Peter,
I did do a bracket but it wasn't useful. I processed the scan w/dup layer in P/S to pull down the sunset a bit. I tried another version after seeing what you did. Pretty close. Still getting the hang of setting exposures with chromes - Provia/Astia. I did some with light meter & some with camera's metering, played w/comp, etc. I plan to be more disciplined about it now & bracket more
I never found the meter in the Mamiya to be worth a damn. I only use my Minolta Flashmeter 6 (favorite meter ever) with that camera, or just wing it when I know what the basic exposure is already going to be.
Peter Figen wrote:
I never found the meter in the Mamiya to be worth a damn. I only use my Minolta Flashmeter 6 (favorite meter ever) with that camera, or just wing it when I know what the basic exposure is already going to be.
Peter, I agree. I have been leaning more on my Sekonic unless it's a simple scene. I thought I would try the camera's metering just to learn it. But not for critical work anymore.
Hey Tom, reading about your issues above on your apug thread. Bummer about the film. In all honesty though, hard to see unless your looking for it. Then again, once you know it's there,.....
Jon Buffington wrote:
Hey Tom, reading about your issues above on your apug thread. Bummer about the film. In all honesty though, hard to see unless your looking for it. Then again, once you know it's there,.....
Yep, some strange stuff is going on. I didnt see it at all until someone here at FM spotted it. Once notified I saw the problem everywhere. The APUG thread sure is interesting. I had no idea that this was an ongoing problem with some.
I purchased a Rollei 3.5 a few months ago and had the opportunity to pick up a 2.8E recently. I'm trying my luck at scanning the film myself with a used Epson V600 I picked up. Still trying to figure out the best settings.
These two images are from the farmers' market a couple weeks ago. The light was dim, so I was shooting wide open at fairly low shutter speeds (1/30th I think). This thing is completely unforgiving at f/2.8 and hard to see clearly for precise focusing. Probably my old eyes.
I clearly front focused on the old farmer as I see a clear focus point on his shirt. I did get the lady pretty close. Will see what else I got as I scan the rest tonight or tomorrow.
Quick question, Fujifilm GSW690 III, or save film money, and get the Fujifilm GSW690, or even the GW series? I plan on shooting everything, and anything, but, especially still life, and a large amount of indoor, natural light photography, with the occasional cat, flower, and macro as much as allowable? Thank you all! Happy photography
FilmVeneficus wrote:
Quick question, Fujifilm GSW690 III, or save film money, and get the Fujifilm GSW690, or even the GW series? I plan on shooting everything, and anything, but, especially still life, and a large amount of indoor, natural light photography, with the occasional cat, flower, and macro as much as allowable? Thank you all! Happy photography
There is nothing optically different between the I, II, and III series 6 X 9 Fuji rangefinders. All the changes are cosmetic to the camera. You can't really shoot macro with a rangefinder camera as the minimum focus distance is quite large and parallax error becomes substantial with close focusing.
Some images from my recent summer vacation in Greece.
Taken with a Rolleiflex GX (apart from the last one taken with a Mamiya 6 and 75mm lens) and my current favourite Rollei/CN200 film scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000
I am now rating this film at ISO100 and get great shadow detail, less grain, still good highlight control. Developed with the Tetenal C41 kit for 5:30min at 35'C
Great capture of some unique engineering.
