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Yeah, Rockwell sure does own a ton of expensive equipment himself. I get the feeling he's trying to "pull the ladder up" after himself.

DNG is very good for Adobe as it reduces the amount of work they need to do to support new cameras.

 

From a purely creative perspective, there is zero advantage to the photographer over RAW.

Have you not heard of <a href="http://www.minoxlab.com/Don_Krehbiel/mpl/dkasa.htm">DIN</a>?

"With No Words" - a thread that's just photos, no commentary.

If you wait forever, you can have a million megapixels.

Assuming you're happy dealing with white balance issues, negatives are easier to scan for the simple reason that they never get as dense as chromes. Of course, what's easier for you will be what you're used to, all I'm saying is that the technology works better with negatives.

Portra is fine-grained, not coarse :-)

This is your autoexposure compensating for the closeness, this is normal behavior.

Because you only get one sensor that has to do all the speeds. It's easier to manufacture one that gives acceptable results 200-1600 than it is one that does 50-6400.

 

Maybe one day we'll see DSLRs with interchangeable sensors. People who really care about image quality are using interchangeable digital backs on medium format bodies.

I have to disagree about the meter. With a little intelligence I have found the meter to give excellent exposures (e.g. in sunlight I might meter off the grass, then let everything else in the scene fall where it may). I have half a dozen rolls of beautiful-looking FP4+, full range of tones, bags of detail in the shadows and highlights, drying in my bathroom right now. All shot last weekend in bright overhead sunlight.

Nachtwey is a genius, but the author of that article needs to, umm, study some history. Like I am pretty sure the US never nuked Vietnam...

RW prices don't include VAT.

It's the same working for any large organization. As others have said, if you get your MOS in writing upfront, you're on surer footing. There is nothing to stop you going into any branch and taking your camera with you.

 

42, wow, I think the upper age limit is 32 in the UK. Still I can't imagine being an adult living in your own place and then going back to sleeping in a barracks room and being shouted at by someone 10 years your junior.

At 80mm, definitely.

BW400CN has the orange mask <i>specifically</i> so it can be printed without any hassle next to colour negative film. Kodak designed it this way. Anyone who tells you otherwise is "mistaken".

At 31 (same age as me!) you are pushing the upper age limit - if you are going to do this, you'll have to set the ball rolling soon. Good luck!

The newer Nikons (F6, D2 series, I think the D200 as well) have more widely spread focus points than the F100, F5 or D1 series, they make traditional "rule of thirds" compositions easier.

<a href="http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/marineenjobs/bl4641.htm">MOS 4641, Combat Photographer</a>

I guess it would depend on whether I was shooting very small things or very dimly lit things.

If you take a photo in Canadia a Mountie will come over and ask you "what's it all aboot, eh?"

 

Unless you have a mullet, in which case he'll know you're a true Canadian, eh.

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I am <a href="http://www.shutterspeedonline.co.uk/pages/darkroom/paterson/bwdev/fx39.php">in the UK</a>.

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Cheers!

Hands down best developer for TMZ is Paterson FX39.

Before digital, there was this thing called "Polaroid". Everyone who knew anything still used a flashmeter. By all means experiment all you like - I assume you've fully calibrated the LCD* on your DSLR? No?

 

* Little crappy display

None at low ISOs.

If you want CLS you will need to upgrade to an F6, not an F5.

 

Multi-flash TTL you can do with an F5, IIRC, but not wirelessly.