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Hello from Pensacola, Fl.
Oct 28, 2014 11:01:27 #
I'm a brand new member here, but have been photographing for over half a century. I have used almost every camera type except film plates, including TLR's, 35mm's, Brownie's, and a Bullet! We did weddings for a few years using Mamiya and a Hasselblad 500CM, but my main system for film was Canon A1. When the Digital revolution occurred, I jumped right in and became a Nikon guy. We don't try to keep up with the latest and greatest, but try to stay comfortable with our two D60's and 4 real lenses. I don't enlarge, so 10 Meg is fine. I used to have a modest B and W darkroom and really enjoyed working the soup to see your pictures appear. It's not the equipment anyway, it's the shooter's skills and imagination. Best advice? Get away from using Auto when you can and use the S,A and M settings until they become second nature and use depth of field to highlight your subject! The topics discussed here are great... Thanks for this site!
An older px showing softness and depth of field. Hasselblad 500cm with 80mm original. Copied with Nikon D60.
Oct 28, 2014 12:02:08 #
Oct 28, 2014 12:02:33 #
Welcome to the Hog. I look forward to seeing more of your work. I was raised on 4X5 speed graphic and Leica. My cameras Nikon F . I have a D 40 6megs. But it makes fine 8X10. It is not auto or manual. It is getting someone to shoot. Compose and then move on to manual. Do you miss the d/r and doing your own. I do sometimes. The guys and gals here are great. Love seeing their work.
Oct 28, 2014 12:18:03 #
Thanks Don. Yes I do miss the DR a bit, but at 70 now I am just not into it so much. I used it mainly for fun and also to process pictures of our high school football games for the local rag, so in that sense, I am very published...! I have a little HP 4x6 printer and I love being able to hand someone a picture a few minutes after taking it. The two kids at the fence are ours taken circa 1972 in my early days. I thought it shows depth of field and softness technically and the crossed looking gazes for composition quite well. They each have the D40x cameras, but only my daughter takes it at all seriously. I invited her to this site just this morning.
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Oct 29, 2014 08:08:13 #
Krfourov wrote:
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Oct 29, 2014 08:36:59 #
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Oct 29, 2014 18:01:00 #
Welcome to UHH Krfourov, glad you joined us. I did the same as you. Developed my B&W film, coverde the windows in the kitchen and drug out the Durst enlarger for a few hours worked. Now just shove the card into the computer and proceed to Lightroom. Have fun and enjoy the forum.
Don
Don
Oct 29, 2014 18:18:27 #
I too had a Durst at one time. I lost my darkroom when our daughter was born and the room had to become a nursery. I never set it up again in any other house. Most of my B and W work was sports related and I needed speed, so I was shooting TRI-X at 1200 ans developing it in Accufine developer. Don't even know if it is still around. For nostalgia sake, I still have a strap mounted film can holder on one of my Nikons for holding spare SD cards. Functionally about the same!
Oct 29, 2014 19:53:09 #
I remember diafine and acufine. Pushing tri x to 1600. Nikor reels
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Thanks for the memories. Welcome again
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Thanks for the memories. Welcome again
Oct 30, 2014 10:12:00 #
Krfourov wrote:
I too had a Durst at one time. I lost my darkroom when our daughter was born and the room had to become a nursery. I never set it up again in any other house. Most of my B and W work was sports related and I needed speed, so I was shooting TRI-X at 1200 ans developing it in Accufine developer. Don't even know if it is still around. For nostalgia sake, I still have a strap mounted film can holder on one of my Nikons for holding spare SD cards. Functionally about the same!
Still have my old 35mm Nikon F and Nikkormat. Don't want to part with them as I have had them about 40 years.
Don
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