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Adrian
Tinkerer
Username: Adrian
Post Number: 186
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 08:49 am: | 
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OK, I know it's a bit off-topic, but I'm sure we don't JUST fix old cameras, but like to use them too!
I'm realising that I'm definitely doing the same dumb things with different cameras time and time again, things like trying to shoot dark things against a light background, that sort of thing. So can anyone suggest a reasonable guide worth laying my hands on that I can hopefully absorb a bit of basic principles from? Ideally film-based (dunno what difference being digital-based would make, mind, as I don't have a digital camera). Second-hand (ie "Classic Camera Forum Guide" :-)) would be even better, 'cos I'm a skinflint.
I know a course would probably be a good thing, but at the moment I can't fit it into my life... |
Barnum
Tinkerer
Username: Barnum
Post Number: 51
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 11:50 am: |
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Hello Adrian.
Can't believe you are a skinflint! Have you tried libraries? I ask because I have a book where the author 'explains'hyperfocal focussing. I can do it, but even now I don't understand it, the way the author explains it! I went the 'library way',
which meant I could preview later books before purchasing them. Hope I am not teaching you to suck eggs. If so, apologies.
Barnum |
Adrian
Tinkerer
Username: Adrian
Post Number: 187
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 03:40 pm: |
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Gah! I live in a flat like a bleedin' library, how did I not think of that? (On reflection probably because I'm so rarely short for a book... Time to re-register, methinks!)
Adrian |
Barnum
Tinkerer
Username: Barnum
Post Number: 52
Registered: 10-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 11:32 am: |
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Hi!
Nice to be in touch with you again. One thing I forgot to mention, is noting books of worth, so they can be remembered/purchased. This idea is,(of course),that a chapter is useless on a Sunday when the book is in a closed library.
Regards,
Barnum |
Rbrian
Tinkerer
Username: Rbrian
Post Number: 5
Registered: 09-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 01:31 pm: |
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One of the best books I've read for understanding photography basics is John Shaw's Intro to Nature Photography (or what ever the title actual title is, not at home to check). It was written back in the era of the F3 and F4 shooting Velvia. You either got it right or threw the slide away. Even though it's focus is nature photography, the basic info is great. |
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