I like film...(open thread)

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Continuing on what has been a bit of a Greek theme on the last page or so, one from the morgue. I remember standing there,  thinking I’d take a picture of the decidedly cubist buildings, when I heard a “clip-clop, clip-clop” which seemed to be coming forwards, so I thought I’d wait.

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Thira 1987

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Before and after shots of a "Banksy" (really?  not sure) at London South Bank in 2005 and 2006.  Both on Fuji 100, first with a Leica M2 and the second with a Bessa R3a.  Someone didn't like it.  Was it the "street" language?

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20 hours ago, Steve Ricoh said:

8 horses

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I wonder how you did panoramic shot with Leica? Is that 2 attached frames?

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29 minutes ago, dimm said:

I wonder how you did panoramic shot with Leica? Is that 2 attached frames?

The negative is standard 35mm. I cropped to 16:9, plus a bit, in LR.
Who needs an XPan! 😉

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Honouring Brett Weston.

 

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Nikon F2 Photomic, Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:2.8 Ais, Kodak Tri-X 400, Rodinal 1:50 13' 20°C.

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1 hour ago, Xícara de Café said:

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Nikon F2 Photomic, Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:2.8 Ais, Kodak Tri-X 400, Rodinal 1:50 13' 20°C.

Yes, good choice!

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The other day I went by train to the next town. The train was delayed.."due to police action" ( someone not wearing a mask ?) I took my MP and tried to find some motifs...

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nature taking over... 

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and, over the river, two kites enjoying themselves  performing stunts in the air... when the train arrived, I had just finished the survey of the place.

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all pictures MP and Summarit 2,4/50; Acros II , Rodinal

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13 hours ago, John Robinson said:

Before and after shots of a "Banksy" (really?  not sure) at London South Bank in 2005 and 2006.  Both on Fuji 100, first with a Leica M2 and the second with a Bessa R3a.  Someone didn't like it.  Was it the "street" language?

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I will always stop and ponder graffiti of this sort. It can seem so ugly and repulsive, but yet, the sort of thing that  archeologists pray for when they unearth the relics of past societies. Is that a tube of glue stuffed into the crack on the bottom of the photo?

Thanks for the photos.

Best,

Wayne

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17 hours ago, Xícara de Café said:

Nikon F2 Photomic, Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:2.8 Ais, Kodak Tri-X 400, Rodinal 1:50 13' 20°C.

There is a certain irony in posting a shot here taken with the Nikon F2, given that many consider the F and then the F2 the cameras that sank Leica as a first choice for reportage.  I used Nikons for years before I discovered the joys of the light weight and superb lenses of the Leica Ms, starting with an M2 before the M8 arrived (put an M2 or M9 next to a F4 or D700 and consider which you would rather carry around all day).  I dumped nearly all my film-era Nikon lenses after testing them on digital with one exception:  the Micro-Nikkor 3.5/55.  Put this on a digital SL and you have something quite remarkable. 

I swapped the Nikkors for Leica R-lenses which are superb on digital and more recently -- after looking back and considering that film has a "look" that is quite different from digital -- on a Leica R5.  While R-lenses can be adapted to Nikon (try a Leitaxed Summicon on an F for a very interesting experience), the Nikkors can't go the other way on Leica film cameras which is a shame when it comes to the Micro-Nikkor.  Of course there are the Macro-Elmarits and I have to admit to not having tried one (compare the prices they fetch with good examples of the Micro-Nikkors), so all I can say is that if there is one Nikon lens to hold on to, it is the Micro-Nikkor. 

Which brings us full circle back to the dilemma (on a Leica site):  how to demonstrate what a Micro-Nikkor can do on film -- of which your shot is an excellent example?  Maybe the Nikon F and F2 are so iconic that they can be given an honorary title of the camera Leica should have built in the 1960s?

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Into the mist.

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Leica R5, Elmarit-R 90 (I), Fuji Superia 400.

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1 hour ago, John Robinson said:

There is a certain irony in posting a shot here taken with the Nikon F2, given that many consider the F and then the F2 the cameras that sank Leica as a first choice for reportage. 

Ever swimming against the tide, I, as you did, started with a Nikon (an FE) and made a journey through to an older Leica. In my case by way of a Nikon F2, a Kiev IV, a Contax IIa and III and finally to a Leica IIIf with Summicron 50/2 and Summaron 35/3.5. With the exception of the Kiev, of which my example has some annoying little problems, I love all of these cameras. My preferred shots generally come from the Leica or the Contaxes, but I can't deny that I have a better success rate (no. of good shots from per roll) with the SLRs - although a SBOOI viewfinder on the IIIf more recently has helped a lot.

1 hour ago, John Robinson said:

While R-lenses can be adapted to Nikon (try a Leitaxed Summicon on an F for a very interesting experience),

Oooh, how is this done? A ready-made adapter?

1 hour ago, John Robinson said:

Which brings us full circle back to the dilemma (on a Leica site):  how to demonstrate what a Micro-Nikkor can do on film -- of which your shot is an excellent example

Thanks. Not quite the same thing, but you could always get a Nikon digital, an extension tube and digitize your Leica negatives with the Micro-Nikkor. 🙂 Which is what I've been doing with my 55/2.8 since the beginning of the year.

Lovely shot of the horses above.

All the best

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Nikon F2 again, as above

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10 minutes ago, Xícara de Café said:

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Oooh, how is this done? A ready-made adapter?

[...]

Thanks. Not quite the same thing, but you could always get a Nikon digital, an extension tube and digitize your Leica negatives with the Micro-Nikkor. 🙂 Which is what I've been doing with my 55/2.8 since the beginning of the year.

I have a Leitax adaptor to put a Leica R lens on F-mount with a little lever on the side to open up the aperture for focusing.  The web site for Leitax (leitax.com) has all the details.  Very easy adaptation and gets the focus going in the "correct" direction on the F or F2 body with the benefit of the titanium shutter and full-frame focusing screen and the unmistakeable feel of the Nikon.

Leica SL with Micro-Nikkor 3.5/55 on a Leica BEOON (and various adapters) doing an excellent job of old B/W negatives.