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Duh! Those scientist types say the moon is a long ways off, but I heard it was just the next county over. Thank you!

Thank you!

I have a 150 Schneider-Kreuchnach 150 f5.6 lens and matched focusing cam. Because it's so hard to find any horizon more than 100 yards away in this area, I've been unable to calibrate the lens and...

I've been MIA for a while, working on some things. Truth is, this thread is way too long, but it's fun to check several pages of posts made since my last visit. That way I get to look at lots and...

I'm glad to see it still worked, Bryan. Really nice grain, too. :)

I'm also glad I found someone who could make use of it. Oddly enough, I found a single roll in my fridge just last night, and...

I've about got the VHR dialed in, and I wanted to shoot some slide film through it. I also wanted to find a good lab, and I ended up sending the first rolls to Edgar Praus, whose information I found...

When I went out with the Pentax a couple of weeks back, I shot some Provia 100, mainly because it's been a coon's age since I shot slide film in the medium format. Focus is better on this than on...

Ahhhh, Kodachrome. We loved you so long.

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From 1985 in Raleigh, NC.

Sent you a PM.

Interesting to note that Roger and I are both over developing, at least as far as the recommended times. I've only shot TMZ at 1600 because I never had a need to go farther. And while it's been a...

I used to shoot a lot of TMZ, and there's a brick of it in the freezer now. Maybe I'll have to resurrect some 35mm equipment and find a use for it. A friend told me to rate at 1600, then process in...

Desaturated Fujicolor print film, 35mm, shot with Nikon F3HP and 85mm lens.

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That is one AMAZING photo, no matter how you produced it. I love the perspective, and the tonality of the dark rocks is wonderful.

I hope this doesn't sound too far off the mark, but Peter, my first impression was to think of Henri Cartier-Bresson. I think it's the starkness and spontaneous nature of the images.

Thanks, Peter, it's appreciated. This is one of those things that actually looked exactly the way I planned from the beginning, though initially I had considered four or even five images. When...

Digital collage, 9 November 2010 in the ballroom of a late Victorian hotel.

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And sometimes I even shoot digital...

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Patron: "Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!"

Waiter: "Keep your voice down, sir, we don't have enough to go around."

Patron: "Waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup?"

Waiter: Looks...

That's fine when shooting landscape orientation, but not so good when I try to shoot portrait.

Did you say moody? Kodak TMZ rated at 1600 in Nikon F3, 19mm lens.

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Pentax 67II, Plus X, 165mm....

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I'd sell my old 67 MLU, but I'd be concerned that it would go into an eBay store and the buyer wouldn't actually use it. I prefer to use the things in my "collections," and it torques me off when...

I got it out of my freezer, and you're right, there's not a bunch of it in there. I think as of yesterday I'm down to seven rolls. If I had any 220 Plus X I'd be in hog heaven, but I shot the last...

Shot yesterday with Pentax 67ii and 220 Tri-X. Lens was 165mm f2.8, wide open. I'm having a lot of trouble focusing, probably because of eye disease. Getting old sucks.
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I happen to love unordered chaos photos. Using light and composition you've created a photograph from what would otherwise have been an excuse for your wife to complain to you about the "mess." ...

Leigh, the 50-110 is just another loading of the 50-90. The caliber+powder charge designation did not come from Sharps, but from Winchester, when they began loading it commercially. The original...

I have six of them: A Model 1874 Sporter #3 in 45-70 fitted with a 6x Malcolm scope; an 1874 45-90 Sporter #1 with long range tang sight; a Model 1863 .54-caliber military musket; Model 1863...

Good catch on the hammer, Leigh, though the frame was case hardened as well. This is a "3rd Generation" Colt, and while the hammer IS case hardened, the sides were polished bright, probably for some...

On reflection, I'm pretty sure I must have used some front swing as well, since the muzzle end was farther away than the butt end. It's been several years ago, so it's hard to remember, and I seldom...

I must ask what kind of film you used for that photo. The colors look so honest and real. I love it. (It helps that the composition is spot on, and I'm sure the same image in B&W would be...

I must editorialize a bit. A thing is not an action. No thing acts by itself, and thus it is morally neutral. An actor, on the other hand, has the power of exercising free will and can be held...

Need I mention that this is not exactly the safest part of town? Very old (2000) TMY-400 120, 105mm lens on Horseman VH-R.

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I could say something Freudian, but I won't. It's a photograph. Get over it. You're an idiot.

I guess the moderators will slap me with a fine or banishment of some kind, but it's worth it.

I shot this several years ago but rescanned it last night. Nikon 210, 4x5 Plus X, Graphic View II.

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I noticed that a couple of folks have posted nudes, so I'll give it a shot. Pentax 67ii with 165mm f2.8. I think this is Plus X. Hard to remember--I'm in the process of rescanning some older...

Speed Graphic and Tri X.

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I have the 90mm cam, and now I'm thinking that maybe I'll pick up a lens to go with it, but I have the 75mm already. Would there be enough difference to justify the expense? Decisions, decisions.
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I'll save you the trouble. :p

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I'll have to go back and look in my files; I said this was Reala, but I'm not so sure--it was nine...

More pictures from "little" cameras.

Fuji slide film, Pentax 67ii, 165mm f2.8, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1999.

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Fuji Reala, Pentax 67ii,...