SergeyT wrote:
Could be due to a cheap cable release. I have a few that work with some LF lenses but dot'n with others.
Try to find a quality cable release and see if it solves the issue.
Desmolicious wrote:
My Canon P did not have auto parallax correct. And yeah, the indistinct RF blob is one reason why I sold it. I figured why would I ever use it if I had a Leica M? Don't get me wrong - it's great if that is your budget. I think I paid $150 about 5 years ago for one that was in perfect/wrinkle free shutter curtain shape. It makes the Soviet RF cameras seem like a very very poor choice. But after shooting a roll through it, I knew I wouldn't use it again.
The golden patch on my Canon VL3 is great. I think this is something Camera Quest mentions that the VI, 7 and P have silver patches that degrade and the old gold IV and previous don't. No frame lines though, and the VF has rounded edges so it's like you are shooting from a 1950's cathode tube TV.
Scanned with my XT2 in RAW and processed in Negative Lab Pro at a very basic setting.
This is a cine film, Agfa XT320, and the grey base with no frame numbers confirms this (also hard to figure out which side is emulsion w/o writing on the frames). This film certainly doesn't have the latitude as modern Kodak does. I found blown highlights here and there. Plenty of grain but I also found it maintains resolution pretty well regardless.
Fun stuff for certain applications. I like the skin tone and texture for portraits and got a few keepers there. But my environmental portrait stuff in nature was a little too desaturated and grey for my liking.
Desmolicious wrote:
My Canon P did not have auto parallax correct. And yeah, the indistinct RF blob is one reason why I sold it.
I've been looking into this some more. The parallax correction is mentioned in the Canon P manual so it was definitely a feature, but I suspect the issue is that many people failed to heed the warning in the manual to set any longer lenses to their minimum focus distance before mounting, to avoid damaging the rangefinder mechanism. I've always been careful to do that myself for any lens over 50mm, but previous owners may not have done so. So my hypothesis is that someone damaged the rangefinder mechanism in such a way that focus continues to work but parallax correction is broken. The fact that a number of Canon P owners (including myself) don't have parallax correction on their cameras suggests this is something you should check with an owner before placing an order.
Scanned with my XT2 in RAW and processed in Negative Lab Pro at a very basic setting.
This is a cine film, Agfa XT320, and the grey base with no frame numbers confirms this (also hard to figure out which side is emulsion w/o writing on the frames). This film certainly doesn't have the latitude as modern Kodak does. I found blown highlights here and there. Plenty of grain but I also found it maintains resolution pretty well regardless.
Fun stuff for certain applications. I like the skin tone and texture for portraits and got a few keepers there. But my environmental portrait stuff in nature was a little too desaturated and grey for my liking. ...Show more →
I like the Wolfen -owroooo- image more. I find the jpeg too pink and prefer the deeper shadows.
Desmolicious wrote:
I like the Wolfen -owroooo- image more. I find the jpeg too pink and prefer the deeper shadows.
Agree. In more controlled lighting this does some nice things. I mean, it's cine film so controlled lighting was probably anticipated. I grabbed a roll of the other AGFA/ORWO/Woflen film too. I finally sprung for NLP so have to take advantage of it.
bjhurley wrote:
The only thing I don't like about the Canon P is the rangefinder patch: it's not very distinct and I find focusing quite challenging in some situations. A friend of mine just gave me an impossible-to-refuse deal on a well cared-for and calibrated Leica M2R with three Leica lenses (35, 50, and 90) all in a package for less than the going price of the 50mm lens (a dual-range Summicron) alone, so I will soon be able to compare the Leica and Canon rangefinder patches.
Try looking in through the Canon Ps rangefinder window or shine a light through it. If it looks hazy you can probably make the RF patch much clearer and dramatically easier to focus. The RF doesn't use a mirror, it has a prism. On mine the prism was really hazy.
It wouldn't come off with just a cleaning so I used 1.5 micron glass polish and it cleared right up.
After taking the top cover off it is just one screw holding a cover on over the prism and then 3 set screws to loosen to pull the prism out. Obviously had to realign the RF putting it back together but that was pretty easy.
The RF patch went from dim and difficult to see to dramatically brighter and easy to focus with both eyes open.
