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Three Approaches to Shooting a Classic Screwmount Leica by Khoa Tran See Khoa’s Flickr HERE Before the introduction of their famous M-system of cameras and lenses in the 1950s, Leica (then Ernst Leitz DRP) produced a rangefinder system now known as the Leica threadmount, screwmount, or, simply “Barnack” cameras, after their inventor, Oskar Barnack, who developed the original Leica camera in the 20s and was one of the pioneers of 35mm photography. Henri Cartier-Bresson developed [...]

Steve Huff Photos - Real World Digital Camera And Lens Reviews

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Digital World for M42 adapters

http://www.wholesaledigital.co.za/m42adapters.htm We have dedicated M42 adapters available for the Canon EOS cameras, The Pentax *iST D and K series, Minolta MD and AF, Nikon, as well as for the Olympus 4/3rds system. On the Sigmas, a Pentax K to M42 adapter is used, which is a very close fit but not perfect. There is a Japanese CSSM42 dedicated adapter available for the Sigmas, but quite expensive.
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Documentary photography digital magazine

7.7 is a Project of the colective of photographers RUIDO Photo, and it is developed independently and voluntarily, with the goal of creating a meeting point and a debate space about the role of documentary photography. This is a bet for the creation, use and publication of a new channel that is meant to became a reference of an independent, social, critic and committed photojournalism, proposing a photography as a tool to generate reflection and social change. The team of 7.7 is a group of professionals that works as a collective, sharing the work and the decisions, searching for and horizontality that helps creation and debate. 2010 Award Jury: Jessica Murray (Al-liquindoi), Sandra Balsells (photographer), Leopoldo Blume (editor), Alice Monteil (Fundación Photographic Social Vision) and Marta Delclos (Virreina Centre de la Imatge)

madeforjapan

http://www.madeforjapan.net/ Masanori Miyauchi / A Story in ONE Page (Vol.06) VOL.06 On that fateful day, 3.11, I went to pick my mother-in-law up at her workplace. At that precise moment, the Tsunami arrived, soundless.
http://www.thedphoto.com/page/2/ “ I’m 21 and live in Flagstaff, Arizona. I’ve been shooting film for the past four years and take my camera everywhere with me. I use a Pentax Spotmatic and usually shoot Fuji Superia, 200 or 400 ISO.

The D-Photo | Photography inspiration & articles | Camera gear | post processing - Part 2

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Henri Cartier-Bresson | Adam Marelli Photo

Christie’s: 100 Photographs November 11th, 2011 The holidays are just around the corner, so why not treat yourself to a photograph by Henri Cartier- Bresson? A slice of Master pie would taste great for the holidays. What’s For Sale This morning I had a look through the Christies on line catalogue of prints being [more...]

Mastering Black-And-White Photography: From Camera to Darkroom - Bernhard J. Suess

“A masterful book . . . offers a wealth of practical suggestions to improve your photography, many of which are just as useful when shooting color.”— Popular Photography “. . . highly recommended!”— Library Journal http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Mastering_Black_And_White_Photography.html?id=HpZro4426UEC#v=onepage&q=How%20to%20develop%20film%20for%20washed%20out%20black&f=false

Photoshop vintage effect | Veerle's blog

http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/blog/comments/photoshop_vintage_effect/ Back in October I took this photo , in front of our house. A cool scene, bright colors and a double rainbow. After seeing this picture on my Flickr page, I received an e-mail from Marco who asked me about the post process of this image. Now here is my answer… Choose your image carefully First of all I need to mention that some pictures are better suitable than others.
There is, perhaps, no greater experience in photography than making your own photographs in your own home darkroom. Setting up your own makeshift darkroom is not that difficult. Once established, your darkroom will provide you with a means to explore the world of creative photography to a degree never before possible. http://makeshiftdarkroom.com/darkroom/setting_up_amdr.html

Setting up a makeshift darkroom

A Simple Guide to Setting Up Your Own Photographic Darkroom

http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/post-processing/a-simple-guide-to-setting-up-your-own-photographic-darkroom/ Every two weeks, we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Phototuts+. This tutorial was first published in November of 2009. It takes a lot of ambition, interest, and curiosity to have the drive to go back to the traditional roots of photography and get stuck into manual photographic printing and processing.

Build A 35mm Panoramic Pinhole Camera | DIYPhotography.net

If you are still shooting film and are still in love with the magic of pinhole cameras , I have no doubt that you are going to fall head over feet for this next tutorial. You could always buy a model , but nothing gets a good old-days thrill like building a pinhole camera yourself. It shows how to build a panoramic pinhole. You see, one of the things with small pinholes is that the focus plane is not constant, the film is "closer" to the lens at the center and farthest at the edges. The panoramic pinhole camera takes care of that issue, while providing stunning panoramic images.