Some test scans...I shot these images on velvia 100 maybe 5 or so years ago, lab developed and scanned on a Frontier. I had never scanned positives on the pakon (f135+) as it wasn't intended for anything but c-41. However, there are some haks and different techniques. The whole point of the pakon (for me) is speed and convenience so I never did the scanning in raw hack and then the PS inversion, etc etc. In the Kodak's PSI software, there is a hidden function to unlock the scan positive button. The scans are super flat and desaturated but very easily fixed in post in LR (just bump the saturation waaaaaaay up). I compared with the old scans and these were quite acceptable. Color pallette is slightly diffferent (fuji renders blue skies more green like at times) and kodak more magenta but such is the baked in software rendered in the tif files. Anyways, here are some examples I re-scanned back last spring.
camera was I believe a minolta xg1 or x370 with either 28 or 50 lens.
Kenj8246 wrote:
Know right where that is, Mike. Nice capture. Wise County also has one of the nicer old courthouses, a veritable twin of the one in Waxahacie.
Kenny
Thanks Kenny. This was shot in early morning at sunrise...blazing light. I may try and go for another trip closer to dusk/blue hour...I believe the neons and other lighting are still lit up in the evenings...maybe shoot a roll of Ektar or Portra.
Took my Pentax 67II out for a spin this morning. The nearby veteran's park offers walking trails and also some nice bronze sculptures; it's sorta my 'goto' spot for testing things out. Fuji Neopan Acros 100 in Rodinal.
Rock Chimney. I caught this hiking out late one afternoon trying to photograph a waterfall that was all dried up from the summer drought. It was getting dark and I just had on the 28-70 3.5-5.6 zoom on the n90s so this was hand held at like 1/15 or 1/20 wide open. The n90s is fairly heavy and is easy for steady hand held. This isn't "tack" sharp but pretty good for wide open hand held grab shot. TMX in d76 1:1, pakon scan.
This was hard to capture. White sky behind with iso 100 film (expired kodak pro image) and a long lens, canon 7ne with canon 100-300usm at 300, wide open at maybe 1/125 so not tack sharp but got it. Bald eagle and young one in their nest from this summer at Voyageurs NP in norther MN along the Canadian Border.
A rare and fantastic day with my wife in September riding the back roads...we work opposite schedules. Found some old churches, beautiful rural farmland and overlooks. Kentmere 400, canon a1, vivitar 28-70 w/ orange filter, d76 1:1, pakon scan
and who turns a perfectly good dirt bike into a mailbox?
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