Richard’s Online Experiments In Everything
An occasional blog about photography, woodwork, electronics, programming retirement, nature, fell walking, life…
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“Light is the basic ingredient of photography. Photographers learn to love the light, to look for and anticipate great light. Some photographers learn to create the light they want…”
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A month with… Canon AE-1 Program
As part of an ongoing project to shoot a film with a different vintage camera every month, April 2025 was the turn of a Canon AE-1 Program 35mm SLR, loaded with Kodak TMax100 black-and-white film. This camera came to me…
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A month with… Nikon FM2
As part of an ongoing project to shoot a film with a different vintage camera every month, March 2025 was the turn of a Nikon FM2 35mm SLR, loaded with Kodak TX400 (TMax) black-and-white film.
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Macro Photography
These notes were made to accompany a presentation I made at Bromsgrove Photographic Society in April 2025. A few years ago I made a presentation at Bromsgrove Photographic Society entitled “50 ways to take a macro”, in which I talked…
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Characteristics of lenses
This post originated as a set of notes for a talk I offered to do at Bromsgrove Photographic Society. “I want a new lens for my camera. What should I get?” Or probably a better question… “I want to be…
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Current Lens Mounts
I’ve been working on a post about lenses and their characteristics to accompany an upcoming talk at Bromsgrove Photographic Society, and tried to include a description of what lens mounts were in use by different manufacturers. Trying to summarise this…
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Fuji X100VI initial thoughts
I just – almost on a whim – bought a Fuji X100vi camera. Here’s some initial thoughts about it the camera, the buying experience, and the camera.
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Notes on a targeting laser
A couple of years ago, after I had finished rebuilding my K40 laser cutter to have a larger bed (separate topic), I decided to add a red-dot targeting laser so I could see more easily where the main laser would…
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36 Exposures
One of the things I enjoyed about taking an old film camera out with me on yesterday’s walk is that I knew when I set off – and with every shot that I took – that I was going to…
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Time to scan some film
Yesterday I did something I have not done for 40 years – I developed a roll of film! Today I scanned it. A bit of a learning curve to be climbed here, and I made lots of mistakes! Listed a…