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Good Morning Peter,
Knowing one is not alone in one's small triumphs \ frustrations is such a boost. And it's all in our heads. I must look up Chamonix - a name I don't know.
I have enjoyed a...

Hi Vaughn...
great stuff... I'm minded of my early encounters with Ansel Adams "Basic Photo" series and reading of his Cadillac station wagon with the roof platform..I wish.
If Cape Town...

Hello Bob
Thanks for that ... I envy you the Graphic.
I had a British MPP 4x5 with rangefinder and a 150 some years back, and I remember , in central Cape Town after hours in a side street just...

The "New Old Guy of 72" from 2015 didn't quit...
... a reintroduction --and a message to other starters

In August 2015 I signed up here (from Cape Town South Africa), and had a friendly welcome...

John Kassian, thank you . I guess no-one will notice the 1/125ths of a second, Petty larceny indeed, but a one minute exposure could be a hanging offence...

Bob the bloodhound, thank you. I have already gained just from the "listening in"
to talented guys sharing their knowhow. For esample, I'm not about th start converting my condenser
Omega E6 to...

Sirius Glass, thanks. Yes, years ago I should have bought the Kodak Ektar F2.5 150mm Aerial Ektar I encountered.
I had nothing strong enough to carry the weight, then. But I could have just sat and...

Macolive, thank you. Yes, Cape Town and its hinterland is\are an amazing landscape. In my town planning days I got to photograph from small planes and choppers,
and then I could understand what...

Randy Moe, Thanks for that. With the monorail view camera, I fiound that the first thing I must do is to leave the camera assembled, focussed on infinity, and upside down in a light light bag to put...

Jp, you ar so right. I have a quote stuck up about the composer Palestrina (1500's - unaccompanied voices)
"He deliberately restricts his means so as to secure the most perfect flow of...

Hello Everybody,
I am another new guy, but actually a "new-old" guy since I am 72, and my first view camera was a Calumet 4x5 back in 1964... except for an Ektachrome and AV phase in the 80's I...