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... and I do not forget Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris with the edge of river Seine

also for Gary  :)

 

 

Kodak Portra 400

(Dev home lab Tetenal 30°C)

Uncorrected

M7-35 Lux A.

 

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Here's one from last summer. Evidently I was spotted by the lady  :p (the usual Hasselblad setup with Provia 100).

 

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Interesting abstract, Philip.

 

You are brave to us the provia in such high contrast scenes. I find my results are not satisfactory (relative to the current stable of professional C41 film stocks) with a bandwidth of EVs greater than 4.

Of course, rules are made to be broken..... :)

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Tmax 400, MP, Summilux 50

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Sheep. South Island, New Zealand. Around the vicinity of the Crown Range. 

 

FM3a. 45mm/2.8. Fuji Reala 100.

 

 

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So I've gone back to the research on the compact auto/manual-focus..etc...compact film camera comparisons and I have reminded myself why I landed on the Ricoh GR1v.

-The Minolta CLE was at the end of the day a mini M7 and I already have an M7 and in any case it is not really clear what lenses work on the camera (Cameraquests seems to suggest that all old LTM lenses will not work, but this seems to be refuted on other sites).

-The Contax and Rollei (and others) are nice but not 28mm

-That leaves the Minolta TC1 and Ricoh GR1

-Minolta is very Leica-like in its construction and has a good lens.  But I was put off by the way in which the manual focus works and the ability to easily toggle b/n AF and MF.  

-The Ricoh seemed to have better functionality relating to MF.  You can pretty easily toggle from 1-5 meters.  Or set it at infinity or spot or P-mode (whatever that means), all pretty easily.  

I actually had fun with it and was able to have it handy to capture some special moments, particularly family moments.

And the lens is really quite good.  I have had some analog silver gelatin (fiber) prints made of some of them and have been very impressed (corner to corner sharpness, good contrast, etc)

In case anyone is interested (and to give the camera the credit it deserves (assuming it works properly, which I'm convinced mine didn't but still managed to get these results), here are some sample images taken with the camera... 

 

Tri-X

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Tmax

 

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a few more...

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Find another one then?

Gary

I may do.  I think the problems with mine are annoyingly subtle.  I probably wouldn't even know that the AF is too slow if I hadn't tried it out on the same camera belonging to a B&H salesman who had his on him when I was shopping there earlier this year.  But there was a big difference.  The B&H guy's GR1 locked focus almost instantaneously no matter what angle the camera was held or how close to contrasty the subject was...  :angry:

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Is it fixable then Adam? Or just live with it. I must admit, I had to do a search to see what the camera actually was.

 

Your comment about the CL (or CLE) being a mini M7 is true, but the M7 is not really pocket-able, whereas the CL with the 28mm LTM (assuming it works) is. And likely you'd take it more than you'd take the M7, simply due size, weight, bulk, value etc. I echo the Rollei S, I had one for years, small, light, collapsible lens, albeit 40mm, not your favoured 28mm.

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So I've gone back to the research on the compact auto/manual-focus..etc...compact film camera comparisons and I have reminded myself why I landed on the Ricoh GR1v.

-The Minolta CLE was at the end of the day a mini M7 and I already have an M7 and in any case it is not really clear what lenses work on the camera (Cameraquests seems to suggest that all old LTM lenses will not work, but this seems to be refuted on other sites).

-The Contax and Rollei (and others) are nice but not 28mm

-That leaves the Minolta TC1 and Ricoh GR1

-Minolta is very Leica-like in its construction and has a good lens.  But I was put off by the way in which the manual focus works and the ability to easily toggle b/n AF and MF.  

-The Ricoh seemed to have better functionality relating to MF.  You can pretty easily toggle from 1-5 meters.  Or set it at infinity or spot or P-mode (whatever that means), all pretty easily.  

I actually had fun with it and was able to have it handy to capture some special moments, particularly family moments.

And the lens is really quite good.  I have had some analog silver gelatin (fiber) prints made of some of them and have been very impressed (corner to corner sharpness, good contrast, etc)

In case anyone is interested (and to give the camera the credit it deserves (assuming it works properly, which I'm convinced mine didn't but still managed to get these results), here are some sample images taken with the camera... 

 

Tri-X

attachicon.gifricoh2-1.jpg

 

Tri-X

attachicon.gifricoh3-1.jpg

 

Tri-X

attachicon.gifricoh4-1.jpg

 

Tmax

attachicon.gifricoh1-1.jpg

 

HP5

attachicon.gifricoh10-1.jpg

 

Hi Adam,

 

Nice pictures, they illustrate well for which purposes you want to use this camera. To some extend one could wonder if autofocus is really necessary for a 28 mm lens...

As a brand new alternative you could also look at the Lomo LC-A, which sports a 2.8 32mm lens, or at the wide-angle version, the Lomo LC-WIde, with a 4.5 17mm lens. 

Although, they all miss the in-build flash...

 

Regards

 

C.

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Sculpture By the Sea - Bondi Beach, Sydney

Leica M6TTL, 35Lux FLE, Acros, Rodinal 1:50 13Mins Rotary Processor, Plustek 8200i

 

New to Leica.... Comments are welcome

 

 

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Hi Adam, thank you. I used ColorPerfect to develop this scan which I've since stopped using for E6 because I find that it handles E6 rather poorly, particularly if the scene's histogram is pushed a lot to the right. I might try to rescan as a non-linear tiff to see the difference.

Br

Philip

 

Interesting abstract, Philip.

 

You are brave to us the provia in such high contrast scenes. I find my results are not satisfactory (relative to the current stable of professional C41 film stocks) with a bandwidth of EVs greater than 4.

Of course, rules are made to be broken..... :)

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It snowed too much today to go out, so I stayed at home and rolled bulk Neopan 400 into cassettes. Then I had to try one out to make sure I hadn't made any mistakes:

 

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M2 by chrism229, on Flickr

M2, Elmarit-M 90, Neopan 400, HC-110, X1 scan.

 

Chris

Chris nice picture for the owner and for the camera :)

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Speaking of different analog cameras, Leica , Minolta or Nikon , I had made different tests with my enlarger, and then develop on photographic paper, with the same b&w film Kodak TX. Only Leica stands out because of its optics. It is sharper and more contrasted with Leica.
Same test and remark on color with projection of Fuji Provia slides on a projector Pradovit CA 1500 with the large screen.

 

So particular attention on lens mounted on cameras.

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Henry

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M7-Summicron 50

Fuji Superia 100

 

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Your advice about the pink color ?  :)

 

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