Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-09-2018, 12:28 PM
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Spotmatic, SMC 100mm macro, Kentmere100
Male cones of Cedrus libani, about an inch tall.
Latley I have been making short rolls of 35mm, about eight exposures, and developing them in Ilfosol 3 at1:29 for 9 min. That needs only 10 mL of developer for a roll. It worked for this high-contrast subject. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-31-2017, 05:34 PM
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Fireweed, end of August
SP II, FP4 |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-25-2017, 11:46 AM
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Fed5b FP4 fill flash from above.
The Pentax AF200T flash is handy for this with its four level manual mode. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-19-2017, 05:31 PM
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Tansy by old bridge. FED5b FP4
Close focus, fill flash, and some forest fire smoke make for depth. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-01-2017, 08:58 PM
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FED5b FP4
Trumpet vine
A remote flash gives control of the depth and sharpness of the shadows.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-13-2017, 11:49 AM
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For economy, the half-frame cameras are suited to using half-rolls of film. Seventy two shots is too many anyway. I want to see what I got before that. After splitting a roll you get 33 or so on each half.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-11-2017, 07:09 PM
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Just this FP4. With a max speed of 1/250 and smallest F of 16, 400 ISO film would be about the limit for full sun, and with half frame you want to keep the grain down.
Model is Chiaka II, before they had meters. Nice and rudimentary and metallic. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-10-2017, 09:24 PM
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Chaika half-frame. FP4
A totally manual camera like theOlympus Pen. The 2.8 Tessar allows hand holding in forest light with100 speed film. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-25-2016, 04:50 PM
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Thanks bobbotron. Results may vary with the type of focusing screen. With a spotmatic, if you hit the center microprism area, the beam will come out as four dots to be converged into one. It works surprisingly well.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-24-2016, 05:39 PM
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Small mushrooms. Spotmatic 400TX SMC55, extension tube, laser.
With the camera ground level, the viewfinder can't be used for focusing. A laser pointer shone into the viewfinder can be focused to a spot on the subject. I wouldn't risk this with a digital camera, or even a film camera with an auto focus sensor. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-05-2016, 11:43 PM
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Z1-p HP-4 Two shots, one with a yellow filter, combined in Gimp.
It is an illusion that there are any more colours in it than just blue. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-28-2016, 10:43 PM
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MZ-50, 400TX, HC110 dil E for 6.5
There is still a jumble of views on how to develop this stuff. Covington's suggestion gives good latitude at EI=400.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-25-2016, 12:46 PM
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EI=25 for sunny days.
Pentax S, Takumar 55mm 1:2.2 DD-Xfor 7 min.
Many old cameras have 1/500 as thefastest shutter speed. On bright days that means squinting down the aperture to get correct exposure. Inside the box of PanF, the chartshows an option to develop to an EI of 25. With this low film speedwe can use F4 with 1/500 in bright sun.. The latitude also becomes wider, suiting the harsh shadows on such days. Of course the grain is also very fine.
This photo, while lacking any artistic merit, shows saturation only on the hard reflection of the white truck hood, and detail in the shadow of the boxes. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-12-2016, 09:00 PM
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HP5, DD-X
First go with DD-X. The grain seems softer than usual. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-12-2016, 09:50 PM
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FP4 with Y2 filter, Z1p, 50mm F2. Two exposures, colour combine in Gimp.
The trees look a bit green, but it is an illusion. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-07-2016, 03:44 PM
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Ah, PanF - so smooth. The second image is a 100% crop. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-23-2016, 04:49 PM
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Black & white & blue MX FP4
This wasn't intended to be a colour picture. I just took two shots, one with a yellow filter, then later got to wondering what would happen if they were combined using Gimp.
Method: Load both photos as layers, setting the one without the filter as the bottom blue channel. Duplicate the other to be the red and green. When combine is run, they
all add up to black and white except for the lighter sky and water parts of the filterless layer.
Full colour can be done with good RGB filters, but this uses equipment that we have in the bag.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-08-2015, 03:02 PM
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Kentmere 400 in HC110. Dilution B for 8 min seems to work, same as the box instructions for LC29 1+19
crop |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-17-2015, 06:20 PM
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S- curve cut into a hillside, a hidden place in the city. SV with 105mm F2.8. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-16-2015, 07:27 PM
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All tugboat shots are good shots. There must be many opportunities Seattle too.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
03-13-2015, 07:21 PM
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Big old boats from Pattullo bridge. Pentax SV, 55mm 1.8, Promax 100 |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-04-2015, 12:41 PM
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Spotmatic II S-Tak 105mm FP4+ Ilfosol 3
Alexander falls near Whistler is usually photographed with the sun out, but the cloud arrived the same time I did. The old camera pulled a picture out of the mist. |
Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-05-2014, 08:15 PM
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Nice gray scale on those. Do they just come out like that with the process or did you work on tone-mapping?
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-07-2014, 12:41 PM
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Thanks IHS. Those tail rotors turn around 2000 RPM, so 1/250 gives about one eighth of a turn of blur. It would have been F4 on an cloudy morning.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-06-2014, 01:25 PM
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AS350-B3
Spotmatic II 105mm FP4+
After some practice with the old camera it gets easier to hit moving targets. |