Perhaps he was just hungry and thought no-one else could do it right...

But you are right, passion is the thing.

Thanks for the link - very impressive images.

Found it as the bottom of page 220.

Somewhere in the instruction manual (I can't find it just now) there are comments about the camera needing to reset under some circumstances. It is a computer of sorts so taking the battery out, leaving it for a short while and then re-inserting the battery might enable a restart.

If I am remembering correctly it might have something to do with a build up of static.

It's all an illusion anyway:




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Personally, whether I expected to take a masterpiece or not, I would shoot at maximum resolution just in case. I would hate to witness the first Martian landing and only have the K10D set at 6MP.

It hasn't happened yet, but there's always tomorrow...

Pentax viewfinders are probably the best currently available, especially the pentaprism ones.

The answer as to why so many are small is probably that manufacturers try to minimise the size of the cameras. This is not helped by the smaller dimensions of the APS-C sensors.

It is also true that not everyone uses manual focus so the need to provide aids for this has reduced.

I don't think anything will change, but if you want to see an incredible viewfinder then have a look through a 1959 Voigtlander Bessamatic and just marvel at the clarity. This is because only the central portion is a focusing ground glass and the main part of the field is an aerial image. But it is incredible and gives a benchmark to judge from.

The next best viewfinder is probably the Pentax 67....

I actually think you've done just fine - I like the colours of your image and it shows movement. Excellent.

If you still really want to try something else why not look at flowing water or maybe time-lapse photography?

There used to be a huge market in out of date film. Sometimes it can last for a surprisingly long time.

Paper is more suspect, but it's only a couple of years ago that I was given some 1950s Agfa paper. Some of it made some good prints, most of it was badly fogged.

You can add defogging agents to developers, but just offhand I can't bring to mind an example. Try an old book on darkroom chemistry - I'll have a look later to see if I can find something in my library.

I don't know how you converted to BW, but try Channel Mixer in PS7. It starts out as 100% red by default, and this on its own could have most of the effect you need, but just mess around with the sliders, probably reducing blue and adjusting red and green until you have the right result.