Pressed return by mistake.
Proper reply below.....
saph wrote:
Colin, tough times with the new variant spreading so quickly.
Are those underground trains upgraded since that time couple years ago I took one back to my hotel? Somehow I don't remember them being so modern-looking.
Although the SE of England is under a Tier 4, Stay-At-Home, order I had an allowable reason (daughter's house move) to travel to London recently. The mainline trains were practically empty - about 3 people per carriage. Paddington station was like a ghost town. Here are a few frames from the journey.
Those are main-line Great Western Railway trains Samy.
There has been a big push to electrify all mainline rail tracks over the last few years so the trains depicted (Hitachi) are relatively new, super smooth, quieter and faster than the old diesel fuelled engines.
Journey time to central London takes 45 minutes for the 60 mile journey from my local station.
With 3 stops on the way that means you tick along mostly at 100mph - but you hardly notice it.
The underground still has a lot of old rolling stock so your memory serves you well.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK so things will start to improve once that rolls out over the next few months. An online calculator (age, underlying health, etc) shows 20 million people ahead of me in the UK queue and a date of mid-May for a call-up. Vaccinating the world is going to take a long time.
Colin
saph wrote:
Colin, tough times with the new variant spreading so quickly.
Are those underground trains upgraded since that time couple years ago I took one back to my hotel? Somehow I don't remember them being so modern-looking.
Although the SE of England is under a Tier 4, Stay-At-Home, order I had an allowable reason (daughter's house move) to travel to London recently. The mainline trains were practically empty - about 3 people per carriage. Paddington station was like a ghost town. Here are a few frames from the journey.
Have you been in contact with Ben? He seems to have been AWOL for the last 3-4 weeks.
But then again, maybe he doesn't want to reply to my Flickr messages....
Ahh a different line. Good to know I am not losing too much memory, yet
DeltaSigma wrote:
Those are main-line Great Western Railway trains Samy.
There has been a big push to electrify all mainline rail tracks over the last few years so the trains depicted (Hitachi) are relatively new, super smooth, quieter and faster than the old diesel fuelled engines.
Journey time to central London takes 45 minutes for the 60 mile journey from my local station.
With 3 stops on the way that means you tick along mostly at 100mph - but you hardly notice it.
The underground still has a lot of old rolling stock so your memory serves you well.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use in the UK so things will start to improve once that rolls out over the next few months. An online calculator (age, underlying health, etc) shows 20 million people ahead of me in the UK queue and a date of mid-May for a call-up. Vaccinating the world is going to take a long time.
Philippe, excellent sample with the 180 2.8 AIS. Reminds me of my early days on the thread and getting pulled into buying that lens, and then the 180 Leica Apo-Telyt after watching you showcasing that one too.
Lieutenant Z wrote:
Samy, for a moment I thought Ben was back..... -)
One more with the D700 but this time with the 180/2.8 ais :
Paddington Station is a name I haven't thought about in 25 years or more. I need to dig out some 35mm negatives from my business trips. I am sure I have a Paddington Station sign from the early 90's
Started to seriously process old negs with the PB-6, Z6, 55mm 3.5 and flash. Setup similar to the photo below but with more diffusing on the flash.
Using NX-D to process negs, it is fun to do it all backwards, my corrections are linear, would be nice to find custom curves. I am willing to buy adobe sw to improve my output. One of the complexities seems to be tonal change with exposure adjustments. I can get well exposed sunlit negs to look nice.
Will keep recording RAW NEFs as I can improve conversion later.
Any recommendations?
In my many lives I used to design optics and algorithms for fluorescent indwelling catheters to measure blood gases continuously as a fiber optic radial artery catheter.
These photos are from a clinical trial at Stanford Medical center.
30 years have passed but still selected photos to hide identities, except for mine.
Kodak Ektar 1000, Z6 at iso 100,flash verbotten, no noise reduction, wanted the film grain as it was. F2SB likely a 50mm 1.4.
Rafael,
At the press we used something very much like this Honeywell Repronar LINK HERE Except I believe it was manufactured by Kodak. It was a beautifully constructed machine with a lit stage, good camera body, waist level finder and magnifier, bellows, and excellent lens. It had a film 35mm strip attachment, and without shot 35mm mounted slides. I believe you can pull the film camera body off, and replace it with a digital body. I used a Kodak Professional 2035 film scanner 90 second 20 megapixel scans, Nikon LS1000 LED scanner which could do 5400dpi using Lasersoft Scanning software in 60 seconds, but the time is what forced me to use the Epson V700 which could do multiple formats and up to 24 individually adjusted 35mm scans at a time. All of these are old school 12-25 years old, but the scans are all still excellent. The Epson V700 or an updated model are still available - the others need SCSI cards and Twain drivers. The way you are doing it works, but is labor intensive, fiddly, and time consuming - even though the actual capture takes a split second. Dust, film curvature, and handling add lots of time. It is up to you...
rafaelcasd wrote:
Started to seriously process old negs with the PB-6, Z6, 55mm 3.5 and flash. Setup similar to the photo below but with more diffusing on the flash.
Using NX-D to process negs, it is fun to do it all backwards, my corrections are linear, would be nice to find custom curves. I am willing to buy adobe sw to improve my output. One of the complexities seems to be tonal change with exposure adjustments. I can get well exposed sunlit negs to look nice.
Will keep recording RAW NEFs as I can improve conversion later.
Any recommendations?
In my many lives I used to design optics and algorithms for fluorescent indwelling catheters to measure blood gases continuously as a fiber optic radial artery catheter.
These photos are from a clinical trial at Stanford Medical center.
30 years have passed but still selected photos to hide identities, except for mine.
Kodak Ektar 1000, Z6 at iso 100,flash verbotten, no noise reduction, wanted the film grain as it was. F2SB likely a 50mm 1.4.
The underground station at Piccadilly Circus.
I got off the train and there was nobody there.
Two separate frames from the same position - one processed in colour, the other in black and white
DeltaSigma wrote:
The underground station at Piccadilly Circus.
I got off the train and there was nobody there.
Two separate frames from the same position - one processed in colour, the other in black and white
I like the 1st one better; so colorful.
It's almost ridiculous, isn't this normally one of the busiest stations?
It remembers to a videoclip of The Rolling Stones; Living In A Ghost Town from only 6 months ago.
BTW mostly shot thru a circular fish-eye.
Edit: Can't get the pointer to the clip right, so you have to look for yourself.
gbohannon wrote:
Paddington Station is a name I haven't thought about in 25 years or more. I need to dig out some 35mm negatives from my business trips. I am sure I have a Paddington Station sign from the early 90's
Dig it out - I wonder if the old sign is still in use today?
