rafaelcasd wrote:
Here is my old C3, a 1973 which is nothing special but dear to my heart. Over the years my two little hands have replaced: headlights, radiator frame, radiator, water pump, engine harness, thermostat and housing, belts, generator, distributor, ignition components, carburetor, windshield, tachometer and cable, convertible top, seat covers, door inner hardware, all brakes, entire rear suspension, u joints, etc.
Thanks for the advice, the Pertronix III points replacement is working great with a distributor ground wire (thanks Ken Hill), with the new carburetor it does not smoke and reek of gas, and runs very smooth. Had to figure out how to set a divorced choke so that it does not overly choke the engine after start.
The engine, transmission and rear end are all original, not rebuilt, and the car runs great after 51 years, burns no oil, but it leaks a little, 2nd gear synchros a bit tired, no rust at all.
With the 8.5cm 2.0 and 13.5cm 3.5 MIOJ, today after waxing!
Rafael, excellent photographs and processing of the fireworks. Nice boat and Stingray photos as well.
Leighton, excellent foggy capture. It has a certain impressionist quality about it.
Regina, welcome back and great shots of Sao Paulo. Looking forward to many more.
Andy, excellent colors.
Granada, a historical city in beautiful setting at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The scenery from high points is terrific specially with the snow covered peaks. A few more to come, need to get busy tweaking.
Samy.
The N90 was the SLR body upon which the first portable professional digital camera was based. It took Kodak (the sensor), Nikon (the body), and the associated press (the software plugin) working together to make it happen. The two guys from the "skunk works" that cooked up the AP NC2000 hand delivered "the 2nd prototype in existence" to me at the newspaper and I never gave it back. It was on it's 4th body (N90s) when I moved onto the brand new D1X. I ended up changing the bodies myself, because the turn around time was 2+ weeks. The three bodies that quit were all shutter failures at approximately 150k.
You could just hold the shutter button down and squeeze off 3, 5, or 7 shots while the camera adjusted either aperture or shutter speed over - on- and under the meter reading in increments all configurable in the menu. It use to be more critical to get the exact right exposure back then, and It was reassuring to have a minimum of three shots of everything. By the time I got my D2X I quit bracketing, and every Nikon body since then have had excellent metered exposures.
saph wrote:
Jim, the mayor seems to have done a lot to help the city back from the brink. Baltimore has experienced a shift as have many other cities over the last 2-3 years towards relatively less crime.
Having come to film a lot later, its good to hear from people who lived it before digital was even around. If I remember correctly I did use the aperture priority mode and the scans I got back almost all look good for exposure.
When I started cleaning the darkroom I found tons of unmixed chemistry. Enough C41 and E6 to fill a swimming pool (had a Wing-Lynch film processor I built out of two broken ones for 10 years), and many liquid based concentrated chemicals that had precipitated out. All ended up at my county recycling center, but they had to make preparations to receive the volume of C41 & E6. Now I'm buying tiny quantities again, and getting powder whenever possible. My HC110 was one that precipitated out, but I have vintage canned Accufine, and others I should use. I liked HC110 to lower contrast, but not as drastically as Rodinal.
You know, this was going to be a last hooray - a diversion for fun. I think I've flipped the script since writing reports about how important and cost effective digital would be vs analog in 1989 which directly led to the opportunity of having a NC2000. Last night was a reminder of the beauty of pulling perfect dust free images off a drive in seconds - vs - me serving three film scanners running at the same time. I really shouldn't be creating more analog images to scan. It slows me down. I need to just shoot the film acquired, and retire film shooting completely.
saph wrote:
Jim, if you want higher quality from your films, don't use the monobath It is convenient and quick, but I have seen the results of my own HC-110 development and wondered why do I get lazy and use Df96. Now the grain on expired Tri-X is understandable and I wonder if the monobath is not the best for older film.
