pgk Posted February 8 Share #1 Posted February 8 Advertisement (gone after registration) I thought that it would be fun to show what equipment an image was taken on. This being the Leica Forum the proviso is that the main shot must be taken on a Leica or with a Leica Lens (no doubt the moderators will let me know if the inset is not acceptable). Please feel free to add your own images, of Leicas or whatever, but do state what Leica camea/lens was used to photograph the photographic equipment with. My first is a shot taken wide open on a 35mm Summilux on my M9 and is of my 'Custom Arca Swiss camera sporting a diminutive ~1911 Taylor, Taylor & Hobson Cooke lens of 4.4" equivalent focus and f/6.5. The inset is a 3 image stitch from the Arca/TT&H combination. Being dull light in the woodland I was restricted to f/1.4 as my tripod was already in use! The inset shows recent storm damage. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 3 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/419135-the-set-up-the-shot-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5753898'>More sharing options...
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pippy Posted February 10 Share #2 Posted February 10 (edited) Rarely do I have the need to make digital 'scan' negatives from old photographs but today was an exception. Not having 'proper' copying equipment to hand I adopted the 'Heath Robinson' approach with an assembage of bits'n'bobs I found lying around in the studio. The 'Lightbox' is a past-its-sell-by-date laptop; the 'diffusion box' was crafted (I use that word in its loosest definition) from a sheet of cardboard and a small rectangle of black Daler-Board to frame the negatives (the 'plural' explained a little bit later) with the opaque part of an old 10"x8" transparency sleeve acting as the diffuser on the rear of the box; the whole being held together with Gaffer Tape and a hefty blob of goodwill... Taking-camera in the set-up is the M-D Typ-262 with the ubiquitous 16464 / 65mm f3.5 Elmar mounted on a Visoflex III; the unit atop a (late 1960's?) Series V Gitzo. Scene was snapped, in all its glory (😸), with a M Monochrom wearing (for some reason!) a mid-'50s Canon 50mm f1.8 'Serenar' style lens. This set-up only focusses down to approx. 33cm. Upside is two negatives can fit on one frame. Downside, obviously, is IQ is less than half as good as it could be; Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Results - for today's purposes - are perfectly useable. Here is an example (this is the extreme right-hand-side-most neg of the whole strip in the above pic); One interesting aspect of using the M-D (and it's in-built 'Auto-Colour' habit) rather than the Monochrom (which had been my go-to in the past) is that the results are recorded in RGB. The film being scanned here is a roll of Kodak 400 Delta Professional which - in this case - has an underlying slight blue tinge. When the frames were inverted from Neg. to Positive this slight blue became a slight purplish-brown and the resulting image - quite by chance - has a near-perfect 'Sepia' hue. All in all this experiment was quite a lot of fun. I really should work out a less haphazard methodology! EDIT : I almost forgot to say that the original - which shows part of the interior of Hagia Sofia in Istanbul - was taken back in 1997 on an M2 with 35mm f3.5 Summaron (M). Philip. Edited February 10 by pippy 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Results - for today's purposes - are perfectly useable. Here is an example (this is the extreme right-hand-side-most neg of the whole strip in the above pic); One interesting aspect of using the M-D (and it's in-built 'Auto-Colour' habit) rather than the Monochrom (which had been my go-to in the past) is that the results are recorded in RGB. The film being scanned here is a roll of Kodak 400 Delta Professional which - in this case - has an underlying slight blue tinge. When the frames were inverted from Neg. to Positive this slight blue became a slight purplish-brown and the resulting image - quite by chance - has a near-perfect 'Sepia' hue. All in all this experiment was quite a lot of fun. I really should work out a less haphazard methodology! EDIT : I almost forgot to say that the original - which shows part of the interior of Hagia Sofia in Istanbul - was taken back in 1997 on an M2 with 35mm f3.5 Summaron (M). Philip. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/419135-the-set-up-the-shot-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5755105'>More sharing options...
pedaes Posted February 10 Share #3 Posted February 10 (edited) I was asked by a friend of ours to photograph some wild Bee Orchids in her garden. These are tiny and I don't have a macro lens. I put together the M10, (original) Visoflex II, Bellows and 65mm Elmar, together with electronic Visoflex instead of the Visoflex II Prism. The shot of this set up was taken on a De-Lux 6, and the Orchid on the M10. Gitzo tripod with Arca Swiss head. As Pippy says, a lot of fun! And our friend seemed happy with a A3+ print. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited February 10 by pedaes 4 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/419135-the-set-up-the-shot-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5755177'>More sharing options...
pippy Posted February 10 Share #4 Posted February 10 59 minutes ago, pedaes said: ...I put together the M10, (original) Visoflex II, Bellows and 65mm Elmar, together with electronic Visoflex instead of the Visoflex II Prism.. Excellent solution, pedaes, and nice to be able to do such helpful things for a friend! Have you tried using the (original) Viso II with a 'chimney' finder? I believe that the regular one has a 5x magnification as opposed to the 4x of my 90 degree finder. Apparently the Viso III (in particular?) is notorious for having scratched / difficult to 'read' screens... With the bellows do you get (or close to) 1 : 1 scale? I've been seriously considering picking up a set for this sort of thing if neg-copying will become a more regular requirement in future and with A3 prints to be the desired end-result. Philip. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted February 10 Share #5 Posted February 10 13 minutes ago, pippy said: 1 : 1 scale? Hi Philip I think Bellows will go greater than 1:1. You might find this helpful https://leicasocietyinternational.org/blog/2017/10/the-bellows-ii-for-marco-photography#:~:text=On the film negatives the,1%3A2.4 in both pictures. I don't have 'chimney' finder, which would be helpful but I think it reverses viewed image. The advantage, for me, of electronic finder is you still get the helpful 'focus zoom', which makes precise focus easier. As you know from Pete Meets, my eyes aren't young! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedaes Posted February 10 Share #6 Posted February 10 20 minutes ago, pippy said: scratched / difficult to 'read' screens... I think the Viso outfit is my best ever Ebay purchase . It was being sold by a general dealer who clearly didn't know what it was. It was all boxed and genuinely as new. Inside the boxes there is a rubber stamp of a name and address. When I Googled it and with a bit of research the original owner was a former President of the Scottish Photographic Society. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted February 10 Share #7 Posted February 10 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) 20 minutes ago, pedaes said: Hi Philip I think Bellows will go greater than 1:1. You might find this helpful https://leicasocietyinternational.org/blog/2017/10/the-bellows-ii-for-marco-photography#:~:text=On the film negatives the,1%3A2.4 in both pictures. I don't have 'chimney' finder, which would be helpful but I think it reverses viewed image. The advantage, for me, of electronic finder is you still get the helpful 'focus zoom', which makes precise focus easier. As you know from Pete Meets, my eyes aren't young! Hi, Keith, and thanks for the very interesting link. So the bellows still allow focussing from infinity? I didn't expect that. Reversal-of-image wouldn't be an issue for me. Partly because I won't be looking for anything other than accurate focus and as I will be stopping-down even that has a (slight) margin for error. I also used a Sinar Monorail for nigh-on two decades so neither upside-down nor back-to-front holds any 'scares' for me. Much... Unlike the situation where you were creating / crafting a new photograph I'm merely going to be copying a neg. so the 'Image' has already been captured...for better or for worse! Regards! Philip. Edited February 10 by pippy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgk Posted April 11 Author Share #8 Posted April 11 From yesterday: Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 2 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/419135-the-set-up-the-shot-open-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5784775'>More sharing options...
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