To make this simple self-portrait, I didn’t spend an hour setting up the Wista, loading sheets of film, processing with half-expired C-41 chemistry, crossing my fingers, drying, scanning, spotting, inverting, storing, and
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When I first saw the Leica SL, I was amazed by its brutalist audacity. Coming from the M series, this was not what I pictured when thinking “Leica”.
And yet the SL appealed
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Film photography is a lot of work. Not so much the actual shooting part, that’s work no matter what the medium, but lately I find the rest of the process (developing, scanning,
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I’ve prided myself on my ability to shoot a Leica M3 or Hasselblad 500C/M with no meter, no auto-focus, and no auto-exposure. Who needs it? Real photographers certainly don’t! Plus,
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Here are my remaining 35mm SLR film cameras. Clockwise from front-left, they are.
Canon AE-1 Program. An AE-Program was my first real camera. I received one from my parents as a graduation gift.
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Gutenberg is powerful and useful for enabling those of us who don’t feel like working too hard to create decent-looking, complex, media-rich layouts. But, most of my posts are just an image
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I threw a singe strobe off to one side. It’s a little hot. It’s no picnic learning how to light things while using large format film cameras. The feedback loop is
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I hate scanning film negatives. Especially
color film negatives.
Scanning software is universally atrocious to use. Getting good color from scanned film is such a hit-or-miss (mostly miss) proposition that I’d largely
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Where should I keep my notes,
TheBrain or Roam? I decided earlier this year to use Roam, and was confident in that decision until TheBrain version 12 added backlinks.
Now all bets are
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Sometimes I get bored with the way I’m running things around here and look to mix things up a bit. It’s happened again. This time, it meant bringing back the Coping
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This tweet by Mike Lee Williams started something:
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Note: I'm now doing it this way instead.
I look at a lot of articles on the web. And by “look
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I discovered Roam in December, 2019 and thought, “Wow! This is exactly the thing I’ve been looking for” even though it was buggy, less than pretty, and still too new to count
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As you probably know, I struggle with where to keep my notes. For a few months now it's been a battle between Org-roam and Roam. Org-roam has been in the lead,
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Org-roam continues to impress.
I use org-roam's "Daily Notes" feature every day as a frictionless place to put notes that may or may not need to be moved or
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It's been a challenging week for me using Roam. For the past several days my Roam database simply wouldn't load. I'd see the spinning Astrolabe forever. Deleting
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