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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-30-2023, 04:55 PM
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These falls aren't very high, but this is the dam on the river... the "high" falls that give the place its name are behind me.
They aren't high in a single drop, but they collectively drop several hundred feet I think, which is a lot for this area of the country (the middle of the US state of Georgia).
Pentax ME, Chinon 45mm f2.8 pancake, Ilford XP-2 plus
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-26-2023, 05:27 PM
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#3... Tess decides she's done with the Helios and the Memotron :D
My wife and daughter make the same look...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
02-01-2023, 04:19 PM
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It must flood. They strap kayaks to the bottoms of their airplanes :D
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
01-01-2023, 05:50 PM
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Shot the same week as the ones a few places up... but a different camera...
Konica Pearl II 645 with Hexar 75mm f4.5 lens (the slow one)
Delta 100 @ 100, Caffenol CL, 70 min stand development @ 20 C
Scanned with K1ii and FA 50mm f2.8
Man this lens looks like it is shooting things in the 50s... I love it...
And yes, this is the same beach seen in Baywatch (2017) and SpongeBob Squarepants 2 (2015)...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-30-2022, 02:49 PM
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I keep looking at Frederic's stuff he posts regularly and being impressed...
My niece was in town over Christmas, and she's interested in film and home developing, so it seemed like a good time to try a little Caffenol for the first time...
I dragged out the Graflex Series D and a 6x8 roll film holder and played around inside the house with that. I keep forgetting how fiddly those roll film holders are... OK, really, everything about the Graflex is fiddly when you don't use it much.
Then we went to a local park with three of us packing medium format... a Rolleiflex, a Yashicamat, and a Konica Pearl.
Most of the film got shot up in a day, and I finished off the Pearl on Monday (16 exposures... what luxury)
I bought the cheapest instant coffee I could find (ColCafe), some Arm and Hammer washing soda (a monohydrate, apparently, and readily available in the US), and some Vitamin C tablets.
I then dug up the Caffenol Bible and found a recipe... and realized a) that's a lot of coffee per roll... and b) I'm going to have to crush up how many Vitamin C tablets per 1 l batch? (21)
It was at this point that my nephew made a sandwich in the toaster oven... with my scale sitting on top...
After scraping the scale off the toaster oven with a spatula and ordering a new scale from Amazon, I decided to wait a few days to try... and to order some Vitamin C powder...
So, four rolls of film, a new scale, and some Vitamin C later, I'm ready to go... one roll of expired (2010) Tri-X and three rolls of Delta 100.
I load the first two rolls into my Patterson three-roll tank, using "Patterson-Compatible" reels. It seems to do OK, with a few moments of "did that actually go all the way on?"
Caffenol smells like, well, cheap coffee and mud...
Here's the first results...
Graflex Series D 4x5 with "8" Rollfilm back (6x8), Kodak #33 Anastigmat 7.5 inch (190mm)
Expired Tri-X @100 ISO developed in Caffenol CL 70 min stand @ 20C-ish
Scanned with the K1ii and FA50mm Macro
As a note, the negs were dense, but very usable... and I need a new mask for the light box... but focusing on film grain using live view is really cool...
Also, the film wasn't stained much by the coffee, which I'd heard is sometimes a problem.
This one just has that mid-century look, I think...like it was taken with a 90 year-old camera...
I want to say this one was at 1/10 s wide open... that's as slow as the camera will go apart from "T". And I just missed the focus... dangit...
There were also a few creases from loading the film poorly...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-14-2022, 10:31 AM
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The Ferris wheel again... but with the 28mm Super-Tak
Honeywell Pentax H3v(SV); Ilford XP-2; Lab develop and scan
I probably should have cropped out the bar at the bottom, but oh, well... I kind-of like where everything is placed in the original framing...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-10-2022, 07:05 AM
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One more from the 120mm f2.8
Pentax H3v(SV) and Ilford XP-2, lab developed and scanned.
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
10-08-2022, 04:24 PM
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The top part... I couldn't get far enough back to get the whole thing with this super-telephoto...
But the gulls were unimpressed...
Super Multicoated Takumar 120mm f2.8
Honeywell Pentax H3v (SV)
Ilford XP-2
Commercial Develop and Scan
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-24-2022, 01:12 PM
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I think I posted this in the bokeh thread, but it's fun here, too...
I can't really call it a macro, as this was shot with the Rokinon 85mm f1.4, a lens famous for its long minimum focusing distance...
But it is about as close as it will get... that's a pretty large spider...
