I was talking with some other photographers lately and the subject of lighting came up. The studio we were at had 6,000 watt seconds of power, including several power packs and some Alien Bees monolights. One of the other photographers asked me how I felt about the religious question of Packs vs. Monolights

It least twice so far, I've had dreams about expired film.

I talk a little about my stockpile of discontinued film.

There's a myth going around that all of California is like Los Angeles, largely because that's what people who live outside the state see from TV shows set in California. From this, one makes the logical deduction that therefore there are no seasons in the entire state of California...

Kodak announced that they are dropping EPR, EPN, and HIE in december.

I got up in the middle of the night to take some pictures of the eclipse. Here is some video I made out of some of the digital shots I took. I also took some film pictures, but those need to be developed. first.

Why film "looks" better at different speeds, super-high-speed films, dynamic range, and other issues necessary to understand film speeds.

As I mentioned in March, Nikon would eventually have to go full-frame. Well, they finally went there and announced the D3.

Canon announces the 1Ds Mk III and the 40D... my G7 is obsolete... and I add commenting

I compare Porta 400NC and Porta 400VC against each other where one shot is taken right after the previous one.

One of my friends was digging her film EOS camera out of storage after shooting digital and she wanted to understand what it was doing, so she asked me what happens when you tell her camera to ignore the DX coding on the back and set things manually.

There are two basic kinds of film developing machines. The "Cine" machine and the "dip and dunk" machine.

Some thoughts after using the G7 for a while

After Christmas, I spent a bunch of time getting used to my new setup and building a lot of little bits to get my lighting where I want it to be. I also took a step back and decided I didn't like where my whiteground photos were going at that point; I wanted to do something else...

We tend to assume that our file formats will be with us forever, often times because many of the commonly seen file formats have been able to stick around for a while. You can still download GIF images that people used to advertise their dial-up BBS systems in the eighties and nineties before everybody was on the Internet.