For a moment, pretend you are a beginning photographer and have just entered your local camera store. You start browsing over the different filters and examine the example images on each one that shows how using each filter will alter the look of your pictures. Eventually you set your focus on a Hoya skylight filter.... Read more »
Like most of the rangefinder using population, I'm going to assume that you already own the Danish Royal Wedding Special Edition M6, the 500 Year Christopher Columbus M6, and the Ein Stück Leica M6 which celebrates Leica being publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock exchange. With these cornerstone collectible M6s already in your possession, the... Read more »
Amazing Custom Argus C2. Features include some rice, a toilet paper tube, masking tape, rubber bands, and a slick denim covering.
How to efficiently use a side mounted range finder on 4x5 press cameras.
Every year or so I dig through this site and do house cleaning on the images that I've posted. I look at every photo and end up deleting what I no longer feel is my strongest work. The last time I did this, I also scrubbed some of the other content, and removed the information... Read more »
Cheap method to prevent accidental frames from being shot while using a soft release.
Ergonomic shutter release technique for hand held Speed Graphic shooting.
Testing of the noise of the Leica M3 against other focal plane shutter cameras.
To compliment my old article about modifying an Olympus Trip 35 to use the 1/200th shutter speed while shooting manually, I have posted the first part of a guide that will allow for both of the camera's shutter speeds to be used while in manual mode. See it here.
