Photo Links
Over the years, we have found a few good links on the Web:
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Technical Resources Discussion Groups, Forums, and Mailing Lists Interesting Galleries Online Magazines |
Online Suppliers Local Stores (Seattle) Processing Services Imaging Software |
Technical Resources
- ACE Indexes Photography FAQ
- Frank Van Riper on Photography – Essays in the Washington Post.
- Frugal Mike's Photography Pages
- Photoethnography – Lots of good information, including on older equipment.
- Photography in Malaysia – Don't let the title distract you. This page is an extremely useful resource page for several camera systems
- The Unofficial Mamiya 1000 NC Page
- Medium Format Cameras Library Page
Basic Tips and Tutorials
- Agfa Photo Tutorials
- Dan Heller's Photo Tutorials
- Fuji Film Photo Tips
- Ilford Teachers' Lounge
- Kodak Photo Tips
- Online Depth of Field Calculator
- Sim-Cam – Shows the effect of various combinations of f/stops and shutter speeds.
Camera Instruction Manuals
- Butkus's "Orphan" Camera Manuals – Out-of-print instruction manuals for older camera models.
- Lensic's Camera User Manuals – Out-of-print instruction manuals for older camera models. Many display fine on screen but do not have sufficient resolution for printing.
- Photo Manuals – scanned (JPEG) versions of out-of-print instruction manuals for older camera models.
Canon
- Photography in Malaysia – Don't let the title distract you. This page is an extremely useful resource page for Canon cameras and lenses.
- Canon FD Document Project
- Canon FD Yahoo! Group
Minolta
- Minolta Photography – A growing index of Minolta photographers' work around the world over time, from the introduction of the first Minolta in 1928.
- The Rokkor Files – A site devoted to Minolta manual focus cameras, lenses and photography.
- Minman – Dedicated to film-based, still, non-auto-focusing Minolta cameras
Classes and Training
- Cascades Academy of Photography
- Coupeville Arts Center
- Developing Light
- Exposure 36 – Photography workshops and classes
- Kodak Ambassadors Program – Free photo walks and workshops for National Parks visitors, conducted by professional photographers.
- Maine Photographic Workshops
- Mountaineers Photography Committee – Seattle Branch
- New York Institute of Photography
- Nikon Mentor Series – A series of organized photo classes/field trips with professional coaching.
Check also your local community college for extension classes.
Discussion Groups, Forums, and Mailing Lists
Interesting Galleries
- Cuba: A Land Baked in Time – An essay by Robert Vizzini, with toy camera (Diana) photos
- Kids With Cameras – Teaching the art and skills of photography to children growing up in abject misery, to allow them to appreciate the beauty and dignity of their own expression.
- Kobe Photo – The Web site is hideous, but some of the photos are interesting.
- Masters of Photography
- O'Boyle Photos – Shaun O'Boyle and Wendy Lewis O'Boyle, and the Modern Ruins project.
- Tim Fitzharris Nature Photography – By the author of several very good books on nature photography.
- Tim Hixson Photography – Mostly Holga and other medium format film shots, lots of artful vignetting.
- Peter Fetterman Gallery – Featuring works by luminaries such as Ruth Bernhard and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
- Volkstudio – Oleg Volk's photos.
- Women In Photography International
Online Magazines
- Apogee Photo Magazine
- EOS Magazine Online
- FILE Magazine
- LensWork
- Megapixel.net – The Digital Camera Web Magazine
- Nature Photographer
- Nature Photographers Online Magazine – Yes, the latter two are different magazines!
- NYI Photo Online Magazine
- Photograph America
- PhotoMedia Magazine
- SeeSaw Magazine
- Sight – Magazine, portfolios, photo blogs
- Simple Things
Online Suppliers
- B&H Photo-Video – Very complete store, good prices.
- Broadway Photo & Video
- Camera Filters – large choice, low prices
- Camera Quest
- Epinions – Compare prices on lenses.
- Filterhouse.com – Filters at wholesale prices
- KEH Camera Brokers – New and used camera equipment. Good service, useful condition grading system for used equipment; 14-days no-questions asked return policy, and warrants all used equipment against defects for 60 days from invoice date.
- ProFilm.com – Discount film wholesale photography supplies.
- Really Right Stuff – customized accessories such as L-plates, ballheads, camera bars, panning clamps, omni-directional panorama setups, clamps with integral spirit levels, etc.
- Ritz Camera – Pretty good choice, some good sales.
Local Stores
- CameraTechs Inc.
- Glazer's Camera – Professional photo equipment and supplies.
- Kenmore Camera
- Meiers Phototechnical Service – Camera repair.
- Optechs Camera – Professional digital photo equipment.
- Rainier Photographic Supply
Processing Services
Agfa Scala B&W Slide Film
We love the range of tones offered by Scala slide film, our favourite B&W film; it is extremely delicate and precise. It is rated at 200 ISO, but the development process can be pulled by one stop or pushed by up to three stops, for an effective speed choice of 100 to 1600 ISO. This makes it extremely versatile, even for hand-held camera work.
- Agfa Scala – List of Scala film development labs, world-wide.
- dr5 CHROME – B&W photo services; processes Scala, but non-official. Also turns any old film into B&W slides.
- Duggal Photographic Services – In New York.
- Main Photo & Imaging Service – The best known Scala processing lab in the U.S.
- Toronto Image Works – Scala processing in Canada
Kodak T-MAX 100 B&W Slide/Print Film
This versatile film can be developped either as B&W transparency (slide) or reversal (print), if you specify clearly to the lab what you need.
- Kodak T-MAX 100 Film / TMX
- Technical Data Sheet (PDF document)
Imaging Software
- Fookes Software – Including a free thumbnail creator and an affordable image manager/batch converter.
- IrfanView – Freeware image viewer and batch converter.
- PaintShop Pro – Affordable, powerful, a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop for most non-professional photographers.
- PhotoEdit995 – Create or edit graphic images, retouch photographs, manage images. Comes in paid and sponsored versions.
- XnView – Freeware image viewer and batch converter.