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I just noted that LFF member Adam Satushek has an exhibit titled 'afield' hanging in Platform Gallery in Seattle for the next few weeks.

A brief interview with Adam discusses his work and one of...

Excellent, thanks for the heads-up.

Let's be clear: SOPA and PIPA are NOT written to protect independent creators. If these are enacted, they're much more likely to put you, as an independent creator, out of business. They're written...

This is straw-man nonsense. The whole point of this thread is that the vast majority of the R&D has already been done, and is continuing to be done, by the major digital camera and sensor...

Agreed. This LuLa article has a nice take on this very topic: Do you need an HDR Intervention? by Christopher Schneiter.

Another online author (sadly, whom I cannot find in my notes to cite),...

Ah... convergent design in action! ;) I'm currently building out the plumbing for my darkroom-in-progress, using many of the strategies outlined here: modular plumbing boards since I expect to have...

The grid PDFs are still available via the Internet Archive. Here's a direct link to the Archive's record of the grid download page, formerly at http://www.satinsnowglass.com/html/downloads.html.

I think you sunk it in one: this lens is priced for light weight combined with moderate rarity. When weight is a concern, one could carry two such lenses for less total weight than a single 210/5.6...

Hah! That silk camera strap from A&A was the trigger for a sequence of events that has culminated in my being the organizer for the 2010 Seattle Kumihimo Workshop. "Ooh, that's neat. What's this...

Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.gigapansystems.com/ <cough> <cough>

I recall a Gigapan pano of President Obama's inauguration receiving some reasonable buzz on the 'net. I also recall...

I've had my preorder in from the moment it went up on Amazon... so mark me down as "officially jealous." Even moreso for the good review! :D

I have some thoughts on this, but it's only indirectly related to photography so I'll direct that discussion over to this thread in The Lounge.

I generally agree with Dan on this point. There are a lot of starry-eyed optimists on Craigslist. On the other hand, I've found some good, fair prices for photography-related items on CL and it's...

Hi cosmicexplosion,

To eliminate the obvious: are you sure that you clicked that link from Firefox and not from Safari? If so, what version of Firefox and OS X are you running? (For Firefox's...

Hi all,

I've just created a browser search plugin for LFF compatible with Firefox, Google Chrome, and IE (any browser that supports the OpenSearch plugin standard). The plugin performs a...

If that sink doesn't work out, another option is to call around to local machinists and/or possibly place a Craigslist ad for quotes on a sink to your specifications. I've seen mention here and...

Hi Emmanuel -- thanks for the hard-earned advice, and a few laughs this morning! ;-)

Thanks for the info, William. I suppose it shows that the cameras I have experience with either have rotating backs or use some other scheme (e.g. Toho's rotate everything approach).

Hi all,

From Stroebel's View Camera Technique and what I've found online, Arca-Swiss cameras apparently don't have rotating backs. However, I've seen photos that suggest the back orientation can...

This is only hard if you're hand-authoring every page of your site, in which case you've already "expended far more time and energy than is required to do the job properly."

This is why it's vital...

There is a rumor floating around the 'net to this effect, which may have originated in this Hardmac.com article. It is well documented that Apple has made exclusivity arrangements with component...

The i9 really just provides more cores, and some minor incremental improvements in other areas. For that, you can just build out an 8-core system now and be done with it. That nonsense about a 50%...

This reminds me of one of my first great lessons about performer and instrument, also a musical anecdote. The first time I heard a Stradivarius (played by Maxim Venegrov) in live performance I was...

I've had naught but good experiences with Stephen. I'll agree that his communication has generally been terse, but effective enough for the situations. I had a problem with a viewfinder I'd...

I'll note that the Epson 3800 came out about three years ago. Since its successor, the 3880, was just announced that's a pretty reasonable lifespan. Epson has been in a recent spate of printer...

David, have you considered using a copy camera instead of a scanner? It's not clear whether this would be appropriate for your needs, but a lab or studio in your area may have a copy stand that will...

Yes, but it can be a vanilla no-monthy-fee Seller account, not a full Merchant account. I, like others here, list books for sale as a Marketplace Seller on a fairly regular basis. There is no...

Congratulations, Ken!

I'll be in Boston this summer, but too late in the season to catch the exhibit. <grumble> ;-)

jf, look into David Soemarko's LC-1 developer designed for use with Ortho Litho film (specifically the APS and APHS films). Don't let the "low contrast" part throw you -- I gather that you want a...

Wow, GPS. That's an awesome combination of FUD and a can't-do attitude. How do you even get out of bed in the morning with so much glass-half-full?

Here's some antidote for that: it looks fairly...

Interesting. Does anyone know whether any of the (relatively) more affordable used high-end flatbed or drum scanners work reliably with Intel-based OS X Mac systems? It seems that most such...

Wow, thanks everyone for sharing all of your perspectives and photos. Lots of good things to think about. I'm now leaning to a P2-sized pack, just for the extra versatility that offers.

Rakesh,...

I've been limping along putting an SLR-centric bag to use for my 4x5 kit. Now it's time for something better suited to the task. To this end, I'm considering a Photobackpacker pack. I'd use this...

The display technology will soon be light, cheap, and durable using an "e-ink" type display, preferably touch-enabled.



Blink and it'll be here. RED has already announced a full 6x17 format...

That's odd. I have absolutely zero curl with Efke PL 100 4x5. FWIW, I'm rotary processing in a print drum, drying in a gently heated film dryer with the film hung by one corner.

Good to know. I'll contact the RSS folks and see what they recommend. Thanks.

I'm aware of these, but to use one I'm supposing that I'd have to put an Arca-style QR plate on it...? (All my support is setup for Arca-style QR.)

I have a new Super Graphic on the way. I plan to use it for a fair bit of handheld shooting, but I'll naturally want to put it on a tripod on occasion. To that end can anyone recommend an...

Motion, er.. thirded.. ;)

I've received a lot of accumulated wisdom from the LFF articles and forum pages that has been very useful in my early days of LF shooting.

It seems that this is really an advantage of any scanner for which wet-mounting to a glass or acrylic surface is used, whether drum or flatbed. Naturally, to take full advantage of that the...