A Simplified Zone System For Making Good Exposures

Norman Koren walks you through the basics.

I'm a sucker for a DIY project:

Build a Pentax Cable Release F out of spare parts.

And to replace the CS-205:

Over on craigslist I found an ad for an online outdoor adventure magazine called Stellar, calling for submissions.

Photographing Flying Insects shows how a guy home-brewed a rig, and got some beautiful images of bugs flyin' around.

Here's a page which describes how to change GTK themes under fink.

Lately I've been thinking about porn.

Not like that, no.

But as in: Porn is the one thing that always makes money. And I've been curious about how to break into it, what kind of money one could make, and so forth.

I found another Olympus XA-series camera at a thrift store for $3 (marked $5.99, half-off sale day). Of course, it's an XA1, which is the fixed-focus selenium-meter version. It's got the quality D-Zuiko optics, but it's more like an instamatic than its rangefinder XA brethren.

A handy-dandy index of a wide assortment of 35mm films.

Unfortunately, none of these entries is said to have a down side. Such is the only editorial decision that can be made at such a magazine.

Serious nerdy talk ahead. You are warned.

When I shoot a panoramic image, I use a piece of software called hugin to take the pieces and stitch them together. hugin is free, and is designed to be a front-end for a bunch of other software.