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A cropped image I shot at the Santa Fe event in Roermond (the Netherlands) with my Leica IIIa and a 90mm Elmar

lens. The Elmar is a brilliant Portrait lens in my opinion. If I recall the film is either ADOX 100 ART or 125 CHS.

 

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Full-size: http://www.flibweb.nl/flibweb/cpg143/albums/userpics/10001/SF0022.jpg

 

Uncropped: http://www.flibweb.nl/flibweb/cpg143/albums/userpics/10001/normal_SF0028.jpg

 

I've got a few more of these re-enactment pictures and portraits, but I'll save those for another topic :-)

 

Regards,

Rick

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I could post 1000 photos from my OM1, or 35RC... but I'll play by the rules with this one and stay pre-1970.

This is from a Minolta SR-3 with the 55mm f/1.8 lens and I think I used a Minolta 2X tele on it. Kodak Portra 160NC:

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Great Images guys, threads like these are alot of fun, Cliff just to let you know, me using my 127ektar as a portrait lens was your idea, do you remember when we talked about that a while back? yes my subject got very bored, the 2nd shot i took of her, she wasnt even looking at me at all, she did though think the camera was cool looking : ))<div>00QExb-58775684.thumb.jpg.f7f6cbded4baddcd4c9e4e44202cd9df.jpg</div>
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Some of these are great, some merely snapshots... But the most interesting thing about the ones that work, are how the qualities of the film, lens and processing all add to the soul of the images. They all have a unique fingerprint which you just dont get out of digital camera these days, which at best can be consistent, but at worst just plain homogeneous.
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Nice shot Rick! the first scanner I had did the same thing, at first I thought it was a processing issue, i took it back and ended up buying an epson, i like the v700 except for the extremely cheap film holders.
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John,

Your Ektar looks great. Very nice photos, ... Britney has that body language going on that says " Are you done yet? " but at least the second one she cracked a smile. As long as they think these cameras look cool, some of them will want to know how to do it. Keep it up. Hopefully you can find a willing kid to teach. Once one kid is doing it, their friends will want to also. Maybe if more kids started using film, Kodak would keep their production home in the U.S. At least we need to keep the import film market strong enough that it doesn't vanish.

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John,

I guess to the kids, we are just some old farts playing with our old cameras. I'll bet Britney would look different if a good looking guy, her age, was doteing over her, telling her how pretty she was, and that he wanted to get the picture just right. She would be glowing then.

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yes Cliff you are right, actually she is my son's girlfriend, he was standing on the sidelines, she was looking at him when i took the 2nd shot, he was like "come on dad hurry up", i said "hey this isnt a cell phone im dealing with here" "it takes time to make art" : ))
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I decided I'd recreate Diane Arbus's equipment for this one. Rolleicord IV with xenotaur lens, potato masher flash on L bracket, Classic-pan film (anyone know it it's still made? Used to get it from J&C. I'm running out).<div>00QF01-58786084.thumb.jpg.79975fa216590303ff4b87d0b8018b7e.jpg</div>
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What a wonderful set of images.I know a bloke,he's very old now, did his apprenticeship at Zeiss before the war.

He insists that the best lens Zeiss ever made was the 3.5 Tessar. Nothing will sway him.Bonifaz's picture goes a long way to proving the old man's opinion.

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Two weeks ago, I taught a 4-H photography camp, 3 days long, my youngest was 8 and the oldest was 11, I had my old camera collection layed on a couple of folding tables, the kids eyes were wide with amazement, they had never saw anything like it. we talked about shutters and lenses, normal, wide angle, telephoto and zoom. great photographers from the past like weston and adams, small, medium and large formats, they looked at large format negatives through a loupe, and were amazed at the detail they could see.they learned about metering with a handheld meter and placing values, On the 3rd day we went on a field trip where they split up into pairs, one would have the camera while the other would meter the scene, and they would take turns like that. It was one of the most rewarding 3 days i think i have ever had. when we got back to the class room, i told them that i had really had a good time teaching the class and i asked if there were any questions before we left, hands flew up everywhere, i called on a 9 year old, he asked "Mr. Golden, where can I get one of these?"
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John,

 

I admire your efforts at the 4H class. Unfortunately our society has been taught all about self worth, self love and a bunch of junk like that, and if they would only stop thinking of themselves for a moment and spend some time like you did, with those kids, this world would be much different. The kids would have something to do other than get into trouble, some direction. It has turned into a mad rush world, all about self. The result is stress, ulsers, and overall bad health, and not much reguard for the other guy. So my hats off to you John.

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