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...
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)...
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...
by John Crane | Jul 30, 2014 | Custom Settings Menu (CSM), Destinations, General Information, Technical Features
Memphis has been the subject of many a discussion between my son and I for a few years now. We love road trips and just being in the car together so when ever we’re hunting for a just barely out of reach, crazy destination to spontaneously shoot off to in the...
by John Crane | Aug 26, 2009 | CLS (Creative Lighting System), Custom Settings Menu (CSM), From the Past, General Information, Technical Features
Welcome to the Nikon F6 Project. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Nikon F6: I had in mind when I sat down to write this introduction a eloquent, thought-provoking soliloquy capable of convincing anyone, anyplace that shooting a film camera in 2009 still...