rattymouse wrote:
Wow! Welcome to the thread T! These shots are spectacular! Really impressive work. I like every last one. I have habitually shot with TMAX 400 for the past many years. Now I feel I have to try Tri-X again. What lens are you shooting here?
I sure envy your warm weather!
Great metering work!
Thanks my friend. Funny thing, TMAX 400 is on my short list of things to try very soon. I have yet to experience that. The last photo you see here is most likely shot on a 35mm f/2.8 Summaron, but the rest are shot on the 50mm Summilux ASPH.
Yes, the warm weather makes for decent photo outings, but I am envious of anyone who actually gets to experience seasons. I miss shoveling the driveway.
rattymouse wrote:
Another thing T. Did you get a double or single stroke M3?
You know, I had a single and a double stroke and was mounting 35mm and 50mm to each, but I wasn't using goggles, so I was guessing 35mm framelines. Just the other day I had the opportunity to sell my double stroke and trade up to the new Leica M-A, so I did that and started using it for 35mm just yesterday.
I still love shooting my digitals, but just not as much as film. I think you are likely to see more film from me in 2016.
tthorne wrote:
I still love shooting my digitals, but just not as much as film. I think you are likely to see more film from me in 2016.
In 2005 I bought a Nikon D80 and quit shooting film altogether for about six years. Then, I found my mother-n-law's old Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and ran a couple of rolls through it. It was fun! Since then I'm now up to shooting about 1/3 of my images on film. Always b&w.
thoughts on this film: base is polyster so super thin and difficult to feed the pakon though it handled it well. On orange mask so scans were extremely orange. Easy enough to fix in post. Film is super saturated however resolution is somewhat low. Overall an interesting film.
thoughts on this film: base is polyster so super thin and difficult to feed the pakon though it handled it well. On orange mask so scans were extremely orange. Easy enough to fix in post. Film is super saturated however resolution is somewhat low. Overall an interesting film.
The colors look very realistic, I really like them, nice job especially the last one.
Developed some forgotten rolls of film from different years and cameras. This one was shot on well expired Kodak TXP 6049.
Exposure and possible use of filters unrecorded. It was shot at about noon, a mistake from my side for sure, as the light is lifeless (please excuse my bad English).
Mecklenburg, Heimat by Georg, auf Flickr
Minolta Autocord TLR, expired Kodak TXP 6049 in Diafine, printed straight on Fomaspeed RC-paper
I don't like the "chalky looking concrete pavings", maybe a result of the light.
Jon - I like some of your images here, but some of them seem sorta flat to my eyes. I took one of your jpegs and did a quick laptop tweak to see where it might want to go. Only saying that I see a lot more drama in your images. And I'm not saying that my interpretation is the best, but just one more way of looking at it. I'd love to stick this shot on the drum scanner and see what happens.
Thanks Peter. I did very little post work other than color correction, pulled the blacks down and added both global and local contrast. They were super flat beforehand and didn't want to go overboard. Looks like I had room to go
I was shooting this from full shade into bright light. Digital would have had to have been exposure bracketed and blended. Shot this 2-3 stops overexposed (metered for shadows as well) and it turned out great. Negative film has definite advantages with handling highlights.
I was shooting this from full shade into bright light. Digital would have had to have been exposure bracketed and blended. Shot this 2-3 stops overexposed (metered for shadows as well) and it turned out great. Negative film has definite advantages with handling highlights. http://www.jpbuffington.org/photos/i-hNhbjZz/0/XL/i-hNhbjZz-XL.jpg
Jon - thanks for your comment - love your CN200 Digibase images - I use the 120 version of the film. Even then it is very grainy and low resolution but there is something about the colour that I like, very 1970's
Seboh - great portrait really like how the colours look
Desmolicious - using a flash has given the portraits a great high contrast look. I wish they still made the Kodak 400CN film. I anyone has old 120 stock they want to sell please PM
I recently sold my Rolleiflex GX and I am now using a Rolleiflex 2.8F that despite being older than me is such a wonderful camera. Ergonomically I prefer it to the GX and it does feel better engineered. The lens is fantastic and despite the single coating vs HFT of the GX I prefer the rendering and overall look.
Film used is Rollei 400S rated @250 , Developed in HC110/1:63 for 12min. Scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 9000
