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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-05-2017, 09:57 AM
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They did some interesting things with the new version and it had some very high points, but after a while he became very disparaging of humanity and it was not hard for me to see this as the misanthropic tendencies of politically motivated screenwriters coming through. My feelings on the latest incarnation being female are mixed; on the one hand it's been touted as a what-if since forever (and it was even done on a non-canonical comedy basis once), but it's also depressingly easy to see it as a sop to the current over-progressive climate pervading fan culture. I haven't watched it regularly in a long, long time but if she's kept the basic elements of the personality and not become a preachy political soapbox character then I say good job and about time they gave it a bash... but to quote her predecessor the Tenth Doctor, she's still not ginger. Perhaps in the next regeneration they can get Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) to play her; after all, there's a precedent (Romana) for Time Lords taking on the form of someone they met.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-27-2017, 05:27 PM
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It says something about how busy I've been lately that I can no longer remember which lens I used for this, though I'm pretty sure the body was an S1a:
Kentmere 400 in Caffenol C for 25 minutes, water stop-bath; Ilford Rapid Fix.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-25-2017, 03:15 PM
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Pentax S1a goes to Toronto. Metering by Sekonic Studio Deluxe and Sunny Sixteen as appropriate. Combination of SMC Takumar 28mm f/3.5 and Super Takumar 55/2.0
Shot on Tmax 400 and developed in Ilfosol 3 (1+14), water stop, Ilford Rapid Fix.
Digitised with my K-1. Cropping to picture edge only, plus some mild brightness/contrast tweaks and rotation as required in post. Nothing that couldn't easily be done in a darkroom with exposure times and/or contrast filters/paper grades. I think.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-11-2017, 05:50 AM
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Any second now, Wile E. Coyote will turn up to place an ACME order.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-04-2017, 04:53 PM
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A few from my latest roll - S1a with TriX 400 in Ilford chemistry. Not the greatest match in history, but it did work and I sort of like the grain. Plus with my developing tending to be a bit patchy around work and other responsibilities it seems to be a wiser solution than leaving a gallon of D76 stock solution lying around for months unused.
I need to get hold of a couple more rolls of this stuff and see how it behaves in Caffenol.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-04-2016, 03:27 PM
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These two characters were part of my hospital's Halloween display.
I'm not sure what went wrong here; at least one picture on the roll turned out very nicely in exposure terms (not posting for privacy reasons), so I'm not quite ready to blame my developing or scanning process (yet). Shooting was with an S1a and Tmax 400, and I'm pretty sure I had a Super Tak 50/1.4 on the whole time. Exposure setting was with a Sekonic Studio Deluxe meter. I think where it falls in between whole stops, I need to go to the slightly overexposed side and see if that makes a difference.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-09-2016, 05:22 PM
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All shots with Tmax 400, developed at home in D76 and Kodak Fixer and scanned with the DSLR/Macro Lens method; reversal from negative and contrast/exposure tweaks in Raw Therapee (both films were processed at native ISO in the same development run).
Pentax S1a (with help from various external light meters).
 IMX23578 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
 IMX23573 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
Pentax MX (internal meter with double check and occasional override from Sekonic Studio Deluxe light meter).
 IMX23544 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
 IMX23524 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
 IMX23531 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
I feel things are coming along a fair bit with regard to exposure, contrast, etc. since I started this little B&W adventure. I feel a certain sense of pride that there is not a single roll of black and white film I have shot THIS CENTURY that I did not develop myself.
I had to take a short break from home developing because of darkroom availability issues (we were renovating, so it needed to revert to its original status as a bathroom). A few more rolls to bring me properly back up to speed, and I will be ready to try home-brew C41.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-06-2016, 03:59 AM
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But a very effective one. It looks exactly like washed-out colour from an earlier era. Vancouver, by any chance?
Superimpose enough colour casts, and what you get is... colour!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-31-2016, 04:01 AM
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This, suitably cropped for cover orientation, would make a great cover photo for a World War 1 or prison escape novel. The wire is just beautifully in focus, the bokeh makes the background irrelevant, and the grain is just right to set the mood.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-07-2016, 10:33 AM
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Or a point-and-shoot (analogue). I've seen it happen before:
Photographer - "On the count of three, say cheese. One... two..."
Crowd - "LENSCAP!!!"
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-07-2016, 02:55 AM
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Looks better than anything I've turned out so far!!
