ian_tindale

March 17, 2011

I can wait. I’d rather wait another year if necessary and have a well-considered tool that will last me for many more years, created without stressed conditions, than a botched compromised appliance targeted to a market window.

July 7, 2010

Which country do you consider to be “this country”? You never actually get round to specifying that. So, using extra sensory perception, my guess is that you are in Malta, and for that you’d probably have to go to Valetta to find your camera shops.

April 5, 2010

120mm? That’s an unusual width for film.

March 28, 2010

What’re you talking about? They’re still in favour:

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March 28, 2010

If it has almost two gigabytes used, then it can’t also be empty. What’s on it that isn’t photos? Connect it directly to the Mac instead of through the camera and you’ll see what there really is on it. It might have stuff you actually want, so do that before you decide to format it and lose everything that is on it currently. If you haven’t got a card reader, get one first – they’re very useful to have around in the long run.

February 28, 2010

Broadly speaking (and of course, with many exceptions) it is defined by the intent or purpose. Commissioned or commercial art is seen as being at the other end of a scale to fine art.

February 27, 2010

Flickr won’t tell you that this is the case, nor will BT Broadband. But it is the case. I’ve been taking advantage of this situation for the past few years now. What you need to do is to change your login email on flickr to use the Yahoo / BTinternet email address you got given with your BT Breadboard account (the email address is actually a Yahoo account, even though it says @btinternet.com). Use your existing flickr account, just change the email address from you that it uses, to your btinternet one, and log in using that one from now on. That should then show you as a “pro” user.

February 4, 2010

11:48 - still a potato

January 21, 2010

They must’ve gone past the dSLR stage. On the bottom of the Olympus E-P1 it says “Made in China”.

January 1, 2010

Is there a way of artificially activating the focus assist light in, for example, an SB-24 or SB-27?

December 26, 2009

What happens next?

December 13, 2009

Never heard of a lot of those "brands" - made up brands more like.

November 26, 2009

You could allot yourself a pinhole camera. With their very high apertures, you'd have to allot quite a long exposure time though.

October 20, 2009

Got to teach and everything you learn will point to the fact that time is eternal

(Drummond, Cauty)

October 10, 2009

40mm (in 135 format terms) is all I really need.

September 23, 2009

It used to be, long ago, a sequence like this:

<ol>

<li>I've just got an SLR! I shoot pictures all day.</li>

<li>I've just got a new filter - everything's got stars on</li>

<li>I've just got another new filter - there's five of everything this month</li>

<li>I've saved up for a wide angle lens - wow, every shot is wide now.</li>

<li>I've saved up for a telephoto lens - but I still mainly use the wide angle</li>

<li>[several years of zooms, macros, gear accumulation, flashguns, new bodies, etc]</li>

<li>[a few decades later]: I prefer my 50mm standard, I'm going back to step 1</li>

</ol>

September 21, 2009

…I'm always taking photographs.

September 19, 2009

I must say, though, that I far prefer his work with Peter Sellers in his Pink Panther series of films.

September 17, 2009

Just snow:

(impression left by person lying down in the snow) - I metered the same as the rest of the day using an incident light reading. The only unusual measure was to decide that there's no true black - nowhere near in fact - and not really a true white (even the sky wasn't a white) so it was a matter of deciding where to artificially place my 'shadow' and 'highlight' well outside of this range, to position this little bit of tone in more or less the correct place as I remember it.

September 16, 2009

I live in London and I've never heard of "downtown" - it's the name of a song in the sixties, but not a real place. Try and find such a place on the tube map - it doesn't exist.

September 14, 2009

The only black and white films I've developed in colour chemistry are those films designed to be developed that way - they're chromogenic films, intended to be developed in C41 chemistry. I don't use them a lot, but at one time I had quite a lot of it to get through.

September 14, 2009

I don't think that is actually grain. I suspect it's more to do with the way in which it was scanned. If you hold a loupe or magnifying glass (or take the lens off your C330 and use it backwards as the magnifying glass!) does the film have any similar defects?

September 5, 2009

The department of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270625/">Feild</a> is not open during weekends.

September 4, 2009

A while ago (when I used to have one) I did this photo howto for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iantindale/sets/72157594329666989/">how to load a C330S</a>.

August 27, 2009

You get <a href="

(which admittedly was an experiment with Scala, but effectively it's just an ordinary black and white film, so you'll get the same result).

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