Once upon a time, I had a surfeit of color negative film: 2-5 rolls each of multiple 100, 200, and 400 variants from multiple manufacturers/re-rollers, but after shooting film almost exclusively for more than a year, that supply dwindled to dangerously low levels, and as of January 1, 2016 I had one roll each of …
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the importance of Patience
وَالْعَصْرِ By time إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ Indeed all of humanity is in a state of loss إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ Except for those who have believed and done righteous deeds and advised each other to truth and advised each other to patience. Surah Al Asr It seems sort of …
Fun with Flare
Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Flare Quite accidentally, I ended up with a couple of shots that demonstrate the flare characteristics of the Petzval on film (aka full frame). This, of course, is something most competent lens testers would do as a matter of course. But I’m not a lens tester: I’m a …
Houseplants and weeds
Petzval Week Season 3, episode 5 You’ll be happy to know that I did more with the testing than just shoot from the car window. I also shot in the yard on the way from the garage to the house, and in the house, near where I keep the briefcase. There are no limits to …
Fun with Curled film!
Don’t do what I did… or maybe do, now that you know what can happen. Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Curled Film Film curls. Some film curls more than others. Some film rolls up along its length as if it misses being stuffed into the canister. This one can be a bit of …
Ohne Titel
From the process discussed ad nauseum a couple of days ago, and with similar misgivings:
Did 2.0.1 fix the problem with Snapseed?
So I noticed that Snapseed had a bug-fix update after work today, and eagerly installed it. Did 2.0.1 squash the bug? Before I get to that, I thought of something I forgot to check earlier… the newfangled Photos app I won’t be using… Sadly, it doesn’t see the edits either. (This was likely a silly …
