I like film...(open thread)

[Doc Henry]

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What fool would shoot landscapes with an ISO 400 HP5+? Er, emm, well - me.

 

On a recent weekend trip to the Swiss Alps, I mostly used my digital Ms for B/W and tended to give some of the images a clean digital look, yet others a somewhat ‚filmy‘ look (posts #1045-1048 & #1052-1055 in the black & white thread

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/257654-black-and-white-image-thread/page-53 .

 

I also had my trusty but underutilized M7 with me, which I mostly used for portraits (not shown here) but also for occasional vistas. Technically they are not the best, and my hybrid workflow needs much more finetunig, but the experience led me to rediscover film, and I will give meterless (M3) a try in the future. Actually, I liked the film portraits much better than the digital ones; with the landscapes, my mileage varies…

 

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[ M7, Summicron 50 (V), Ilford HP5+, Adox Atomal, Reflecta Pro RPS 7200 @ 3600 dpi ]

 

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[ M7, Summicron 50 (V), Ilford HP5+, Adox Atomal, Reflecta Pro RPS 7200 @ 3600 dpi ]

 

Welcome Schatten to our thread   and thank you for joining us with these superb

pictures with nice black and grey tones

Please post more

I love landscapes and specially mountain landscapes

Best

Henry

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[schattenundlicht]

Thank you very much for the detailed reply, schattenundlicht! The reason I asked is because I use a scanner by the same manufacturer. Your results with vuescan are excellent. I have a license for this software but contrarily to you, I didn't get along with it. I find silverfast to be more intuitive for my working style.

Thanks for sharing this entirely different experience! We can be happy, that there are still several vendors around who cater for us (recently growing again?) minority of film users, so that each of us can pick the tools they feel most comfortable with. Courses for horses, to rephrase a common idiom ;-)

 

I found that for scanning b/w negatives with VueScan is much more difficult than scanning color slides. One sometimes has to employ rather counterintuitive parameter settings. For example, with slides, curve low/high settings of 0.25 and 0.75 respectively, resulting in a linear gradation curve, work well as a starting point. With b/w negatives, I sometimes start with curve low/high both set to 0.00001 to retain a finer tone separation for postprocessing.

[schattenundlicht]

Welcome Schatten to our thread   and thank you for joining us with these superb

pictures with nice black and grey tones

Please post more

I love landscapes and specially mountain landscapes

Best

Henry

Thanks for the warm welcome! Unfortunately, I do not very often have the opportunity to travel to the mountains. Moreover, for more rugged terrain, I still prefer my indestructible D700 - thus, being an honest man, I cannot post my Bhutan images in this forum ;-)

[Michael Hiles]

Charlevoix is an extensive area on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, north of Québec City. It is dotted with small villages, many of which have histories that go back to the 17^th century. The area retains a flavour of rural France, partly because much here pre-dates the English victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

 

This is a church built in 1889 in Pointe-au-Persil, a tiny village on the coast. The protestant church is privately owned by an English-speaking family and services are rare – often only once or twice each year. Originally, the village centred around fishing, but now there is a small pottery, some vacation homes, a tiny bakery and a somewhat old-fashioned hotel for those who really want to get away from the big city.

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[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

Charcoal factory just outside Ipoh in Malaysia

Not my Sunday best..........but it was very very dark in there, and I had the guy try and stand still for 15 seconds (not bad)

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[Keith (M)]

Two more from this week's Ektar 100 / Zeiss Tessar test.

 

Relish!

 

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[philipus]

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I like it Neil. It has the feel of one of those photos of how life was long ago. Must be hard work in such a factory.

 

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Charcoal factory just outside Ipoh in Malaysia

Not my Sunday best..........but it was very very dark in there, and I had the guy try and stand still for 15 seconds (not bad)

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1/15

Trix320 8x10

[Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS]

I like it Neil. It has the feel of one of those photos of how life was long ago. Must be hard work in such a factory.

 

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Philip

Absolutely stinking in there Phill............ I had to get a shower and change my cloths as soon as we arrived at the hotel :(  Horrible place

 

Neil

[edwardkaraa]

Thanks for sharing this entirely different experience! We can be happy, that there are still several vendors around who cater for us (recently growing again?) minority of film users, so that each of us can pick the tools they feel most comfortable with. Courses for horses, to rephrase a common idiom ;-)

 

I found that for scanning b/w negatives with VueScan is much more difficult than scanning color slides. One sometimes has to employ rather counterintuitive parameter settings. For example, with slides, curve low/high settings of 0.25 and 0.75 respectively, resulting in a linear gradation curve, work well as a starting point. With b/w negatives, I sometimes start with curve low/high both set to 0.00001 to retain a finer tone separation for postprocessing.

Indeed we're very lucky to have the choice of different scanning software at this digital age.

 

I did use a similar approach to yours when I scanned b/w negatives with vuescan. It does not make much sense in theory, but it does work for some strange reason

[A miller]

Ventured out to Coney Island in Brooklyn last week to shoot another one of my favorite subjects with my favorite gear/film combo: street art with my Linhof Technika Press 6x9, 53mm Zeiss Biogon and Velvia 50 

 

With the help of the ground glass, I was able to get the murals to fit within nearly every bit of the 9cm film plane.

 

These babies can be printed massive (8-10 feet) on Fuji Flex high gloss - wub wub

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[EoinC]

Two more from the test roll XP2. The first one is the Europol building.

 

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Stunning, Philip!

[sixteen pads]

Another little snap form the Domino Session yesterday. 

I think film was the best option for this context and space. 

I shot some digital also but it does not carry the same emotion nor clicks well enough with those experienced faces. 

 

Thanks !

 

[A miller]

More 6x9 slides from Coney Island, only this time I have a Velvia 50 vs Provia 100F comparison.  You be the judge...

 

First, the Provia 100F

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[A miller]

Here's the Velvia 50

 

 

 

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[philipus]

I like both Adam but prefer, I think, the Provia 100F.

[A miller]

 

I like both Adam but prefer, I think, the Provia 100F.

Interesting, Philip. Thanks for your opinion.

The incremental depth and richness of the velvia 50 is more prominent in the full 500mb or ao resolution file. But with a close look with these jpegs you can see the narrower exposure latitude of the velvia at work.

[philipus]

If there's nothing else to shoot one can always shoot cameras to end a roll (same roll as earlier).

 

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[Doc Henry]

More 6x9 slides from Coney Island, only this time I have a Velvia 50 vs Provia 100F comparison.  You be the judge...

 

First, the Provia 100F

 

Here's the Velvia 50

 

In these pictures Adam color is more vivid with Provia and pehaps near what you see ?

I agree with Philip

 

 

Just to say very busy these times, sorry for not posting. Just let "thanks" under your picture !

Superb pictures posted here

Thanks to All of you

Best

Henry

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[blackandwhite]

Saint Jean de Luz, France

Leica IIIf, Elmar 50mm, TriX 400

 

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[A miller]

In these pictures Adam color is more vivid with Provia and pehaps near what you see ?

I agree with Philip

 

 

Just to say very busy these times, sorry for not posting. Just let "thanks" under your picture !

Superb pictures posted here

Thanks to All of you

Best

Henry

 

Perhaps Henry.  Thanks for your comment.  This slide film cuts through all of the glare and uneven lighting and really showcases the mural as if it were under artificial studio lighting.  It is quite amazing.  I think I like the velvia better, as it is more unique, at least as rendered in full res on my screen.