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How Many Cameras to Take on Holiday? - by Sroyon
Well, is this a first-world problem or what! Not only are we talking about going on vacation, but also about the "problem" of choosing between multiple cameras for said vacation. To be fair, I'm sure it's a decision which many 35mmc readers have faced (this is a site about cameras and photography, after all). But still, a little perspective never hurt anyone! In this post I'm not going to try and come up with any universal answer (the universal answer, as we all know, is 42). Rather, I want to talk about what I took for a recent trip to Mumbai and Goa – how I weighed my camera options in light of my own priorities, and how I feel about my choices in hindsight. I'm also curious to know how you weigh your options, and if your approach is similar or different to mine.
Shooting Gigs – Pushing The Boundaries of B&W Film – By Tom Schulte
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Shooting Gigs - Pushing The Boundaries of B&W Film - By Tom Schulte
I might say, pushing the boundaries of film in this case is more like returning to its roots. When rock ‘n roll and hard bop burst through the famed and now widely regarded as the golden age of music, that is, 50s-70s, the highest ISO film available was around 400-1000 (B&W of course). It’s difficult to think this level of light sensitivity would be enough to capture musicians in their element, when one could assume live music = low-light. And yet some of the greatest concert photography I’ve ever seen were shot on these (now broadly perceived as general purpose) B&W film stocks, particularly Tri-X.
Digital Nostalgia – 5 Early Digital Cameras from between 2001 and 2005 – By Bob Janes
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Digital Nostalgia - 5 Early Digital Cameras from between 2001 and 2005 - By Bob Janes
The world spins. Everything comes around. Eventually we start to get misty-eyed about stuff that seems to have only just left the room. Yes, I'm at that point. I’m about to get nostalgic about digital cameras. There was a sort of proto age of digital cameras at the start of the millennium, just before DSLRs started to dominate. Back then, digital cameras were possibly at their most varied and most innovative.
The Leica for a Year Project – By Patrick Medd
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The Leica for a Year Project - By Patrick Medd
The Venn diagram describing the readership of 35mmc and of Mike Johnston’s blog ‘The Online Photographer’, may not have a huge amount of overlap—on the other hand it may, I don’t have the data. For those of you not familiar with Mike’s blog you may not know that in 2009 he set his class of eager followers an exercise. The premise is described in an article entitled ‘The Leica as Teacher’ and developed in a further article ‘Why it has to be a Leica’. Put succinctly, it challenges you (the aspiring photographer) to shoot a Leica rangefinder, with one lens and one type of black and white film exclusively for a year. You should aim to shoot two to six rolls of film per week and make one to six work prints per roll, without cropping. Every five to ten rolls make one nice print, again without cropping. The idea was that a year of doing this would radically improve your photographic ability.