Georg, your inspiring me. I have been contemplating converting a room into a darkroom. May have to take the plunge.
Tom, how the heck do you avoid getting run over by all the scooters?
Heh heh......sometimes I wonder that myself. Generally if you hold still, no one will run into you. It's when you are darting around, moving unpredictably that you get tagged by the kamikaze drivers.
Wow good going on this thread guys!! Keep em coming..I haven't post for a while still busy fishing lol.
But I do have some rolls been sitting here
Anyway heres me with one of my victim 2 days ago (yellowtail)
Sashimi!!
Kevin, Daniel, Jon and Paul - thanks for your kind comments! The hybrid workflow (scanning negatives) never really worked for me in the last 12 years. Had most of my darkroom-stuff stored away, now I have finally a small, but dedicated darkroom.
Daniel, congrats to your Mamiya 7! I have the 43 and 65mm-lenses and really like both. Excellent optics. Had the 150 - an extremely sharp lens too, but I had framing issues and let it go. Somehow the widest lens with dedicated framelines in the finder (the 65 for the Mamiya 7, the 50mm for a Leica M3…) feels most natural in use for me. Sorry for my English.
georgms, tom.
The Mamiya 43 does look interesting but I rarely shoot that wide.
The 50 was my next choice for a lens but it will probably be what comes up on craigslist or Ebay at an attractive price.
This will have to wait since I had to get creative in selling off what I wasn't using to fund my "black" budget.
That's why the Pentax kit had to go along with a couple of lenses.
I do plan on renting either the 43 or the 50 for my trip to Kauai in a few months.
Tom, it's always great to see your work from Shanghai. I just compared the quoted yearly transshipment from Shanghai to the port of my hometown (4th largest port in Germany) and your current home wins at a rate of 30:1
Btw, the prices for Acros here are raising again and I think I will look for another 100-speed film. A single 135/36-roll of Acros is about 7 Euros, that's much more than Delta 100 or Kodak T-Max 100. The difference between Fujis, Kodaks and Ilfords offerings in the 120-format is not as high, but still there. Would love to standardize my types of film between formats, that's why the price-increase for Acros 135/36 hurts.
georgms wrote:
Tom, it's always great to see your work from Shanghai. I just compared the quoted yearly transshipment from Shanghai to the port of my hometown (4th largest port in Germany) and your current home wins at a rate of 30:1
Btw, the prices for Acros here are raising again and I think I will look for another 100-speed film. A single 135/36-roll of Acros is about 7 Euros, that's much more than Delta 100 or Kodak T-Max 100. The difference between Fujis, Kodaks and Ilfords offerings in the 120-format is not as high, but still there. Would love to standardize my types of film between formats, that's why the price-increase for Acros 135/36 hurts....Show more →
Thanks for the kind words. I'm on my final days here in Shanghai. Next month I move back to the US so there will be a radical change in the images that I start posting once I'm set up in my new home and shooting again.
Yes, Acros prices are creeping up. I would have no problems shooting FP4 or Delta 100 if the cost were better. Acros has amazing long exposure capabilities so I'd still use that if I wanted to take a 2 min exposure.
Shanghai is one of the busiest ports in the world so it's no surprise that they have low prices due to the economy of scale.
dswiger wrote:
georgms, tom.
The Mamiya 43 does look interesting but I rarely shoot that wide.
The 50 was my next choice for a lens but it will probably be what comes up on craigslist or Ebay at an attractive price.
This will have to wait since I had to get creative in selling off what I wasn't using to fund my "black" budget.
That's why the Pentax kit had to go along with a couple of lenses.
I do plan on renting either the 43 or the 50 for my trip to Kauai in a few months.
Dan
Renting before buying is a smart move in my opinion. Working with an external finder isn't for everyone, some don't have any problems at all with it, others (like me) are having issues with an external finder. Btw, I've found the 43 not too wide, maybe the liberal use of 14mm-lenses for my Nikon-cameras has truncated my senses in this matter ;-)
Good luck and have fun with your 7.
Took a long weekend get away with my wife a few months ago. Just now getting to the pics. Leica CL, 50/1.8 canon serenar, fuji superia xtra 400, unicolor, pakon, lr5.
View from the room balcony.
along with a couple of lenses. 
