rattymouse wrote:
A GX680 will do that to you. Hope you are recovering soon.
Yeah - P&S for Bane.. I think I overdone airconditioning after overheating (Asian summer...ftw?!)
I went to Niigata in hope of a bit chillier weather...alas...40+, so I managed to do only few sunrise shots and one roll of Velvia during noon sun before packing up and heading home. 500km drive with 20min sleep in 2 days..
Just watching a 180/3.2 EBC for GX, but I already got RZ 250/4.5 so not quite sure I can afford..:/
Cheers mate...will try to recover and post the results of the trip...
That Lola is just gorgeous. IMO the race cars from that period are the most beautiful of all, my favorite maybe being the Porsche 917K in Gulf colours.
Having done professional drum scans for the last fifteen years, I can say that I've seen more than my share of old Ektachromes and Fujichromes that had dust embedded in the emulsion, and that it appeared to be dust that had been slowly embedded after years of not so clean storage. It's very rare to find freshly processed E-6 that's completely filthy, but very common with old film. Even fluid mounted drum scanning does nothing to help get rid of embedded dust and dirt. Retouching it out is the only way, and sometimes that takes hours, depending on how bad it is and how important the image is to you. The dust in the images posted above should have been removed by whoever scanned it. Most images only take a few minutes to clean up, but that can go up with hi-res scans of large format film.
Mescalamba wrote:
Jeez, one would wish that Xpan wasnt so expensive. But I think I wouldnt have enough skill. You are really really good with it.
Love those Ektar pic, that Lola is just perfect..
IMHO, bit of dust? Well, its a film..
First off, that was waaay more than a bit of dust.
Skillful handling of film prevents dust. Before I started doing my own developing, the lab I used *never* *ever* gave me negatives with dust spots. Never.
I almost reached that level, except one batch of film I did was loaded with dust spots. Not sure what happened there.
rattymouse wrote:
Fantastic Ikonta photos! Really well done.
Paul; Very nice use of your Dad's gear...
Here is my "working test shot" on the RB Graflex 4x5 Series D SLR. Because of the limited back focus distance(~178mm), I used and old trick to get my 163mm f4.5 Paragon working on this rig. I ended up attaching a minus 1 (-1) diopter lens (Kodak Telek) via a 40mm to Series VI adapter. The combo gave me about +/-190mm effective focal length, and required opening the aperture by 1/2 a stop over indicated incident meter readings...all good! This was shot yesterday, under a cloudy-bright sky, at f8 actual, using Tmax 100, souped in Tmax RS 1:9 as a one-shot solution.
Actually, I didn't use my father's Mess Ikonta (524/16 with uncoupled rangefinder) for the latest series with my grandsons, but a newly acquired Super Ikonta IV (534/16 with light meter and a coupled rangefinder). I so dreaded that one day my father's camera wouldn't work anymore, that I went looking for an early replacement. Of all 6x6 Zeiss Ikon folders, the 534/16 is the latest and 'the one to get', and the one I found on eBay happens to be in excellent condition.
I think I overdone airconditioning after overheating (Asian summer...ftw?!)
You are really really good with it.
