scott_murphy5

Nikon D850, 400mm f/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor.

I shot a couple of rolls of T-Max 100 120 with the Hasselblad the other day down in Charleston, SC. I mixed up the chemistry this morning and got all ready to go. As anyone who has had to load 120 B&W film onto film reels knows, the film base is rather thin and at 2.5x the width of 35mm it makes loading reels a little tricky. 35mm is easy, I can load a 36 exposure roll in about 10 seconds with no problem. 120 not so much, even though the film is a lot shorter. And for those of you who have ever shot 220 back in the day you know that it is even worse. My 120 reels have a strong little clip in the very center that hold the film while you are loading but you have the get the film centered perfectly in that clip or you are going to have all kinds of alignment issues, which is never a good thing. I always trim the edges at an angle to make it easier to get it into the center of the reel.. In pitch black it is difficult at best to get them at the same angle. It was then that a stroke of genius entered my head. Panchromatic film is insensitive to IR. Why not use my Night Vision Goggles (Gen III+ PVS-7B's) and turn on the IR illuminator so I can see what I am doing? The IR Illuminator is which is necessary when there is essentially no light which was the case on many a black ass night ini Baghdad. NGV's multiply light up to 50,000 times but 50,000 time zero is still zero. Loading those reels was a snap! Why have I not ever thought about this before?

I am looking into getting the optional high voltage battery pack for the Sunpak DF4000U flash but cannot find any information on model number or availability. Can anyone give me information on model number and where it is available?

Nikon FTN, 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor S, Tri-X

Long Exposure. Nikon D850, 15mm f/3.5 AIS Nikkor. 30 sec@ f/22 ISO 32

I was bowled over, or at least, very impressed. Nikon D500, 600mm f/4 ED IF AIS and TC-300 cropped on a monopod. Effective focal length 1800mm (over FX). Maybe yours was a bad one or had been knocked out of alignment