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-30-2016, 05:15 PM
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Gazebo Roof
 IMX21662 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
Burnt Logs
 IMX21642 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
Both with TMAX 400 in a Pentax MX, SMC-A-50mm f/2.0, home developed with D76 and Kodak fixer, digitised via slide holder and K-5 with 35mm macro lens, post processed in Raw Therapee.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-08-2016, 05:42 AM
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Be my guest - I could look at that building all day. :) Imagine the photographic opportunities you could get from those rotunda windows at the "sharp" end.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-06-2016, 05:02 PM
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And this evening I figured out how to use profiles in Raw Therapee, and now everything is sweet. Once I had a baseline, there were shots I could tweak to perfection in PP and those were the good ones, and then there were the shots that no amount of PP could reasonably fix, and they were the ones that sucked from the moment the shutter was pressed. https://youtu.be/hJS3R1Z2HeI?t=2m43s |
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-06-2016, 04:07 AM
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I sort of get what he's driving at. I've just finished digitising (by the slide-copier-macro-lens-and-flash method) a couple of rolls of film I just developed at home, and I am trying to work towards a standard PP process I could put them through which would reveal the flaws inherent in my own photographic skills. Yes, I can fix just about anything in Raw Therapee when I bring it across from the "scanned" negative, but until I have some sort of standardised process I will never really be sure if I'm doing my best at the time I actually push the shutter button or whether it's film X or Y making the difference or me playing around with pixels after digitisation (I am not currently in a position to consider wet-printing at home, and any B&W wet-printing I do with physical rather than scanned negatives would require sendout to a specialist lab with either a 2 week turnaround time or eating the postage costs both ways).
I'm well aware that expose-develop-print can be thought of as a continuum, with the final result standing as a testimony to the entire process, but with colour film the develop-print cycle is out of my hands and I have to do my best at the exposure part of the cycle if I am to achieve a decent result. Colour film tests my skill at that part of the process, as well as qualitative/tonal/grain differences between films of the same ISO rating, in a way that home-cooked B&W does not.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-04-2016, 04:51 PM
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George Martin could pull off miracles previously unheard of, but he was exceptional among analogue-era producers and he had the advantage of working with some very talented musicians who largely didn't need to hide.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-02-2016, 12:25 PM
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I wasn't aware it was possible to disassemble one in this fashion - at least, I'm looking at the one on the front of my FA50/1.4 right now and I'm not exactly seeing bearing slots for the spanner points.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-02-2016, 08:58 AM
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That's what I think the problem is, and no, I'm not mounting them.
I suspect a little bit of felt (similar to the setup for a light-seal kit) on the edges of the slot for the negatives will fix that problem. Shall look in the craft section of my local walmart and see what I can find.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-02-2016, 08:48 AM
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Pentax K-5 with 35mm f/2.8 Limited Macro, Asahi Pentax slide/negative copier, and a few 49mm filters in between to act as spacers and ensure capture of the entire film frame, and to give the slide copier mount something to grip. The whole is then pointed at a very bright LED on the ceiling, though I will be doing some experiments with a flash in the near future. The filters may be causing some of the problem, and I have debated the merits or otherwise of sacrificing their glass. If I could get some sort of empty 49mm threaded tube, like a filter without its glass, that would be just as good.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-02-2016, 08:04 AM
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Unfortunately I don't have space in the house for a wet-printing setup, nor enough time in my life. I had thought about one of these desktop toy scanners, but have been burned by that sort of "cheap and easy" tech before and was loath to try it again.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-02-2016, 07:48 AM
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Yeah, still working on that one. I was more interested last night in getting all of the images into "positive" form for initial assessment, but tonight I might pick on one or two and see exactly what can/should be done with them. The other thing I might do with the next film is to give it another minute or two in the developer, or to use stock instead of 1:1, and see how that changes things.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-02-2016, 06:59 AM
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Thank you, @Xmas, for your comments. I suspect it may be a side effect of the way I'm digitising the negatives, and I also suspect I now know how and why. (Further experiments to follow; I will get back to you on that one.) Now that I'm getting serious about this (four rolls already developed), I think I may be in the market for a proper flatbed film scanner, which would at least standardise the digitisation phase. I can cope with a lower megapixel count (I happily shot an *ist-DL for seven years after all) if the quality of the digital images is better and more consistent.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
05-01-2016, 03:37 PM
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Well, I'm producing images. That's a start.
More work is required at all stages of the game - taking, developing, DSLR-macro scanning and Raw Therapee tweaking.
Harsh criticism combined with helpful suggestions most welcome. :)
 IMG17038 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
 IMG17057 by PD's Deadly Lens, on Flickr
 IMG17044 by PD';s Deadly Lens, on Flickr
I suspect something is going awry at the digitisation stage, but I'm not sure what it is. Shutter speed shouldn't matter because the negs are being held in a slide/neg holder attached to the end of the lens. Am I scanning too shallow (not stopped down enough?) Should I be over- or under-exposing the captures, or going for "accurate" every time, selecting a nice deep f-stop and letting shutter speed do what it will? Haaaaaaalp! :eek:
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