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Interview: Jacob Cunningham, part 1

Interview: Jacob Cunningham, part 1

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Interview: Jacob Cunningham, part 1

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- On a recent Practicing Photographer, I spent some time talking to photographer Jacob Cunningham about his experiences shooting with a medium format Twin Lens Reflex film camera. So Jacob has been primarily a digital shooter. He bought a Twin Lens Reflex and at that time had just started working with it, shooting pretty much exclusively with it. And we talked about what was different. It's now a few months later, he's shot with it a bunch more, and I wanted to check in with him again to see what else he had learned about digital shooting from working with a camera like this. So for those of you who aren't familiar with this type of camera, it uses medium format film, which is very, very wide and it has a top-down, or what's sometimes called a waist-level viewfinder because you hold it down by your waist. So it's pretty complicated to use this kind of viewfinder. The image is reversed, the camera has no light meter. There's a lot of tricky bits to it. One of the things that I wasn't…

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