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Leica M4-P with the Leitz 40mm Summicron-C.

 

The film was Fuji Superia 1600.

 

It's the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Rufford, Lancashire, England.

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Son of friends, with ballistic goggles!

 

Leica R8, Vario-Elmar-R 1:4/80-200

Agfa Vista 200

Nikon Coolscan LS4000ED

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Very nice, James. They clearly look like film and they are lovely. From my monitor at work the first seems like it may be a tiny bit overexposed. You might try tweaking it in order to introduce more midtones. The second has very nice contrast.

 

With regard to my most recent photo on which you commented, I will very unapologetically say that I edit all of my photos in Lightroom for the simple reason that the scanned files come flat (in my experience more akin to a RAW file from an MM).

 

I do not subscribe to the school of thought that files directly from the scanner are sacrosanct and have a purity that shouldn't be altered.

 

Having said this, my edits are normally focused on perfecting (according to my eye) the WB (according to how an analog print would render, which is different from how the scanner renders it unless you go crazy with the controls on the scaner and I am not a rocket scientist to be able to figure this out) and removing digital artifacts such as blue hues in the shadows. The scanner - left to its own devices in the normal auto settings - will invariably try to capture max detail in the shadows, even though these shadows were basically black to the naked eye in the actual scene. In this particular scene, the sun was barrelling down this street at a very low level, and was cutting down the street at an angle (leaving a large portion of the street in a deep shadow). The path of the sun was quite narrow, and there was in fact a lot of dark shadows. I may have crushed the shadows slightly relative to what the scanner extracted, but it is actually pretty close to how it looked in real life. Winter sunshine is interesting in this regard.

 

I pushed this film a stop and that produced some extra contrast. I was impressed by the colors from the scan. All I did was pump the contrast a little and the vibrancy correspondingly torqued up to this rich level. I rarely if ever directly increase the color saturation of the files (b/c it tends to knock the WB out of kilter).

 

I think the photo has an almost chrome look. And I like how her shoe is pointing up like a leprechaun and how the show matches almost exactly the hair of the woman to her right.

 

Horses for courses, but this kind of stuff turns me on :)

 

I agree with this Adam. A well scanned negative should be the equivalent of a well adjusted DNG/RAW file suitable for further processing as necessary. Of course some require little if any subsequent work and others vary to get the look I want. That is of course unless I'm getting the negative printed directly.

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EXPIRED film, anyone?

Here are two shots from last week with Kodak Ektachrome 160T (an indoor color slide film made for tungsten light) that expired about 15 year sago. It was an experiment just for kicks. The eBay seller from Turkey purported to have kept these in the freezer. Lesson learned. The film was horribly faded; it had a reddish cast to it that was nasty and nearly unscannable.

 

The first is from New Year's Eve last week in the subway on the way home from dinner. The lady had a water gun filled with vodka :eek: I used flash with my M-A and a 35mm lux fle.

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This is from inside the subway last Friday morning on my way to the lab to drop off the film and I need to finish the roll. Shot with my 50mm lux asph

 

Lesson learned that there is generally no going back in time and enjoying this film as it was; there is only making images that look like they were back in time, which I suppose can be cool in the right situation. But it certainly is pot luck.

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Leica M4-P with the Leitz 40mm Summicron-C.

 

The film was Fuji Superia 1600.

 

It's the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Rufford, Lancashire, England.

Amro, Nice picture and beautiful color.

This is good , the couple M4-P - Cron 40. I think you need a light meter isn't ?

Some great pictures in your links :)

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..... during my last humanitarian mission in March 2014

 

I was waiting for someone and I was hungry, it was noon. I decided to buy a sandwich !

that it is good ! one of the many shops found on sidewalks. It starts be warm this explains the mask of the seller.

She also sold tasty brochettes

 

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Kodak Portra 400 (for Adam) :)

M7 Summilux 50 Asph (a great combo)

 

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Paris the Seine river and the quay

 

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Ilford HP5

Ilfosol S - 10 mns - dil:1:4 - 20°C

M7 Summilux 35 Asph

 

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Here's my first picture contribution to this thread

 

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M6 Zeiss 35 f2 Biogon Tri-X d76 1+1 9 3/4 mins at 20 degrees

 

 

if my image is not showing how do i post one?

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M6 Zeiss Biogon Tri-X D76 1+1

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same film and camera

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M6 Zeiss Biogon Tri-X D76 1+1

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Temple of Heavenly Fairy (VN)

on the banks of the "Perfume River"

because it smells good by flower trees at the water's edge :)

 

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Kodak Portra 400

M7 50 Summilux 50 Asph

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Thanks Doc Henry I've changed a couple of them now so they should be embedded. I was too late to edit the others.

 

here is another one. Tri-X inD76 again.

 

 

I'm not very skilled with photoshop and struggle to get the scans how i want them. I'm not sure of the best way to sharpen either so i'm just guessing at the moment.

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Thanks Doc Henry I've changed a couple of them now so they should be embedded. I was too late to edit the others.

here is another one. Tri-X inD76 again.

 

 

I'm not very skilled with photoshop and struggle to get the scans how i want them. I'm not sure of the best way to sharpen either so i'm just guessing at the moment.

Poppers, very nice composition with fine grain structure :)

Thanks

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and the fog for Poppers ... with this time Ilford HP5

 

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M7 35 LA

 

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