No Words: Nature with Canon FD

Here is a new type of posting for the FD Forum. It is very popular

on the Leica Forum. I will post some nature images taken with Canon

FD cameras and lenses.

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Photo of sea oats taken at sunset in Pensacola Beach (Florida) where I live with my family. I used a Canon F1N or T90 with a Canon 300mm/4 (non-L) and Fujichrome 50 Velvia.

Lower Antelope Canyon (Utah): Canon F1N, Canon 24mm/2.8, light tripod, cable release, Fujichrome Velvia, Navajo Indian (Frank) roping me down.

 

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Sort-of a Nature photo :)

Rob, Which lens did you use for this nice photo?

Raid, That was with a 24mm f/2.8

Raid, Those are both lovely photos. The picture of the canyon is very sensual....the wall on the right, in shade, looks like a woman's bust.

 

You used a tripod for both shots?

Jerry,

Thanks. I have never "seen" the lovely bust you refer to, but it's there! At the time of this photo, there were no maps published for the Lower Antelope Canyon, and it was a mystery how to get there and get inside them.

I forgot your main question: Yes, I used a tripod in both. For the first photo is used a sturdy Gitzo tripod but for the canyon I used a very light Velbon tripod since I had to be roped down.

Locale: Pt Lobos, California.

Camera: Canon F1-N with Canon FD 24mm f2.8

Film: Kodachrome 25

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Camera: Canon F1-N with Canon 50mm FD f1.8 reverse mounted on "Canon Auto Bellows"

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Peter,

Is your photo of the Lower Antelope Canyon? Did you have to use a rope to get down or only ladders?

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Not quite nature, but the effect of nature.<br /><br />

Canon AE-1P, nFD 50mm f1.4, Fuji Velvia 50

Raid,

 

The photo was made in Peek-A-Boo Gulch. It's about 25 miles down Hole in the Rock Road from Escalante, Utah. Hole In The Rock dead ends at the Colorado River in Glen Canyon, now flooded by Lake Powell. You can get a map from the Park Service office in Escalante. It's a very narrow slot canyon. At the point the photo was made, it's perhaps 15 feet deep, and varies from 18" to 30" wide.

 

There's a small parking area off the road. You have to hike about a half hour to get to the canyon. Nothing technical, as long as you start upstream. If you start at the bottom, you have a fairly acrobatic climb into the slot. From upstream, you start in a gully a few inches deep, that gradually gets deeper and deeper. It's a quite an experience.

 

I've been in there twice; once with my F-1 and the 17, and once with Leica M gear. My hope is to get back there with the 4x5 and get some high definition images of the rock texture. We're going back out there in April. We'll see.

 

I've been in upper Antelope Canyon several times, but never in Lower Antelope. For the curious, you can get to Antelope Canyon by going to Page, Arizona, and driving a mile or two SE on Route 98. The Navajo have a little parking area on the right. You pay about $15 or so, and they drive you to the mounth of this magnificent slot canyon, about 50 or 60 feet deep I'd guess. The light is amazing. And the textures of the sandstone will knock you out.

 

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Taken with the FD 80-200 f:4L at about 150mm focal length, I'd guess.

Oops! The last image was made in Upper Antelope Canyon in 1997.

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Canon F1n, 24-35 3.5L, Fujichrome Velvia

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The Maine coast is a marvelous place. I think this was taken near Ogunquit. I think you could spend a lifetime trying to figure out how that strip of quartz got into those layers, not to mention how those layers got into that shape.

 

F-1, 50mm FD Macro f:3.5, distance about 18 inches.

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I hope this helps :-)

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Sunrise on Pensacola Beach. Pentax 500mm/4.5 on Canon F1N and Velvia slide film.