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5 hours ago, eab said:

 I am not developing my B&W but would like to in the near future.

Yes, absolutely. It’s super easy and highly satisfying, plus very different from digital B&W. You can't beat the real thing. For digitizing, I can't recommend the Valoi Easy35 enough. A brilliant godsent. And yes, negative film is, as the word implies, the opposite of positive digital. Here, protecting the shadows is the name of the game. Please keep posting.

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Rock crusher, Geevor tin mine museum 2020. Leicaflex SL2, 80mm F1.4 Summilux R, HP5 @ 3200 in DDX

 

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Leica M4, Summicron 2,0/90mm, Kentmere 100, developed in Cinestill D96, Vuescan, Epson V800.
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3 hours ago, hansvons said:

Yes, absolutely. It’s super easy and highly satisfying, plus very different from digital B&W. You can't beat the real thing. For digitizing, I can't recommend the Valoi Easy35 enough. A brilliant godsent. And yes, negative film is, as the word implies, the opposite of positive digital. Here, protecting the shadows is the name of the game. Please keep posting.

Of course, sometimes I miss the simple things. Thank you for pointing that out, I am not sure I would seen the elegant correlation between protecting the shadows and the negative film.  I think that is one of the reasons I love photography, it is the intersection of art and physics…..

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Took this photo yesterday. Moments later, this, perhaps 50kg, capybara, did a spectacular belly-flop on the water 1.5m below, which i didn't catch. Contax IIa, Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 5cm 1:2 collapsible, Ilford HP5+ 400, D76H 1:1 13' 20°C.

A repeat of another photo taken a few years ago at the same spot. Scan of 17.8x24cm Ilford MG FB print. Contax IIa, Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 5cm 1:2 collapsible, Tri-X 400, Rodinal 1:50 13' 20°C. Leitz Focomat 1c, Schneider Componon-S 2.8/50, Ilford Multigrade developer.

 

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On 2/10/2024 at 12:05 PM, christoph_d said:

Nice Doc, you should use your filter more often! The Portra looks a bit grainy here, which fits the image but still makes me wonder...

 

This structure seems to be the defining feature on the deaubille beach, an icon similar to the diving board at the sea-pool in Saint-Malo.

 

Great use of the grain and muted color palette of the NC500!

Thank you Christoph for your nice comment here another picture (without polarizing filter) of Deauville beach with a chinese Ti Qong seance in the morning

Kodak Portra 400-Leica M7-35 Summilux Asph (dev C41 Tetenal and scan with Nikon Scanner CS5000 + Nikon Scan software > picture not corrected)

The Ti Qong teacher is in black

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.... for Aryel now some Vietnamese pictures taken in 1990

Kodak Gold 200-Leicaflex SL-50 R Summicron - Scan in TIFF size 120 Mo with Nikon Scanner CS5000 Nikon Scan software

Somewhere in the North country  ,  the bike is for all intelligent use, isn't it , no global warming  ? and the buffalo is for all purposes also pulling the plow, pulling the cart no CO2 pollution 😀

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M4-P - Elmar-M 50 - TMax 100@200 with yellow filter

 

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M4-P - Elmar-M 50 - TMax 100@200 with yellow filter

 

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Finally got my 35 Summilux pre-asph CLA'd for haze after my local tech said he couldn't get the rear retaining ring off to clean it.  Red Dot Repair did the job brilliantly (required drilling out a stripped screw, removing the loctite the previous "servicer" had slapped in there, retapping for a new screw, etc.); the lens is now pristine.  These three shots are from the first test roll through it.  Gone is the ultra-glow around everything brighter than midtone.  It's a keeper now.  

 

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M4, 35 Summilux (pre-asph), wide open torture test shot of a local church and tree at night, HP5+ (box speed), souped in HC-110 (dil b). 

 

 

M6, 35 Summilux (pre-asph), HP5+ (box speed), souped in HC-110 (dil b). 2024 Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown

 

M6, 35 Summilux (pre-asph), HP5+ (box speed), souped in HC-110 (dil b).   2024 Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown

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1 hour ago, KevinL said:

Finally got my 35 Summilux pre-asph CLA'd for haze after my local tech said he couldn't get the rear retaining ring off to clean it.  Red Dot Repair did the job brilliantly (required drilling out a stripped screw, removing the loctite the previous "servicer" had slapped in there, retapping for a new screw, etc.); the lens is now pristine.  These three shots are from the first test roll through it.  Gone is the ultra-glow around everything brighter than midtone.  It's a keeper now.  

 

So glad you persevered and got that lens working again and looking good, Kevin. Well worth the trouble and expense to see a great lens back to its best.

 

I was just looking through some older natural history pictures I took back in the day. This one is from the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia. I was in a helicopter and to my horror the pilot spotted this enormous salt-water crocodile about to launch into the water in search of some poor unsuspecting prey, so he sped down to a height he'd thought would be good for photographs - but which was a little too close for comfort for the photographer! The previous day I'd been out on a boat tour where the operators dangled chickens at a height of a couple of meters above the Adelaide River and those crocodiles really do launch up to grab them: https://www.jumpingcrocodilecruises.com.au/

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crocodile on his way to lunch 1997

nikon, 80-200, ektachrome

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Staple Symphony. Leica M3, 50mm Summicron DR, Tri-X.

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On 2/18/2024 at 7:43 PM, DreiPunkte said:

Nice picture.
I think the grain eats up a lot of the SF-Appearance.

The lens was closed down quite a bit (probably around f4). It is not that soft at this aperture, even with the CS filter. To me, the main characteristics are the 'bleeding' highlights... I fully agree with your comment too about the grains too. I always find this relationship between perceived sharpness and grains interesting.

 

On 2/18/2024 at 8:04 PM, DreiPunkte said:

Wisner Expedition 4x5, Imagon 250mm, Foma100, FX39

@Aryel and everyone else who is interested,
this is an example what happens when you fool around with
with light, SF, blur und selektiv sharpness

I love it, what an amazing image. Like in a dream... I love the sharp tree slightly off centre and the sharp foreground. A bit as if there were multiple focus planes within a single image. Really looks like a beautiful dream when one wakes remembering only part of it... Thanks for sharing. I am not really pushy usually, but please do share more!

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