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Your three great shots again explain why Ektar is just a great colour film,well presented with a very good set of three.. Well done Scott.
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I recently experimented with Portra 400 and pushing it three stops. The results suggest that it can kinda work, at a push (ha), but there must be a fairly strong light source somewhere in the frame providing some luminance to the subjects, otherwise you won't see much of anything. Below are a couple of shots from a recent athletics meeting in Glasgow. I also have some shots from Christmas on Fuji Pro 400H pushed one stop that I'll be able to post soon too.
Brilliant last shot,fabulous tones,great long distance foreground joining a fantastic sky, someone may give you thirds of this and thirds of that,but not me. Sensational photograph.
Loving Mark and Roger's squares. Mark's second just suits 6x6 perfectly and Roger's beach/skyscape is just perfect- texture, composition handling of the highlights and shoadows. Wowser!
I've just got my first couple of rolls of film back from my 'new' Canon EOS 30 and am impressed on the whole although Fuji C200 is still the devil's own colour film (thankfully that was the last roll I had after buying some as emergency test rolls!). As well as the C200, I also shot a roll of Kodak BW400CN which is slightly better. I used a Sigma 50mm 1.4 and Tamron 19-35 and shot these around Chester Zoo last week with the kids. I've ended up converting all but one of the C200 shots to B&W because the white balance/colours are miles away from anything and couldn't be recovered.
1) Kodak BW400CN / Sigma 50mm 1.4 (probably at 1.4)
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
2) Again, Kodak BW400CN and the Sigma
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
3) The Chimpanzee house (kit as above)
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
4) Tamron 19-35 and Fuji C200 converted
Canon EOS 30 / Tamron 19-35 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
5) Kodak BW400CN / Tamron 19-35 and an ND4 grad held in front of the lens (still waiting for my 77mm Cokin ring to arrive!)
Canon EOS 30 / Tamron 19-35 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
6) Sigma 50mm 1.4 and Fuji C200 converted
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
7) As above, Sigma and Fuji C200
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
Overall, I'm quite happy with the results although the scans are pretty low resolution (local shop) so once my new V500 power supply arrives I think I'll re-scan some of them to see if it improves the quality. I'm still in two minds about moving back to 35mm from Medium Format after getting used to the DOF and quality from 120 negatives but I'm going to put some more rolls of (better) film through the Canon before making my mind up although I'm a fan of the Eye focus feature of the Canon so wouldn't mind that on some MF kit :0)
Cheers
Steve
Brilliant last shot,fabulous tones,great long distance foreground joining a fantastic sky, someone may give you thirds of this and thirds of that,but not me. Sensational photograph.
I had some fun with the Pentax 645N and a flash at martial arts training just before Christmas. Last night I tried wet scanning on the v500 for the first time. I'm impressed - the contrast is high on the negs - I think the auto flash was confused by the light reflecting off the white walls and slightly underexposed. But the clarity of the scan from the wet mounting, combined with the guaranteed film flatness has sold it to me.
Pentax 645N, 45mm lens, Portra 400
I've just got my first couple of rolls of film back from my 'new' Canon EOS 30 and am impressed on the whole although Fuji C200 is still the devil's own colour film (thankfully that was the last roll I had after buying some as emergency test rolls!). As well as the C200, I also shot a roll of Kodak BW400CN which is slightly better. I used a Sigma 50mm 1.4 and Tamron 19-35 and shot these around Chester Zoo last week with the kids. I've ended up converting all but one of the C200 shots to B&W because the white balance/colours are miles away from anything and couldn't be recovered.
1) Kodak BW400CN / Sigma 50mm 1.4 (probably at 1.4)
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
2) Again, Kodak BW400CN and the Sigma
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
3) The Chimpanzee house (kit as above)
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
4) Tamron 19-35 and Fuji C200 converted
Canon EOS 30 / Tamron 19-35 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
5) Kodak BW400CN / Tamron 19-35 and an ND4 grad held in front of the lens (still waiting for my 77mm Cokin ring to arrive!)
Canon EOS 30 / Tamron 19-35 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
6) Sigma 50mm 1.4 and Fuji C200 converted
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
7) As above, Sigma and Fuji C200
Canon EOS 30 / Sigma 50mm 1.4 by Steve Lloyd, on Flickr
Overall, I'm quite happy with the results although the scans are pretty low resolution (local shop) so once my new V500 power supply arrives I think I'll re-scan some of them to see if it improves the quality. I'm still in two minds about moving back to 35mm from Medium Format after getting used to the DOF and quality from 120 negatives but I'm going to put some more rolls of (better) film through the Canon before making my mind up although I'm a fan of the Eye focus feature of the Canon so wouldn't mind that on some MF kit :0)
Cheers
Steve
Very nice and simple image that I like a lot.
Film is new for me. Having seen this the acros 100 is going on the list of films to try
Thanks!Can you do wet scanning on a V500? I thought it was only the V750 that could do that? Or am I missing something with my V500?
Great shot, by the way.
Got the first roll from the GA645 scanned this evening. Wow, they are sharp images alright. Mostly taken on a walk through Oxford at lunch yesterday. Acros 100, developed in 1+50 Rodinal
Got the first roll from the GA645 scanned this evening. Wow, they are sharp images alright. Mostly taken on a walk through Oxford at lunch yesterday. Acros 100, developed in 1+50 Rodinal
Got the first roll from the GA645 scanned this evening. Wow, they are sharp images alright. Mostly taken on a walk through Oxford at lunch yesterday. Acros 100, developed in 1+50 Rodinal
Thanks!
The V750 has a holder that lets you do wet scanning, but you've to do a homemade holder to do so on the v500. I'm doing it on the cheap - I'm using testors odourless mineral spirits from the art shop as mounting fluid (that's basically what Lumina and Kami fluids are) on my homemade holder using the inverted method (air gap from from scanner surface due to mount, then acetate film, then a layer of fluid, then neg, then another layer of fluid, then a glass sheet that supports the neg on the holder). Works a treat. Main difference in the mounting fluid is that art thinners are designed to evaporate more slowly, so I need to stick the films on a radiator to dry for 10 mins. Seems to have no damage or residue on them. Other people have also reported good success with this method.
Snow after the ice storm.
Two or three days after the ice storm that knocked our power out we got about 5 inches of snow. Not much snow, but on top of the ice laden trees it made sure our power stayed off with the broken limbs and trees.
EOS 1V-HS Kodak gold 100 from 2009. I keep it in the freezer. Shot at ASA 64
Click for full size (I think)
It warmed up to about 12F to18F and the boys were enjoying the warm sun
Dudley
Maxwell
I'd love to say this shot was taken with an Xpan, but it wasn't. Somehow I ended up with half a frame on my 501C. It was the first shot on the film so maybe I didn't line up the start arrows properly. After initially rejecting it, I cropped it to 'Xpan format' which probably suits this shot better than square anyway. I've always wanted an Xpan but then if you think about it an Xpan negative is 24x65mm and a negative from my 501C is 60x60mm so the cropped image is only marginally smaller than it would have been if it had been taken on an Xpan.
Anyway, taken with Hasselblad 501C, Sonnar 150mm, Velvia 50
Home processed in Tetenal E6 kit.
Somerset Hills by Cariadus, on Flickr