Recent content by john.margetts

Never cleaned a sensor yet - bought my first digital camera in 2004. The on-board automatic sensor routine when turning the camera on or off seems to do the job adequately.

Is it all over - rebate as well as image area? My first thought was a persistent anti-halation dye but that should have washed out during development, any remaining should have gone during fixing and washing. Pan F is a monochrome film so any pinkness will have little effect on the final print...

Film. I would stick to "proper" black-and-white film rather than C41 monochrome films or colour. I like Fomapan 200 Creative or Ilford FP4+ but faster films will give more grain.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept according to Henri Cartier-Bresson and I agree with him. Film will not give as sharp images as digital and it does not matter. Glory in what film WILL give you. You can get a camera with a Tessar lens (or Tessar copy such as Voigtlander's Color Skopar) which...

My Affinity Photo version 1 works on my iMac 2007 although Affinity says it doesn't. There might be some functions not working correctly but all the general editing functions work as they should.

I agree with Box Brownie. Having your main interest in the centre does not usually work well and the chap on the right needs either to be a part of the picture or not there at all.

When I last renewed my licence, I got 18 months only. Just got the letter telling me to renew as I will soon be officially ancient.

Serendipity can be a powerful tool.

Enough effort, concentration, etc. There is no advantage to more than enough, the resulting picture will not be better for more than enough and might well be worse.

Using your brain while experimenting is the best way to learn anything. If you have yet to learn, looking at a photograph and reading the EXIF data can tell you nothing unless you have identical kit and identical light. If you want to learn about DOF and the photo of interest looks good - it...

With digital, they can take a thousand images a day and work it out for themselves.

Because C41 B&W film is nothing like Foma Creative 200, or HP5, or . . .

The two cameras are excellent enthusiast cameras. I have the ME Super and really enjoy using it. Second hand prices of film cameras are currently going through the roof. If everything works properly and they are cosmetically good, they could be worth £40 to £50 each. Or you could try film -...

You are allowed to make mistakes and we all do. The problem your readers have is that we can only see the words you type, not the words you mean. To help you, we need to know what you mean, and getting the words right is the first step on achieving that.

This is why I never dismantle things.