jay_chadney

I would guess the bottom problem is due to not making sure the roll is tightly wound after removing from your camera. Any slippage of the "tightness" will let light in. Since it get progressively worse towards the end of the roll (the first exposures are tightly wound, but the roll loosens towards the end) - that is my guess. Take care when opening the back so that the roll doesn't "spring" open at all, and keep a grip on it as you remove it and tape it tight before giving to the processor.

Jay

Not overly photographed, but you could hike up to the top of Beacon Rock on the Washington side. Across the road from the lot is also another trail that leads to another really nice lookout.

 

Look at my friend Zeb's flickr page. He is an avid Gorge photographer, and you can get some ideas from him. He goes into a lot of detail on each of his photos - kind of gives you a lesson, if not a spiritual one for each pic. Here is a link to his waterfall stuff. Browse his other sets o get more info.

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You can't make an 8x12 image fit in an 8x10 mat w/o losing 2 inches. UNLESS you want to distort the image to be more squat. I doubt you want to do that. As the above post says, and to paraphrase a line from JAWS: you're gonna need a bigger mat!

I shop at Blue Moon every other day. You can check out their used inventory at their website.

www.bluemooncamera.com

Yeah, you really want to stay away from yellow snow.

Your daughter took the bottom one, 'cuz you're in it...?

You can't use the cost of printing and mounting to come up with the $600 you figured. Youstill have those costs with a digital camera. You can only figure in film and developing to come up with how much $ a digicam will save you (- a memory card).

Set 'em up. ?

One of my local camera shops has a Nikon 70-180 ED macro for sale right now. $799

I have a couple AI lenses, and the first time on the camer, they sound very loud and there is a lot of camera vibration. After the first shot they are fine. There is a 50mm 1.2 at a store I am wanting, but it makes the same "chunk" sound on every shot, so, I may just stay away from it.

I am following an active thread over at RFF. Moderators: if you don't want me to post this info, delete it - I am unsure of the etiquette. It is a lively chat, with 68 replies so far. It is titles "overcoming fear"

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47992

Photo.net isn't sending me your email address, so here is the link to the page my cameras are. It changes, so you may have to search the classifeds for my stuff under "JayC" or "g2" or "g1"

 

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost-classifieds/showcat.php?cat=all&page=3&perpage=12&sort=1&limit=last7

I have a G1 and G2 outfit available on rff. I will email you the info. I have taken great shots with the Contax stuff. I also own a Mamiya 7II and leica gear. Something had to go, so the Contax stuff is for sale. I have yet to take any true landscape shots with my Leica (or even with my Mamiya for that matter), so I can't directly compare for you.

Take a hroseback ride - or on foot if you are a good hiker - up to Ice Lake. AWESOME!

I can get one today (well, in the morning at least) from my local shop here in Portland, OR...

I've been on 3 Alaska cruises in the past 3 years. Each time I took a different camera system (35mm w/ lenses from 17-300,6x6, and 35mm digital w/ lenses from 17-200). I took (and used) a tripod each time.

Each trip was photographically "successful". A tripod on the deck or from your balcony can certainly provide acceptable results for prints ur to 8x10. I have several to proove it.

Are you planning any excursions? That should dictate your lens choices more than anything because you can keep a suitcase full of gear in your room, and have the freedom to pick and choose as your mood changes.

There is a small magnet that might be going "bad". I think it is called a "shutter release magnet." It tells the winding mechanism that the shutter has been fired and it is ok to allow a new picture. That was how it was told to me when mine went bad. I had it done at a repair shop.

I find a lot of Alaskan cruise ops are from a tipod from the cabin deck. I would take everything you have. You can just keep it all accessible oin your cabin and use wht you want. Use the SLR on the tripod for when you cruise the inside passage and up to Sawyer Glacier. It would be good on any excursions as well.

 

Use the M for when you go into towns (non-adventure excursions). There are people pictures galore - both of tourists and locals.

 

Jay

Between here and nikonians.org, I have a lot of info and settings to try out. Thanks.

Jay

Sorry. I cut and pasted this from my posting in the D200 group on nikonians.org

 

So...... it is a D200

When I have the "af-on only" setting and I am in "S" focus mode I feel I am

having a problem. I press the AF-ON button and get the beep to confirm focus,

then go and press the shutter button. Some of the time it doesn't trip the

shutter. If I hold the shutter button, it will trip anywhere from 1 second to

5 or 6 seconds later. At other times, the shutter trips right away.

Do I have a problem with my camera?

I tear out the articles from the magazines, put them into clear sleeves, then into a 3-ring binder. I make up my own "chapters" such as BORDERS, BLACK & WHITE, SHARPENING, etc. You can print the web pages you want and put them into the binder as well.

I am organinzing previous work, and doing new work to supply film studios with photos for anything from family pics that are seen when a character opens his wallet to buy lunch, to artwork for a kitchen set used in a commercial for dish soap.

I am not sure about having a lens on it or not, but my mamiya 7 had a problem that was only evident after a frame was taken with film in the body. The shutter and advance was working perfectly for many "shots" without film. But once I loaded film and took my forst shot, the film would not advance - the lever was stuck - wouldn't budge.

The problem was with the release magnet. And the only way to tell if you need a new one is to load up some film.