lifeandmylens wrote:
A few scenes from the Illinois side of St Louis.
Chamonix 8x10
12” Dagor
Portra 160
Truly just incredible images - from ideation, execution, development and scanning. Bravo!
I dunno if you follow Patrick Joust's work, but your rust belt series reminds me a lot of what he has been doing. I mean this as the highest compliment. So so so well done!
_jim_ wrote:
Truly just incredible images - from ideation, execution, development and scanning. Bravo!
I dunno if you follow Patrick Joust's work, but your rust belt series reminds me a lot of what he has been doing. I mean this as the highest compliment. So so so well done!
Thanks so much Jim! I don't know him, but I will look him up now.
_jim_ wrote:
Truly just incredible images - from ideation, execution, development and scanning. Bravo!
I dunno if you follow Patrick Joust's work, but your rust belt series reminds me a lot of what he has been doing. I mean this as the highest compliment. So so so well done!
Yeah, the compositional juxtapositions of family homes with industry are perfect. Then add the technical prowess on top of that!
lifeandmylens wrote:
A few scenes from the Illinois side of St Louis.
Chamonix 8x10
12” Dagor
Portra 160
Great finds - the lens looks to be sharp. These remind me of a movie's opening scene flying over Gary Indiana in the late 1960s or 1970s (I thought it was Blues Brothers) - it was so polluted it looks like a cloud on the ground.. I can still remember the smell it had back then.
Finally some photos from me using a camera whose name does not end in "a" (Diana, Holga, Leica, Minolta, etc.). Canon P with Canon 50/1.4 LTM, Fomapan 400
More with the Pen F, and the Arista 200 Ultra shot at 800. This time I adapted the Nikkor AF-S 10.5mm f2.8 Fisheye G ED (DX) + used a bit of gaffers tape to hold the iris open to approx f5.6. (it later slipped)
James Markus wrote:
This time I adapted a cheap Neewer 8mm f3.5 Fisheye Nikon F-mount (FX) - stopped down (f8-11) it looks pretty good - imo.
All these Pen-F photos are cool, I love how close you can get! I recently sold all my SLRs and lenses (two Minoltas and a Nikon FM3a, plus all my Minolta and F-mount glass) but then realized that now I have no way to get close photos except with my Mamiya C330. Maybe a Pen-F is in my future...
In true Huss tradition - I went a little crazy on half frame cameras. Very few interested me - unless I can control exposure manually. Some didn't include a case etc - so while hunting for a case I found a 1990s point-n-shoot full frame from Pentax. $11 out the door with free shipping. Case (only thing I wanted), camera, and manual. Within five minutes I had it running - only feature not working is the data back (wouldn't use it anyway), but I suspect it just needs a new battery. I put a roll of Eastman 5222-XX in it, and every frame is perfectly exposed, and in focus. Has an impressive name "Pro Sport Date", but looks exactly like the the name on the manual "PC-555 Date". Normally I don't like cameras that won't let me have some control, but this one is pretty cool.
James Markus wrote:
In true Huss tradition - I went a little crazy on half frame cameras. Very few interested me - unless I can control exposure manually. Some didn't include a case etc - so while hunting for a case I found a 1990s point-n-shoot full frame from Pentax. $11 out the door with free shipping. Case (only thing I wanted), camera, and manual. Within five minutes I had it running - only feature not working is the data back (wouldn't use it anyway), but I suspect it just needs a new battery. I put a roll of Eastman 5222-XX in it, and every frame is perfectly exposed, and in focus. Has an impressive name "Pro Sport Date", but looks exactly like the the name on the manual "PC-555 Date". Normally I don't like cameras that won't let me have some control, but this one is pretty cool....Show more →
Want a really weird half frame camera? With manual exposure and focus? Go git yerself an Agat 18k
I stopped myself just before buying the Agfa Parat, or Parat Tele (It's a chromed steel/brass thing), but got three pretty models The EE-17 (a good recommendation by Brad), a weird US demi Canon did with Bell & Howell, and the Fuji Half.
I recently picked up a Thypoch 75mm f/1.4 off of buy n sell. It's a ton of fun to use on mirrorless. Compares very favorably to the 75 APO-Summicron. BUT...on rangefinder I can't nail focus beyond 1 meter. At medium to longer distances it front focuses quite a bit. Up close, no problemo. How does this make sense? Now, don't get me wrong - I am usually inclined to believe user error...and that is probably still the case here.
But, on this shot, I focused on the triceratops eye with 1.4x magnifier/diopter...and yet it's frilly crown is in focus:
I'd think critical focus would be way harder at 1.4 close up. Maybe I just got lucky with these. Who knows. I'll try it on another rangefinder to see what I see.
