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Every question has an answer

⏺ A group of questions pouring in one direction

Please provide some information about the Praktica Mtl 5 camera.
Salah Aziz Wannous
Hama - Syria

- Please give a simple explanation about the camera I used (Zenith -12 I p)
Ammar Hassan
Tartous - Syria

I own two cameras, one (1 - Canon AE) and the other (Konica Te-I).
I want to inquire about the advantages of these two cameras
Nader grows up
Aleppo, Syria

For the three friends, and for all friends and girlfriends:
We are constantly asked for explanations about our friends’ cameras, and they are right when their cameras are modern or have programmed and complex systems, but when the cameras have normal systems, it is easy to get acquainted with their functions, especially when we are sufficiently familiar with the work of the shutter and lens aperture and we become able to understand and use any camera It lies in our hands.
Therefore, everyone is requested to send questions related to technical or technical obstacles.
As for the friends Salah Wannous, Nader Yansour and Ammar Hassan, your cameras are normal and there are no obstacles you face... But if there are parts or functions inside the camera that you do not find solutions to, please send the question, attached with a picture of the camera or the site you would like to ask about.
Or the question should be accompanied by a photocopy of the camera's handbook.

There are no important advantages between cameras in particular, but there are still improvements that companies make to newly released cameras, and they often cover these improvements in addition to talking about cameras within the world of photography.
Cameras of all kinds and shapes remain able to record the light on the film, and it is not the advantages that matter, but the photographer ⏹

⏺ camera and lens

I hope that you can tell me about a camera that has good specifications and many features, that gives high results in all conditions, and that presents sharp images with good focus.
Also, please advise me about the lens required for this camera, so that it gives the best services without looking at the material aspect.
Thank you
Muhammad Kamal Obaid
Damascus, Syria

There is no preference or great advantages among most reflex cameras (SLRs), and if it is preferable to stay away as much as possible from electronic cameras because of the cost and difficulty of repairing them, and I advise you, my friend, to return to Issue No. 35 on page 66, and there is a detail of your question within a comprehensive coverage of the features of the camera and lenses ⏹

⏺ Movies and their types

I asked the main Kodak film distributor here about films with a sensitivity of less than 100 aza, such as 25, 6, and 33, and he said that there is no company that produces films like this.. Is this true?
If not, which company produces films with a sensitivity of less than 100 aza?
There are pictures in photography magazines that I see with bright colors, where the picture is completely saturated with colors. This is a problem that I suffer from, as most of the pictures that I take are very ordinary, and I do not want them as well. Is the problem in the type of film that I use? Or what ? Note that I depend on taking pictures with my camera on (AE), and I set the speed at the same time, while the camera determines the aperture. Does this have any effect, and does the type of printing paper matter as well?

In your issue No. 38 on page 63, under the heading “The properties of black and white and choosing the appropriate film, a comparison was made between two pictures of a landscape. The bottom picture I consider wonderful, because there is a huge difference. Please provide me with more information about (infrared) film, and please mention the company that produces this type Of the films... Please last what is the difference between the following films Pan - black and white. ( Plus X - Trix PAN )
Thank you very much
Hassan Mohammed Saad
Kuwait

- The friend is good
Of course, there are films under 100, but they will definitely be in black and white:
A - Films ( Kodak Panatomic - X )
They are films with a low sensitivity - 32 aza - suitable for work that requires transportation, such as photographing documents, and they are also good for photographing landscapes.

B - Films (ILFORD-PAN F) are low sensitivity films, also 50 AZ, good for shooting landscapes.

A - As for the colorizer, there are films with slow sensitivity, but with slide films only, i.e. Electachrome and Codachrome films. As for normal color films, there are no films less than 100 aza.

Slide slides There are 64 aza films, which are good for photographing portraits and landscapes. There are also slide films with a sensitivity of 25 aza, which is (Kolak Chrome). These films are of superior quality in terms of color saturation and their bright and multiple colors.
This type of film will solve your next problem, as most of the magazines - indeed all newspapers and magazines abroad - depend on these films.
From here, its results look completely different from (Ektachrome) films or regular color films.
Infrared films are requested by a special request from Kodak, due to their lack of availability and because their uses are very limited in the East.

