Recent content by Ben Myerson

Try Cleaning the battery contacts with battery contact cleaner they sometime oxidise over time and don't make proper electrical contact.

I have 2 Domke bags made in U.S.A. Prejudice aside I wonder how much actual difference in quality there is between them and the Chinese ones.

I have the same cameras, are you sure you haven't got the exposure compensation dial set to +2 ?

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High street labs us roller processing machines that can cause some horrific damage to you're negatives if they get out of alignment, pro labs use dip and dunk, or nitrogen burst machines that can't cause any mechanical damage to your negs. that are much more closely monitored for temperature...

After more than fifty years of photography, about twenty of them of them in a professional capacity, I have ten cameras.

I was a Photographic store manager for more than twenty years and people were ringing up all the time enquiring about the stock, and asking us to save it for them until they came in to collect it, more often than not we never saw hide or hair of them again, so I told my staff to sell the...

McCurry went back to Afghanistan seventeen years later, and after an extensive search found the girl in the picture and photographed her again...

I have had two Mamiya C330F bodys and the 55,80,135 and 180 lens pairs for more than twenty years, I used to shoot weddings with them, but now shoot mainly portraits and landscapes with them. I had them both given C.L.A a couple of years ago and they work like new.

800 pictures at a wedding, It's the same principal that if you give enough chimps typewriters one of them will eventually write Hamlet :) I would be very wary of a photographer who needed to shoot so many frames to cover a wedding.

Sorry, to be honest I didn't, but my remarks are applicable to any company who supply grey Imports which in itself is perfectly legal but not if they claim that they have been imported through the official importer which is contrary to the Trades Description Act, and the Sale Of Goods Act 1978...

sorry, to be honest I didn't, but the principal remains the same.:)

If this company is claiming that all the products they sell are imported through the official importer and they are actually supplying you Grey Imports this is illegal under The Sale Of Goods Act 1978, the matter should be reported to your local Trading Standards Department who will take up...

Even if you know your legal "rights" it's very difficult to exercise them if two sixteen stone coppers have you in arm locks ;),

I shot a couple of rolls of the new Portra 160 in120 two weeks ago portraits of a four years old boy, and on a 20"X16" print I had enlarged for his parents there is no perceptible grain and the skin tones are superb, my clients were knocked out with them. Thanks big yellow father in Rochester...