rattymouse wrote:
Sorry I can't help you out with a GF670, but I have to chime in and say, it is almost impossible to imagine a more portable 6 x 7 camera than this Fuji/Voightlander. The GF670 folds up so small that I almost forget I am carrying it when out and about. Such small size, light weight, and staggering image quality are a joyful combination.
Good luck!
Where are you going?
Europe - they are tough to find in the U.S. for some reason.
corposant wrote:
Europe - they are tough to find in the U.S. for some reason.
Yeah, now that these cameras are discontinued, what was once easily obtained is now sort of rare. Looks like Ebay is your only source for one and even then it will come out of Asia.
There's a couple of GF670's here in Shanghai for sale second hand, for a stupid price, $1800 or so. That's more than I bought mine for brand new!!
corposant wrote:
Europe - they are tough to find in the U.S. for some reason.
If you really want a GF670, I'd take a hard look at this. The price here is awesome considering the extras you get. It's in the US and the guy has great feedback. No relation or affiliation with this seller at all!
Some joy from the Pentax 6x7, with the 75mm
Ilford Pan F, in Rodinal.
Snapped/souped & scanned in less than a week , which is pretty good for me!
The light was all over the place with the clouds.
The last one is staff housing & some pink Dogwoods (not native)
rattymouse, I use an Epson 4990, predecessor to the V700 series.
The newer series supposedly has better DMAX, optics & focusing.
I am looking for a V750 bargain since my scanner is gotten a lot of use & cleaned it once.
Funny thing was these Ilford PanF negatives had noticeably more dynamic range than the scanner & I struggled to flatten them out. I ended up doing a two scan & blend in P/S
Not totally happy with the falls scenes. I used the Epson s/w but will go back to Vuescan to try.
This was the 1st time using Pan F and it's range, & grain lived up to the hype.
Trouble is, I think the emulsion is a bit softer than I'm used to & the squeegee did some "soft" scratches on a few
I rushed the Pan F to dev it since I read a bunch about latent image issues if you let it sit around.
Thanks
Dan
Jon, thank you, it was fun shootin' old school at Yosemite. My only tool was a yellow filter
Dan, these are very nice shots. How are you getting along with the 75mm lens? I really like the view of this lens. I use it as a wide normal, and only change to something else as needed.
I use Canon's 4950F scanner. Its a pretty nice scanner, but I don't want it doing anything with my negs other than putting them into PS as a positive image.
Using Cannon's curve tool, I push the black point and white point well within the 0-255 range creating a very flat scan that captures all of the info on the negative. Then it is scanned into Photoshop and adjusted back to full tones with the Levels tool. Sometimes I adjust the image profile either lighter or darker than the working profile to ensure that the histogram is centered. From here, you can use curves, or other tools as you like.
Gary,
I will try a few things on the Epson & Vuescan s/w to see if this helps my process.
I still use the 75 alot, but just got the 55 (SMC model). It works for me as shoot a lot of LF at the focal length
and alot of my dslr shots are around 30mm. It seems pretty sharp.
I will be scanning some Acros negs tonite from that setup
From earlier this spring testing out a canon ML that I rescued. Nice big 40/1.9 lens on this point and shoot. Focusing is a little finicky as it doesn't "grab" like my Nikon l35af or oly mju and mju2. Gold400, tetenal, pakon, lr5. Nothing special, just some grab shots at twilight to see how it handled and one daytime shot to see how the lens renders stopped down. Contrasty.
Went for a drive Sunday with the better half. Stopped by an old Grist Mill for some stone ground grits and buckwheat flour. Few shots from there. Leica CL, 40/2 summicron, hp5+ pushed 1 stop, xtol 1:1, pakon scanned, lr5
, which is pretty good for me!
