short: The Open Web

publishing to the open web, what you are reading, means my leaving stuff for others to gather up. something like telling you my ideas without requiring you to say thank you or tell others. you get to magpie like it was yours.

and that happens. and i don’t care. most of the times. however, there are times that it matters: they, the magpie, doesn’t get it right … they lift, claim jump, and do it in error. that is why, sometimes, i await questions, rather than posting to the great wide world.

this came up ’cause i just found an old ‘recipe’ for a mordant system; something that, instead of posting it here, will be placed onto a wiki system that few will see. the great thing being that that group will use it to use it, not to make brag points on some forum —

don’t feed the magpies.

Lost in the weed

follow experts so lost in the weeds they'd have you using an industrial weed wacker to clear a 0.09 acre yard.(not enough room for a tennis court)

References from the Golden Age of petrochemical photography.
Camera technique for Professional Photographers, Kodak Publication No. O-18
Large-Format Photography, Eastman Kodak Company Publication O-18e. ISBN 0-87985-771-4

Stroebel, View Camera Technique
https://archive.org/details/viewcameratechni00stro

Kodak 1952, Camera Technique
https://archive.org/details/cameratechniqueforprofessionalphotographers

https://archive.org/details/basicdeveloping00east

https://archive.org/details/kodak-films/page/n19/mode/2up
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* Type of camera
* parts of camera
* film holder / use
* lens board / mounting
* focusing / aids
* exposing
* processing
* printing
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approach. mode. photography changed in need and use, users
pedagogical mannerisms. 
ask those who told you about focus rules, why those rules fail with movements.
what you are asking, simply, is: how to focus a view camera. Answer is based upon the scene and the seeing.
everywhere or selective somewhere