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leica MP - 50mm summicron 

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Suspicion On the High Street - 1988(!)  Rescanned an old neg today out of curiosity (as one does) - Pentax ME Super, 50mm Pentax-M f1.7, FP4.

 

PS - I still have the Pentax outfit...

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Back to film....Just had my M3 clad, Tri-X being delivered today.  I've been shooting with M9 for several years and like it, but I miss the quality of the film images I got some years ago.  Problem, for me, is processing.  I've got a couple of options, but would like any suggestions you folks might have...aside from home processing, which I'm not able to handle right now.  As long as I can get reliable developing, I can scan negatives, with Nikon scanner and Epson 4990.

 

Hints and tips welcome.

 

Ken/kennybod

M3, M4, M9, iiif...

 

Ken, I've been using a lab in NH, http://oldschoolphotolab.com/, and have been very satisfied with the quality (negs have virtually zero dust) and service (one week from mailbox to mailbox). I'm up in Norfolk. Good luck, Peter

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I was reading today about GZI's, or Ground Zero Indicators. These were cylindrical metal canisters mounted on top of underground bunkers in the cold war. The cylinder contained some photographic paper marked with a grid pattern and there was a pinhole to let light in. Periodically a brave (or suicidal) member of the underground staff would come up and replace the paper, taking the retrieved paper down below for some sort of primitive processing which would identify a spot on the grid-marked paper, from which direction and elevation of a nuclear burst could be identified. Two sites could triangulate the actual ground zero, and whether it was an air burst or a ground burst (which had very different implications for fall out). I assume there was a mechanism for opening the pinhole from the bunker when a nuclear explosion was imminent, to avoid the entire paper from being blacked out.

 

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A sad memory of how photochemistry can be used for purposes other than our rather simple and benign ones.

 

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Suspicion On the High Street - 1988(!)  Rescanned an old neg today out of curiosity (as one does) - Pentax ME Super, 50mm Pentax-M f1.7, FP4.

 

PS - I still have the Pentax outfit...

I bought an ME Super in the early eighties, and have recently bought a replacement from KEH when it stopped working. Lovely little camera, and smaller and lighter than a Leica M.

 

BTW, I never actually met a rag and bone man with a horse and cart until I lived in the east end of London after 1978, "I-ron, any ol' i-ron" was the call that let us dispose of old appliances.  "Iron" was actually pronounced "Eye-Ron" by the rag and bone man. Since my neighbours would knock on the door after dark and ask if we wanted some new furniture that had just fallen off the back of a lorry, there seemed to be some balance between the old and the new mediated by the street and its denizens.

 

A lucky life, in retrospect, and all too brief.

 

C.

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A few more from Japan.  Tokyo near Tokyo Tower.  

 

 

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And, 

 

 

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Last one for today.

 

 

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And a B&W from a couple years ago in New Mexico.  Leica M6, 50mm Summicron, Plus-X, Rodinal 50:1.

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Really nice street scene, Keith and a beautiful scan too.

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Philip

 

Suspicion On the High Street - 1988(!)  Rescanned an old neg today out of curiosity (as one does) - Pentax ME Super, 50mm Pentax-M f1.7, FP4.

 

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Suspicion On the High Street - 1988(!)  Rescanned an old neg today out of curiosity (as one does) - Pentax ME Super, 50mm Pentax-M f1.7, FP4.

 

PS - I still have the Pentax outfit...

Love the history here Keith.

Suspicious indeed.

Gary

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A plane and a palm tree. It is holiday season after all (the Santa-less one, I mean).

 

Côte d'Azur

 

 

Provia 400X

You are the definite master of contrails Philip.

Nice to see the whole image area too, especially the two notches.

Gary

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