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I add to these from time-to-time, and any and all future updates to Finely Focused will be here, so check back from time-to-time.
Coming soon! Rigor and Surrender, just received in this issue of LensWork! You should subscribe to LensWork if you haven't, and get the July/August issue. And, I have subscribed to LensWork Extended, after I got a sample issue on DVD, slammed it into my drive, and came up for air four hours later. Ditto the first one I paid for and received, except I think it was five hours. Well worth it, on my value scale. I'll probably buy the back issues, too. I already own the back issues of the print version. I'm thrilled and honored to have my article in their magazine. If I could only submit a portfolio that they liked as well... Something to aspire to. More articles in the works, which I think they'll like.
View Camera magazine published a first look at the Richard Ritter 8x10 camera in the spring of 2008. For those interested in the camera, you might want to read this highly-biased examination. It includes a table of specifications. The pdf. Is available here.
View Camera magazine published my article A Trip to Maine in the spring of 2008. For those interested in how Bruce uses some of the material from his book Finely Focused, you may want to download the article here.
Bruce Barlow published an article in LensWork titled Fred Picker’s Legacy in 2004. It is in .pdf format here.
A few years ago, I undertook a comparison of some available enlarging papers and paper developers. The results were published in three articles in View Camera magazine. Extended versions were supplied for the Subscriber’s Section of View Camera. They are also here in .pdf form
The Great Paper/Developer Shoot Out, Part I: Papers
The Great Paper/Developer Shoot Out, Part II :Developers
The Great Paper/Developer Shoot Out, Part III: Dry Down
There was a fourth article, written but never published, on the now-unavailable Kodak Azo paper, tested with the generous assistance of Michael Smith and Paula Chamlee. Anyone interested in their soon-to-be-available (we hope) Lodima paper might be interested in reading this article, because if Lodima is as good as Azo, you’ll want to use it.
The Great Paper/Developer Shoot Out, Part IV: Azo,and the Azo Enlarging Head.