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I recently had a client order new B&W prints that he had previously purchased. He is opening up a new office, and wanted to decorate with these new prints. The previous prints he had purchased were all 16"x20" darkroom prints that I had made. The negatives dated to the 1960's , 70's and 80's. He said he wanted bigger prints this time for his office. The new prints were all digital prints made from scanned B&W negatives, and printed on my Epson 7600, using Premium semi-mat paper and Bill Atkinson's free profiles. The sky areas had nice sharp film grain, and a certain "feel" due to the vintage lenses used. The client LOVED them!
I decided I wanted to re-capture that certain B&W "look" with my modern camera (1Ds Mk II), so I went on eBay and bought four screw mount Takumar lenses: a 24mm, 28mm, 50mm f1.4 and 105mm. I will use The Image Factory's "Convert to B&W Pro" to process the color files to B&W, and add red or orange camera filter effect, and select from various B&W "Film Looks" in the program (such as Tri-X, Ilford FP-4, etc). I am now looking to add "film grain" to the images. The "grain filter" in PS does not work (blows out the highlights).
So, you see, there are other reasons to use old prime lenses on modern cameras. BTW the Takumars were all dirt cheap.
Regards
Dave Gurtcheff
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