Ken Storch Photo Blog – All Things Photographic, All Thoughts Photographic
Ritz Camera seeks Bankruptcy after attempted murder of local camera stores!
After a slow speed chase where Ritz Camera tried to drive over local camera dealers with its suburban mall stores and other outlets,
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At this time (early 2009) digital cameras are everywhere, in cell phones, in point and shoot little cameras, and even casual shooters may be using DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras.
Local and online retailers selling photographic film and darkroom equipment are keeping fewer and fewer offerings in stock. Custom labs are faltering if they still exist in a given market.
It makes sense, once again, to reexamine the future of film, film cameras, black & white printing, and the traditional wet darkroom in the digital era.
When I Was Young, the Planets Would Come To My Bedroom Window and Speak to Me.
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The Best Photography Darkroom Equipment: Film Processing Thermometer
A mini review of the Weston Dial Darkroom Thermometer
If you are serious about developing your color or black and white film images,
you must get,
and use faithfully,
your own film developing thermometer.
That’s it.
No doubt.
This post is about my favorite film developing thermometer,
and, why it’s the best.
The only way to get control of your process
…your pictures…
to get the kind of look you’ve seen in other photographers’ images…
or want to have in your own…
is to control your darkroom techniques and film development.
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Why Your Next Digital Camera Sux!
And, the one you buy after that, too!
That’s because we are still in the adolescent years of digital imaging.
Why yet another photo blog?
There are many sites ‘focused’ on photography, of course.
Most of those sites are hardware oriented (cameras, equipment, software, gadgets, etc.) and look only at the ‘stuff’ or the ‘how-to’.
I expect to cover that and much more.