Pentax KX, Ilford XP-2
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-18-2022, 06:44 AM
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Pentax KX, Vivitar 135mm f2.8 close focus, Ilford XP-2, Pentax 160 flash
Part of my brain is irritated that I didn't get the upper bud in focus, but then the lower bloom wouldn't have been, so I think there's really only one solution...
I need a bigger flash :)
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-17-2022, 12:23 PM
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Tele-Takumar 300mm f6.3
H1a
Expired Plus-X pushed a stop, commercial develop and scan
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-28-2022, 08:40 AM
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I wish the pool had been open, as the water would have been more interesting in the photograph, but this was a pandemic casualty that will likely be replaced with something else...
The cynic in me says it will be a Starbucks...
S1a with Industar 50-2; Ilford FP-4
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-27-2022, 02:59 AM
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I don't think I've ever used this particular combination before...
I really like the Raynox on my A200 f4, but the 135mm f2.5 seemed like it would probably also work well, and is usable on the screw mount bodies.
I think it did a good job... though nailing the focus was tricky... I probably moved... from the S1a with Ilford FP-4
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-23-2022, 10:13 AM
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The Nikkor 43-86 has something of a reputation for being one of the worst lenses Nikon has ever made.
I managed to get one in a box of junk highly loved vintage gear a while back, so I put it on the F to see what the fuss was all about.
The short answer is nothing. It isn't terrible. It has all the foibles of any Nikon lens of that vintage (sloppy zoom and it focuses the wrong way), but it is decent.
So I looked some more... mine is apparently the second (or third...) generation and vastly improved over the original... sure, OK... I'll buy that...
That leaves me then with a Nikkor zoom with what is today a weird focal length range (if released today, it would be by Pentax and it would be a Limited for the funky focal lengths...)
And it isn't spectacular... it's about the same as any other early-1970s zoom (if it was released today with these optics, it would have to be only for Lomographists)
But it does really suit the F...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-13-2022, 04:01 AM
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The plane even had enough time to get new paint :p
Now when do we get to see shots with the Fuji of the way down?
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
07-07-2022, 02:32 AM
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Do you roll/develop your own film?
I went through a phase of getting lots of 'light leaks' that were actually stress marks from either winding film too tight when I was loading it in a bulk loader or in getting it out again onto the developing reels. I'm afraid it's been too long for me to remember with certainty...
Are they consistent across the roll? Or only in certain spots?
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-17-2022, 01:47 PM
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From the test roll of the recently-repaired H1a...
And the Super Takumar (7-element) 50mm f1.4 at probably 1/60 or so in the dining room...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-24-2022, 06:08 AM
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I went on a walk a few months ago with the H1a and the Tele-Takumar 300mm f6.3 (among others).
I got a shot of this bird on the way out... and then got it again on the way back (I think it's the same bird)... but I didn't get this roll out of the camera until last week...
And yes, I know... there's something wonky with the black line at the top... it can go to service now the film is out...
TMAX 100 and commercial develop and scan...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
04-17-2022, 01:55 PM
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When I used my Yashica a lot, one thing I did was basically never use it with fast film...
With the fast lens, it works fine with 100 speed film almost everywhere. It was basically the opposite of the old IQZoom, which was usually loaded with Fuji Press 800...
I liked the clunky handling, but I spent a lot of time with a K1000 :p
Though now I gravitate to smaller rangefinders like Petris and Retinas.
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-15-2021, 03:31 PM
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I'm going to say that's not it... you seem to get really excellent results regardless of film...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-14-2021, 02:50 PM
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Wow. I've never had a French car... they don't do well over here...
We have had British, German, Swedish, Japanese, Mexican, and US cars, though... engines ranging from 1.6l to 6.6l...
Here's one of the US ones... shot with a Konica Pearl... and maybe posted here a while back...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-12-2021, 04:13 PM
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I have a photo of about the same vintage of the Beech Starship at NAS Atlanta (a couple of years later, but not many).
I had the slide reprinted when I shot it and hung the print at the camera shop where I worked at the time (we did direct prints from slide).
I recently took the shot to work (not at a camera shop) and a colleague was like, "wow! YF-23!". I looked at the Starship and saw the Starship with an A6 behind it...
He pointed behind that, where you could barely see the fin... but he's like that...
Funny what gets in the backgrounds sometimes... especially at airshows...
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-12-2021, 08:08 AM
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I'm a little distracted today...
Do I also see a F5, A6, and the Antonov?
How old is this photo? :)
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
12-05-2021, 05:40 PM
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While you were there, did you ask them when they would bring back the 25 ASA B&W? :)
-Eric
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-24-2021, 04:47 AM
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Looks a lot better than my first try, which had loads of light leaks and timing issues :p
I'd say it's a good first effort :)
-Eric
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