mike dixon

Farmers reducer works on negatives or silver (b&w) prints. It won't work on inkjet, dye sub, or RA4 color prints.

Canon 50mm/f2.5 macro is very sharp and has very little distortion, but it's flare control isn't great, and autofocus is relatively slow.

I haven't scanned film on a flatbed in many years, but the biggest problems I faced haven't been addressed in this thread: film flatness and Newton rings. If you taped down the film to get it as flat as possible, Newton rings spoiled the scan. If you used a film holder that kep the film off the glass, only part of the image would be in sharp focus.

I stopped reading photography magazines about twenty years ago, when they were all "film-only magazine." The one I continued reading the longest was focused on darkroom work. It was never a popular magazine, but it consistently had useful information. The popular magazines had maybe five useful articles per year. If you want to improve your photography, your time will be much-better spent visiting photography exhibits and studying books of great photos. (And, of course, practing photography.)

Beach dog on a rainy day. (Sorry, photo.net just gives me error messages when I try to upload the image.)

I love photographing drunk people. They're much less self conscious, and they generally don't care what I'm doing (as long as I'm not a buzzkill).<div></div>

"this is more aimed at amateur photographers that just want to record their life" That's not really your potential market. You're trying to carve a slice of a fairly small niche of photographers who are interested in "low-fidelity" film photography. You need to figure out what will entice people to buy one of your cameras instead of one from Lomography. My suggestion would be to fully exploit the potential of 3-D printing your materials. As you noted, you could offer different textures, but you could also offer different patterns (e.g. Art Deco styling) and offer names or other text patterned into the body of the camera.

The pier near my home was seriously damaged by a typhoon a couple of months ago, but repairs were completed last week, and now it's back in action.<div></div>

When the cold comes to Korea, I head south to warmer climates. This winter, I've lined up a week in Penang to eat great food and seek out new street art, then a couple of weeks in a bungalow on a quiet beach on the north end of Koh Phangan. Haven't decided on the what to the last couple of weeks of winter break--thinking about visiting a friend in Chiang Mai.<div></div>

Canon 5D2, 28/f1.8, f4 at 1/500<div></div>

Canon 5D2, 50/f2.5 macro, f4.5 at 1/500<div></div>

The first thing you need to realize is that most people out on the street have no interest in you. If you're not doing something to grab their attention, most people won't notice you taking photos. Being casual and confident is a good way to avoid attention, so it's helpful to be comfortable with the camera you plan to use. If someone does ask you about what you're doing, give them an honest answer. If you're making an effort to be sneaky, it's likely to attract negative attention. People are generally quite good at picking up on subtle, non-verbal cues. If you're acting like you're doing something wrong, it's going to draw more attention than if you're comfortable and open. I can't think of any notable street photographers who use long telephotos or right-angle lenses to "hide" what they're doing. I've taken photos of thousands of strangers over many years, and people posing or asking me to take their photo have been much more common than people objecting.

<i>The attacker who called JDM an "effing redneck" was never banned.</i><P> That is false. The person who posted the initial insult was the first banned (for two months), but he hasn't posted about it in half a dozen threads. <P> <i>I personally do not think that JDM was attacking in pointing out that the attack on him reflected ignorance and abusiveness.</i><P> The Terms of Use don't say it's okay to attack other users if you're responding to their attack. "Well he started it" is a lame excuse even for a five-year-old. It does not justify the follow-up posts in which you and JDM von Weinberg repeatedly violated the Terms of Use.<P> <i>At present we have no recourse, and that does create some frustration.</i><P> You can send your concerns to the site's administrators. That has always been the appropriate method if you disagree with a moderator's actions. Repeatedly posting your false allegations about a "rogue moderator" is a violation of the Terms of Use. [As a point of fact, you have been suspended from (or had suspensions extended) in multiple forums on multiple occasions by several different moderators. There is no rogue moderator banning you for no reason.]

