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When It’s Dark Out

When it’s dark out the light has to come from the inside! The light that got in, it has to be there, it can’t light the darkness if there isn’t anything inside. So when the light gets dim, when all the stuff the doctor prescribes, when it takes away all the things, everything, that makesContinue reading “When It’s Dark Out”

Neutral Density Filters

If you want to shoot with really long exposure, like maybe you want to make a photograph where the water flowing along in the little spillway up the road looks like flowing smoke instead of broken glass, or you want to make people disappear, you’ll need either a really slow film, a really small aperture,Continue reading “Neutral Density Filters”

Considering a Project

There is at present in my camera, in my Diana F+ fitted out with the 135 film back and the panoramic-with-sprocket-holes mask a found roll on 400 ISO AgfaColor. It came to me as so much does, in a box of vaguely remembered origin. It’s two thirds spent now, guessing it was not previously exposedContinue reading “Considering a Project”

The Best Exposure Meter

A Light Meter is not an Exposure Meter Some people call it a light meter, but it’s not. A light meter probably won’t help you with photography. Knowing that there’s slightly more foot-candles or lumens here or there doesn’t help. Knowing what shutter speed you need for a given scene, what f-stop you would needContinue reading “The Best Exposure Meter”

Copal SV & Copal MXV Shutter Repair

Issues If the Copal SV and MXV shutters in your camera (seen in Yashica TLR’s, among others) doesn’t fire, fires but is sticky on slow speeds, or has otherwise broken, chances are it’s a fault in the self timer. Thankfully there’s a easy fix; just take the self timer out. Unless you know what yourContinue reading “Copal SV & Copal MXV Shutter Repair”

Do You See Them?

I can see them. I am a camera, I think that’s why, that and the light. I’m full of light. It got in during the surgery I think. When they had my chest open? When they had my heart out, just a little out, so they could close up the hole. They said the holeContinue reading “Do You See Them?”

Lomography Diana + & F+ Lenses Field of View

In a previous post I calculated the f-stops of the Cloudy, Partly, and Sunny, settings for the various Lomography Diana + & F+ lenses. Now I will dig out a trig textbook and do the same for the field of view. It bears mentioning that when I type field of view I should be calling itContinue reading “Lomography Diana + & F+ Lenses Field of View”

Translations from a Box of Soviet Medium Format film (120)

Свема Svema ЦВЕТНАЯ Color ДС-4 DS-4 Негативная для дневнога Negative for the day (daylight color correction) 45 гост 18 DIN 50 ASA 45 gost 18 DIN 50 ASA Врем проявл. [7] мин Development Time [7] min. Обработать до [09 85] Process to [09 85] (Use by September 1985) Партия No [3019] Party no [3019] 8 кадров 6 x 9 cmContinue reading “Translations from a Box of Soviet Medium Format film (120)”

Lomography Diana + & F+ f-Stops

110mm Soft Telephoto Lens: Sunny: f32 Partly: f22 Cloudy: f16 75mm Normal Lens: Sunny: f22 Partly: f16 Cloudy: f11 55mm Wide Angle Lens: Sunny: f16 Partly: f11 Cloudy: f8 38mm Super Wide Angle Lens: Sunny: f11 Partly: f8 Cloudy: f5.6 20mm Fisheye Lens: Sunny: f5.6 Partly: f4 Cloudy: f3 Source: Published values for the 75mmContinue reading “Lomography Diana + & F+ f-Stops”