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<p>Bokeh. Is it boke-ee, or boke-ay, or boke-eh?</p>

<p>I wonder how much it will be? </p>

<p>All good comments. And all will be taken into consideration. Thanks. We have the good fortune of having an authorized Fuji repair shop in our town. I will check with them when I have time. Just wanted the opinions of enthusiasts before the opinion of one guy in a shop (whose opinion, by the way, is often not what I want to hear). I will post his "official" opinion when he gives it to me.<br /> <br /> I've had my eye on the S100FS for a while now. Maybe my little chip off the old block will get a huge present before long. Maybe I'd rather spend a chunk of change than spend a lot of time editing hundreds of pictures unnecessarily.</p>

<p>Hello,<br /> What would cause a large vertical scratch on every digital image taken with a fixed lens camera? Can a sensor get scratched even if nothing can get into the camera? Can the camera be fixed? The scratch is in the same spot on every picture. Below is an example of every shot taken with my daughter's S9100. By the way, since it is 3 or 4 years old, it is no longer covered under warantee:<br /> <img src="http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-6/26820/example2.jpg " alt="" width="450" height="563" /></p>

I take that back. The actual name of the magazine is Digital Camera World. The size of the word "World" in the

title (on the cover) is much smaller than the other two words. In some areas of the magazine, they leave the

word "World" out completely, just like on their <a href=" http://www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk/">website</a>.

I just returned from the bookshop a few minutes ago and it appears issue 75 was the August issue and it has been

replaced with issue 76. I'm sure you could order issue 75 from their website (I've inserted a hyperlink a couple

of sentences ago).

Get issue 75 (probably August or Sept of 2008) of the British magazine called Digital Camera. It comes with a cd that has video tutorials on how to do things. One of the tutorials shows you how to create an HDR portrait from one original RAW image using PhotoShop. The tutorials are very thorough and concise. You can buy the magazine at Barnes & Noble in the US, and it is still on the stands now.

Hi Dustin,

 

You're right in hoping these forums will help you improve your work. It will. This place is an invaluable source of good information and constructive criticism. Just beware of the misinformation and ridiculous criticism you'll also find.

Let me see if I can make that shot look a little better. It really makes a difference which image host you use:<p>

 

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Spend some money and get the Nikkor 17-55mm f2.8 ED lens, and an SB-800 flash, and a monopod, and shoot some

slow-sync/rear-shutter shots. You’ll love the results:<p>

 

<center><img src=" http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-6/26820/RecordParty1.jpg" width=525 height=351></center>

I pay the extra money to get the [jmported] British publications like Practical Photography and Digital Photo, because they give straightforward practical advise without all the fluff. Digital Photo comes with a very insightful cd each month that shows how to do things in Photoshop. I also like B&W and , and although it's quarterly, LightLeaks for low fidelity photography.

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The classic look of b&w film was always at the core of the fine art photography market (as well as other markets) and I, for one, don't want that to go away. Aside from being artistic, pure and dogma faggoty, there really does seem to be some kind of indescribable difference between a completely desaturated color shot and one created with b&w film.

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I hang out in an old time camera shop where they lent me a 6x7 for the weekend a couple of months ago. It is the only time I've ever used it. It had the built in meter and a 100mm macro lens on it. They wanted $500 for it. The salesman who lent it to me, who also happens to be the most professional photographer know, told me that he used one as his only camera for a while, and that he was disappointed in the accuracy of the meter. He has always shot mostly weddings and portrait work for assignments. He used a handheld meter and got better results. I'm sure there's all kinds of differing opinions. I used the meter to shoot some architectural shots, some flowers, and some portraits, all in bright sunlight, and every one of my shots came out nicely exposed. The 6x7 is heavy and cumbersome, just like the Fujis. I was surprised out how perfectly spaced the frames were on my contact sheets and how sharp the pictures were, edge to edge, and corner to corner. The store paid to have my pictures developed and printed on 4x6 prints, then they put the prints next to the camera in the glass case and the camera sold that very afternoon. They are without doubt good cameras.

