After struggling with color shifts and general wonkiness using color negative films (Ektar, Portra, etc), I was so happy to find Provia! I love that's WYSIWYG, and viewing the raw chromes on a lightbox is pure joy.
It will most likely be the only color film I'll ever shoot again (both 35mm and 120) unless Kodak finally re-releases Ektachrome. Supposedly it's close...
A few more from the archives. Been on a scanning tear here. Didn't know if there was a decent Bill Medley shot but there was one. Found another Hillman shot I like a lot, plus you can never have enough of the J-200, one of the prettiest guitars ever made, and finally, another black and white 4x5 of my maternal grandparents from the mid 80's, shot in my parents yard with the old Cambo, Tri-X and a medium Chimera soft box on a Balcar strobe. I just realized that I'm still using that same strobe pack which still has the March '84 sticker from when I bought it new. Now there's a solid endorsement for a company no longer in business.
Mathieu18 wrote:
Think of it like a Tessar I imagine. Wide open its dreamy, but stopped down, like above it's quite nice. Wide open shots below. The fun thing is it will literally put 6x6 in your pocket (though it's not necessarily comfortable.
I think it looks fantastic wide open. Zeiss Ikon Nettar you say?.....
Thanks, it's different. I'm going to run some more through it, needs a work out :-D.
Yep, Zeiss Ikon Nettar, their low end folder. They come with a variety of lenses, mine is the Novar-Anastigmat 75/6.3. Cost me a princely $10! Sometimes the shutter doesn't quite release and I have to trip it with my pinkie, but I can deal...
Desmolicious wrote:
I think it looks fantastic wide open. Zeiss Ikon Nettar you say?.....
Yeah - I've been shooting a bunch of it in 120 lately. I have some in 35mm if you want to trade for anything 120 (not B&W).
Activatedfx wrote:
After struggling with color shifts and general wonkiness using color negative films (Ektar, Portra, etc), I was so happy to find Provia! I love that's WYSIWYG, and viewing the raw chromes on a lightbox is pure joy.
It will most likely be the only color film I'll ever shoot again (both 35mm and 120) unless Kodak finally re-releases Ektachrome. Supposedly it's close...
I guess I've been on a Chris Hillman kick, scanning wise lately. And I'm realizing that I photographed him a LOT back in the 90's. Funny how people can come and go in and out of your life. He and McGuinn are taking the Byrds out again this summer. Fifty-four years later. Here are two, in two different periods of dress.
First examples using the Nikon ES-2 film copier kit. Loading the film strip holder is a bit fiddly, trying to get things lined up as the film is free floating until you close it. Nikon could have learned a lesson from Lomo - their DIGITILAZA film holder has a lip that you slide the film under.
One big advantage over the old ES-1 holder is that it is easier to use more of the sensor area. My ES-1 copies had pretty wide margins, the ES-2 uses far more of the surface area:
I am spending far too much time scanning at present. It's easy to do more of that when I should be attending to other short-term tasks!
These slides are from a film I shot on 24 Aug 2000, on a journey from Chambéry in Savoy, France, through Burgundy up to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, for the long flight back to Australia.
I used a Pentax Z-1 and its kit zoom (that I now realise was probably pretty mediocre). Film was Ektachrome, or a cheaper equivalent.
lenticular11 wrote:
I love that broken glass shot Edward!
I am spending far too much time scanning at present. It's easy to do more of that when I should be attending to other short-term tasks!
These slides are from a film I shot on 24 Aug 2000, on a journey from Chambéry in Savoy, France, through Burgundy up to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, for the long flight back to Australia.
I used a Pentax Z-1 and its kit zoom (that I now realise was probably pretty mediocre). Film was Ektachrome, or a cheaper equivalent.
Love your ektachrome set. Nice color palette that looks very natural without excessive saturation. I’m really looking forward to the revival of ektachrome film.
A few from Lower Manhattan, NYC this week. 500 C/M + 80/2.8 + Provia 100. Home developed using the FPP Arista Rapid E-6 kit. Scanned via A7ii + Tamron 90/2.5 Macro (52BB) using a Lomo "DigitaLiza 120" and lightbox.
Staten Island Ferry terminal sign detail.
SKATE park sign detail. Pier 25, Hudson River Park.
