leighton w wrote:
Sorry I've been AWOL. I wasn't going to mention it, but I thought better of it since we are like family and you deserve an explanation. My cancer has returned and I'm undergoing procedures to eradicate a couple of small tumors on my liver. Once we're through with all of this I'll be back with my usual "blabbermouth" ways!
leighton w wrote:
Sorry I've been AWOL. I wasn't going to mention it, but I thought better of it since we are like family and you deserve an explanation. My cancer has returned and I'm undergoing procedures to eradicate a couple of small tumors on my liver. Once we're through with all of this I'll be back with my usual "blabbermouth" ways!
Leighton, I'm wishing you the very best and a quick recovery.
Ah, it's been a long long while.
Life has taken a different turn (all for the good) which means I don't get the Nikkors out as much as I'd like to.
Did however take the 16/3.5 AI to an International Biathlon Union (IBU) competition at Soldier Hollow (near Salt Lake City, Utah) last weekend and used it on the Sony A7C.
Here's a few select shots. Most at F/5.6 or f/8.
leighton w wrote:
Sorry I've been AWOL. I wasn't going to mention it, but I thought better of it since we are like family and you deserve an explanation. My cancer has returned and I'm undergoing procedures to eradicate a couple of small tumors on my liver. Once we're through with all of this I'll be back with my usual "blabbermouth" ways!
I've been AWOL too, but not for this kind of serious reason!
Get well soon Leighton!
Started scanning my medium format film from ages ago, and many cameras. I have approximately a two feet high stack of archival film sheets with 12-35 frames on each sheet. I did some 35mm Velvia with the new setup, but I took the top off the EFH to get to the medium format mask. All shot D850 with 24mm f2.8 ais & tc16a
Area I set up for film scanning with a dslr
Caddy I built to hold new light panel and EFH
All stacked up for use wearing felt feet on various posts
Looking down in the setup in use
Film development area that I roughed in, wired, and plumbed under the stairs in the early 1990s. Had to replace the washers in my 30 year homemade faucet, add counter top, and replace the sink drain basket - again.
One frame from the Bronica S using the Nikkor-P 75mm f2.8 and Kodak T-Max film circa 1996. My daughter was 5, and my wife was in the hospital on this vacation. She was under six 6' sky lights and had platinum hair that the sun was hitting, but her face was in shadow. The human eye can see fine in that vast of dynamic range, but film and even digital cameras struggle. I converted this negative using the LR plugin Negative Lab Pro - and I don't think using HDR would capture the seriousness of the moment as well as NLP. I never attempted to print this - even with polycontrast papers, because I felt it likely would never appear as it did in real life.
jhinkey wrote:
Ah, it's been a long long while.
Life has taken a different turn (all for the good) which means I don't get the Nikkors out as much as I'd like to.
Did however take the 16/3.5 AI to an International Biathlon Union (IBU) competition at Soldier Hollow (near Salt Lake City, Utah) last weekend and used it on the Sony A7C.
Here's a few select shots. Most at F/5.6 or f/8.
John, great to see you post again! We miss ya. The girls are all grown up now!
James Markus wrote:
One frame from the Bronica S using the Nikkor-P 75mm f2.8 and Kodak T-Max film circa 1996. My daughter was 5, and my wife was in the hospital on this vacation. She was under six 6' sky lights and had platinum hair that the sun was hitting, but her face was in shadow. The human eye can see fine in that vast of dynamic range, but film and even digital cameras struggle. I converted this negative using the LR plugin Negative Lab Pro - and I don't think using HDR would capture the seriousness of the moment as well as NLP. I never attempted to print this - even with polycontrast papers, because I felt it likely would never appear as it did in real life.
I am very impressed, James. Not even a little bit of grain to suggest film. Picture is about as old as my working life. Maybe time to print it for her 35th birthday.
It is funny that you mention that. The Bronica's Nikkor-P had amazing bokeh, but grain doesn't seem to be much of a factor with medium format film. With 35mm - almost any Topaz adjustment in Sharpen AI, and DeNoise AI make the image worse - IMO. On this photo I used Sharpen AI, and It had little to no effect on grain, but pulled out details that surprised me. A few days ago I posted an image from 1994 shot on Fuji Velvia that I shot with a 6x9cm camera that I pulled out of my father's work room trash when I was a kid. In a way, the Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 6x9cm was my first camera, but it was broken - I fixed it eventually. He had given up on fixing it, but let me retrieve it. The bellows had a light leak, and the front element had been removed from it's carl zeiss lens - but how far you screwed it on determined whether it would focus according to the lens inscriptions on the barrel. It was a crap shoot whether you would get a sharp photo or not, because you only could guess at distance, and frame through a tiny square hole in a piece of metal that would impressively pop up. Reason I mention this - is that Sharpen AI pulled a less than marginal shot back to acceptable. I will link it, because it isn't a Nikkor, but here is what it did to the photo I posted from the Bronica S.
SiMuMe wrote:
I am very impressed, James. Not even a little bit of grain to suggest film. Picture is about as old as my working life. Maybe time to print it for her 35th birthday.
