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More and more film fun with something other than a Leica M

Nokton48

Nokton48

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Graham,

I'm a Plaubel collector, I'm looking for a good Wide cheaply. Still looking. :) Great photos with yours!

Easton Stilt Girl 21mm Rokkor QH XX 3 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Taken on a "short end" from a Hollywood movie camera. Left over scrap film bought cheaply. Replenished straight Legacy Mic-X, several years olde, this stuff does not seem to go bad!
5x7 Arista RC #2 Multigrade print developer. Minolta SRT locked up mirror, 21mm F4 QH Rokkor Minolta Yellow Filter, and 20mm MD F2.8 Lens Hood. A nice rig that replaced my 19mm RF Canon lens adapted to SRT mount. This is a great lens with XX :)

A bit of Reportage, I yelled "One Two Three" and we coordinated. Was fun to do.
 
ggibson

ggibson

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Nokton48 said:
Graham,

I'm a Plaubel collector, I'm looking for a good Wide cheaply. Still looking. :) Great photos with yours!

Easton Stilt Girl 21mm Rokkor QH XX 3 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Taken on a "short end" from a Hollywood movie camera. Left over scrap film bought cheaply. Replenished straight Legacy Mic-X, several years olde, this stuff does not seem to go bad!
5x7 Arista RC #2 Multigrade print developer. Minolta SRT locked up mirror, 21mm F4 QH Rokkor Minolta Yellow Filter, and 20mm MD F2.8 Lens Hood. A nice rig that replaced my 19mm RF Canon lens adapted to SRT mount. This is a great lens with XX :)

A bit of Reportage, I yelled "One Two Three" and we coordinated. Was fun to do.
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Love it! Great willing subject.

Someone was selling a Veriwide on here and FM recently for around what I paid. Looked clean, unlike most of the ones you see on ebay. I've had the camera on my watch list for years now, and I rarely see ones in this condition available. The age of the camera and shutter make me a bit nervous to use, but I'm really liking it.

Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100
Kodak Tri-X 400
f22 1/250s


Dinosaur Hill Park by Graham Gibson, on Flickr
 
ggibson

ggibson

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Nokton48 said:
First Test of NPL 8x10 HRU 1000mm F32 18 pops Octobox by Nokton48, on Flickr

First test of Negative Lab Pro, a program which converts large format negatives (small ones too) into nice looking positives. This is 8x10 Fuji HRU XRAY Film, D23 replenished. Neg copied with Sony Nex-7 (36mp) with 50mm Zeiss F2.8 Touit, an AWESOME optic. Big learning curve ahead :)
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I've been using NLP with Lightroom for a while now and like it a lot. I mainly need it for color scanning, but it does make B&W easy too.

Brooks-Plaubel Veriwide 100
Kodak Tri-X 400
f11 1/500s


View of Mt. Diablo by Graham Gibson, on Flickr
 
Nokton48

Nokton48

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18x24 Mammo Shortie Sawed Off Norma by Nokton48, on Flickr

My "Shorty Sawed-Off Norma" has a basic rail cut down, to just accomodate a 120mm lens. Here it is shown with the 47mm f8 Super Angulon, which I am looking forward to using a lot with 2x3 and 6x9. This is not a telephoto camera, but I can easily lift and carry it with one hand without strain. The lowly Star-D tripod is sturdy enough with this setup, given proper time to settle down. I cut both ends off a basic Norma rail with my Lil Machine Shop Bandsaw. So it is now simply a hollow tube perfect length for Field and Architecture.

