[Swift1]

I really think I love the Xenotar more than it's more prestigious colleagues.

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Shot a few updated bog-standard professional headshots type frames for my wife () to use up the last of a 220 roll in the 67ii leftover from the wedding.



P67II | SMC 67 165/2.8 | Konica Centuria 400 Pro e.i. 250

(Several others on the flickr stream...)

Beautiful photo! Congrats again, Kevin.

[ismaelg]

Congratulations Kevin!
Just saw your earlier post on your wedding.
This last portrait is stunning. That bokeh is Wow!

Thanks,

[dsmithhfx]

[photocles]

Some of the region's characteristic limestone on the right. From Ross Lake, Co. Galway. Lubitel again - this time with HP5.

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[Eyewanders]

Finally got around to developing the first test-roll I ran through the Top IC-1 Auto that I fixed up this past winter. Seeing the result with these mundane shots made me wish I'd done so sooner. Really happy with this little shooter - incredibly responsive shutter-priority (and manual of course) metering, and budget Hi Topcor 50/2 is wonderful to me. Sharper than I anticipated but with a lovely softness to it's out-of-focus rendering. I need to load this thing again soon. Shooting Konica AR bodies has turned me into something of a shutter-priority convert, at least when it's well executed like these needle-capture versions.










Topcon IC-1 Auto | Hi Topcor 50/2 | Delta 400 push+2

[Swift1]

From February 2014...

Kodak Retina IIIc
Rodenstock Retina-Heligon 50/2
Expired Fuji Superia 200
Epson V750

[dsmithhfx]

Hp5

[dsmithhfx]

[womble]

Taken using a 1950s Agfa Isolette II on expired Fuji RMS 120 film rated at ISO 64. I used the rangefinder on my FED2 to measure the distance to the sign then transferred that to the Isolette which only has scale focussing.


No entry par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

[womble]

Analogue Wonderland, a UK-based film shop, has a interesting subscription service called the Wonderbox. Every two months they send you a box with six different 35mm films, plus some other goodies. The films include a mix of colour and black and white, and a mix of old favourites and new, e.g., Ilford Pan F Plus and Lomo Metropolis. Each month's films are reviewed on youtube. I decided it would be a fun thing to do otherwise I'd be using 95% Kodak Ektar and Ilford FP4 Plus. The review of Lomography's Metropolis was "grainy, contrasty, desaturated and grungy". It was said to be ideal for urban, street, and scenes with texture. Tuesday last week was grey and threatening rain, and I was in London for work, so I thought it was time to try this out and embrace a decidedly "not Kris" style. I loaded up my FED2 and went for a long walk down to Trafalgar Square (where I shot the above image on the same walk), with the intention of using the whole film in one go, which I did. The video also warned that the scans might come back with a nasty green cast if the "autotone" setting was used. Well, it must have been as they all had that, but Lightroom's colour balance tool largely sorted that out. I don't think any of the images are something I'd want to print out large and hang on the wall, but it was a fun way to spend my lunchtime, and certainly different to my usual style. Would I use Metropolis again? Possibly, if I could shoot the whole roll in one go like this again. It isn't a film that would suit my usual subjects (trees on the horizon, churches, historic architecture) but perhaps it is good, sometimes, to be forced out of ones comfort zone.


Metropolis (1) par Kris Lockyear, on ipernity

[dsmithhfx]

grainy, contrasty, desaturated and grungy

Not always, but quite often these 'quirky' film characteristics can be easily dialed up in PP on bog-standard C-41. (YMMV)

[womble]

Not always, but quite often these 'quirky' film characteristics can be easily dialed up in PP on bog-standard C-41. (YMMV)

Nowhere near as much fun though...! If all I wanted to do was create "analogue effects" on digital images I'd sell all those old fashioned film bodies I have kicking around and run my pictures through one of the older (free) Nik effects packages. For me, the process of going out and making pictures is probably more important than the final result. Why do I spend an afternoon in a church with my head under a dark cloth taking two frames on my 5x4 when I could just take a snap on my phone and correct the verticals in post? Because I enjoy it. I enjoy the process, I enjoy the challenge, I enjoy learning something new, and if it all works out, I enjoy the final image.

[stevebrot]

...I loaded up my FED2 and went for a long walk down to Trafalgar Square...

Ha! Ha! I have some old stock of Ferrania Solaris 100 that I use in my FED2. The FED2 is capable of delivering very fine images if used seriously, but it seems to suit shooting with strange film rather well.


Steve

[dsmithhfx]

Nowhere near as much fun though...! If all I wanted to do was create "analogue effects" on digital images I'd sell all those old fashioned film bodies I have kicking around and run my pictures through one of the older (free) Nik effects packages. For me, the process of going out and making pictures is probably more important than the final result. Why do I spend an afternoon in a church with my head under a dark cloth taking two frames on my 5x4 when I could just take a snap on my phone and correct the verticals in post? Because I enjoy it. I enjoy the process, I enjoy the challenge, I enjoy learning something new, and if it all works out, I enjoy the final image.

I get what you are saying, but I view these off brands as the analog equivalent of instagram filters, in which you are surrendering creative control to a proverbial 'black box'.

[Swift1]

1957 Зоркий 4
1956 Юпитер-12 35/2.8
Expired Fujicolor Superia 200
Epson V750