That said, Huss will show up here and prove me wrong about Df96
In contrast to the downtown building, we beat the heat with a visit to the NC State University Creamery for some incredible Howling Cow ice cream. These cows know what they are doing
Afternoon storms that came in tamed the temperatures too.
NIKON Z 8W-NIKKOR 3.5cm f/1.8 lens35mmf/1.81/500s64 ISO0.0 EV
milt wrote:
I am back home! I still have plenty of pictures to edit, but I have plenty of time to do so. In 20 more days, I can walk without the orthopedic boot!
Df, 24mm f2.8
Pátio do Colégio (School Yard). Historical Jesuit church and school in São Paulo city.
I is good to see the thread moving along apace, and the quality of your images is inspiring, fun to read.
Like George's cloud reflection on the building windows and meadow,(it took me a second to understand what i was looking at). Leighton's foggy orchard, Andy's colors - so saturated yet natural, Regina's feel of the large city (Scary and pretty at once), Ocean's log fishing (put your first name in the profile, lest old minds forget ), liked James's grain even if he did not, do not abandon film, just use it on occasion.
On a topic dear to my heart, for a lot of my photos, I brighten the shadow area a lot, meaning a lot, 3 to 5 stops. Was eagerly awaiting newer cameras thinking that they would raise the dynamic range - but they do not - according to DXO Mark, my D800 and D810 are as good as or better than the Z6 and Z7- but the surprise is that all those cameras are a little better for dynamic range than the Z8, Z6II, Z7II and noticeable better than the Z6III. Improvements to in sensor focusing and video are a compromise to pure photo performance, I guess. So I will keep waiting, as I do not like video, do not like the camera to focus for me, and take only one photo at the time.
I keep doing the same old things, should make an effort to break out into something new. But I did not , so it was Cruising Grand Friday again!
This is a brand new car, excluded by the rules, but not enforced. Lens is 35mm 1.4 N 366095 - still like new except for Thorium enhanced color balance. On a side by side test, this lens was the sharpest of my four 35mm 1.4, at 1.4.
This photo is not named Factory Five Cobra copy, but "Elbows"
As a show car/classic car novice, what is the purpose of the mounts where a traditional rear bumper would be?
rafaelcasd wrote:
I is good to see the thread moving along apace, and the quality of your images is inspiring, fun to read.
Like George's cloud reflection on the building windows and meadow,(it took me a second to understand what i was looking at). Leighton's foggy orchard, Andy's colors - so saturated yet natural, Regina's feel of the large city (Scary and pretty at once), Ocean's log fishing (put your first name in the profile, lest old minds forget ), liked James's grain even if he did not, do not abandon film, just use it on occasion.
On a topic dear to my heart, for a lot of my photos, I brighten the shadow area a lot, meaning a lot, 3 to 5 stops. Was eagerly awaiting newer cameras thinking that they would raise the dynamic range - but they do not - according to DXO Mark, my D800 and D810 are as good as or better than the Z6 and Z7- but the surprise is that all those cameras are a little better for dynamic range than the Z8, Z6II, Z7II and noticeable better than the Z6III. Improvements to in sensor focusing and video are a compromise to pure photo performance, I guess. So I will keep waiting, as I do not like video, do not like the camera to focus for me, and take only one photo at the time.
I keep doing the same old things, should make an effort to break out into something new. But I did not , so it was Cruising Grand Friday again!
This is a brand new car, excluded by the rules, but not enforced. Lens is 35mm 1.4 N 366095 - still like new except for Thorium enhanced color balance. On a side by side test, this lens was the sharpest of my four 35mm 1.4, at 1.4.
This photo is not named Factory Five Cobra copy, but "Elbows"
GeorgeBo wrote:
In contrast to the downtown building, we beat the heat with a visit to the NC State University Creamery for some incredible Howling Cow ice cream. These cows know what they are doing
Afternoon storms that came in tamed the temperatures too.
The W-NIKKOR 3.5cm f/1.8 lens is so good! It really makes a nice fit with Z mount bodies.
