Coffee With Mentors
RFF is very fortunate to have a few outstanding volunteers willing to share their expertise with the
RFF membership. Really folks, these people are among the best of the best in their specialties.
Be nice and savor the chance to exchange thoughts with them! .
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Jason Schneider - The Camera Collector
Jason Schneider is perhaps the world's most famous expert on camera collecting. Over the course of his long career he has been a photojournalist, a commercial photographer, and a camera test manager. For 18 years he wrote his incredibly influential Camera Collector monthly column at the still deeply missed MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY magazine where Jason was also Editorial Director. Modern was followed by his 16 year stint as Editor-Chief of Popular Photography, then the world's largest imaging magazine. Along the way many of his Modern Camera collecting articles were republished in the wonderful 3 volume set JASON SCHNEIDER ON CAMERA COLLECTING.
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Brian Sweeney - DIY Modifications
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Helen Hill's Conundrums
Life and Photography's Mysteries and Conundrums. Which way did they go? Which way did they go? Is your life better for your photography? The negative, is that all there is? And vice versa ?
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Chris Crawford
I am pleased to announced a long time member has agreed to help and mentor others in photographic technique. As he has long done so, perhaps this forum is a bit overdue. Christopher Crawford has been a professional artist and photographer for 20 years, most of that time spent documenting life in northern Indiana with his photographs and the stories that he writes to accompany them. In addition, Chris also creates tutorials where he teaches photography techniques, film processing, digital editing, film scanning, and printing. Ask Chris your technical questions, or to critique your photos. You can see more of his tutorials at Crawford Photo School
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Tom Abrahamsson of RapidWinder.com
It is almost never that an inventor improves on a Leica product so that it is better than the original Leica product. Tom holds that distinction with his RapidWinder for Leica M rangefinders -- a bottom mounting baseplate trigger advance. In addition Tom manufacturers other Leica accessories such as his very popular Soft Release and MiniSoftRelease shutter releases. Tom is well known as one of the true Leica rangefinder experts, even by Leica.
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Bill Pierce - Leica M photog and author
“Our autobiography is written in our contact sheets, and our opinion of the world in our selects”
"Never ever confuse sharp with good, or you will end up shaving with an ice cream cone and licking a razor blade."
Bill Pierce is one of the most successful Leica photographers and authors ever. I initially "met" Bill in the wonderful 1973 15th edition Leica Manual (the one with the M5 on the cover). I kept reading and re-reading his four chapters, continually amazed at his knoweldge and ability, thinking "if I only knew a small part of what this guy knows... wow." I looked foward to his monthly columns in Camera 35 and devoured them like a starving man. Bill has worked as a photojournalist for 25 years, keyword: WORK. Many photogs dream of the professional photographer's life that Bill has earned and enjoyed. Probably Bill'
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back alley's In The Bag
Joe's quest for the ultimate Camera Bag! So many bags .. so little time ...
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Roger Hicks -- Author of The Rangefinder Book
Roger Hicks is a well known photographic writer, author of The Rangefinder Book, over three dozen other photographic books, and a frequent contributor to Shutterbug and Amateur Photographer. Unusually in today's photographic world, most of his camera reviews are film cameras, especially rangefinders. See www.rogerandfrances.com for further background (Frances is his wife Frances Schultz, acknowledged darkroom addict and fellow Shutterbug contributor) .
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Simon Says -- SimonSawSunlight Photo Technique
From time to time its been suggested that RFF have a mentor Photography help section in terms of Technique - how to shoot this or that. 1st of all I had to find someone whose work I really like. 2ndly that photog had to be willing help others. That's the catch: so many excellent photogs just are not wiling to make the time for that, or just as likely, simply don't give a damn about helping others. SimonSawSunlight is an excellent up and coming photog whose work seems to go well beyond his 24 years.
You can view Simon's work at http://www.simonbephotography.com/ and www.facebook.com/simonbphotography Simon has been published in in FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), LFI (Leica Fotografie International) and more recently in Radiate Magazine. He also recently had a large solo-exhibition in Berlin. Not too Shabby! So, let us begin this adventure and see where it goes.
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Jim Lager - Leica Historian
Jim Lager is widely considered the best Leica historian ever, having authored arguably the best selection of Leica history books ever written. RFF is very fortunate to have access to his amazing Leica knowledge.
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