rossb Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 A shot from Delta 400 at the Farm Lunch place out in the country.. Just my first roll of Delta 400 and my first impression is I like it. It is a sharp film and the dark tones look nice to me. Not so much on the barn but this shot was in the shade so its lucky to look like anything. This is just a sign on the barn. Lunch was great and we will go back soon. There was another shot like this on the barn and the photo was actually the lady that was working in the shop. I imagine this is her husband and he was probably in back baking and stuff. We bought a loaf of their french bread and we will have that with dinner tonight. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 30, 2017 Author Share Posted July 30, 2017 From the roll of Rolleipan 25 I developed and scanned today. I've worked out a time of 10' for HC110 dilution H at 68F. Minolta SRT 202, MC Rokkor 35mm f2.8 Looking west same camera and lens cloudy afternoon on Main Street One more, but cropped. Roughly a 1 second time exposure at f8. Tripod of course. Light from two Cree LED lamps in overhead fixture Each mug represents our cats' personalities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Harpold Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Interesting place & will visit again with better camera & Lens options. Hello Tony This camera and lens seems to have done pretty darn good. How do you like the Nicca? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Harpold Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 A shot from Delta 400 at the Farm Lunch place out in the country.. Just my first roll of Delta 400 and my first impression is I like it. It is a sharp film and the dark tones look nice to me. Not so much on the barn but this shot was in the shade so its lucky to look like anything. This is just a sign on the barn. Lunch was great and we will go back soon. There was another shot like this on the barn and the photo was actually the lady that was working in the shop. I imagine this is her husband and he was probably in back baking and stuff. We bought a loaf of their french bread and we will have that with dinner tonight. [ATTACH=full]1201275[/ATTACH] Hello rossb What developer did you use on this one? Very nice, I have always liked Delta films especially the 100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 30, 2017 Author Share Posted July 30, 2017 One from the Spotmatic F from last December. Probably the 50mm f1.4 Takumar. Film was Plus-X 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossb Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Hello rossb What developer did you use on this one? Very nice, I have always liked Delta films especially the 100 Hi Don, I have been using ID11 for about a year. I used the Illford recommended time of 14 min with 1:1. Delta 100 is my favorite film in the 100 speed variety. Not sure about Delta 400 yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Evans Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Don, Thank you. I'm not much of a hand-holder, but of my Rangefinders I find the Nicca the easiest to TRY and keep steady. Best in a photographic sense is my Canon P with Canon 50. Much prefer my SLR's. Tony Tony Evans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 30, 2017 Author Share Posted July 30, 2017 Regarding ability to hand hold (at least for me) obviously the leaf shutter cameras are easy for me. I can usually hold my Konica Auto S2 and Auto S1.6 down to 1/8 second reliably, my Canonet GIII 17 almost as good at 1/15. With SLRs it's a combination of mirror vibration and focal length. I can usually go to 1/30 with lenses 50 and under with my Minolta XE SLRs and my Nikon FE2. The SRT and OM1 SLR at least 1/60 and sometimes 1/30. The Cosina made match diode SLRs have more mirror vibration so usually 1/60 is lower limit unless propping up the camera or using a wide angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bryant Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I notice a difference between my FM3ns and F6. About a 1/30 on FN2n and at least a full stop in F6. On the F6 1/15 and maybe lower. On SLRs you have both shutter and miror vibration, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_foreman1 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 I had a Yashica FX1 with me when I shot the Kodak 116A from my earlier post. Unfortunately I made a poor choice combination. I used the short zoom 42-75mm that I liked so much a few weeks ago and combined it with a vario contrast filter. The filter allows you to go from light yellow to deep red . Since I'm mostly in love with "wide!"! shots. I shot mostly at 42mm. The results were badly vignetted. This was Agfa/Kentmere 100 souped in Rodinal. The Standard View (50mm) This is the same view done with Autographic earlier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck_foreman1 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 Ohh I have a few more... This shows the corner ..wide.. Looking towards the central Tram Stop in my neighborhood Belsenplatz in Oberkassel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted July 30, 2017 Author Share Posted July 30, 2017 I found a few scans that I must have done a few years back. I usually put them in folders with some film and camera data but these were not. So a few from film unknown as well as camera although I suspect it might have been my FE2. If I can remember when this part of MSU campus undergoing some work, I might could figure the approximate date. Taken around the same time One more, but probably not same date 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 So I pulled out my Signet 80 with Ektar for my trip to NY. Being told I do not use enough light I overexposed a little. In processing I come up with a new sequence in photoshop and these came out okay but do lack resolution or are grainy. One of these shots were shopped differently and I like both results. Used a 135mm lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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donald_miller5 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 [ATTACH=full]1201457[/ATTACH] Someone post a question a while ago trying to identify a photo that he was experiementing with with 4 fold symmetry. I figured it out but last week as I came out of the subway there it was right in front f me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 could not edit in time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_nixon2 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Why are these so out of focus? you say you edit them in Photoshop. I wonder what your workflow is? Cheers Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Why are these so out of focus? you say you edit them in Photoshop. I wonder what your workflow is? Cheers Greg I have not used this camera in years and pulled it of the shelf to see how it would do. I was with 3 other people who did not want to wait while I took photos so maybe I was hurried and with my eyesight I did not have time to focus or steady the camera. I was shooting at 1/125 and 1/250 but this explanation does not work for me completely. Maybe the range finder linkage is off. I will have to try another lens. They should not be that out of focus with that lens and camera. It think it must be the linkage that has to be adjusted. Maybe that is why the previous owner sold it The color was so saturated that before I did anything else I adjust the saturation first. Then color cast, levels, shadows and mid tone contrast. Next brightness and contrast. Then I would consider auto contrast, auto color and auto sharpness. Usually I found no changes by the auto process. In the future I will try adjusting the saturation first again. I think it might produce better results even on photos that are not so saturated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rossb Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) I'm currently comparing 120 Tri X with 120 Delta 400. This is a typcal shot with the Tri X from today. I have not developed the Delta roll yet but probably later tonight. Anyway I like the Tri X. This shot is a bit on the contrasty side but I had an orange filter on it. Actually it was a 10 stop ND with an Orange filter stacked. About 2 minutes on the exposure. I shot so many pictures out there and was not taking notes so it's all kind of muddled. Mostly I was just looking at the overall picture, contrast, sharpness and zing. Is there such a thing as "Zing". Maybe next time I will use the yellow instead of orange to reel it in a bit. Edited July 31, 2017 by rossb 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_nixon2 Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Donald, I am not familiar with this camera so I can't be of much help. It should be a good performer but something is clearly not right. I hope you can hunt out a good repair person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Donald, I am not familiar with this camera so I can't be of much help. It should be a good performer but something is clearly not right. I hope you can hunt out a good repair person. I am going to shoot again with the same body and different lens. Some of those were shot at infinity so focusing should not have been an issue. The Signet 80 is quite a competent camera and the lenses are considered quite decent. Maybe just one of those flukes. I would like to think that I should be able to at least focus a camera on a super sunny day with f 11-16. Even the long distance shots show loss of detail. Thanks for your interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Gammill Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 Donald, I would try this first. While there is no film in the camera place a piece of wax paper across the film gate and set shutter to B. Try focusing at several distances and see if the sharpness of image on the paper agrees with the setting. If it does not, try another lens (like the normal lens) and see if that works. If the unsharpness just occurs with one lens then the problem is just for that lens. Another thing you might try is setting the distances marked on the lens and see if the image on the paper is sharp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_miller5 Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Thanx Mike. It might be the lens which real be a real disappointment since I considered this particular lens the best part of owning this camera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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