serge07 wrote:
Colin, terrific photographs, the last is killer.
Central Park with The Eldorado (1931) in the background. The iconic building has had several celebrities as tenants, Marilyn Monroe, Groucho Marx, Faye Dunaway, Carrie Fisher plus others. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55081613368_7c7660d1a6_h.jpg
X-E1 + N C 28/2.0
Serge
A group of night-time skiiers came down the slope and entered my long exposure frame perfectly. The skiiers walk up the mountain with 'skins' on their skis and then ski down the freshly groomed slopes using headlamps and the nearly full moon as their light sources.
Colin,
Seeing ski slopes at night brings back old childhood memories for me. In school I was on the ski team, and we skied mostly at night at a place that had lit slopes. You still could see the stars, and they had loud speakers playing WLAV (a contemporary rock station). Just seeing that last image I hear the guitar intro to Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" that is forever burned into my memory. Thanks for sharing these
We had steady snow here all day so I spent much of the afternoon scanning more old slides, all taken originally with MFNG on Ektrachrome, 1978 through 1981. Most likely all taken with the 50mm f/1.4.
With friends at the top of Franconia Ridge, White Mountains, New Hampshire, elevation about 5000 ft. For those of you not familiar with the White Mountains, tree line there is 4000 ft.
My sweetie and myself on Monadnock, Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
My sweetie on the rocks at Nobska Point, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
A tree apparently with some history, Falmouth, Massachusetts.
Some colorful plant life. I have no idea where these were taken.
Since I only have a Nikon FM that can properly mount non-ai lenses - I put the Nikkor-Q-C 135mm f2.8 on and shot a roll of Kentmere 100 pushed to 400 - souped in 1:50 Rodinal. Had to add the threaded magnifier (has a diopter) and managed to get a reasonable number of keepers. It made me search for an in-between technology for film like the modified TC-16A teleconverter.. Something that would fit between the amazing N90S, and the FM - and wouldn't you know, Nikon made a camera that will mount almost all their non-ai to afs lenses in 1988. It has a locking button or dial for everything instead of the N90S LCD screens. A definite steam punk style, but far more affordable than the Df. First two are retakes of the D850 versions using the K1 ring.
50/2 @ f/8, ISO 800 yielding 8 secs and 13 secs exposures.
Lovely shots, Colin.
You know my love for the 50/2 - it is a very sharp lens - as I showed a while back in a comparison with my Loxia and CV 50/2s adapted to my Sony A7RIII
jimmuller wrote:
We had steady snow here all day so I spent much of the afternoon scanning more old slides, all taken originally with MFNG on Ektrachrome, 1978 through 1981. Most likely all taken with the 50mm f/1.4.
James Markus wrote:
Since I only have a Nikon FM that can properly mount non-ai lenses - I put the Nikkor-Q-C 135mm f2.8 on and shot a roll of Kentmere 100 pushed to 400 - souped in 1:50 Rodinal. Had to add the threaded magnifier (has a diopter) and managed to get a reasonable number of keepers. It made me search for an in-between technology for film like the modified TC-16A teleconverter.. Something that would fit between the amazing N90S, and the FM - and wouldn't you know, Nikon made a camera that will mount almost all their non-ai to afs lenses in 1988. It has a locking button or dial for everything instead of the N90S LCD screens. A definite steam punk style, but far more affordable than the Df. First two are retakes of the D850 versions using the K1 ring....Show more →
I have no idea what you just said but those pics are great! And anything steampunk is interesting!
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graytrekker wrote:
Jim:
So 70s!! Love the bell bottoms
Doug
Thank you. Yes, the 70's were rather, um, 70's-ish, weren't they? We managed to live through the 60's so we could see the 70's. Now I look back at all the pics I took then and am glad I was compulsive enough to take them.
@jimmuller - love the film nostalgia. "My sweetie on the rocks..." <-- her outfit is back in fashion, yet again.
@James Markus - another great set of images on film! I'm taking my FE2 out tonight.
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Few shots taken after dinner walk last night. It's not my common practice to shot city/landscapes at night without tripod, but that's where Nikkor 50 f1/2 comes handy with its glorious distortions.
How about a cloud of goldfinches?
I put the 300mm f/4.5 AIS on the camera and stuck my nose out the back door into the 5degF air.
The tune of Goldfinger:
[guitar intro]
Goldfinches, he eats too much
The bird with the Midas fluff, he's black and buff
Such a bold finches, such lovely things,
He beckons to his world of wings, sometimes he sings.
[trumpet fade out...]
