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"The site monitor is not doing his job."

For a moment there I read "the Hall Monitor is not doing his job" and had a flashback to avoiding Prefects at Grammar School. Too many teenage male...

Slightly off-topic, but it seems like there is another casualty of the unexpectedly rapid growth of digital. Hasselblad seems to have announced they are laying off staff, phasing out the V film...

Ken, using a circular resolution chart, among other things, you can measure how many sensors per line you are getting

The Epson 3200, for example, gave us around 1.7 sensors per line which is...

"As many have pointed out, scanner manufacturers publish the sampling frequency, rather than the actual results. The scanner may indeed sample at 1800 ppi, but deliver closer to half of that...

"The objective of "thin" negs for scanning is really a function of the relatively limited D-Max capability of most scanners, as I see it."

Most of the current crop of flatbed scanners that will...

"My understanding is that the Septone inks (old Piezography inks) are quite different than the Piezotones, which is a new generation of inks. The Old Piezography inks faded and warm shifted...

Wasn't the MPP basically the spoils of war...? Reduce someone company to rubble, who's going to stop you taking their camera designs? (remember the competence and success of the post-war Volkswagen...

There is another one of these threads over on photonet

While some aspects of it appear on the surface to eminently sensible, the idea of being entered into a terror suspect database for...

"If you want the Muench 'look', get the 75."

Crikey - I can't think why anyone would want the "muench" look

I have a 90 that gets used regualry for architecture - I find it too wide for most...

"in fact, I would so like to be further enlightened,so I'd like to invite you to discuss politics over at the Underground Leica Forum"

Frank, thanks for the invitation, but I don't have much...

"...is the new emphasis on security curtailing your photography efforts and is it innappropriate? And what solutions have photographers found as a way of dealing with it? My opinion is that I...

"Please tell me, if you were in charge given the current situation, what you would do to prevent terrorist attacks on civilian populations? Would you be able to screen every security guard to make...

"Please tell me, if you were in charge given the current situation, what you would do to prevent terrorist attacks on civilian populations?"

Bear in mnd that agreat number of actions taken by...

From Photographer Kevin Bjorke

> I've set up a non-commercial forum and links site on the topic of > freedom for photography -- still in its infant state, but hopefully > it will be a useful...

"If I ever understand why people would tie a bomb to their own children and send them out to blow up other people's children, I hope I have enough sense to swim out to sea till I can't swim...

"I do think that it is an approprate subject for forums like this to try to figure out how to enjoy our hobby while recognizing the new realities sinse 9/11.

However, that can be done without...

"Many, even well known, architectural photogorpahers tend to over light a space and lose a sense of how it really looks."

Got to agree there Dan - and buying McGrath's book is probably the worst...

Hey Shane - do you have your life savings in shares in Velvia? - that stuff is rather hard on the eyes - that's pretty saturated.

Are the pritns as um... "bright"?

ah yes - the ex-astronaut who is a mediocre photographer and persuaded the Canadian taxpayer to foot the bill....

Going from memory, the tests we did of the Epson 3200 came out around 1.5-1.7 sensors per line which, if I remember correctly works out at between 1800 and just under 2000ppi

By comparison, I...

Well Dan,

That's mighty big of you.

And instead of - you know - just keeping quiet you went to all that trouble just so you could pontificate about it.

Dan - what are you talking about...? (or were you just hoping to fleece Randy out of an excellent lens?)

"You need property releases as much as you need model releases. It's actually an extension of concerns that have come up with photographs of people - even models who have signed a release have...

apart from the fact that the proof reading and editing are up to the usual View Camera standards e.g. "Pyro: Some Truthful Informaion About Health Considerations "

There is no actual information...

Some extrcts from:

Circular 92 Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in T?tle 17 of the United States Code:

An “architectural work” is the design of a...

"When I go to look at juried photography exhibits, I see not even a phallic tree stump, not a vista, not a sky, not a cloud, not a mountain, nothing I would even remotely call a landscape, (and,...

Somehow the attribution to my quote got lost - it was Berenice Abbott in 1951 talking at a conference (that included Adams).

PS - "but I have no patience with people who simply react to the word...

"As for the subject of "intelligentsia" that's a highly subjective topic. The National Art Gallery in Ottawa paid $US1M for a painting of 3 vertical stripes! Some curator (an esteemed member of the...

"The greatest influence obscuring the field (of photography) has been pictorialism.... Pictorialism means chiefly the making of pleasant pretty pictures in the spirit of certain minor painters. What...

I'm still not entirely clear why you need to "do some zone system calibration for my 8x10 camera"

Why not just to everything with your 4x5? The camera shouldn't make any difference?

So is that the best guess for this mystery lens and it's obscure marketing device?

The Computar 210 f9?

If it is, it's certainly overpriced. With a bit of patience you could do much better on...

"Does this exclude semi-digital people like myself who shoot traditional, scan the negative, and do all the darkroom work & printing digitally?"

Especially if you shoot color - why bother saying -...

or even this

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/atget/atget_tree_sceaux_full.html

a photograph that is more contemporary, intriguing and original than 99.9% of the work I see in books and...

I have also found exactly the same problem. You read an article which is some ways really a "teaser" for what is on the website. So you get a fairly brief article with "read the full extended details...

Come on Jorge - why would I bother trying to prove a negative and waste my time looking for something that doesn't exist... :-)

"Last I saw China was not part of the US. So whatever they ship and...

uum - where Jorge?

All there seem to be there are hundreds of posts on the Chinese selling thousands of magnets. Didn't come across any actual detailed regulations specific to this case.

Point...

"FAA and DOT are goverment agencies that regulate the transport of goods inside the US as well as for shippers that operate in the US, if a shipper tells you they do not ship hazardous materials it...

Well, the response from the vendor is certainly one of the more stupid I've ever heard - smacks of pure Xenophobia.

In addition, many in other countries aren't quite so obsessed with the Trading...

actually, while I don't think they are the worlds greatest photography, the idea is certainly interesting - and I thought the portraits were certainly better and more interesting than about 90% of...

"Sir Issac Newton: "I do not believe in a Universe of accidents, and, after all, I have studied the subject, and you have not.”"

And Newtonian physics has, in many areas been found to be - lets...