weekend silliness: Is this for real?!
8 May
A bit of gear and non-art chat today…
Last quarter while I was taking the view camera class, I went shooting with a friend who shoots 8×10 and saw him using an orange (Wratten #90?) filter viewer to previsualize black and white. This week I saw one in the used division of my local camera shop and considering the pain of switching back to visualizing black and white after shooting so much color for so long, I decided to get it. There were a couple of other darker viewers, and while googling what their function, I came upon the Roger Deakins forum, where apparently the Roger Deakins himself answers questions about equipment and techniques on a fairly regular basis.
I have a hard time believing this is real, but after googling around, it seems that at some point, there was a forum frequented by Deakins which shut down after a bit of abusive trolling by one individual. I’m not sure if this forum is a reincarnation (hence the 2 in the URL?) – can anyone confirm or deny? Seems too good to be true, though his comments don’t seem to be all that extensive…
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