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What’s that worm doing in my camera?

Chak Wong In 2011 I bought a Panasonic ZS8 — 16X, 14 megapixels, 1/2.3-inch CCD — a nice travel camera. But soon after it developed a case of “worms”, smudges that looked like small wiggly worms on all my jpegs. … Continue reading

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‘Estate’ Sale of Photographic Equipment

      To: RA Photo Club Hello, My father (John Dixie, who is retired) was a professional photographer with his own studio and darkroom in the 1960s-1980s. Among his household belongings that are for sale this weekend (June 22 … Continue reading

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Program – 14 June – Summer Meeting

Program Coordinator Denis Duchesne writes: Can you believe that it’s already time for the first summer meeting of the RA Photo Club?  So I would like to remind everyone that our next meeting will be held this coming Tuesday, June … Continue reading

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Spotmeter? There’s An App For That!

The venerable Pentax spotmeter was often used by zone system “practitioners” following in Ansel Adams footsteps to determine subject brightness range and film exposure.  They are still sought after and can go for $300 on the auction site.  Although various … Continue reading

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Stuff You Don’t Need…

…But might want anyway.  Lens bracelets, Canon style: http://store.adamelmakias.com/ And Nikon style: http://photographic.ly/products/f%7B47%7Dstop-Dial-Wristband.html

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Zeiss 35mm F1.4 Lenses

Zeiss 35mm F1.4 Lenses for Canon & Nikon now in stock from Rob Skeoch at www.bigcameraworkshops.com [If you have to ask the price you can't afford one... -Ed.]

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Ilford Multigrade Art 300

New gelatine silver printing papers don’t exactly come along every week so this really does count as news from Ilford (and it matters even if you are not a film shooter, see the end of the post for why): HARMAN … Continue reading

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How To Make Money From Your Photos

I always wanted to know the answer to this, click here for the details in this (at times unintentionally hilarious) short video piece: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9387518.stm

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When It’s Gone It’s Gone…

Older More experienced Club members will remember it… For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas PS, if you want to see what the last frame of the last roll of Kodachrome  processed (shot by “Afghan Girl” photog. … Continue reading

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Ten Years of Canon G’s & Other Gear Stuff

  In September 2000 Canon launched the Canon Powershot G1 camera, 10 years later #10 in the “G line has just been announced, the G12 (for some obscure reason they passed on the G4 & G8 model numbers).  I’m sure … Continue reading

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Lens Lust

Use this:    To get pics in this kind of light: taken with the Zeiss Distagon T* 1,4/35 lens (for the ZE (Canon EOS) and Nikon (ZF.2) mounts) available for pre-order (the cost is $1843) from Big Camera Workshops in Canada … Continue reading

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