This thread has been moving right along, hard to keep up! Love it and some great captures!
The nikon L35AF makes wimpy 4 pointed sunstars but handles flaring/ghosting very well. Here are a few from a couple months ago with cheap fuji400 superia. Scanned on kodak pakon
I've been a long term Marilyn Manson fan, so, I felt like photographing a still shot of his video, here are the results. Mamiya RB67 plus Sekor Mamiya Wide Angle 65mm f/4.5 , with the Polaroid back, and using FUJIFILM FP-100C, yay!
rattymouse wrote:
Does this camera use the same lenses as the 6 x 9 version?
If yes, KEH has a 65mm lens on sale now.
I think I read that it does. That's where I bought my Fujica GM670 at BGN grade. Love that site! If I remember, the 65mm they had was without the proper viewfinder. However I have a 35mm external viewfinder that probably might work.
Heres a pic of the Bessa 667W, same camera as the Fuji667W. Lens is Color-Skopar 55mm f4.5 and has built in exposure meter for aperture priority shooting and a very nice viewfinder.
rattymouse wrote:
Excellent color Jon! I wish we had those cheaper Superia films available in 120 size. No such luck.
Thank you rattymouse. I am slowly beginning to like fuji colors. Still partial to kodak however my scanner plays very nice with fuji. Cheap and sharp film. What more could you ask for?
Jon Buffington wrote:
Thank you rattymouse. I am slowly beginning to like fuji colors. Still partial to kodak however my scanner plays very nice with fuji. Cheap and sharp film. What more could you ask for?
Give 400H a try some time. Sadly, not that cheap, but delicious color!
I saw some comments on refrigeration, pro film did/does need to be refrigerated if you want to keep colors in check. It was manufactured with tighter tolerances on the dyes versus consumer film which the colors would "mature" over time and didn't need to be refrigerated because typically the people shooting it didn't care so much about the accuracy of the colors. I typically would refrigerate all mine except if I knew that I wasn't going to use it in a timely basis and then I would store it in the freezer. The different emulsions will usually say on the packaging if they are suppose to be refrigerated.
JohnBrose wrote:
I saw some comments on refrigeration, pro film did/does need to be refrigerated if you want to keep colors in check. It was manufactured with tighter tolerances on the dyes versus consumer film which the colors would "mature" over time and didn't need to be refrigerated because typically the people shooting it didn't care so much about the accuracy of the colors. I typically would refrigerate all mine except if I knew that I wasn't going to use it in a timely basis and then I would store it in the freezer. The different emulsions will usually say on the packaging if they are suppose to be refrigerated....Show more →
In my experience, pro film not cold stored and well past expiration does behave differently than pro film cold stored and well past expiration... maybe not to the degree of consumer film, but there is a difference over time.
We were always told that there was no difference at all between the pro and the non pro emulsions, but the pro films were targeted so that their "drift" in color would be as close to optimal by the time the film was expected to be used. There was a photographer in Pasadena who used to drive around with several cases of Kodachrome in the trunk of his Rolls. He's pull one out every week or so and shoot a roll. When it was perfectly aged, he'd put everything in the freezer until he was ready to shoot it.
This is really cool! I was researching on how to add a 4X5 back, to my Mamiya RB67, so, that I could attach the Polaroid 4X5 back to it also, but, so far, I'm still researching, oh, and collecting the dough! xD
