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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-17-2019, 10:44 AM
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Try the needle. Use a magnifying glass. Try not to destroy the camera, there's no bright side.
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It must be nice to know you should have done that to begin with, so you wouldn't be in this situation.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-16-2019, 03:03 PM
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Also, as pentaxus indicates, you can get the top off without extracting the broken screw. Having it still in there will prevent you from putting the film counter back together right.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-16-2019, 11:59 AM
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Whoa whoa whoa, hey. The two times I've had to do this, I was successful pushing the thing out with a sharp pointed object, rotating it clockwise. It takes a while. I used the point from a circle master compass, and I think some sewing needles in a pin vise. Maybe drop a little lighter fluid into it.
There is plenty left there to get it out imo, even the tip of a small wire cutter could grip it enough to get it out if the cutter's well made at the tip. Just make sure to turn it clockwise.
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Forum: General Photography
09-11-2019, 08:34 PM
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I check this with a spare split screen on the film rails and a loupe, I think it's about 8x or 10x on B, with a focus target. Same process as shimming a dslr, though much more difficult to move the screen position. It's most likely the mirror position as other people have said, for the person above with the spotmatic, it's just a matter of bending the little tabs the mirror comes down on, but you need to be able to match the finder and film plane accerately. I've cut off 5.32nds or so from the left and right of the screen I use for the film plane so ut just rides on the inner (film) rails. prism towards the lens.
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Forum: General Photography
08-18-2019, 05:15 AM
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When you view photos after a search or in a groups photos the life is sucked out of them in some kind of java crap. A plugin called CanvasBlocker makes them look like good photos again, actual contrast tonality and sharpness.
So yes, flickr now degrades the viewing of the pictures on it.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-02-2019, 11:06 AM
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Oh! You can use Purell unscented hand sanitizer to position the replacement coverings and the sticky foam in the back slots. It will inhibit the stickyness and then evaporate.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-01-2019, 10:49 PM
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Never had any issues with Goodman or Aki Asahi. I get the black synthetic #4003 or #4001 or whatever, it's good. Painting a metal camera is just going to make it look bad, imo.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-01-2019, 10:37 PM
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No. Get a Konica C35 Automatic or C35 V or something for that much. Minolta AF-2. Chalk it up to life experience and move on.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-16-2019, 07:25 AM
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I think that might be a little thin, it's easier to keep the foam strip from twisting when it's equal to or slightly taller than the width of the slot.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-16-2019, 04:31 AM
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Kodak Ultramax 400 Guia de Esposicion.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-06-2019, 03:40 PM
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I also have a coolscan v ed, but I like the tonality of the epson more. I sharpen on low in the scanner software, because I think it's too soft without it. If I had bought a v700 I'd probably use that, but resolution doesn't mean much to me, and I'm not sure results w/o sharpening would be much different anyway. Like I said, I have a coolscan that doesn't get as much use as the V500.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-05-2019, 10:57 PM
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I think it's because the higher speed films are made lower contrast to compensate for the increased contrast from longer development?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-05-2019, 10:45 PM
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I use an epson v500, and epson scan. I like this software.
Epson Scan settings for color negatives.
Configuration>
Preview:
Thumbnail Cropping Area = Large
I have nothing else checked, 3x3 Sampling Area
Color:
Color Control = Checked
Continuous Auto Exposure = Checked
Display Gamma = 2.2
Auto Exposure Level = Low
Main Controls>
Professional mode
48 bit
Unsharp Mask = Checked, Low
Digital Ice Technology = Checked, Speed priority
(I find it easiest to select 'all' in the Thumbnails palette, and then make the sharpening and ICE changes, so they all change at once.)
Thumbnail = Checked
Check mark the frames you want and scan, cropping or not cropping in Epson Scan.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-05-2019, 04:38 AM
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The incident meter will give you one exposure, one which puts a midtone grey in the scene on the midtone grey on the film. The range of tones in the scene will vary above and below a midtone, and so the recorded tones will also vary above and below the 'midtone' on the film. You're measuring the the light falling on the sunlit part, and then measuring the light falling on the shade part, which will give you two midtone readings, one for each.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-05-2019, 04:12 AM
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You're only measuring the difference between the average of all the tones of full sun and full shade. The difference between the brightest desired detail in the highlight and the darkest desired detail in the shadow is much greater. The only thing that has 5 stops of range is paper, or a subject lit with completely diffused lighting. Or you could maybe have that in a studio.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-05-2019, 01:19 AM
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The primary reason film and digital look different, and the primary reason film looks better in general is that negative film compresses each stop of DR in the midtones into .7 stop (typical) density on film, and compresses the shadows and highlights even more. This results in an s shaped tone curve with lower contrast in the midtones than reality. Digital cannot lower contrast, it starts at 1 stop = 1 stop, flat from 0 to 256, and then you can only increase contrast in the midtones to lower it in the highlights/shadows to make an s curve.
The contrast will always be higher, which makes it an inferior medium imo. And the holes. Holes in the sky. I like the colors of film too.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-04-2019, 07:58 PM
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Holes in hair, holes in faces, holes in water, holes in window reflections, holes in ice, holes in cars, holes in white shirts, holes in backlit hair. What have you been taking pictures of for 35 years?
Holes in drapes, holes in lights, holes in people's glasses, holes in every picture.
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We can just compare these pictures,
Monthly Photo Contests - PentaxForums.com
to these,
:cool: Lets see those ''film'' shots - Page 1260 - PentaxForums.com
(tuco's and LesDmess' too, hadn't seen that far when I posted this..)
Also, 'Broadway Danny Rose' is on amazon prime, the tones are gorgeous, highly recommended just for the visual experience. I'd link some youtube but they all look like garbage.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-04-2019, 04:37 AM
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The benefit is that you can shoot difficult subjects at will, without the knowledge while you do it that when you get home and look at them, all your files will have holes in them. Except a couple that you were super careful about.
It frees your mind.
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And it looks better.
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I mean all we have to do here is look at which one looked better.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-01-2019, 08:35 PM
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To high. Half that, if the shutter and 55mm don't need servicing.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-21-2019, 10:51 AM
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Thinking about it, what I really liked in addition to the photos, is they put his work properly into the context of his life. What's been done to the man is that he's been put on a pedestal, and then attacked and critiqued because he wasn't perfect on a pedestal. They made him a straw man. I also think swarkovski did something he had no business doing when he had Winogrand's negs gone through, and then had the gall to find them wanting. He should have kept his mouth shut. Swarkovski was a parasite imo.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-21-2019, 02:20 AM
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That Leica 28mm is a beautiful lens, I wouldn't mind having one and a camera/finder (2) to go with it. And then a back up lens too. :)
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-20-2019, 01:29 AM
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Just breathtaking.I sat there having to pee for the last half hour.
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