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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-25-2014, 04:29 PM
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I admire your ability to find interest and beauty in everyday objects. Here the lighting is perfect, and I like the contrast between the natural and the man-made.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-25-2014, 03:31 PM
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Lovely shot. Isn't the 35mm a wonderful lens? Where was the shot taken?
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
11-10-2014, 04:56 PM
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Except for the snow caps, might be my beloved Appalachians and Smoky Mountains. Lovely...
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
09-06-2014, 10:23 AM
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Wonderful! Tell us about the background.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-31-2013, 02:31 PM
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Are those derelict cars all in a row Rovers??
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
10-03-2013, 02:58 PM
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What a crock! Could you send them drum scans? Or would they spot the absence of EXIF data and shoot you down? Seems that they're less concerned with quality than with keeping up with the Joneses. Did they furnish any rationale behind this? As far as full frame goes, what could be more full frame than a Pentax 67 negative or transparency? Maybe 4x5 or 8x10? They sound like dolts, just my opinion.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-06-2013, 02:35 PM
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Would this lens even cover the 645n's film, given that its designed for the 645d's smaller "film" or sensor? I'll be curious to hear your experiences.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
09-30-2012, 01:54 PM
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
09-30-2012, 10:56 AM
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I also have a 645n and the 75mm f2.8. My first scans with my Epson V700 weren't good, to put it mildly. 120 film is "floppier" than 35mm, and the carrier for 120 with my scanner isn't very good. I'd imagine the carrier with your V500 is similar, flimsy plastic and no way to clamp the film. I bit the bullet and bought a carrier from betterscanning.com and a piece of anti-Newton's rings glass. Wasn't cheap, but what a difference!
The new carrier is heavy plastic, it has little snap-in strips to support the film strip between frames, and its height is adjustable in really fine increments. This last is time consuming but important. What I did was load in a good negative, taken with a tripod, with lots of fine detail both in the center and at the edges. Then a scan at 2400, examine on monitor, adjust by a little, scan again, etc. When the last scan shows a reduction in sharpness, go back to the just prior adjustment, and that should be it. Keep records! The glass helps keep the film flat, and if it ain't flat you can't get sharp. The web site describes the process.
You could try shimming the stock carrier, but the allen wrench adjustments on the new carrier are much more convenient, not to mention the superior rigidity.
When you get things dialed in properly you'll be amazed at what image quality the 645 delivers. After all it has about 2.7 times the area of a 35mm negative.
Good luck, and hang in there.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
07-05-2012, 12:03 PM
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Quicksivler -
Love the tonality of your rocks and water. They should make really nice large display prints.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-15-2012, 02:45 PM
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That's pretty much what I do. I shoot digital and 35mm and 6x4.5 and I scan all the film into Lightroom 4, where all images are given subject headings. The digital stuff has unique file numbers - I hope and pray! - imbedded in the EXIF stuff, the film images I number consecutively. I hope I'll never duplicate a number, although I think Lightroom would catch such.
Negatives are filed in Vue-All sleeves, each sleeve is numbered with the image range, developer, camera, date, whatever. The sleeves are kept in photo safe plastic boxes, which are ring binders that close with a dust resistant seal.
The Lightroom catalog and scanned images are kept on a 1 T RAID 1 array, which is backed up to alternating 1.5 T removeable drives. Additionally I use BackBlaze, a cloud backup which is a bargain at about $60. per year. Thus a total computer crash could be restored from BackBlaze. BackBlaze does work; I had two HDs in an external RAID 1 array, drives from a company which will not be named. The two drives failed within minutes of each other, thus the data was gone. These particular drives had a bad rep nationwide for such failures, the company promised help .... right.... I was able to recover a lot from BackBlaze, sadly the online backup takes quite a while and wasn't complete at the time of the disaster. I lost a lot of good digital stuff; the film scans were gone but I'm figuring out what was lost and rescanning. OMG, what a job!
This workflow gives me a catalog to ALL my stuff - that is when I finish scanning 50+ years of slides and negatives! I find that evaluating a negative as a positive on the monitor is much easier than peering at a 35mm neg or a contact sheet. Plus with the cost of printing paper I'd rather use it for enlargements rather than contact sheets. Of course this is my method, your mileage may vary.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
06-07-2012, 12:10 PM
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Well, your percentage of "keepers" seems to be well above average, shooting one roll of 120 per week. My hat's off to you.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
05-15-2012, 06:11 AM
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Reminds one of Cartier-Bresson.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-11-2012, 10:15 PM
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They look the very paradigm of HOME, the sort of place we all imagine.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
03-11-2012, 11:49 AM
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Nice work! BTW, what is the old camera on the table?
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
01-06-2012, 02:55 PM
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Love this shot! It took me a moment to spot the stalking cat in the lower left quarter of the image. I guess hope springs eternal within the feline breast.
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Forum: Pentax Medium Format
12-05-2011, 01:05 PM
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Here are three shot at the Pinckney Island Wildlife Preserve in coastal South Carolina, USA. They were all shot on 400 ASA, developed in D-76 and scanned with an Epson V700 using the BetterScanning carrier and ANR glass. The carrier and glass make an enourmous improvement over the stock carrier, ensuring corner to corner sharpness.
55mm wide angle
MFbw018 by [uGeorge in Georgia USA[/url], on Flickr
200mm As close as I could get, closer might have been unwise....
MFbw030 by [[uGeorge in Georgia USA[/url], on Flickr
MFbwimg054_edited-2 by George in Georgia USA, on Flickr
55mm, with red filter
Since I use these scans mainly in place of contact sheets there is minimal post processing. It would be interesting to make a good silver print and compare it to a good ink jet print.
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