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I am so far behind - for the last 4 months I have been snowed under with work, 7 days a week. Finally got out with some film loaded!

Hasselblad 500 C/M and CF 80/2.8. Kodak T-Max 100, home developed in FF No. Monobath.

Hmmm... Well... I was going to put up some photos, but the new 500kb file limit is prohibitive, and external links don't seem to work. I guess I won't post here anymore!

Good luck!

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16 hours ago, stray cat said:

My pleasure, Rog, absolutely! I find it an intriguing book, and I think it actually sits exceptionally well alongside Ralph Gibson's Black trilogy, very much for the reasons you spoke about - their pairing of pictures is, like Gibson's, provocative, masterful.

$250! Aaaagh! I'm doubly pleased to have found a used copy ("good" condition which probably means falling apart!) for just over $30 (mind you, shipping worked out about the same). Photobooks - some of them at least - are obviously hugely collectable. A few years ago Sue and I were in a local gallery and noticed they had two copies of Trent Parke's "The Black Rose" catalogue - $75 each. Sensing they's become collectable we bought two - and later sold one for $500 (which bought me my lovely Canon 50mm f1.4 ltm lens)! Unfortunately this story has no sequel - but one always lives in hope.

Thanks for the memory Steve - this was my commuting stop when Sue and I lived in London many years ago - they were my steps! The new Ektachrome seems to love red!

 Wow! Thanks, Phil, for the heads up on Trent Parke and The Black Rose.  What an undercurrent of psychological surrealism!  Night Shooter!  Playing the metaphoric of a mental landscape.  Seeds of surrealism? The backstory of Parke losing his mom to asthma calls to mind Gibson losing his mom tragically in a beauty parlor fire where she worked.  

 Cheers, Rog 🎬

 Gibson recounted how years later he took a picture of a beauty shop on fire and how it brought him to tears, understandably,  though he was unemotional at the time of losing his mom.  The photograph brought a flood of emotion he had suppressed. I have not checked, but this photograph is undoubtedly in Self-Exposure. 

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On 11/22/2018 at 1:38 PM, Doc Henry said:

Adam thanks for your comment .....

...  instead of an M10 with programmed obsolescence  - camera as battery - Adam I prefer to buy a new M-A about a year ago 

cheaper

 

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I'm fond of black and white but the fresh cut hay bales are the same color as the remaining stalks so the color version is more appealing to me.

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1 hour ago, Activatedfx said:

I am so far behind - for the last 4 months I have been snowed under with work, 7 days a week. Finally got out with some film loaded!

Hasselblad 500 C/M and CF 80/2.8. Kodak T-Max 100, home developed in FF No. Monobath.

Hmmm... Well... I was going to put up some photos, but the new 500kb file limit is prohibitive, and external links don't seem to work. I guess I won't post here anymore!

Good luck!

pay the small amount for the premium version, no ads and you can post 1MG .... always enjoy everyone's photos here, they aren't all great but they are all at least fun and interesting to look at,  and the group here is always encouraging. so give it a shot ....

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2 hours ago, Ernest said:

 Wow! Thanks, Phil, for the heads up on Trent Parke and The Black Rose.  What an undercurrent of psychological surrealism!  Night Shooter!  Playing the metaphoric of a mental landscape.  Seeds of surrealism? The backstory of Parke losing his mom to asthma calls to mind Gibson losing his mom tragically in a beauty parlor fire where she worked.  

 Cheers, Rog 🎬

 Gibson recounted how years later he took a picture of a beauty shop on fire and how it brought him to tears, understandably,  though he was unemotional at the time of losing his mom.  The photograph brought a flood of emotion he had suppressed. I have not checked, but this photograph is undoubtedly in Self-Exposure. 

Than you yet again, Rog. I didn't know of the circumstances of Gibson's Mum's death, and now of course the picture of the beauty parlour on fire in The Somnambulist makes considerably more sense to me - and inspires considerable pathos. It would certainly be interesting to read Gibson's thoughts on the tragedy, and on the picture. It puts me in mind of the great crime writer, James Ellroy, and how the murder of his mother when he was just ten informed the rest of his life. And of course Trent Parke's Mum died of asthma in front of him when he was just twelve.

Trent Parke's work is of course rather incredible, and The Black Rose is an intensely personal and affecting account of the effect of a number of changes in his life, including his brush with cancer, his children growing older and he and Narelle uprooting the family and moving from Sydney to Adelaide. I can only wonder what the effect of the exhibition/installation at the Art Gallery of South Australia, where it took up a number of rooms, must have been.

We weren't, unfortunately, able to get over there to see it at the time - I wonder if David Strachan (who is a valued contributor here) was able to see it and, if so, would share his thoughts with us?

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Loved the Moffet stuff.  Set in old building ruins with her as a coctail waitress, just edges.  The juxtapostion was beaut, and huge images giving a feeling of the deserts and space, and more space...

Sherman was OK i suppose...freaks and street.

Onya Phil...

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Hi guys,

Looking for some advice here. Hope you can help.

Has anyone here ever been using a Nikon Coolscan and a Plustek (any model, preferably recent).

I would like to know your opinion about output quality and differences.

Thanks! :)

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3 hours ago, edwardkaraa said:

Hi guys,

Looking for some advice here. Hope you can help.

Has anyone here ever been using a Nikon Coolscan and a Plustek (any model, preferably recent).

I would like to know your opinion about output quality and differences.

Thanks! :)

Hi Edward ,

I have Nikon CS 5000.

For Coolscan

1- I only use Nikon scan software not Vue Scan or Silver Fast (have tried and compared both)

The best is Nikon Software with "linear curve" no correction .

2-I always scan in TIFF and 16 bits .Each picture size has 120 Mo.

(in comparison digital DNG of M8/9  has 15-20 Mo). The palette color as I said to Steve previously  is richer 

I can post some documents about  this technical aspect if you are interested.

It needs more time to save because bigger but you have the  quality when you watch in Tiff better than in Jpeg.

Best regards

From the "Can's worms" Henry

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