Recent content by Garry Edwards

Yes, I'd completely forgotten about the Praktina, and back then (around 1960) there were loads of manufacturers who had quite quirky designs. The reality is that none of them really had much chance here in the UK, before the internet, simply because retailers simply couldn't stock them all and...

This. Go back to the early SLR cameras - or just be glad that you don't have to - and we didn't have the technology to view and focus the scene with the lens wide open and for the camera to then stop down automatically when we took the shot. We had to view and focus wide open, some of the more...

It's clearly just blatant profiteering, and it isn't limited to the fuel that we put into our road vehicles. Red diesel prices have risen far more sharply, and I can't even tell you what they are. When we enquired last week, the answer was that they're waiting for a delivery, when it comes they...

I wasn't going to post in this thread for various reasons, but as @Paulie-W is the only person who has so far I thought it would be rude not to:) One of my reasons for not posting is that I just don't have any suitable subjects. This is one of my most modern lenses, bought second-hand about 25...

I'm jealous, my space is smaller and cluttered with furniture . . . Don't underestimate the negative effects of unwanted ambient light. You should be able to reduce it very significantly, perhaps even completely, by shooting at night

That's a very good result, I'm guessing that you didn't find it easy . . . One of the challenges, based on memory from when I photographed models with a focusing spot, is that unless we can get the shooting space almost dark, it can be difficult to see exactly what the focusing spot is doing...

"I stopped down 1 stop by pulling the development" "I stopped up 1 stop by pushing the development. It's just semantics, and perhaps poor semantics, but does it really matter as long as we understand what's meant?

It's all a bit vague isn't it? :( The first two replies are probably right, but the term "stop" goes back to Mr Waterhouse, i.e., originally Waterhouse stops, who came up with the idea of drilling holes in a piece of metal which, when slid into a slot in the lens, reduced or increased the...

Yes, these are useful techniques. Bouncing off of a white wall or ceiling, or off of the join between the two so that some light is coming from behind and some from above is great for a lot of informal photos where colour accuracy either doesn't matter or can be easily corrected because only...

Garry Edwards submitted a new resource: Creating very hard lighting to emphasise detail - This is another tutorial in my mini series of “Creative lighting in a small space” tutorials Read more about this resource...

Just a couple of reservations about the Godox MS300, which @RyanB should be able to help with . . . The blurb doesn't mention a cooling fan, probably for the same reason that the specs for my off-road car didn't mention fuel economy:) I don't know whether that might cause overheating problems...

Not IGBT, not that Phil needs that technology. I've never used one myself but it should be OK, and they can be bought for just under £100 new, head only. You should, with a bit of patience, be able to pick up a used Lencarta SmartFlash 3 or an old Bowens Esprit for about half that cost, and...

All flash heads are fully compatible with all DSLR cameras, but your budget is way out, sorry. And then you'll need a flash trigger/remote, various heights of stands, and the all-important modifiers. The market is now totally dominated by Godox, which dramatically reduces choice, and as they...