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Focus, and focusing. From my A-Z series
I bought my first camera in 1974. It was a cheap Russian camera that took standard 35mm (what we now call full frame) film. It had the absolute minimum of controls. To adjust the aperture, you used a ring on the front of the lens, there was a little thing to turn for the shutter speed. To focus it, there was another slightly larger ring on the lens. On the top of the camera was an eye piece, with a prism inside, so the you could see the mirror. What you could see, was what ap

Martin Bennett - Photographer
Oct 21, 20252 min read


Depth of Field A - Z of photography
This is one of my favourite bits of photography, being able to isolate the bit of the subject that I want to. It is inexorably...

Martin Bennett - Photographer
Sep 26, 20251 min read


Client or Customer?
I had not properly conceptualised this, it works for photography and every other field of business. “A customer is someone who purchases...

Martin Bennett - Photographer
Sep 1, 20252 min read
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