Recent content by Mach 109

Here is something that I have wondered and I am sure that there are people on this forum that will know the answer: The pictures that I have seen taken on monochrome film mostly show reds as a dark shade and greens as a lighter shade. I believe that monochrome films used to be "sensitive" to...

My book has arrived (thank you, John_M & Boots once again) and I am ploughing through it - thoroughly.

Once again, thank you! A lot to chew over. Thank you, also, John_M & Boots - book ordered, and from my favourite second-hand book seller, too! I do output everything as RAW & JPEG and have used the Canon grading programme and also have Affinity 2 and Gimp to play with; my goal, though, is not...

Ha - I'm not sure how to answer that. Thank you to EVERYONE, by the way, for your replies. I am slowly working through everything amongst everything else that has to be done at the moment... A little background: My first proper SLR was a Pentax K1000 which I used for around 20 years...

I have been taking photographs since the 1970s, obviously with film until around ten years ago when 'phones started to have reasonable cameras built-in. A few years ago I obtained a hand-me-down camera from my daughter. In film days I was happy to shoot manually - no problem. But I don't...