Activatedfx wrote:
Nice image. Amazing colors! I can always spot a photo taken with the GW690 series... Sharp with smooth bokeh and an overall quality that is very hard to distinguish from digital. (In a good way!)
Appreciate the comment! Here's another one from that same shoot. Lab scan, really can't wait till I can devote some time (and resources) to scanning the negatives myself.
I picked up the camera on the buy/sell board here before leaving on vacation because I keep reading about how small and fun they are. Both things are true. Image quality was quite nice.
taemo wrote:
^well exposed sunsets on Velvia, did you meter for the sky or use a GND?
Thanks! I used a Cokin A120 G1 Hard-Edge Graduated ND 0.5 (1.6-Stop), hand-held in front of the lens.
I find these velvia slides very challenging to "scan" with my A7rII also due to how contrasty and saturated they are. I think there's more shadow detail that's not visible and perhaps some channel clipping going on. Hard to replicate the real-life look of these, I might splurge for a drum scan or see if a local lab scan has better results.
Here's one from a Mamiya 7. These are pictures of my mom and dad on the right and my wife's mom and dad on left and I threw a camera in that I think is from their era. I probably could have done a better job with the flash lighting reflecting of the glass. Seeing my father in uniform reminds me of the day I went to my nephews wedding in Denver about 15 years ago and as we were checking into the hotel one of the workers heard my last name and said he served under a captain with the same name and it turned out to be my father. My father didn't make the trip but we called him and the two talked for a few minutes. It's a small world.
Here is a Mamiya 7II (65mm lens) image shot at Cradle Cirque in Tasmania. You come across stands of endemic King William and Pencil Pines in the nooks and crannies of the mountain sides; and these superb trees often grow in soft, wet peat soils that encourage cushion plants, sedges and moss, and sphagnum - and here, Pandanus. Tasmania is the second largest temperate rainforest still in existence ( after the extensive region of BC, Canada).
And the second is a small image (early days) from a Hexar AF 35/2, from Cochin in Kerala, India.
As part of the celebration that is Red Oktober..
Mockba 5 aka White Russian, Fuji NPS160, handheld @ 1/10sec f 3.5
While this is natively a 6x9 kamera, I shoot it with the 6x6 mask installed cuz I have 2 other 6x9 kameras, I like the square format, and I like to get 12 exposures per roll...
