The Machine — Camera Masterclass
Two intensive days on the camera itself — metering, autofocus architecture, colour science, and a menu system rebuilt around your work — taught per-system in small brand groups.
The workshop
The camera manual lists what the machine can do; this masterclass decides what your machine will do, and why. Two days on metering behaviour, autofocus architecture, colour science, and file formats — then the menu system rebuilt around your actual work, with the three blind-reach buttons programmed and the automaticity drills that make the interface disappear.
Lars Petersen teaches in small brand groups so the button-level instruction is exact for your hands. A dedicated mechanical-camera stream runs for film shooters: metering, film handling, and maintenance basics included.
Lars Petersen
Copenhagen · Editing · Lightroom & print
Lars ran a pre-press studio for fifteen years before teaching. He treats editing software as a darkroom with better ventilation, and the print as the only honest proof.
- Brand-grouped teaching, button-exact for your hands
- The menu rebuild, documented for restoration
- Blind-reach programming and automaticity drills
- The mechanical stream for film cameras
- Your camera, charged, with its current settings untouched (the 'before' matters)
- Every lens you commonly use
- The manual, unread — bringing it unread is traditional
- Two days' teaching in brand groups
- Your personalised settings document
- Practical sessions and exit assessment
- Coffee at masterclass frequency
- Accommodation and travel
- Lunches (Exmouth Market adjoins, dangerously)
- Travel insurance if travelling to attend
Accommodation
Not included; the Clerkenwell studio is transit-central.
Meals
Not included, except the coffee, which is structural.
Getting around
Central London; the practicals stay within a ten-minute walk.
Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom
“Four years with my camera and I met it properly on a Saturday. The blind-reach drills alone have changed what I catch — the machine finally keeps up with my eye, because I finally set it up to.”
“The metering morning — learning what the camera believes — explained a decade of frames that were almost right. Everything since has been exposed on purpose.”
Questions, answered
Which systems are supported?
All major current systems, grouped on booking so each table's instruction is button-exact. Rare or vintage systems join the mechanical stream, which is taught with genuine love.
Isn't this what the manual is for?
The manual lists capabilities; the masterclass makes decisions. Different documents — and only one of them knows what you photograph.
10 seats remaining.
Departures are deliberately small and tend to fill from the newsletter. Booking places no charge — we confirm your seat personally, then arrange payment.
