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one of my favorite shots from my trip in italy was a shot of this viewfinder. for a few reasons: I had my family pose rather awkwardly in order for them to just come out right off the reflection of the viewfinder; it was atop that big beautiful duomo in florence, and that it was one of those sudden 'a-ha' moments that i managed to capitalize on. i love this shot.
btw convincing 5 other members of your family who are VERY tired after going up all those narrow stairwells to pose is not very easy to get. i have to give them props for being good sports about it even if i had to re-shoot this a couple of times just to get it right :)
no hdr, some color correction taken fiddling with hue/saturation levels of the yellows, magenta, and greens
Colorado Springs, CO - This was taken from the master bedroom of a house in the hills looking over downtown Colorado Springs.
The image was an experiment so speak; I wanted to combine exposures of both the indoor lighting and outdoor night sky while keeping both the foreground and background in focus.
It was really windy at the time so I had to tie the drapes so they wouldn't flop around.
Shot the through the viewfinder of my nikon FM. You can just make out the focus marks in the centre there!!
Simulated view of Canon 6D viewfinder, with its 11 autofocus points.
Learn how to take control of the Canon 6D autofocus system in this article on Picturing Change.
You can see the shutter speed in the bottom the focus confirmation circle and the metering gauge.
As you change the aperture and shutter speed the needle with the circle will move up and down. The moment it overlaps with the metering needle, the photo is properly exposed.
The focusing circle can be describe as a analog focus speaking. Any portion on the circle that shimmers (looks like crystals) is out of focus. I think this is one of reason people complain that manual lenses are too difficult to focus on modern DSLRs.
Somebody once asked, "How do you know what you're shooting with a pinhole camera?"
A well known photographer recently said composing a pinhole photograph was a matter of guesswork.
I know many pinholers like this way of working but there is a way to get exactly what you want if (like me) you're not so free and easy. (I think the hit-and-miss approach puts some people off trying)
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I mostly use my Zero69 on the square format setting.
The focal length is 40mm and the film height is 5.5cm.
The first thing to do is to scratch a deep line down the center of a cokin filter.
Measure 40mm down that line and scratch another line at a right angle. This is your projected focal length.
Measure 5.5cm on that second line so that it sits equally either side of the center-line and mark it. This is your 'projected film plane.'
Scratch two lines from these marks down to the base of the center-line.
All three lines should join together on the edge of your filter.
When composing a photograph place the filter up against the front of the camera directly in line with the pinhole.
Look directly down the 'field of view' lines. Everything you see that sits between these lines will be in the photograph.
Repeat for the Y-axis (up+down)
The center-line is useful for positioning the focal point off-center.
This example was given using a 40mm focal-plane camera. If you're using 25mm, change the math. The same applies if you're shooting at 6x9 and so on and so forth.
It's better to use a cokin filter than a piece of card as you can see through it.
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My logo with Kirstin McKee's image :)
Simulated view of the Nikon D610 / D600 / Df viewfinder showing all the autofocus AF points in proper scale and location. The D600 was the first "affordable" full frame dSLR camera.
Learn how to take control of the Nikon D610 / D600 autofocus system with this article on my blog Picturing Change.
Looking in the viewfinder of a Nikon FE
*Split image focusing screen
*Match needle lightmeter
** Green shows the current speed
** Needle the metered speed
*Judas window showing aperture of lens on top
Illustration for: camera-wiki.org/wiki/Nikon_FE
A well-built viewfinder camera taking 4x4cm images on 127 roll film, by Leidorf of Wetzlar, Germany. c.1952. This has been seen on the web wrongly described as a 35mm camera.
The back release is by twisting the strap lugs 90 degrees and sloding the back and base downwards.
Triplon 50mm/2.8 lens in a Prontor-S shutter, speeds 1-1/100 + 1/300 + B.
The aperture scale goes 2.8/3.5,4.5,6.3,9,12, and then a bit firther to an unmarked f16 or so - strangely on what would normally by half-stop marks.
Taken on: Nikon F2 (waist-level viewfinder) with Delta 3200
Scanned on: Nikon Coolscan 4000 film scanner
Hacon
Cute Bakelite camera from about 1950 for 2.5x2.5 frames, rollfilm 828 (or perhaps rollfilm 127, since the 828 wasn't available any more). The shutter can be set to "Z" (for "Zeit"=time, which is "B") or "M" (for "Moment", it should be something around 1/30 s). The camera has no thread for a cable release, but one for a tripod. For such a simple camera it has a nice Newton viewfinder. The lens has a fixed f-stop of f/8 and consists probably of only one element, and it is a fixed-focus type. I didn't manage to open the camera so far, I'm afraid of breaking off these little ears.
It's a pretty rare bird, I've only found four sources of information:
* Camerawiki lists the Hacon under cameras made by the Genos company without further information, but there is noticed, that Genos was "Norisan" before WWII. The Hacon looks pretty much like an update of the Nori, a camera made by Norisan.
* I found a picture of it in the first of the Abring books. No manufacturer mentioned, but "Optik 8/35mm" and the date "ca. 1950". (H. D. Abring maintained a photo museum and published his comprehensive collection in four books)
* I found one single picture of the camera in the net, described with "made by Hahn & Co, Zirndorf".
* Perhaps a volume of the all-knowing Hartmut Thiele brings enlightening: The Genos Kamerabau was located in Nuremberg/Germany and owned by the W. Oswald KG. The company's residence was in Nuremberg, but the factory was located in Zirndorf, nearby. There is also an entry of Hahn & Co in Zirndorf as manufacturer of the Hacon.
So, it is not unlikely that Hahn & Co was just hired by W. Oswald to produce all those Genos cameras and Mr. Hahn tried to make one on its own account. Or Mr. Hahn was a former employee.
Olympus OM-10 with Tamron SP adaptall 2 f2.8-3.8/35-80mm. Rollei retro 100 (Agfa APX 100)) in HC-110 dilution B (1+31) for 7min. 20C
Looking through the viewfinder of the Kiev 88
My own hometown was a very sad sight during the winter celebration, so I decided to show you some more views of Ljubljana instead - where signs of the crisis aren't so apparent (if at all - as it usually goes with capital cities).
Anyway, seems that somebody decided to direct views of people crossing the Congress Square to the city castle (well, fortress actually) and encourage them to take pictures of it, by setting this mock viewfinder up in the air.
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HDR from three exposures [1/4, 2/3, 2 sec]
Tonemapped as close as possible to real colours.
Redish tone of the castle is real (the floodlights illuminating it, change colour every few seconds) - as is the blueish tone (probably extending well into UV) around street lamps under the castle. Some idiot public servant obviously decided that street lamps don't need shades on top - as if the sky over Ljubljana wasn't enough light-polluted already...