john falkenstine

<p>699 pounds could buy you a used car AND if you're careful, a cheaper F2 as well. Then you can take pictures AND drive to where the picture taking is going to be done. Motor drives on these older cameras are heavy pigs not much fun to use.</p>

<p>Actually its 58mm and if the inside thread was 58mm and the outside thread was 58mm, they wouldn't fit together, since 2 solid parts can't be in the same place at the same time. Some clearance is needed to make threads work correctly.</p>

Narcissism is a common trait among photographers who like to hear themselves write long treatises.

The answer above is one of the most straigthforward and best I've seen in a while. With my T90, I tend to first take reading of the brightest and darkest areas in the framed image, then take additional readings across the subject. If readings are biased too much to one side of the scale (leaving the reading of the subject out of the "zone" of readings), I try to recompose and then re-meter. Metering on this camera is superb. Too bad many newer DSLRs try to do all of this automatically. BTW I have found a number of older Film SLRs where the actual "center weighted" meter was out of alignment being slightly above or below the actual "center" of the viewfinder. I found this mislocation quite by accident while comparing some camera's light meter readings against a handheld meter. The true "meter spot" of many cameras can be found by gradually moving a solid object, such as a pencil or pen across the the camera field of view and watching when the reading suddenly changes. THAT is the actual location of the metering spot.

Finally, the suggestion of many years ago was implemented.

Actually the best way is to shoot the roll off completely. After all that is what FILM IS FOR eh?

That-is-much-better. Thanks.

I replaced it with a Sigma 15-30mm. Much improvement. However, I read that lens test above and finds it rationalizes the flaws. No matter, I paid very little for it.

If its wound to the 4th shot, I would assume that there's film in it. And there are only 4 exposures. Since you can't remember taking any exposures, opening the camera in daylight would cause the loss of a few shots only. No need for a darkbag or anything else.

This is an endless, circular argument. If I had the funds, ALL of my photo work would be done on a MAC, everything else on a PC. Macs drive monitors in a different way. Go to Ken Rockwell's netsite, he's got a good explanation.

I second that suggestion; its a fix that's long overdue, but more is needed. For long time participants, the forum index is huge and takes a long time to download. Why not break such files up into segments? That would assumedly reduce the load on your server as well.

Or a nice train trip to Paris, if you live in Europe, which I think might be a better investment.

It means more pimply faced guys with little else to do will spend money buying these things and then go to netsites to have endless conversations about which hopelessly long lens to stick on the end. Frankly when I look at an image, its sharpness, or lack thereof is way down, virtually non-existent as a factor of liking or not liking. The obsession with megapixel-ness, long lens-ness and the absence of decent pictures from this tide of mechanical "stuff" shows that camera companies have a great thing going.

So THIS is why my tripod wouldn't set up properly this last weekend!!

Same here. My Dad's Kodachromes are keeping their color very well, but the Agfas are all gone now. I keep his slides in an insulated case in the dark.

Let's just state it simply; Kodachrome is fantastic film.

Its not really relevant unless you have an image of some personal interest or value, then perhaps that fact that it needs to be sharper, and sharper and sharper and sharper might be a factor, can't really say any great photographs that I know of are great because they're sharp and nothing else.

If your environment is that bad, I would first find another place to do any printing at all.

I had a renter who read Castenada's books back in the seventies. One evening he arrived with a large bag of Peyote that he prepared in a skillet in my kitchen and then proceeded to eat while I cautiously watched. He became incredibly ill and spent a large part of the night praying to the porcelain god. I think perhaps that this is what Castaneda really had in mind when he wrote the books :)

Interesting, my CDs go back to when they were first being burned. NONE of them has gone bad. I consider the "going bad" bit an urban myth. If you have CDs going bad more than likely they were bad from the very start.

The new passport picture requirements are a study of absurdity and shows how STUPID people can become and mismanage a simple photograph standard that has worked fine since the 1930's.

My mother's pictures were rejected. In reply, I sent them TWENTY-FIVE images of various sizes of my mother's face with the correct external size. The passport arrived with an image copy so bad that nobody can now compare my mother's face with what is in the passport.

Black and white is easy to do. Color is expensive, and some municipalites and cities don't like it when you flush those chemicals down the bathroom drain.

Don't "play" with the rewind crank. You can get the film too tight in the canister and then the following can happen: 1) scratches on the film. 2) the film advance spool has to overcome the tension of the film and will strip out the sprocket holes in the film. BAD. Been there, done that, (once only).

And they're having trouble with the English Language as well.

I think its petty, splitting hairs over an old picture. Will it change the picture? NO. will anything change it the future because this was written? NO. Time moves on.