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    Re: Metering at Night time

    meter a zone VII or zone VIII and base your exposure on that. Correct that meter reading for reciprocity if necessary. Forget about metering for shadows and do NOT meter for shadows and then correct...
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    Re: Really Good Flash Sites

    and here's another new and inconsequential flash site for you. These guys obviously don't know what they are doing.

    http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/
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    Re: Really Good Flash Sites

    Firefox?

    see what I mean.
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    Re: Really Good Flash Sites

    I tell you what. Go have at look at this web site and pay special attention to the clients in their portfolio. Madonna and the Beatles just to metion a couple of minor ones. Then go tell tell them...
  5. Thread: Happy Holidays...

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    Re: Happy Holidays...

    well here's a little tale you can tell your mom while eating your trifle...

    There's these two French Legionnaires in the desert, and they've been separated from their unit and are lost. They've...
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    Re: New Computer Recommendation

    yup, since the advent of NT4 windows has been a very stable paltform. Most problems relate to cheap third party and improperly tested software.

    cheap software for a MAC?
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    Re: What is a Giclée print?

    because everyone who is interested enough, knows what ilfochrome or cibachrome is.

    They don't know what ultrachrome is because the inks change so frequently they could be looking anything. If you...
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    Re: What is a Giclée print?

    So tell me what is the problem with calling your inkjet print an inkjet print?

    What is the purpose of not calling it an inkjet print when you have pruchased an inkjet printer and printed it on...
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    Re: What is a Giclée print?

    I think its a prime example of what I have just said. It's meaningless unless you are using it to specify the inkset used, which you haven't.

    Photographers seem to have a problem with what they...
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    Re: What is a Giclée print?

    It seems to me that in the digital age with the immeidacy of the web, anyone who tries to invent a new marketing term to try and enhance the perception of their work, is destined to failure since the...
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    Re: What is a Giclée print?

    What's In a Name: The Story of Giclée

    One thing that became quickly apparent to the early digital pioneers was the lack of a proper name to describe the prints they were making. By the close of...
  12. Thread: Happy Holidays...

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    Re: Happy Holidays...

    Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter...
  13. Thread: Happy Holidays...

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    Re: Happy Holidays...

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    Re: Cost for SK Grimes mod to the Technikardan 45

    I would have thought that an M679 was the better option for digital anyway but if that back is for a 4x5 or larger then was it sold with a disclaimer about being too heavy for some camera models....
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    Re: Where can I get a good cheap scale?

    any kitchen store should have reasonable priced scales. electric scales are good cos you can zerioze with a mixing jug on the scales and then just add chemicals.

    google "salter scales" but they...
  16. Thread: My new website

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    Re: My new website

    well just for fun I did a google search on

    fine art photography

    None of the first 10 sites returned validate as valid html. The only one that came close was wikipedia. And wikipedia was the...
  17. Thread: My new website

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    Re: My new website

    hidden text is problematic because it can get you get banned from search engines although this is over hyped. I've had one banned but it took google 3 years to do it. It was back within a week after...
  18. Thread: My new website

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    Re: My new website

    You may not know it, but it is made using html framesets. The problem with these is that the page is made up of several different files which get individually indexed by search engines. That means...
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    Re: Bad News About Film Holders

    They are not out of business. They have just stopped production and from what I heard, they have a large stockpile of holders. I also heard that they won't sell the machining so that someone else can...
  20. Re: Any advantages to staining developers when scanning?

    if you go to Ag Magazine, you find in the Ag Archive/ Features / Digital Darkroom section, an article by Eddie Ephraums on the benefits of scanning pyro negatives.
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    Re: Durst L1200 & Ilford 400C - any advice?

    if the L1200 is in good condition then it should last a very long time.
    Things to look out for are whether the nylon rack on the back of the column is in good condition and whether the sprung steel...
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    Re: sinar vario vs zoom 2

    yeah and it still lists zoom 2 film holders but they are a special order item only. i.e. they don't stock them and they are not being made anymore. I suggest you phone to see if they are actually...
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    Re: sinar vario vs zoom 2

    The pre zoom 2 was supposed to have a lot of problems. The zoom 2 was good. I had one for a while. The sinar format viewing mask which came with the zoom2 only fits onto sinar cameras. For non sinar...
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    Re: Adobe Imageready CS2

    The purpose of reading the manual of any software or hardware you purchase, is to make you aware of its capabilities. You might not absorb it all but that doesn't matter because usually if you have...
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    Re: Adobe Imageready CS2

    have you read the manual which comes with PS?
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    Re: Caponigro's B&W Conversion

    http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/ps_pro_primers.html
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    Re: Converting to black and white

    you can get several photoshop actions for converting to grayscale at the adobe website:

    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm#loc=en_us&view=sn105&viewName=Exchange%20Search

    limit the...
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    Re: Existing Light Guide available for download

    the div code I gave you will isolate each section. You can also put it around any paragraph with its image to isolate those from floating with the previous or next paragraph.
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    Re: Existing Light Guide available for download

    the image file

    http://www.photo-artiste.com/images/night/denvermall1990x19.jpg

    does not exist in that directory

    Otherwise looks OK except that floating images can look a little out of place...
  30. Re: What Host Site(s) Do You Use For Your Website(s)?

    you can work it out fairly simply.

    daily visitors × average image size kb × average number of images viewed by a visitor × 30 × 2

    note that the × 2 doubles up the value to give you a safety...
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    Poll: Re: 138mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    close enough, I cant put all focal lengths up.
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    Poll: Re: 150mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    thats fine if they all over the place. it will disprove my theory and I'll shut up about it. But it will still be interesting to see what people think is their sharpest aperture for each lens.
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    Poll: 300mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    if you have a 300mm lens, which aperture do you consider to be its absolute sharpest ignoring dof.
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    Poll: 240mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    if you have a 240mm lens, which aperture do you consider to be its absolute sharpest ignoring dof.
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    Poll: 210mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    if you have a 210mm lens, which aperture do you consider to be its absolute sharpest ignoring dof.
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    Poll: 150mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    if you have a 150mm lens, which aperture do you consider to be its absolute sharpest ignoring dof.
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    Poll: 138mm lens which is sharpest aperture

    if you have a 138mm lens, which aperture do you consider to be its absolute sharpest ignoring dof.
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    Poll: 90mm lens sharpest aperture

    if you have a 90mm lens, which aperture do you consider to be its absolute sharpest ignoring dof.
  39. Re: Luminous Landscape's example of diffraction-limited lens performance

    I have a theory about sharpest aperture. Diffraction must be partly a function of iris edge area related to aperture area. A rough calculation giving an aperture diameter of 5-7mm gives the approx...
  40. Thread: Linhof

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    Re: Linhof

    The quick release fitting attaches to the lens board which needs to be drilled with two holes in the correct position. You need to use a Linhof cable release to get the correct connection the QR. I...
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