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  1. Farmers reducer works on negatives or silver (b&w) prints. It won't work on inkjet, dye sub, or RA4 color prints.
  2. Canon 50mm/f2.5 macro is very sharp and has very little distortion, but it's flare control isn't great, and autofocus is relatively slow.
  3. I haven't scanned film on a flatbed in many years, but the biggest problems I faced haven't been addressed in this thread: film flatness and Newton rings. If you taped down the film to get it as flat as possible, Newton rings spoiled the scan. If you used a film holder that kep the film off the glass, only part of the image would be in sharp focus.
  4. I stopped reading photography magazines about twenty years ago, when they were all "film-only magazine." The one I continued reading the longest was focused on darkroom work. It was never a popular magazine, but it consistently had useful information. The popular magazines had maybe five useful articles per year. If you want to improve your photography, your time will be much-better spent visiting photography exhibits and studying books of great photos. (And, of course, practing photography.)
  5. Beach dog on a rainy day. (Sorry, photo.net just gives me error messages when I try to upload the image.)
  6. I love photographing drunk people. They're much less self conscious, and they generally don't care what I'm doing (as long as I'm not a buzzkill).<div></div>
  7. "this is more aimed at amateur photographers that just want to record their life" That's not really your potential market. You're trying to carve a slice of a fairly small niche of photographers who are interested in "low-fidelity" film photography. You need to figure out what will entice people to buy one of your cameras instead of one from Lomography. My suggestion would be to fully exploit the potential of 3-D printing your materials. As you noted, you could offer different textures, but you could also offer different patterns (e.g. Art Deco styling) and offer names or other text patterned into the body of the camera.
  8. The pier near my home was seriously damaged by a typhoon a couple of months ago, but repairs were completed last week, and now it's back in action.<div></div>
  9. When the cold comes to Korea, I head south to warmer climates. This winter, I've lined up a week in Penang to eat great food and seek out new street art, then a couple of weeks in a bungalow on a quiet beach on the north end of Koh Phangan. Haven't decided on the what to the last couple of weeks of winter break--thinking about visiting a friend in Chiang Mai.<div></div>
  10. Canon 5D2, 28/f1.8, f4 at 1/500<div></div>
  11. Canon 5D2, 50/f2.5 macro, f4.5 at 1/500<div></div>
  12. The first thing you need to realize is that most people out on the street have no interest in you. If you're not doing something to grab their attention, most people won't notice you taking photos. Being casual and confident is a good way to avoid attention, so it's helpful to be comfortable with the camera you plan to use. If someone does ask you about what you're doing, give them an honest answer. If you're making an effort to be sneaky, it's likely to attract negative attention. People are generally quite good at picking up on subtle, non-verbal cues. If you're acting like you're doing something wrong, it's going to draw more attention than if you're comfortable and open. I can't think of any notable street photographers who use long telephotos or right-angle lenses to "hide" what they're doing. I've taken photos of thousands of strangers over many years, and people posing or asking me to take their photo have been much more common than people objecting.
  13. <i>The attacker who called JDM an "effing redneck" was never banned.</i><P> That is false. The person who posted the initial insult was the first banned (for two months), but he hasn't posted about it in half a dozen threads. <P> <i>I personally do not think that JDM was attacking in pointing out that the attack on him reflected ignorance and abusiveness.</i><P> The Terms of Use don't say it's okay to attack other users if you're responding to their attack. "Well he started it" is a lame excuse even for a five-year-old. It does not justify the follow-up posts in which you and JDM von Weinberg repeatedly violated the Terms of Use.<P> <i>At present we have no recourse, and that does create some frustration.</i><P> You can send your concerns to the site's administrators. That has always been the appropriate method if you disagree with a moderator's actions. Repeatedly posting your false allegations about a "rogue moderator" is a violation of the Terms of Use. [As a point of fact, you have been suspended from (or had suspensions extended) in multiple forums on multiple occasions by several different moderators. There is no rogue moderator banning you for no reason.]
  14. Leslie, discounting spammers, the number of photo.net users who have ever been suspended is a tiny fraction of 1%, and even limiting it to fairly-active forum participants, the fraction is about 1%. Only a handful of people have been suspended multiple times and/or from multiple forums. The most-common thing that moderators do is remove spam. The second-most-common thing is moving threads to a more-appropriate forum (where they are more likely to get an answer). Deleting posts/threads and suspending people is relatively rare--something each moderator might do a couple of times a year. "It was pleading for not deleting entire posts that led to my being banned until next Monday on Casual (causal?) Conversations." You've conveniently failed to mention your post attacking another user and calling him names. (To be fair, though, almost everyone who complains about how terrible the moderators are shares this same trait; they always see themselves as innocent victims of an unfair system [a system which, as I noted before, is no problem for the overwhelming majority of users].) Fortunately, the tone and content of threads on the Site Help forum are not representative of the site in general. Simply look at the hundred or so threads outside this forum which have been active in the past few days, and you'll find hundreds of users sharing photos, exchanging information, and interacting in a positive manner. So, you don't really need an alternative place for people to respond to your question about critiques. Almost everyone can respond to your initial thread; the number that can't can be counted on one hand (with fingers left over).
  15. <i>It is social media and should be without censorship.</i><P> So people should be free to post hard-core pornography and snuff videos?
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