Samy, You are getting amazing color and image quality out of your Kodak Vision3 250D and Plaubel Makina W67 combo. Thanks for introducing us to both the film and camera. Does the Makina have interchangeable lenses?
rafaelcasd wrote:
So, I went to Cruising Gran Street too early, had not comprehended that summer is on us and one should wait to be there later for the best light. Saving grace is the 'old' Z6 that handles the strong contrast well in post processing. My old D3 would get very noisy in the shadows under these conditions.
I was photographing the group of Packards and Pierce Arrows, ignoring the not-so-vintage group of Rolls Royces, struggling a bit with the strong sun heating me up, and listening to some owners speaking (boasting) of their made to order town car from 1936, a million+ dollar affair and the only one like it in the world.
Down the road comes chugging the grandaddy of them all, a 1910 Pierce arrow, complete with grandma, grandpa, and the kids. I did not ask them how they came to own and care for this beauty but I loved that they were dressed like anyone else and acted totally down to earth. My guess is that they were old California money, not dot com or Hollywood but orange growers whose land became gold. I have met some of these folks over my lifetime - very normal people who are serious about money and business but do not think themselves better than anyone else. (The way Leighton and I would be if our farm had been in Orange county )
One such person I met was the owner of Rainbird Co. Tony LaFetra, in his family's Azusa farm the irrigation sprinkler was invented. Tony has left us, and he was a good man.
Enough talking, on to photos:
Arriving, this first one by the way is at 1.2 with strong sunlight, sure there are better lenses, but this is a good one!
It is one thing to see a car like this in a museum, altogether different to see it driving around town.
rafaelcasd wrote:
So, I went to Cruising Gran Street too early, had not comprehended that summer is on us and one should wait to be there later for the best light. Saving grace is the 'old' Z6 that handles the strong contrast well in post processing. My old D3 would get very noisy in the shadows under these conditions.
I was photographing the group of Packards and Pierce Arrows, ignoring the not-so-vintage group of Rolls Royces, struggling a bit with the strong sun heating me up, and listening to some owners speaking (boasting) of their made to order town car from 1936, a million+ dollar affair and the only one like it in the world.
Down the road comes chugging the grandaddy of them all, a 1910 Pierce arrow, complete with grandma, grandpa, and the kids. I did not ask them how they came to own and care for this beauty but I loved that they were dressed like anyone else and acted totally down to earth. My guess is that they were old California money, not dot com or Hollywood but orange growers whose land became gold. I have met some of these folks over my lifetime - very normal people who are serious about money and business but do not think themselves better than anyone else. (The way Leighton and I would be if our farm had been in Orange county )
One such person I met was the owner of Rainbird Co. Tony LaFetra, in his family's Azusa farm the irrigation sprinkler was invented. Tony has left us, and he was a good man.
Enough talking, on to photos:
Arriving, this first one by the way is at 1.2 with strong sunlight, sure there are better lenses, but this is a good one!
It is one thing to see a car like this in a museum, altogether different to see it driving around town.
OK - so here is one of the oddest wildflowers I have seen recently. I don't recall seeing these before, - maybe I haven't been out when they are in bloom, or they are more prevalent in the area I have been hiking this week (instead of my usual haunt). Apart from the striking fuscia-colored petals, the flowers each have little white flowers inside. For scale, those white flowers are less than 1/4 inch across and the whole plant was about 3" tall.
This is called "Clakia pulchella", with various common names of pinkfairies, ragged robin, and deerhorn clarkia. This is a 13-shot image stacked in PS. These are very delicate and even the slightest air movement causes them to sway. Even though PS did a pretty good job here, if you look closely you can see some ghosting and softness here and there.
Clarkia by Doug Stevens, on Flickr
Nikon Df; ISO 200, micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 @ f4; 1/100 sec. 13 shot stack
Best wishes to all
Doug
PS - headed back to Glacier for a few days on Monday. It will probably rain again!
James Markus wrote:
Samy, You are getting amazing color and image quality out of your Kodak Vision3 250D and Plaubel Makina W67 combo. Thanks for introducing us to both the film and camera. Does the Makina have interchangeable lenses?
Thanks folks for the encouragement on the Vision3 photos.
Jim, there's 3 Makina's with non-interchangeable Nikkor lenses. The original Makina 67 has an 80mm lens. The W67, and the 670 came later. The 670 is essentially the 67 with better ergonomics and probably a couple other tweaks. The W67 has the wider 55mm lens, which is equivalent to ~27mm in full format terms.
All Nikkors on the Plaubel cameras, as expected, are very sharp. I have the 67 and W67. All 3 cameras have the same form factor; the lens retracts with a bellows into the camera body for a reasonably compact medium format carry around.
