Jump to content

dhbebb

PhotoNet Pro
  • Posts

    2,801
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Reputation

0 Neutral
  1. <p>Fred, call me a reactionary crypto-fascist if you will, but I do perceive a slight difference between somebody who uses the pretext of photography to rape underage girls and another person who uses a slang expression for female genitals which all this person's female friends use without hesitation among themselves and to the person in question. If you take the ultra-PC view that speech crime is the worst of all crimes, there's probably very little more that I can say.</p>
  2. <p><em>I am a translator working at home.</em> <br> So am I. I don't like wasting money on ink cartridges either - I now have two HP Deskjet printers of rhe 1000 series, I bought the second one a few weeks ago for a staggering £16 new with no cartridges, ink costs with the supersize XL cartridges are really not bad, photo output is OK but not great. Ink costs with my Epson 3880 are also OK, the cartridges are costly but very large, but the 3880 is not so good for text - not a very strong black.</p>
  3. <p>If you need the money<br> http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?r_nkw=mamiya+645&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=CT102ES&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=3&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&LH_Complete=1<br> or haven't got the space AND are absolutely sure you'll never use it, either with film or a digital back - then yes.<br> The situation these days is that if you have a good film camera, you will probably not find another as good if you sell it AND with the price of film cameras at the moment, you will earn the price of a camera if you take just ONE picture which sells reasonably well. </p>
  4. <p>In over 60 years' photography, both as an amateur and pro, I have scrupulously avoided wedding photography :-) (I have in fact done 4, all friends). My crude but effective technique is to have my camera on program mode all the time, with flash on TTL mode, and never look at camera settings except before the start. The reason for this, and the thing you can't learn from books, is that the most important factor is how to marshal people around efficiently but without annoying them and hold their attention while you are photographing them (which of course presupposes you are familiar enough with your photo gear to work quickly). I find this gives much more relaxed and spontaneous results. Like others, though, I would like to see some of your pictures - very likely there are no technical deficiencies - from a technical point of view wedding photography is easy, it's the people skills that count (same for portraiture and press work).</p>
  5. <p>The easiest way of dusting out the interior of any camera without damage is to use compressed air in a can – well-known brands include Kenair and Dustoff. Don't point the nozzle directly at the glass - these cans use butane as an expellent. Frequency of cleaning depends on how much dust is present - could be once a day or more often if you are changing films on a windy beach. The same applies to a mechanical checkup – if the shutter is running accurately and all mechanical components are working correctly and without unusual noise, and the camera is used lightly in clean conditions, a checkup every few years will be fine. If the camera is used in filthy conditions, it will need checkingy much more often.</p>
  6. <p><em>creepy faux porn</em><br> Interesting to read in the Guardian piece that when he felt he needed some new models:<br> <em>One of the girls who came forward after Flament accused Hamilton told Le Nouvel Observateur that he would send his girls off to find a new “mouse” on the beaches in the south of France. “Mouse”, she revealed, was the word he used for the girls’ genitals.</em><br> Convention has it it that, even if a photographer regards his work primarily as a way of "attaining relations" (edited by moderator), he refrains from saying so explicitly :-) if he wishes to be regarded as a serious artist.</p>
  7. <p>Tim, I stand by what I said. Try to see things from the point of view of newbies and potential PN users/subscribers. Digital imaging is the standard today, both for commercial and private work, most young people take the view that photography is just another computer/i-phone app which can be learned through trial and error without necessarily taking advice from anyone. What PN does have is a number of people, including myself, with decades of experience in wet-process photography, which can help newbies who want to experiment with film basically to find out what it's all about. If this is an enjoyable and rewarding experience, they will continue, and film photography will take on a new lease of life. If on the other hand PN presents an image to the outside world of grumpy old men arguing, the reverse will occur. </p>
  8. <p>Les, to be honest I see very little difference in tone of the 2 articles - the verbatim quotes are the same, the only slight difference is that the Guardian article is a fraction more defensive on the basis of "innocent until proven guilty".</p>
  9. <p>British press has more, too:<br> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/25/british-photographer-david-hamilton-dies-paris-police-source/</p>
  10. <p>I've said it before, and been told I am a "prissy scold", I'll say it again - if all PNers viewed themselves as ambassadors for photography and gave newbies considered and helpful answers, the forum would be in much better shape. I can't count the number of times I've tried to do this only to have my efforts negated by condescending smart-ass responses by others which have the predictable result of ensuring that the newbie in question disappears forever.</p>
  11. <p>Highly successful commercially, virtually ignored or dismissed by critics - I was never sure what to make of DH. In today's ultra-PC environment, his work would unquestionably be illegal. We must of course be mindful that the rape allegations were unproven, to me they seem not impossible. </p> <p> </p>
  12. <p>Not so easy to find, but:<br> http://www.cosmonet.org/camera/leic3f_e.htm<br> You can forget about delayed or undelayed - when the IIIF was made, flashbulbs were in widespread use and of various types, such as F (fast), M (medium) and FP ("focal plane" or long-burn) . Any flashbulbs you encounter today will be M class, which take about 1/50 sec. (20 msec.) to reach peak brilliance after being triggered (electronic flash is virtually instant, hence the recommended setting of 2 [ms] for the black dial IIIf). </p>
  13. <p>At the risk of stating the obvious, this printer started life as a number of modules:<br> ftp://download.epson-europe.com/pub/download/3272/epson327296eu.pdf<br> (see pages 8 ff)<br> and could I presume be dismantled down to this level, by Epson technicians if no-one else. This I would imagine would cut down the number of strong men required and greatly reduce the risk of damage. Just a thought!</p>
  14. <p>Different strokes for different folks! I'd be hard put to it to describe EM in philosophical terms, for me he was a pioneering technical photographer in the field of motion analysis. There is some talk of his being a motion picture pioneer, of course he never shot or projected a single foot of motion picture film, and his subject matter has in the meantime been covered more informatively by slo-mo photography, particularly digital. Plenty of material for an entertaining movie in his personal life - I look forward to seeing the movie.</p>
×
×
  • Create New...