Category: Nerd stuff
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Nerding out on film – summary
A few days ago, I suffered a brain fart that led to writing three articles about predominantly working with black & white films, but it isn’t clear from the main post titles which article is about what. So… here’s the summary:Nerding out on film 1 is about how to handle contrast — subject contrast, your…
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Nerding out on film 3
On metering light and determining exposure For many of us, it is probably a valid assumption that 75% of our pictures will be correctly exposed when we set the camera to A, and there will be additional photos that are “good enough” so that they can be fixed in the mix. But sometimes, at least…
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nerding out on film 2
Film development — workflow and best practices This article is aimed at making film development less intimidating for someone who has never tried it before, and to answer questions a beginning film development enthusiast may have. It specifically focuses on traditional (not C41) black&white development. Which is not a value judgement on the C41 development…
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Nerding out on film 1
How to handle contrast Earlier today, I was explaining a couple concepts dealing with contrast in b&w film development in a group of camera people, and about halfway I thought, ok, this is where I initiate nerd level “off the scale”. But apparently, I struck a chord with some readers. So you know what? Let’s…
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Škoda Columbus (RNS-510): updating maps from SDHC
Ever seen the dual-layer DVD with the card updates (which can be read correctly in another drive) being refused by your RNS 510 (Columbus) as an unreadable disk? You wouldn’t be the first to whom this happens. It seems a common issue that the laser, probably due to contamination, has no problems with CDs or…