I've found creativity and inspiration to come and go in waves. Sometimes I'll have a good idea and I'll put forth the effort to bring the idea to fruition. The vast majority of my ideas have never come to fruition. Sometimes I have no good ideas at all. A lot of the time, I just get discouraged by knowing how much my ideas will cost. I look at thousands of other people's photos hoping to get some good ideas from them. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't. I remind myself that my best work is yet to come and I keep working at it. Hopefully, I'll work at it till the day I die.

 

You've just got to decide what really floats your boat, make a plan to create such work, and stick to the plan. I would think that for each great photo you see on P/N, the photographer has shot tons more crap that you don't see.

I shoot about 5 rolls of film per month on average. All kinds. I like to have slide film cross processed. And I love my medium formats, most of which are completely manual. I just starting shooting with a Polaroid ProPack, because it was so cheap on ebay. And I still try to dust off my 35mm's and take them out for a shoot once in a while. I feel more artistic with film cameras. I like knowing that I know exposures, and that I understand light. I like knowing I'm old school. I'm not embarrassed to wip out a cheap-ass Holga.

 

With all that said, the majority of today's assignment work expects digital, and digital has its merits. I always end up shooting way too many pictures with digital, and it can be a bitch to have to sift through thousands of pictures to pull out the good ones, and then edit in photoshop.

$500 is just about right for the Pentax 6X7. I've seen many of them like the one mentioned above going for that price. I use a Fuji 6X9 rangefinder. When I shoot with it I carry two cameras - the Fuji and any camera with a built in light meter. Get a proper meter reading and shoot with the Fuji. It's one of my all time favorite cameras.

What does the D3 have that the D700 won't?

Have a contact sheet made and determine for yourself.

Thanks for the warning. I'll remember this, and be sure to only attach my MB-D10 to a cork covered quick release plate.

I've been having trouble accessing the Fuji Rangefinder Pages website. Does

anyone know what happened to it?

No harm in trying out toy camera photography! I use Holga 120 cfn. It's a 6x6. Toy camera photography has a genre all its own. It's also the cheapest camera I can think of, and there's no need for a meter. You could add it to your collection of other 6x6's.

Spencer,

 

My favorite place to buy film and chemicals is from Freestyle Photo online. They are a camera shop out in Los Angeles, but they have a mail order catalog and they have a website where you can order whatever you want, including an extensive line of darkroom chemicals. They seem to be devoted to preserving the dwindling art of film photography. Their prices on film are far better than the prices in my local camera shop, and they have a much wider selection. Their online catalog can be found <a href="http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_main.php">here</a>.

I agree with Josh Root when he said, "Just because someone can't themselves do what they are telling you to do, doesn't mean they might not be correct. Tiger Woods's golf coach can't play golf as well as Tiger can. But Tiger still has a coach."

 

There are plenty of connoisseurs of photography that really know their stuff about photography, but have never produced the kinds of work that they love. In some sense, maybe most of us are like that.

My Pentacon Six TL used to have the notorious frame spacing problem, but not now. Now it operates like a dream. I had it overhauled by a man in Germany named Rolf-Dieter Baier. These cameras are his specialty and I highly recommend him. He has a website called Baier fototechnik. The cla included using a solvent to take out all the old grease that was originally in the camera, because it had hardened somewhat and slowed down the camera. Then he lubricated it with clock oil. Then he put flocking material in the mirror box. Then he installed a special button that shows when the film has advanced properly. Then he tested the winding mechanism and all of the shutter speeds. He kept me posted with all of the test results. He even has instructions on his website on how to advance the film delicately to avoid any frame spacing problems. I had it done a couple of years ago, and have run a couple dozen rolls of film through the camera since. All frames have spaced perfectly since the overhaul. After reading so many disappointing P6 stories on the internet I feel like I'm one of the only people in the world that loves mine. Anyway, I do, and I can't praise Mr. Baier enough. Here is some info on him:

 

www.baierfoto.de

 

info@baierfoto.de

 

Rolf-Dieter Baier fototechnik

Am Buerkle 25, D-79312 Emmendingen

 

Fon: +49 7641 936 858

Fax: +49 7641 936 859

 

BTW, I'm only a satisfied customer. I do not know him personally and I am not working for him.