6 Things I Love About Shooting the F6

Aerial Photography of Rocky Mountain National Park

by John Crane | May 6, 2017 | 4042n, 6 Things I Love About Shooting the F6, aerial photography, Custom Settings Menu (CSM), Slide Film, Technical, Technical Features

Above: From left to right: Mount Meeker, Longs Peak, Keyboard of the Winds, Pagoda Mountain and Chief’s Head Peak. At center-right you can see the very tip top of the Spear Head, a triangular slab of granite jutting up through the clouds from the valley...

Night Vision (sort of); or Custom Setting B5 (Extended Shutter Speeds)

by John Crane | Mar 24, 2017 | 6 Things I Love About Shooting the F6, B5 Extended Shutter Speed, Black and White, Custom Settings Menu (CSM), Technical, Technical Features

Out of the box the F6 is set to display possible shutter speeds from 1/8,000 of a second to 30 seconds. After 30 seconds the camera has the customary “bulb” setting, allowing you to trip the shutter manually (with something like the MC-30 cable release)...

Meta35: embed EXIF data in film-shot images, tweak Custom Setting Menus.

by John Crane | Jun 10, 2015 | 6 Things I Love About Shooting the F6, Accessories, Custom Settings Menu (CSM), Technical, Technical Features

Have you ever wondered how to embed EXIF data into your film-shot and computer scanned images? Are you one of the newly enlightened 35mm film shooters recently in possession of your dream, quasi-vintage film camera (think Nikon F100, Nikon F5, Canon EOS-1V or Minolta...