Category Archives: Medium Format

Using light meters intelligently

By sandy | Published: 21/04/2011

Looking at an analogue or digital hand meter for the first time can be very confusing, there are many options and often an overload of information. There are multi metering modes on advanced modern digital types which I find confusing even after using meters for thirty years, so I thought I might write a little [...]

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Snow scenes again

By sandy | Published: 21/12/2009

It’s almost a year since I started this blog and one of the first articles I wrote was about shooting in the snow on Ortho film (See ‘High contrast snow scenes’, Feb ‘09). I also wrote another article on achieving higher contrast by altering the film ISO and increasing the development time (see ‘Flexible film’ [...]

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Night Photography

By sandy | Published: 16/11/2009

Although the weather is turning much colder now here in the UK, I really want to get out and do some more night photography. I’ve not done any serious night stuff for a while now and keep seeing shots while I’m driving or at other inconvenient times. I try to make a mental note of [...]

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Consistent negative quality

By sandy | Published: 15/10/2009

One of the most important areas of photography is the processing of negatives. The quality of your images is dependent on how much care and attention you take with your developer, dilution, times, temperature and agitation. Following much of the literature which has been published on the matter though, could give you too many things [...]

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Follow up from ‘Low Fi Photography’

By sandy | Published: 29/09/2009

An earlier post which I uploaded from my phone whilst on holiday, referred to an obscure Chinese panoramic 120 camera which I had been using.
I have since processed the films from this camera and I was rather disappointed at the quality. Some were just OK, and others were really poor. The camera suffers from a [...]

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Paper Negative

By sandy | Published: 26/07/2009

I have been using resin coated paper in an old kodak Specialist 7×5 camera this weekend. I wrote recently that using it had distracted me from actually looking for pictures, but I keep being drawn back to it.
I have had a student of mine staying over for two days, he is from the university where [...]

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