Greetings, fellow viewfinder peepers -
As I cannot find my earlier post, am trying again - I am on a
Goldilockesque quest for the bag that is just right - not the Big Bag
that can carry all my gear (got that) and not the Minimalist Bag that

Hi guys, i guess it's time to show you my first effort... These couple
of images are using superia 400 in a mju-ii, shot a couple of days
ago, i think.
First one is centre-focused (and spot-metered?) on the gentleman in

Anyone sucessfully push this film? Push 1, 2 ?

I was thinking about entering a National Portrait Gallery portrait
competition, possibly with one of my portraits from my final project. I am
open to suggestions as to which I should submit- the portraits are on the
following site:

I'm going to be doing some marketing photography for a friend's
restaurant soon, & I thought there'd probably be plenty of people here
who could offer advice, tips & 'gotchas' for this sort of work.
The kinds of subjects I'll be doing include a couple of modelled shots

See http://www.nikon-image.com/eng/Nikkor_Lenses/autofocus.htm
for details.
I am gld to see that Nikon makes now so many VR lenses!
Lets keep moving this way!

well week 2 was another sit around and talk.  Had a pop quiz on depth of
field shutter speeds tripods filters and films.  Then an in depth discussion
on the answers.  That was it.
week 3.  go out on shoot pictures on fully manual.  Demonstrate depth of

I have some of the old Kodak metal film cans for
35mm film cartridges in yellow colors with orange
and blue tops. I collect old photo gear and was
wondering when Kodak stopped making them and

I really like "available light photography" or natural light
photography. I just don't like flash. So, is f2.8 the fastest there is
in compact 35mm cameras? or are there any that have faster lenses?

My father has a collection of somewhere between 700 and 1000 slides that
he has shot, as well as a lot of negatives. He projects them on an old
projector regularly, and would rather have them digitized. I also have a
lot of negatives that I would like to scan, instead of scanning ...

Does a premade unit like Lumiquest work any better than gauze over a flash
head?

Equipment setup:
ELAN 7E
420 EX
Tokina f/2.6-2.8 28-70mm at 50mm

Okay. Over the weeked i bought a few compact film cameras (olymups
mju-ii (stylus epic) and a minox gt-s, in particular). It was somewhat
easy, as they've depreciated already and are likely to somewhat retain
their prices for some time in case i sell them in the future,

I have heard a number of times that if you want black and white images it is
simpler and equally effective to use colour film or a colour digital camera
and turn down the colour saturation in PhotoShop.
Am I correct in saying that colour film records the frequency or wavelength