47mm F8 F32 4x5 Norma HP5 by Nokton48, on Flickr

My widest LF lens, the chrome 47mm F8 Super Angulon in Compur shutter. Mounted on an original Sinar Norma Recessed Lensboard. Tim Kelly lighting, extreme close-up, lens less than a foot away from my test target. Three Broncolor Pulso C171 Monolights plus fill panel, HP5+ 4x5 (in Linhof Plate Holder) D:23 1;1 in 8x10 Unicolor Unidrum and Uniroller. 8x10 4X print Arista #2 RC Multigrade dev Omega DII laser aligned 180 black Rodagon Omegalite Diffusion Head. In close up mode this lens -almost- covers 4x5. You can see that in the four corners of this shot. BTW I picked up my stand-in "model" and the plant base at the local IKEA store. :) The base is "Rubbermaid Studio". Seemed appropriate to me. The canvas background was hand painted by Artist James Bright
 
scho

scho

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I re-united my orphaned CN mount lenses with the "mother ship" Contax N1. The lenses were not sitting around idle as I used them often via a Fringer AF CN-SE adapter on various Sony digital cameras. This was the first time I've used them on the camera that they were designed for. Weird experience abandoning instant gratification and I kept looking at the back of the camera for a preview image. Images to follow after I get some scans back from the lab. Last time I shot film in an SLR was about 55 years ago with an Olympus OM-1.
 
scho

scho

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My first images using the old Contax N1 and a roll of Portra 400 and Ilford XP-2. Lenses were either the 50 planar or 24-85 zoom. Film processed and scanned by the Darkroom Lab. My negatives are on the way back and I just downloaded the scans. I will rescan some selected negs when I have them back using my Leica M11 and Laowa 85mm Macro lens via a Valoi film scanning attachment for the lens.










 
Nokton48

Nokton48

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73mm Orthar Makina IIIR Eastman 5222 XX by Nokton48, on Flickr


I've been running a few rolls of 120 Eastman 5222 Double-X in the Plaubel Makina IIIR, with the wide 73mm Orthar and correct vintage Makina Wide Finder. It's a HEAVY BEAST, kinda liberating in the sense I use it Sunny 16 (no meter) like they did it in the olde times. It works in a very precise way as a point and shoot. To use it, you pull the rangefinder out to regular position, then transfer that distance to the wide focusing scale, and voila you are in business. You can get used to doing it. Also I have to view the finder without my eyeglasses, but it is a beautiful precise view once you do that! Like the Leica Barnack type cameras, this one takes you back to the basics of photography. I'm enjoying using it, 5222 is a good choice for retro late 1950's film type, same agoe as the camera. Sometimes I do add the Makina Yellow Filter.
 
Jorgen Udvang

Jorgen Udvang

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scho said:
I re-united my orphaned CN mount lenses with the "mother ship" Contax N1. The lenses were not sitting around idle as I used them often via a Fringer AF CN-SE adapter on various Sony digital cameras. This was the first time I've used them on the camera that they were designed for. Weird experience abandoning instant gratification and I kept looking at the back of the camera for a preview image. Images to follow after I get some scans back from the lab. Last time I shot film in an SLR was about 55 years ago with an Olympus OM-1.
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The N1 is one of my two favourite 35mm cameras, the other being the F6. Some 20 years ago, I was getting ready to buy two N1 one bodies to replace my OM-1 and OM-3. (Un?)fortunately, a friend of mine convinced me to go digital, and sold me his Fuji S3. The sad fact is that, if I had bought the Contax or the F6 then, I would probably still have used those cameras today, instead of "investing" zillions on ever changing digital cameras.

The N1 is a fantastic camera. You're lucky to own one.
 
scho

scho

Well-known member
Jorgen Udvang said:
The N1 is one of my two favourite 35mm cameras, the other being the F6. Some 20 years ago, I was getting ready to buy two N1 one bodies to replace my OM-1 and OM-3. (Un?)fortunately, a friend of mine convinced me to go digital, and sold me his Fuji S3. The sad fact is that, if I had bought the Contax or the F6 then, I would probably still have used those cameras today, instead of "investing" zillions on ever changing digital cameras.

The N1 is a fantastic camera. You're lucky to own one.
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Jorgen,
The N1 is a joy to use and so far performance has been flawless. I found this one advertised on eBay as un-used "new" stock. It certainly does look new, with no scuffs or other signs of use and the skin is still intact. It has the soft covering that does deteriorate over time and eventually becomes sticky (my old Panasonic G1 was the same and did become unusable). I have two primes and two zooms that I purchased several years ago to use with my Sony bodies with a Fringer AF adapter and they are still working well now on the N1.
Best regards,
Carl
 
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