Jirka-

The mistake you made   illustrates your point with which I agree.

The naked girl in the picture linked above is a victim of a napalm attack in Vietnam, it is not from Japan.

ISO 12800 snapshot  This is a snapshot I shot last friday evening with IS0 12800. The story: this man is a workaholic. At the conference  we were attending he was frequently sneaking out and...

After 30 years of photography only one of my many lenses is scratched. I bought it used with the scratch since I knew that a small scratch has no effect on the optical performance and the lens was...

I agree with the point about the height of the of camera posiition. In the second set of the pictures the old picture seems to be taken from a higher position. Maybe the photographer was located on...

In the first example you were not standing in the same place as the original photographer. You were closer to the foreground and used wider lens.

Skylight filter and other warming up filters are used for film slides. You do not need them for digital photography and color negative film.

He did not talk about" satin/lustre/pearl/semi-gloss", just matte versus gloss. I agree about lustre/pearl giving almost the same dark colors. I wanted just to point out that there is a reason why...

You get better dark colors with glossy surface because matte surface disperses light which obscures the differentiation in dark colours.. That is the reason painters in the fifteenth century...

Strong solvents like isopropyl alcohol or aethe/alcohol mixture can damage the lens mounting. By itself they do nothing to a modern coating since the upper layer is silicone dioxide which is quite...

Lens flare and ghosting is more or less the same, except lens flare includes cases where you have no distinct artifact caused by the reflections but also "fogging", that is loss of contrast in the...

I think it depends on the purpose of the picture. E.g. when shooting a landscape there is not any right WB because the light is not the same in the foreground as in the background etc. In other...

If I had the time and energy I would still make all analogue BW pictures - developing the film myself and making prints with an enlarger. The BW negative-positive process has its own aesthetics and...

I do not anything about the cards, but there is an universal answer to this type of question: it is so expensive because there are enough people willing to pay the price.

I have already done that. For an APS-C Pentax I use just 15mm, 21mm, 35mm, 77mm and 100mm-macro primes. I have given away the two 2.8 zooms 16-50 and 50-135. The zooms stay in the family and I...

ISO 100 was not allways a flatbed of sensitivity. In the logarithmic DIN sensitivity scale which was widely used in Europe until about 20-30 years ago ISO 100 corresponds to number 21, which is not...

It is a mistake to use a lens hood only outdoors. Even indoors there is often a source of light which is outside the picture and can have a negative effect in the form of glare or reduced contrast....

I agree. It would make no sense to review high end equipment. E.g reviews of high end audio in similar ezines are invariably laudatory and often contain technical nonsense. I imagine even obtaining...

A big part of the problem is the light. The best light for BW can be problematic for color, and conversely a picture which looks good in color can be quite boring in BW. Usually you need more...