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Making a Pinhole lens for a Canon DSLR
Originally From My website July 2005 Specifications: Depth of Field – Infinite Equivalent focal length – 50mm Resolution – very poor! Speed – slower then you can imagine. Cost – cheapest Canon lens (the main component is a Canon part) Making the Pinhole Lens Parts: 1. Canon camera body cap. Canon caps because they have…
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Really Bad Video Productions
RBVP is my tongue in cheek name for my low tech attempt to fool around with moving pictures. As long as I don’t take myself too serious the making of small video clips has helped me widen my horizons. The following Youtube video I made with about 100 shots out of my DSLR. The idea…
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Colour Balance Epson Scanners – A Short Note:
Often when scanning it’s not only the white balance that needs attention. In this case the white balance is fine but the mid greys and darker have a blue cold colour ting. The leaves are also meant to have more browns. Epson software is pretty bad when it comes to colour balance. It does more…
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Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle or One Way To Use A TLR For Street Photography
There are many schools of street photography starting from the most famous Cartier Bresson. Notice how he holds his camera when not being used. This would still work today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqsOYsZlPX4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjjGiBUaf4s Or the currently in vogue copying of Bruce Gilden flash in the face style: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBARi09je8 The Heisenberg uncertainty principle gives us that the Photographer …
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Odds and Ends In B&W Film Development
If you can soft boil an egg and you have a sink you can develop B&W film Lucky Seven D76 Development Times B&W Development From One Shot Powder D76 8×10″ Large Format Foam Core Pinhole Now days I mainly use one shot (dispose after one time use) Kodak TMAX Developer for pushing and Kodak XTOL…
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Cross Processing Myths RIP
The 2 myths I will be talking about is that cross processing E6 slide film in standard C41 colour negative gives unpredictable hence random results. Hence the popularity with lomography crowd. Before you stop me I know plenty of people that take wonderful dreamy shots with lomo and other toy camera but none of them…
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Faux Redscale
Redscale is done by putting the roll of colour film into the canister with topside and backside reversed. Originally a DYI project Lomo is now selling the reverse film at a premium and Rolli is now manufacturing films with the filter layers reversed also at a premium. The gel filters are reversed ordered hence the…
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Black & White Development In One Shot D76
Mamiya C220; Film Tmax 400; shot at ISO 400; 12 minutes in the developer I have been doing all my B&W developing with Kodak D76. I keep my d76 in a mason jar in powder form and mix each batch fresh one shot use. Conventional wisdom is that the powder might settle into it’s components…
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Using The V500 Scanner and HDR Techniques To Get The Most Out Of The Negative
Example of a technique for scanning high dynamic range films. Plus a digital darkroom dodge and burn I took this shot using my mamiya c220 with a 180mm lens. Film was TMAX 400 shot at 1/2 stop faster. As usual I screwed up the loading of the film into the developing spools so there are…
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Testing Epson V500 Scan of a 35mm Zeiss Contax IIIa Colour Negative
Unlike my Canon 4400f the Epson V500 scanner is in focus, also the slide holder are much better and easier to use. It also works on medium format. The new scanner will allow me to do more B&W in the future. This shot is nothing special but the I choose it as it needed a…