I just came back from a trip to Alaska. I decided not to bring my 35mm
camera and to use my Hasselblad 553ELX. It was heavier than heavy, but
I figured I wanted to use what I have and get the quality I want. My
traveling companion used a tiny Canon P/S digital camera with a

About three years ago, just before retiring, I purchased a new Pentax 67II
SLR and I had big plans for it!  Well I used it once to photograph my
daughter's wedding and it has sat in the case ever since.  I guess it's
because it's just too much camera for me, I have a Nikon F4 that I ...

I just got an Epson V750 and it's a great thing to finally be able to
bring my slides and negatives into the digital world. I was able to
play with the scanner last night for a little bit. The online reviews
and opinions about setting the negative and slide carriers to a height

I'm looking to buy a set of UV filters for my Pentax 6x7 lenses and am
considering the B+W MRC filters.  A local camera store told me that
they cost more and are much harder to clean than the non-MRC B+W
filters.  Does anyone have real world experience of this? Any other

I'd like to get hold of a (relatively) modern medium format
rangefinder camera - something similar, if it exists, to the Mamiya
"7" series cameras, but taking 6x9 negatives.
Would a Fuji G690 off eBay be about the closest I could get to fitting

I want to take advantage of the upcoming planet Mars closeness to Earth. Do
you have any suggestions of time and or stop settings? Mars is to be as big
as a full moon. growing larger each night through the end of August. I've
not tried long exposures with the RB before.

I'm forced to part with my lovely 645E and my spare RZ 67 body due to
some short term budget difficulties.  I love the 645 and the images it
has given me have been simply superb.  The body is in very good
condition, showing very little wear and functionally flawless, and

i need to buy a hand-held meter because my new Rolleiflex gets problem
on it's build-in meter.
after searched for prices, i found that a hand-held meter with
spot-metering capability is more expensive than one with only incident