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This is Madison Square in New York City, and the famous Flatiron Building. I sent a copy of this picture to the forum about 10 years ago, and this is a new and better “print”. I still like the picture. XP2, 50mm

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Phil - This is truly outstanding.  So many facets at play; the motion of the waterfall, the rolling stream and the wealth of tonality.  Really stellar!!

I don't have the Hasselblad any more, but I'm looking forward to putting some FP4+ through the Mamiya 7 soon. It is just a wonderful film, especially I think in medium format:

 

 

 

hopetoun falls, 2012

hasselblad 500c/m, 150mm sonnar, ilford fp4+

 

Phil - These are also amazing.  Each has its own strong points, but my preference is the B&W b/c of the way you have captured a wide tonal range in the leaves.  Having said this, I could totally see how one could go either way; or be squarely (and painfully) on the fence!

Actually, here's a pair, taken at the same time as the last waterfall photo, using the (very useful) facility of interchangeable backs of the Hasselblad. Both taken using superb films - FP4+ and E100VS. I chop and change a bit over which one I prefer - do you have any thoughts either way?

 

 

 

 

 

 

hopetoun falls, 2012

hasselblad 500c/m, 80mm planar, kodak e100vs (top) and ilford fp4+

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After being awake for about 3 hours at that point, and driving an hour and a half along windy pitch black roads hugging steep mountain cliffs, it all came to a head seeing the glorious sun and brilliant reflections illuminating against the oily waters and salt formations.

The Dead Sea.

Velvia 50

503cw, 80mm Planar

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Actually, here's a pair, taken at the same time as the last waterfall photo, using the (very useful) facility of interchangeable backs of the Hasselblad. Both taken using superb films - FP4+ and E100VS. I chop and change a bit over which one I prefer - do you have any thoughts either way?

 

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hopetoun falls, 2012

hasselblad 500c/m, 80mm planar, kodak e100vs (top) and ilford fp4+

I would say the B&W if it were not for the plant in front of, and extending into, to fall. In the color shot it seems almost to be growing out of the frame.

 

Best,

 

Wayne

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canon f1, 1.2 85mm l-aspherical - trix-d76

(.. I love my mistakes! ..)

 

 

Welcome LB with this nice picture in black

... a little vintage with your"mistake" :)

Pictures with M6 and MP are great in your link

Thank you for sharing

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Henry

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You imagine in XVIth century walking in the garden ..... :)

 

 

 

Chambord Castle

May 2017

 

Kodak TX400-Leica R4S-50 Summicron

Nikon Coolscan 5000 - Nikon software

no post-processing

 

 

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Hasselblad 503CW

Tmax 400

Neil, a great pic, not sure how you did it. A bit of 'photo magic' I suspect.

I see traces of processing marks in the sky area. I don't think it is scanning artifacts.

If you can clean up those artifacts, it will make a great hardcopy blowup!

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Tmax 100

6x6 Hassy 503WC

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Neil, a great pic, not sure how you did it. A bit of 'photo magic' I suspect.

I see traces of processing marks in the sky area. I don't think it is scanning artifacts.

If you can clean up those artifacts, it will make a great hardcopy blowup!

 

Earl how do I do that? Is it in PS or by doing something to the negative ??

Thanks

 

Neil

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I don't have the Hasselblad any more, but I'm looking forward to putting some FP4+ through the Mamiya 7 soon. It is just a wonderful film, especially I think in medium format:

 

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hopetoun falls, 2012

hasselblad 500c/m, 150mm sonnar, ilford fp4+

Your "falls" photographs are really special Phil, it looks like a lovely and inspiring location and your photo's (in both colour and black and white) certainly do it justice. I agree about FP4+ and love the tonality.

 

Regards

Charles

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After being awake for about 3 hours at that point, and driving an hour and a half along windy pitch black roads hugging steep mountain cliffs, it all came to a head seeing the glorious sun and brilliant reflections illuminating against the oily waters and salt formations.

The Dead Sea.

Velvia 50

503cw, 80mm Planar

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Certainly worth the effort Adam ... I'm looking forward to the rest of your photo's.

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For some time I have been contemplating to acquire a BEOON myself. I would be very interested in your experiences, setup and workflow, once it is established. I would specifically be interested in how you handle lighting, distancing, positioning and film transport/image alignement. Perhaps you could consider opening a new thread on this?

 

(I currently have two dedicated film scanners, one for slide magazines and one for film rolls, but both suffer to some degree from banding artefacts, sometimes barely visible, but in homogeneous midrange clear skies they can be a nuisance, thus I would be grateful for an alternative)...

 

Mathias - There are several LUF threads that discuss the setup for, and quality of, BEOON digitalizions. See this thread, which I started when I was surprised how good my combination of BEOON + M10 + Focotar 2 was for digitalizing transparency film: basically I feel that I'm getting quality at least as good as I got with my old Imacon Precision III scanner (6300 true optical resolutions and dMax of 4.2) — with the speed of 5-10 sec per frame. I was also surprised that these files required substantially less post-processing adjustments than I had to for the Imacon scans.

 

Here are a few examples of Kodachrome digitalizations that, in my view, reproduce the look of the film as opposed to having the look of the M10:

 

 

Leica M3 | Summicorn 50 | Kodachrome 25

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Leica M6 | Summicorn 50 | Agfa Scala

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Sop Kai Village , Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai

 

 

Leica M3 | Summicorn 50 | Kodachrome 64

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Leica IIIc | Summitar 50 | Kodachrome II

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Northern Uganda (1965) on the way to Karamoja

 

 

Leica IIIc | Summitar 50 | Kodachrome II

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Kampala 1965

 

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Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine

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Mathias - There are several LUF threads that discuss the setup for, and quality of, BEOON digitalizions. See this thread, which I started when I was surprised how good my combination of BEOON + M10 + Focotar 2 was for digitalizing transparency film: basically I feel that I'm getting quality at least as good as I got with my old Imacon Precision III scanner (6300 true optical resolutions and dMax of 4.2) — with the speed of 5-10 sec per frame. I was also surprised that these files required substantially less post-processing adjustments than I had to for the Imacon scans.

 

Here are a few examples of Kodachrome digitalizations that, in my view, reproduce the look of the film as opposed to having the look of the M10:

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Alone in Bangkok essay on BURN Magazine

Thanks for pointing out that thread! Also thanks for sharing these very impressive results!

 

Sadly, just now the BEOON seems to become quite scarce/ overpriced. There is currently none on German e-bay or from any of the mainstream Leica vintage dealers. Maybe too many people are reading this forum ;-)

 

Kind regards

 

Mathias

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