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Hasselblad 503CW 250mm Supercromatic Ektar 100........I love this lens
 
 
 

 

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Hi Neil

Magenta is an issue with digital, and scans (digital).  Try pushing the sliders around in LR.

 

all best, some fabulous images; I always look.

 

cheers and all best...

 

Cheers David

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Right on, Philip. :)

Here's one from Central Park from last winter...

 

Tri-X, polarizing filter (which in hindsight was a grave mistake for most of my shots from that morning), SWC

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Misguided, certainly. A scene such as this would benefit from the spectral point sources of light that your pl filter has removed. The result is flat and matt, actually the opposite of snow and ice on a sunny day. I'm unclear as to why you would want to use a pl with an SWC, when it will usually be detrimental due to uneven wide angle polarisation. I feel an orange filter would have been a better choice here, especially with Tri-X.

 

In a few weeks time you'll have the opportunity to return to have another go and do some comparisons with different filters.

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This train was traveling so frigging fast that it was quite scary even for a brut like me to wait until the last minute to take this picture.

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The start of a butifun sunrise

Ektar 100 Hasselblad 503CW w/250 Supercromat lens

 

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What I have found is that a lot of the Ektar pictures have this really dark margaritas cast in the shadows and I have no idea how to get rid of it. The one below is another example of this around the front of the matt...............is it something I did wrong or is it just a issue with this particular film?????

Any help or advise would be much appreceated

 

Neil - was that a dark shadow that you opened up a bit in post or a light shadow as it looks?  If dark, Ektar doesn't have the latitude of other color negative films and is prone to casts when underexposed.  

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Misguided, certainly. A scene such as this would benefit from the spectral point sources of light that your pl filter has removed. The result is flat and matt, actually the opposite of snow and ice on a sunny day. I'm unclear as to why you would want to use a pl with an SWC, when it will usually be detrimental due to uneven wide angle polarisation. I feel an orange filter would have been a better choice here, especially with Tri-X.

 

In a few weeks time you'll have the opportunity to return to have another go and do some comparisons with different filters.

 

Thanks, Steve.  I wouldn't say "misguided" as that would imply that I can blame someone else for giving me this stupid idea.  That's the thing about teaching yourself, you save in course fees but make up for it in wasted film!

I wouldn't go so far as to say that a PL is not useful at all ever with the SWC.  But I do think it is safe to say that it shouldn't be used at 7ish in the morning shooting due south with crystal clear skies!

And I don't think an orange filter would have helped with unevenness in the sky as that filter will increase contrast and thus darken areas in the sky where the blue is much deeper than the others.  

As I said in my initial post, this particular shot doesn't show this but I have many others in which it is very clear.  More losers than winners on that day...

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Neil - was that a dark shadow that you opened up a bit in post or a light shadow as it looks?  If dark, Ektar doesn't have the latitude of other color negative films and is prone to casts when underexposed.  

 

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Yes this was ~1 stop under and the blanket in the picture was in shadow.

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m4-2 2/50IV Portra 400

 

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Cargo ship emerging from a bank of sea-fog & entering Santander harbour.  Rolleicord Vb, Portra 160.

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Radio Paradise is the perfect partner to film scanning! :D

 

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I don't know many places where you can immerse yourself in a glorious sunset on an amazing beach and share it only with a white-tailed sea eagle, dolphins and seals all less than 50 yards away.  This is one of them, Outer Hebrides October 2016.

 

Hasselblad 503cw

Zeiss 50mm cfi distagon

Fuji Velvia 50

 

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I don't know many places where you can immerse yourself in a glorious sunset on an amazing beach and share it only with a white-tailed sea eagle, dolphins and seals all less than 50 yards away.  This is one of them, Outer Hebrides October 2016.

 

Hasselblad 503cw

Zeiss 50mm cfi distagon

Fuji Velvia 50

 

Amazing light and a sumptuous composition to get lost in - of repeating patterns and lines to take the eye on a guided tour.

 

Thanks

Charles

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I hope you SWC peddlars feel duly ashamed of yourselves. I have succumbed to the drug you so willingly push, with no care for the consequences.

 

Not exactly a prime SWC subject, but Tri-X visits a rice paddy at our farm near Lampang, Thailand...

 

Ha, perfect result, glad to have you aboard.

Enjoy.

Gary

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I don't know many places where you can immerse yourself in a glorious sunset on an amazing beach and share it only with a white-tailed sea eagle, dolphins and seals all less than 50 yards away.  This is one of them, Outer Hebrides October 2016.

 

Hasselblad 503cw

Zeiss 50mm cfi distagon

Fuji Velvia 50

Beautiful,

 

Rgds

 

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