should do so with the magazine. People might mistake it for a...
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    Brooks Jensen on print pricing in Lenswork

    I'd be interested in why Jensen doesn't follow his own advice as far as his magazine is concerned?

    It's one of the higher priced magazines on the newstand. He prices it to fit in with the high end...
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    Chris Jordan's Katrina work

    "I'll agree that photography has a well established tradition of this - but as photojournalism (which is where I place Matthew Brady and his mates) not as art.

    When I think of art photography, I...
  18. How capital ($) intensive to make color film?

    his is a post I made a few months ago when this came up. Some of this is already happening. Other parallel developments have also begun in the meantime:

    "Motion picture films may still be shot on...
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    handmade digital prints

    Sorry Wayne - my misunderstanding. I didn't realise you were trolling.

    If I'd have caught that I wouldn't have bothered with a serious answer
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    handmade digital prints

    "Handmade means "not computer made", among a few other things."
    I'd suggest it also means not machine made either - I certainly hope you don't use an enlarger - nasty mechanical things?

    and...
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    handmade digital prints

    "The amount of time you have spent altering what your camera recorded is beside the point; and, in fact, extensive time spent at a task might be more a reflection of a photographer's newness to the...
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    handmade digital prints

    " I hope you find my analysis helpful."

    well - it's a bit of a red herring. There is no real absolute dividing line as it appears you would like there to be.

    For workers and artists coming from...
  23. Epson K3- 4800 – How to get the best B&W print?

    "That is not my experience. If what you want is the highest quality B&W inkjet print possible then I think you have to look at the grayscale inks. The reason for this is that it's difficult to get...
  24. Thread: Burtynsky

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    Burtynsky

    So many people seem to be falling over themselves to say that Burtynsky is the best thing since marmite on toast, it's worth reading that Times article (extracted):

    Edward Burtynsky, the Canadian...
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    "Photographers Notebook"

    Richard - why not just confine your little club to photographers who have recieved Guggenhiem Fellowships to keep the standard up?

    You could then get - oh - maybe one taker from this list.
    ...
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    Wavy Prints! Arrrrrrrg!

    "Not for archivists, conservators, museum curators and conservation scientists. In the popular vernacular of everyday photographers who frequent forums like this one, I maintain it *is* a specific...
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    Wavy Prints! Arrrrrrrg!

    "When photographers such as Scott, Doug and Allen invoke "archival" I assume the life expectancy (LE) they have in mind is one roughly comparable to that of a properly processed and stored...
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    Wavy Prints! Arrrrrrrg!

    "1. Ain't no such thing as an archival chromogenic print, no matter what definition one comes up with for "archival." "

    Most certainly there is - Archival refers to the best methods and materials...
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    Wavy Prints! Arrrrrrrg!

    But then you can no longer claim they are archivally mounted, no? Granted this archival bit has been overhyped and disinformationized by the inkjet folks but it has become a buzword one cannot...
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    Calumet made me feel blue

    Tilt and shift lenses can't do all that the movements on a view camera can, and you can't get the look of a fiber print from an inkjet.

    ahh but it's getting closer every day - smooth-gloss coated...
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    Resolution limited by diffraction?

    I used to have a very clear explanation from a post on diffraction limits from here by one of our acknowledged maths wizzes that set it all out very clearly and basically said you don't need to worry...
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    Geoff Dyer "The Ongoing Moment"

    photographers are certainly the most insecure of all the creative types
  33. A Contemporary Female Vision of the Landscape

    Odd, no one has brought up Paula Chamlee, who has given us lot of pretty darn great landscapes IMHO.

    Or lots of darn pretty landscapes...Although if truth be told, she's probably the far more...
  34. Archival inkjet *papers* (not ink). Do they exist?

    The problem with Livick was his methodology was all over the place. He'd run different papers on different printers with different inks and then try and compare the results. He'd try one light...
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    PBS Art Special--No Photogrpahy

    stieglitz especially, since he was THE impressario of early modernism in america. while his own photography was often behind the curve (led by people like strand, whom he mentorred) stieglitz...
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    PBS Art Special--No Photogrpahy

    I'm not quite sure how you are using oeuvre? Because all them had quite substantial bodies of work - their ouvres (pl?). But I was talking about their places overall in both American and (really,...
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    Important issues for WWW forums

    yeah, Judy Miller was a major gaffe. there's a difference between screwing up and fostering a culture of bad or corrupt journalism (as is done by many of america's favorite news sources).

    Miller...
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    PBS Art Special--No Photogrpahy

    Oh Mr. Hobbes - you are so quaintly disingenuous when you get so flustered
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    PBS Art Special--No Photogrpahy

    "Imagining America" Jorge - not Imaging. But don't let that stop your predictable knee-jerk anti-digital mini rant :-)

    Perhaps most photography just lacks true imagination? (we seem a pretty anal...
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    Criticising Famous Photographers

    A perfect example of the "fuzzy concept" are the recent Katrina photographs psoted on here. It's clear that at the time the photographer wasn't quite sure of the why and wherefore when they took the...
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