ptpdprinter
Veteran
Irving Penn was a master of platinum printing.I have been in love with ptpd prints ever since I saw my first one in person (and you simply must experience them in person) at a museum somewhere in southern California -- it was a well-known photographer whose name I am forgetting. The print was simply two cigarette butts on a plain background. Kind of a still life macro thing. Anyway, if two cigarette butts could bring tears to my eyes, there must be something special about this platinum-palladium stuff.
webOSUser
Well-known
For me, I blame my using film again on an egret.
I started with film, a Kodak 127 Brownie in the 60's. I enjoyed a number of cameras through the years, mostly 35mm, but including a Speed Graphic and a Polaroid Pathfinder 110A.
2004 I switched to digital with a Kodak DX7630 and enjoyed the speed and ease of digital. I upgraded my digital gear a couple of times until I had a Nikon dSLR.
I was at a local park one day and got a picture of an egret. I didn't ,like the picture and posted it on a photography forum for comment. And I got a lot of good comment about my poor exposure of the egret that washed it out. I thought on the comments and realized that I had gotten used to the automation of the Nikon dSLR. I decided to do two things, one was to go to manual exposure on the Nikon, I had done it once, I could do it again.
And the other was to return to film. And thinking that I wanted to try something different, I started looking at 35mm rangefinders. Leica being more than I wanted to spend, I picked up a FED2 with a I26m lens from Fedka.
Things have snowballed from there, I bought a Zorki 1, a couple of 2 1/4 TLRs, two Holgas, two Nikon SLRs, a Kiev 88 SLR, and gear to process B&W.
And that is how I got back into film.
I started with film, a Kodak 127 Brownie in the 60's. I enjoyed a number of cameras through the years, mostly 35mm, but including a Speed Graphic and a Polaroid Pathfinder 110A.
2004 I switched to digital with a Kodak DX7630 and enjoyed the speed and ease of digital. I upgraded my digital gear a couple of times until I had a Nikon dSLR.
I was at a local park one day and got a picture of an egret. I didn't ,like the picture and posted it on a photography forum for comment. And I got a lot of good comment about my poor exposure of the egret that washed it out. I thought on the comments and realized that I had gotten used to the automation of the Nikon dSLR. I decided to do two things, one was to go to manual exposure on the Nikon, I had done it once, I could do it again.
And the other was to return to film. And thinking that I wanted to try something different, I started looking at 35mm rangefinders. Leica being more than I wanted to spend, I picked up a FED2 with a I26m lens from Fedka.
Things have snowballed from there, I bought a Zorki 1, a couple of 2 1/4 TLRs, two Holgas, two Nikon SLRs, a Kiev 88 SLR, and gear to process B&W.
And that is how I got back into film.