The eighth installment of the One Minute Rant. Each audio is one minute or less* and focuses on a very specific topic to engage readers here on the FR to comment and start a dialogue! Just click on the RANT logo to listen. Note: This Rant is a bit over one minute.
Archive for March, 2009
The One Minute Rant – Remember When Photography Was Fun?
Posted in One Minute Rant, tagged analog vs digital, fun photography, photography as therapy on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The One Minute Rant – Photographers Make Prints
Posted in One Minute Rant on March 26, 2009 | 16 Comments »
The seventh installment of the One Minute Rant. Each audio is one minute or less and focuses on a very specific topic to engage readers here on the FR to comment and start a dialogue! Just click on the RANT logo to listen.
The Human Rangefinder
Posted in Camera Technologies, indian hill imageworks, LCA, leica, LOMO, lomo lca, Olympus XA, Olympus XA 4, rollei, stephen schaub, Toy Camera, xa, tagged homemade rangefinder, portable rangefinder, rangefinder camera, scale focus, zone focus on March 24, 2009 | 14 Comments »
This instructive video provides a useful technique for making your very own, personalized rangefinder for the purposes of better focus accuracy with camera systems like a Rollei 35 and 35 S, Olympus XA 2, 3 and 4 as well as the LOMO LCA and Diana + camera systems… basically if you have to scale-focus your [...]
Using the Black Cat Extended Range Exposure Guide
Posted in Exposure Meter, indian hill imageworks, stephen schaub, visualization techniques, tagged exposure guide, light meter, night photography, no light meter, pinhole photography, star photography exposure on March 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As promised here are my thoughts on using the Black Cat Extended Range Exposure Guide. LINKS: Black Cat Extended Exposure Guide Web Site Previous Article on Pocket Exposure Guides here on FR
The Horror of Redscale Film Technique
Posted in analog film technology, analog photography, indian hill imageworks, LOMO, Lomography, tagged loading redscale film, LOMO Redscale, redscale review, rescale film on March 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Let’s be clear: I personally don’t like Redscale film and the image below confirms it. It is possibly going to give me nightmares or at least a rash… my wife describes it as the Amityville Horror photograph. Nonetheless, the audio portion of this post describes Redscale film technique and gives pointers on how to maximize [...]





