saph wrote:
Too many choices for film, but for colour, Ektar and Provia for your lotuses and lilies come to mind. Ektachrome 100 is a good neutral choice for slide film. Portra 160 if you want to tone it down a bit. Kodak Ultramax is a good inexpensive option.
For B&W, the Ilford Delta films - ISO 100 or 400 - are good depending on how much light you are shooting. HP4+ is versatile but can sometimes look less contrasty. From Kodak, Tri-X is my recent fave, but TMax 400 or 100 are excellent too.
A lot to experiment with.
F4s is an ergonomic delight, despite being bulky and on the heavy side.
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Thanks a lot Saph!
I buy some rolls of Kodak gold 200 already. Somebody says it makes sense to shoot ti in golden light hour.
Lotus for Ektar is really great. I am eager to see the difference between analog/digital body.
I will take Ilford Delta films - ISO 100 to try B&W produced from thorium glass.
Some might remember the movie from 1959 "The Anatomy of a Murder." It lost best picture to Ben Hur and it is a true story of a homicide in 1952 in Big Bay, Michigan. Jimmy Stewart played the defense attorney who successfully defended an Army Captain using for the first time an insanity defense. The deceased, Chenowth owned the bar that was the scene of the crime. The Army Captain shot him for allegedly raping his wife who the picture portrays as a somewhat floozy which she was in real life.
We visited the bar and talked to the current owner who had a binder devoted to the crime and the trial. The picture was filmed at the Big Bay Hotel which was closed due to covid. The shots I took were at the actual location.
Had the best cheeseburger I ever had in my life there. Fresh ground beef, hand made patty with onions and fries. If it wasn't 1600 miles from here I'd eat there every day. Oh the beer on tap was cold and good.
Ken Hill wrote:
Some might remember the movie from 1959 "The Anatomy of a Murder." It lost best picture to Ben Hur and it is a true story of a homicide in 1952 in Big Bay, Michigan. Jimmy Stewart played the defense attorney who successfully defended an Army Captain using for the first time an insanity defense. The deceased, Chenowth owned the bar that was the scene of the crime. The Army Captain shot him for allegedly raping his wife who the picture portrays as a somewhat floozy which she was in real life.
We visited the bar and talked to the current owner who had a binder devoted to the crime and the trial. The picture was filmed at the Big Bay Hotel which was closed due to covid. The shots I took were at the actual location.
Had the best cheeseburger I ever had in my life there. Fresh ground beef, hand made patty with onions and fries. If it wasn't 1600 miles from here I'd eat there every day. Oh the beer on tap was cold and good....Show more →
Very interesting Ken.
Not sure I've seen that film so one to seek out and watch this winter.
Ken Hill wrote:
Some might remember the movie from 1959 "The Anatomy of a Murder." It lost best picture to Ben Hur and it is a true story of a homicide in 1952 in Big Bay, Michigan. Jimmy Stewart played the defense attorney who successfully defended an Army Captain using for the first time an insanity defense. The deceased, Chenowth owned the bar that was the scene of the crime. The Army Captain shot him for allegedly raping his wife who the picture portrays as a somewhat floozy which she was in real life.
We visited the bar and talked to the current owner who had a binder devoted to the crime and the trial. The picture was filmed at the Big Bay Hotel which was closed due to covid. The shots I took were at the actual location.
Had the best cheeseburger I ever had in my life there. Fresh ground beef, hand made patty with onions and fries. If it wasn't 1600 miles from here I'd eat there every day. Oh the beer on tap was cold and good....Show more →
Love the processing in this series Ken. Great job! Good story to go along with the pictures too.
Ken Hill wrote:
Some might remember the movie from 1959 "The Anatomy of a Murder." It lost best picture to Ben Hur and it is a true story of a homicide in 1952 in Big Bay, Michigan. Jimmy Stewart played the defense attorney who successfully defended an Army Captain using for the first time an insanity defense. The deceased, Chenowth owned the bar that was the scene of the crime. The Army Captain shot him for allegedly raping his wife who the picture portrays as a somewhat floozy which she was in real life.
We visited the bar and talked to the current owner who had a binder devoted to the crime and the trial. The picture was filmed at the Big Bay Hotel which was closed due to covid. The shots I took were at the actual location.
Had the best cheeseburger I ever had in my life there. Fresh ground beef, hand made patty with onions and fries. If it wasn't 1600 miles from here I'd eat there every day. Oh the beer on tap was cold and good....Show more →
So, after almost a month the Kipon Nikon S to Nikon Z external bayonet adapter arrived, this one worked very well and I was able to finally use the 35mm 3.5 W.C.
This copy is like new and has very interesting performance, on a 24MP camera it performs well with an interesting rendition that changes across the aperture range. At f/8 it is sharp all across. At 3.5 it is sharp in center and interesting, at 22 it still renders a useful image on the Z6.
The darn Z6 touch screen accidentally changed from RAW to JPG. So the photos could not be processed much in a big contrast situation. Good samples of the lens in any case.
I must say that my copy of the 3.5cm 3.5 works with the sun in the frame. I renders a reasonable blob fully open and variable size rather large sunstar closed down.
Some of us don't remember that movie Ken but still that's an interesting plot as is the colour of that bar floor. Some year when I am retired will cross over the Mackinaw bridge and explore UP.
Rafael, glad you found an adapter that works well!! The little old 3.5 RF is quite a performer.
Colin, the scenery you have been sharing has been amazing!
Would you say the NC 24mm is sharper at the edges than the later ones? I had an AF, which I think is the same optically as the AiS, and it wasn't impressive at the edges until very well stopped down on digital, even on aps-c.
Cool rig. Doesn't look simple at all!
So is the ATmega328 part of an Arduino kit and are you are using it to drive a stepper motor for focus pulling?
Is that your guiding scope on the right?
rafaelcasd wrote:
So, after almost a month the Kipon Nikon S to Nikon Z external bayonet adapter arrived, this one worked very well and I was able to finally use the 35mm 3.5 W.C.
This copy is like new and has very interesting performance, on a 24MP camera it performs well with an interesting rendition that changes across the aperture range. At f/8 it is sharp all across. At 3.5 it is sharp in center and interesting, at 22 it still renders a useful image on the Z6.
The darn Z6 touch screen accidentally changed from RAW to JPG. So the photos could not be processed much in a big contrast situation. Good samples of the lens in any case.
Jay good to hear from you. That area on the Gulf coast seems to be a sitting target this year. And that's quite some astro equipment! Are you going to post some galaxies on the AF thread?
Ken but still that's an interesting plot as is the colour of that bar floor. Some year when I am retired will cross over the Mackinaw bridge and explore UP.
