lifeandmylens wrote:
When I first started with vision 3 films it was my least favorite. It's now my favorite. Great speed for low lighting and quite flexible.
What made the difference? Was it just personal preference or something to do with development/scanning/etc?
skylight1b wrote:
What made the difference? Was it just personal preference or something to do with development/scanning/etc?
All of the above I'd say. I started developing them in C-41 before switching to ECN-2. Tungsten films look the worst of all the vision films when cross processed in C-41 (from the ones I've done at least). Developed in ECN-2 I think it looks great.
Nice one! This reminds me of one of my great missed photos a few years back: I was walking down the sidewalk behind a very tall man (I'm 6'4" and this guy was taller than me) with his young son on his shoulders, who was dressed in a suit of armor and was brandishing a toy sword. And way down at the tall man's ankles was a little dachshund. I could see the photo in my mind and mentally captioned it "boy, man, dachshund," but didn't have any camera on me, even a phone.
Another time I saw a group of young schoolchildren walking by a big patch of flowering irises and immediately thought it would be a nice photo and that I'd call it "Irises and pupils." Again, I didn't have a camera with me so figured I'd catch it another time but it hasn't happened yet.
Lesson learned: now I carry a camera with me wherever I go.
My partner's father kindly gifted me 20-ish rolls of Walgreen's branded C-41 film that he has been storing in his fridge for the last 20-ish years. Some of it is made in Germany. Some of it is made in Japan. A bit of research suggests that the German made stuff is white-label Agfa Vista 400 and the Japanese stuff in Fuji Superia 400. I was a little unsure of what to rate it at, so for this roll I set my meter to iso 80 and let the F6's 'matrix-meter' take care of the rest. I think it looks ok. Definitely has a bit of the mute colors/blocked up shadows look one can get from expired film. I'm shooting another roll at iso 50 to see if an extra two-thirds of a stop helps.
Also of note, and I am sure that I've said it before...the dampening of the mirror and shutter on the F6 is sooo good. Most of these shots were sub-1/40s and the camera just feels so stable...even at slow shutter speeds. For comparison, I have trouble getting consistently perfectly sharp images at 1/60s on my loud and vibration-prone F2.
_jim_ wrote:
My partner's father kindly gifted me 20-ish rolls of Walgreen's branded C-41 film that he has been storing in his fridge for the last 20-ish years. Some of it is made in Germany. Some of it is made in Japan. A bit of research suggests that the German made stuff is white-label Agfa Vista 400 and the Japanese stuff in Fuji Superia 400. I was a little unsure of what to rate it at, so for this roll I set my meter to iso 80 and let the F6's 'matrix-meter' take care of the rest. I think it looks ok. Definitely has a bit of the mute colors/blocked up shadows look one can get from expired film. I'm shooting another roll at iso 50 to see if an extra two-thirds of a stop helps.
Also of note, and I am sure that I've said it before...the dampening of the mirror and shutter on the F6 is sooo good. Most of these shots were sub-1/40s and the camera just feels so stable...even at slow shutter speeds. For comparison, I have trouble getting consistently perfectly sharp images at 1/60s on my loud and vibration-prone F2....Show more →
Lemme tell ya about vibration! Here, my Nikon FG...