Very pleasing looking flower Scott. Very cool that you can hop across to Glacier NP! Hope you get great weather this time and lots of photos! graytrekker wrote:
OK - so here is one of the oddest wildflowers I have seen recently. I don't recall seeing these before, - maybe I haven't been out when they are in bloom, or they are more prevalent in the area I have been hiking this week (instead of my usual haunt). Apart from the striking fuscia-colored petals, the flowers each have little white flowers inside. For scale, those white flowers are less than 1/4 inch across and the whole plant was about 3" tall.
This is called "Clakia pulchella", with various common names of pinkfairies, ragged robin, and deerhorn clarkia. This is a 13-shot image stacked in PS. These are very delicate and even the slightest air movement causes them to sway. Even though PS did a pretty good job here, if you look closely you can see some ghosting and softness here and there.
A couple of days ago someone on another thread mentioned that when he clicked on the Instagram logo on my profile, or below my little photo on the side here, it just took him back to Fred Miranda. I looked at my profile and I have "@graytrekker" for my instagram name. Any ideas why this isn't working for me as it should?
Thanks
Doug
saph wrote:
Very pleasing looking flower Scott. Very cool that you can hop across to Glacier NP! Hope you get great weather this time and lots of photos!
Thanks!
Yes - hoping to get some long high hikes in, despite the forecast of rain/showers. I have a new Sony A7C II to check out as a backpacking rig. (too bad Nikon has nothing similar)
Doug
graytrekker wrote:
OK - so here is one of the oddest wildflowers I have seen recently. I don't recall seeing these before, - maybe I haven't been out when they are in bloom, or they are more prevalent in the area I have been hiking this week (instead of my usual haunt). Apart from the striking fuscia-colored petals, the flowers each have little white flowers inside. For scale, those white flowers are less than 1/4 inch across and the whole plant was about 3" tall.
This is called "Clakia pulchella", with various common names of pinkfairies, ragged robin, and deerhorn clarkia. This is a 13-shot image stacked in PS. These are very delicate and even the slightest air movement causes them to sway. Even though PS did a pretty good job here, if you look closely you can see some ghosting and softness here and there.
PS - headed back to Glacier for a few days on Monday. It will probably rain again!...Show more →
Beautiful image of a beautiful flower.
For the question you asked. All of the logos you have go back to this thread. Are you sure your instagram address is pasted in the box next to instagram when you are in the edit your profile page? I know, stupid question, but I had to ask.
saph wrote:
Jim, there's 3 Makina's with non-interchangeable Nikkor lenses. The original Makina 67 has an 80mm lens. The W67, and the 670 came later. The 670 is essentially the 67 with better ergonomics and probably a couple other tweaks. The W67 has the wider 55mm lens, which is equivalent to ~27mm in full format terms.
The 670 improvements are:
Ribbed exterior for better grip vs. the 67's smooth surface
Hot-shoe for the flash
Lens retraction button is black instead of the cooler-looking red on the 67
Two-stroke film advance, which is supposed to be more robust over the 67's one-stroke
And of course 220 film support, which is not much of an advantage these days (though 20 exposures vs. 10 was sure a great thing in the good-old 220 days)
leighton w wrote:
For the question you asked. All of the logos you have go back to this thread. Are you sure your instagram address is pasted in the box next to instagram when you are in the edit your profile page? I know, stupid question, but I had to ask.
Leighton - Thanks!
Of all those various social media things, I only have Flickr and Instagram, and the Flickr link works for me. Here is what I have in my profile:
GeorgeBo wrote:
Was wondering if we were going to get some fresh Crusing Grand shots this year. Always love to see these Rafael!
George
Thank you George, lost a couple of Cruising Fridays as my 73 Vette stopped running. Symptoms were odd, it would run and abruptly stop, or run ragged, die and start again, Replaced the carburetor as it still had the original one, but that did not fix it, so I took the distributor apart and replaced and old photocell based points replacement system that I had put in 15 years ago, with a magnetic one (Pertronix III), then the car started running fine, still need to replace plugs and set timing.
The old optical sensor points replacement rotor mounting had broken and the plastic rotor scratched up the optical window. The magnetic one should be more reliable.
I do not 'Cruise' but just park the car, but this way i get a prime parking spot.
That is unique Doug. I love your stacking efforts. So good! Enjoy your trip back to Glacier NP next week!
graytrekker wrote:
OK - so here is one of the oddest wildflowers I have seen recently. I don't recall seeing these before, - maybe I haven't been out when they are in bloom, or they are more prevalent in the area I have been hiking this week (instead of my usual haunt). Apart from the striking fuscia-colored petals, the flowers each have little white flowers inside. For scale, those white flowers are less than 1/4 inch across and the whole plant was about 3" tall.
This is called "Clakia pulchella", with various common names of pinkfairies, ragged robin, and deerhorn clarkia. This is a 13-shot image stacked in PS. These are very delicate and even the slightest air movement causes them to sway. Even though PS did a pretty good job here, if you look closely you can see some ghosting and softness here and there.
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Always love to see these Rafael!