And the films called (Trix) are black and white films with a high sensitivity of 400 aza.
And (Plus X) films, which are also black and white films, and their sensitivity is medium, 125 fps ⏹

⏺ Comparison of the results of four cameras

I attach to you with this letter four pictures of four different cameras: (Canon T80)
(Canon T90) (Minolta 7000). (Minolta 9000)

Please make a comparison between them with an explanation of the advantages and disadvantages and one verse is the best.
Your friend Mishaal Al-Muhaisen
Kuwait - Jahra - behind the fire station

Our friend Meshaal, we have already done our homework on a section of your question in Issue No. 39 and in Issue No. 40 we mentioned the specifications of the camera (Canon 1 90). As for which one is better, in our opinion the (Minolta 9000) remains the best in this series⏹

⏺ laboratory techniques

I own a fully equipped laboratory with a Japanese enlarger (70 G) that works with computer programming and I am good at printing except for the method of (Posterization), where I tried on black and white and did not get a result. For a short time.. but I got nothing. I ask for your information about this method, how it is done, and what is required of me. Is Graphic Art Film developed with a solution of (Kodak-C 40), or is there another method? .

Omar Ahmed Hassan Sharjah - United Arab Emirates

The method that I talked about is not called (Posterization), but (Solarization), i.e. solarization, and it requires printing the image in the normal way, and as you mentioned, it needs an exposure less than the necessary time, and that is under the light of the magnifier, then it is placed in the display solution and before the print reaches the Its final form is to spend the room very short, from three to five seconds, under a light of 15 or 30 watts, and it is about one and a half meters away from the display solution.
When the room lights up, you are supposed to be holding the print with your hands, and after turning off the light, the print is returned to the display solution to complete the process, where the details take on their required color, after which they are taken to the fixing bath (Fixer | Here you have obtained a reasonable - insolation, but you need to wrap several sheets to reach mastery of this Method, and when you find that you have obtained a result that satisfies you relatively, please send your production to give our evaluation.
As for the Posterization method, it differs from the first method, as it relies on the principle of color separation, i.e. withdrawing three negatives from the main negative, so that each negative has a color, and then the three negatives are placed together and one image is printed for them, and one or more negatives can be printed as desired. this too . You can do that, as you expose the print, and according to the first method, with the first method, you can use any black and white solution.

With regard to the development of the color image, you are supposed to use colored solutions. And with this issue, we will start publishing a series on these laboratory topics ⏹

⏺ Portrait technology

Please explain to me how to film the shot on page 23 of issue 36. Hopefully the explanation is adequate.
With my regards and appreciation to the soldiers of the art of photography and friends in general.
Your brother Tariq Ahmed Mohamed Al-Hassan
Doha - Qatar P.O. Box 8396

This portrait shot is from the picture book of Prince Andrew, and it seems clear in the first place that it was taken with a dark background - that is, black - and the shot was taken in black. The focal length - 105 mm - the technique in this shot was adopted. White, with one medium lens oriented through, projector.
Therefore, the location of the camera was next to the location of the lighting.
The photographer here deliberately directed and controlled the path of the light by confining it in a circular way so that it falls on the face only, without the hair or the rest of the body, and the light can be confined by placing a metal visor on the projector - it is perforated in a circular way⏹

⏺ How to use VR films - 400,1000

I want to ask how to shoot with more than 100 aza films. Proverbs 400, 1000 aza. I brought Kodak films, V-R400 aza and 1000 aza, but I don't know how to work with them. And in any case. Note that the camera that will be used for filming is - decorated.
I would also like to explain the abbreviation "" found on Kodak VR films. It is: (SEC 1/30).
And Yours sincerely
Your permanent friend
Imad Eddin Samour
Palmyra - Syria

The focus of imaging in any camera is to know the sensitivity of the film, i.e. the aperture, and sign the aperture number in the designated location in the camera. Here you can use any of the films you want, knowing that it is necessary to check the sensitivity indicator in the camera from time to time, and if it does not work, it becomes You have to change the battery in the camera.. so that the sensitivity reading comes and the correct locations are given correctly in the camera.
Since shutter speeds in Zenith cameras do not exceed 1/500, it is advisable to stay away from films with sensitivity that exceeds this speed.
But you can adopt 1000 aza films for uses under illumination - lacking and without flash.
As for the site (sec 1/30), the word means speed, and the number represents a fraction of a second. This site is found in most cameras and is used with films with high sensitivity. Under poor lighting