The Camera Notes
Keeping notes is essential to the orderly mind and camera collection.
I have never had a great memory
and it is getting worse as I age.
I developed the habit years
ago of keeping notebooks. I
have one for house repairs, a couple
for travel planning, and several for
subects of interest that I research. And so you can imagine that I have notebooks for my camera collecting. I page number them and at the end of each I create indicies for my camera notebooks to that point. That way I can go back to any subject I want to review.
When the spirit moves me to post in my blogs these books are the basis of those posts. I should post more often but that distracts me from my photography and collecting. There is just not time for everything. However I do hope you find these scratchings to be of interest.
The Camera Notes are strictly about the tecnichal aspects of cameras. If you are interested in my thoughts generally on art and photography then check out the Joy of Light on the top menu. Very little about cameras there: just photography.
How do you start a Camera Collection?
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Using the Mirror Box 2
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A Book Report
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Lens, Book and Camera
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Filter Ring Dents
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Interesting Show
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Why Do We Collect
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Hacked
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Wynne’s Infallible Exposure Meter
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Helios 103 Cleaning
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