I’m having some trouble moving from using a SLR for street photography to a rangefinder. As I mentioned in my previous article there is an astounding amount of equipment out there for film based photographers as opposed to the two primary formats of digital photography, the SLR and the point and shoot.  Even between rangefinders [...]

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Sunday I took over 25 pounds of SLR  bodies and lenses down to Adorama in NYC and converted it (along with a fat stack of cash on my part) into a Voightlander Bessa R3A with the Nokton 40mm f/1.4 lens.   A huge amount of shelf space is now reduced to something that’s not much bigger [...]

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On the heels of our discussion of high speed film we’ll look into metering techniques for performance photography and other contrasty, low light situations.  We’ll explore the how’s and why’s of some commonly available equipment and some common techniques that I’ve found useful over the past several years.   My primary experience with performance photography has [...]

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I do not care for flash photography. This presents a problem as I’m also an avid performance photographer who often works in improvised performance spaces.  When the illumination consists of a couple of $10 hardware clamp lights duct taped to the wall with a 60 watt household bulb further dimmed by a dark blue gel [...]

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