Leslie, discounting spammers, the number of photo.net users who have ever been suspended is a tiny fraction of 1%, and even limiting it to fairly-active forum participants, the fraction is about 1%. Only a handful of people have been suspended multiple times and/or from multiple forums. The most-common thing that moderators do is remove spam. The second-most-common thing is moving threads to a more-appropriate forum (where they are more likely to get an answer). Deleting posts/threads and suspending people is relatively rare--something each moderator might do a couple of times a year. "It was pleading for not deleting entire posts that led to my being banned until next Monday on Casual (causal?) Conversations." You've conveniently failed to mention your post attacking another user and calling him names. (To be fair, though, almost everyone who complains about how terrible the moderators are shares this same trait; they always see themselves as innocent victims of an unfair system [a system which, as I noted before, is no problem for the overwhelming majority of users].) Fortunately, the tone and content of threads on the Site Help forum are not representative of the site in general. Simply look at the hundred or so threads outside this forum which have been active in the past few days, and you'll find hundreds of users sharing photos, exchanging information, and interacting in a positive manner. So, you don't really need an alternative place for people to respond to your question about critiques. Almost everyone can respond to your initial thread; the number that can't can be counted on one hand (with fingers left over).

<i>It is social media and should be without censorship.</i><P> So people should be free to post hard-core pornography and snuff videos?

<i>So that’s all good, except that we photographers ripped ourselves off in a few ways over the past 15 years:<br> Going to digital cameras too early<br> Upgrading too often<br> Treating digital cameras like film cameras </i><P> We didn't buy our first digital camera until 2005. Also, we didn't upgrade from our our first 5D for over four years, only after it needed to be sent in for service from so much use. We are still using the 5Dii we bought about six years ago. We're not really sure what "treating digital cameras like film cameras" means, but if it means using them to take lots of photos, then, yes, we do that (though we don't know how we are ripping ourselves off by doing so).

Looks like it's essentially a Jobo for people who can't load a film reel. Wonder how they're going to react when the reel doesn't load properly and their film is ruined.

The cheapest and lightest option is writing to multiple cards. You can get a 64GB SD card for about $20.

There have been dozens of threads started for that site recently (I've gotten rid of a lot of them), but they have been started using several different accounts. When one gets banned, the spammer uses another. Unfortunately, there's no effective way to block spammers from setting up accounts that wouldn't also block legitimate users from setting up accounts. Photo.net does have various procedures and filters for blocking spam, but again, it's impossible to preemptively block new spam without blocking lots of legitimate posts. Moderators and admins do discuss and implement ways to get rid of spam more effectively, but photo.net simply doesn't have the resources to monitor every forum every minute of the day in order to get rid of spam immediately. ". . . I just don't see the moderators actively implementing processes or procedures to safeguard the enjoyment of paying members." I'm not sure exactly what you expect to see. Should we post public announcements about the exact procedures we use (so spammers can better figure out ways to counteract them)? Should we post a message every time we delete a spam message or spammer (which would clutter up the forums as much as the spam itself)?

It's a trade-off. The number of users inconvenienced by not being able to post non-Latin type is much lower than the number of users inconvenienced by hundreds of spam messages filling the forums.

Having known and worked with a number of models (amateur and professional), I strongly suspect that the reason you're not getting responses is because models think you're just another GWC. Models frequently get offers from Guys With Cameras. If you don't have quality photos to demonstrate that you're a skilled photographer, models will just assume that you're a Guy With a Camera who wants to spend time with and take photos of a pretty girl. Before I ever started shooting models, I had a decent portfolio of street, documentary, and portrait photography. I didn't have much trouble finding models to work with.

I second Jeff's recommendation to travel as light as possible. Saigon, the Mekong Delta, and all of Cambodia range from hot to extremely hot year round. Also keep in mind you may need to load all your stuff onto a boat or carry/drag all of it for a distance. I once had to walk (with all my stuff) about a kilometer to transfer between buses on the opposite sides of a damaged bridge. Summer is the rainy season in that area, so always be prepared for a heavy downpour. Storms can roll up pretty quickly. Don't expect a lot of wildlife in populated regions of Cambodia (most of it has been eaten). When I've traveled in that region, it has been with a single body and three primes (wide and normal). I wouldn't even consider carrying as much as you're planning to take.

The OP said absolutely nothing about shooting images for stock sales. He asked about precautions against the heat and rain.

When I shot weddings, if I was offered champagne for a toast, I'd join the toast (after snapping a few shots), but I would never get at all inebriated while working.

<i>Obviously the people involved in the album aren't politically savvy or knowledgeable but will be susceptible to the suggestion from Jack and end up retracting their work. What's more is that possibly Jack and his friend Tom, Jerry and Greg also are in a united cause of ensuring that Adam's work doesn't get published by stalking Adam's social media pages and work.</i><P> I don't know why you would presume that people involved in the album aren't politically knowledgeable and are susceptible to suggestion. They're the ones who have had direct experience with the person who photographed them. If the person who photographed them treated them with respect, why would they immediately turn against him because some strangers post crap on the internet?