david_henderson

5Diii. Wanaka NZ

Didn't see you there, Norman.

No mention of this on the 6 European flights I recently had. Suggest you verify with your carrier though. Going to be a tough one if true since ipads, laptops, Kindles etc are largely battery dependent and there's a lot of use of those going on, and people will not like being told they can't work or entertain themselves on the plane. In fact Some security lines ask you to switch on your camera just so they can be sure its the real deal. That's going to be hard if you've already had to let the batteries go in checked bags.

School, Havana, Cuba. 5Dii

Do you mean Doug Fisher's Betterscan holder? I have one . The 213mm scan area you quote is right. The 240mm ( in fact its a couple of mm more on mine) is the length of the film channel to allow for rebates, and the T locks that hold the film flatter. But not all 67 negs/transparencies are the same size. My Mamiya 7 trannies are near as dammit 71mm. Three of those without any allowance for rebates/t locks between frames comes to all the 213mm I have in the holder. So it would be impossible for me to scan more than two of those transparencies at one time per one channel -4 per holder . I understand , but can't be certain , that some 67 frames are only 66/67mm long. If so it might-just- be possible to lay down three full 67 frames in the channel in such a way that there's room for the two sets of rebates/ min two t locks between them as well as the entire picture area of three of your frames. Going to be a close-run thing though and will require great precision in placement. You might decide its not worth the faffing about.

I think this author is equating "smart" with "cheap". I don't. I'd want a camera that I could use very fast when I need to, and I'd guess that means having autofocus available. I also prefer the framing capabilities of zooms. So I guess this author is not going to persuade me to give up my Dslr to do what he's done.

Melbourne Aus.

If its not for the purpose of competition then presumably we could agree that all rules on inclusion/exclusion are irrelevant? I don't tend to think of "landscapes" as a subset of "nature" anyway, and consider that many landscapes are improved by inclusion of the hand of man in some form. But maybe that's a UK attitude, where as others note, even our national parks have people living and working in them. That said its getting hard in some USA national parks to make landscapes that exclude other photographers, photo-tours or their vehicles. Even our premier UK landscapers don't seem to totally exclude man or man-made objects from their work. In more crowded and economically integrated parts of the world its not physically easy to exclude the hand of man anyway. For example southern Tuscany is a prime landscape destination, but you'd find it tough to make a landscape that didn't have a farmhouse or barn in it, and contributing a colour palette and texture that enriches the photograph.

A real oldie- Minories London c 1998. Bronica Velvia

Habana Centro. Killing time at the peso shop. 5D

Jaipur, India

Milford Sound, New Zealand

Rain coming, Snaefellsnes, Iceland

Inside abandoned cooling tower, Romania.

Stencil Art, London

Don. I have an opposite view on Burkett. I've seen his work "in the flesh" - mostly in Cannon Beach- and always been a bit disappointed because for me, it doesn't live up to what I've seen online. I do wonder how many prints these increasingly aged luminaries like Burkett, Tom Till, the Muenches, Fatali etc are selling these days vs a decade or two ago. Maybe I've got it wrong, but I do wonder whether the world hasn't moved past red rocks in Velvia? Don't get me wrong I liked this stuff too- and I'm looking at a bookcase full of their work and the UK equivalents. But things change, and I guess I have too.

Bisti Badlands

Possibly the best value- and fast- place in the UK for Chromira prints is Printspace in London. www.the printspace.co.uk. You will need to upload a print-ready file, and they have profiles you can download for each of the papers they offer. You are right that Durst make (or made) a machine using similar technology to the Chromira. Also the LightJet machines are again delivering a similar output. All these machines use real photographic paper to make prints digitally. You might want to add Discount Films Direct to Mr Williams' list of online film suppliers. They sell 120 film, which if you are making prints almost a metre long, I imagine that's what you will use.

Jain Temple, Ranakpur India

Iron Curtain

I can think of three reasons to buy camera gear if we ignore "collector" type motives, replacing broken stuff, and commercial pressures for a pro. Your gear is not capable of supporting the type(s) and quality of photography you want to achieve and feel you could achieve. This is an easy one to flannel and requires brutal honesty with yourself over whether the gear is holding you back, or indeed whether you are holding it back- particularly if you move on before getting to use equipment properly. To keep you photographing. Sometimes your gear gets to be too much/too heavy to carry around in the execution of the type(s) of photography you prefer. An example might be to opt for lighter/smaller equipment to make walking round a city all day with a camera bag more comfortable , and stop you wishing you weren't doing that. There are people who just like the process of acquiring stuff, and can find the money to support that tendency. This can often show up in more than one walk of life. I have one or two friends like this about cars- they are always looking to buy a new car. There's nothing wrong with this, on the assumption that its not causing a social or financial problem- but its more about you than it is about photography. And the short term , workaround solution to your paragraph problem is to do what I did here and use the "bullet point" tool on the bar above the writing space.

Trinidad, Cuba 5D