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When testing cameras, lenses and lighting equipment, I need models who are interested in posing for the photographs you see on this blog. I’m looking for models to work with on these projects, especially my new emphasis on film photography and I’m especially interested in finding a new muse.

One of the reasons that people are sometimes disappointed with prints made from digital camera files is usually not the quality of photograph but what’s missing from the image. What’s missing might be Uncle Bernie who was on the edge of the group photograph you made at last year’s family reunion. It’s not that you don’t like Bernie— when you look at the file on a computer he appears in the image—it’s just that he’s a victim of a difference in aspect ratio between your camera and the print.

These days almost every camera has a Live View function, not just mirrorless cameras. On DSLRs, the Live View feature uses a second sensor mounted in the viewfinder’s optical path to transfer the image to the LCD on the camera’s back

Today's Post by Joe Farace All bodies are radiant but not all radiance is visible: stars radiate visible light; planets and donkeys and couches radiate infrared waves.—Amy Leach If you’ve been reading any of my recent posts about Infrared photography, you might know...

I didn’t think that this blog’s new focus on film photography would be controversial but it appears that it can be. As it seems, so do my wardrobe choices. While some of my film photography posts have gotten higher-than-normal numbers of page views, they have also generated lots of different kinds of questions, some of which surprised me, which is why I’m doing today’s Q&A.

It’s true I’ve had problems. And believe me I’m not happy about that, no more than when I had seemingly unfixable problems with cars I loved and had to get rid of. While some it has to with my own stupidity I’m not embarrassed telling readers abut what happened so perhaps it will hep with their own film related issues. Right now, I’m awaiting resolution of problems with my Seagull TLR and Hasselblad XPan, that were purchased new by me almost twenty years ago and spent the last 10 years, sitting in a camera bag.