joe_hodge

All by himself above the river:

Shot with my iPhone - sometimes the best camera is the one you have with you!

I haven't tried stand development. Is it still important to maintain a constant 20C? If so, how do you manage that for an hour? For the 7-10 minute development times I normally use, a water bath at the correct temp is enough to stay within 1/2 a degree or less, but over an hour I think it would drift quite a bit.

I shot the Tri-X at EI 320 (which is what I normally do). I'll probably try a 1:50 dilution next. Interesting, and something I may try at some point. Not that Adox Rodinal is expensive - US$11:50 for the 500ml bottle from Freestyle, but it might be fun. The Paracetamol is readily available as 500mg caplets in quantities from 50 - 1000(!) from the local drugstore. The rest I'd need to source, but it couldn't be that hard.

Have no fear - that’s my neighbor’s dog, and they’re good people. She just likes to hang out in the back yard and gather pets from passers-by.

Just for a change of pace, I decided to give (Adox) Rodinal a try instead of the HC-110 I normally use. Here's a shot from the first roll. It's a bit grainy, but not in a terrible way at all, IMHO: 100% crop: This is Tri-X developed for 7 min in Rodinal 1:25@20C, agitation by inversion 5 times/minute. Scanned at 4000DPI, with no adjustments other than a very basic contrast curve. I probably wouldn't go this way for portraits of people, but I like it here.

Copperhead; Theodore Roosevelt Island 11/2021

Mushrooms in Rock Creek Park Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Sigma 50/1.4 Art, 1/250@f1.4 TMAX-100 LUT applied in Exposure X6

I’ve read Ken Rockwell as Guy Fieri is to cuisine. He clearly knows what he’s doing, he’s just not doing what I’m interested in. FWIW, I did use his suggested picture style settings when sending my niece her first “real” camera (EOS D40) so that she could have some fun right out of the box on P, and then learn better in her class.

The kit for my niece end up as: 40D body - $50, EF 50/1.4 - 0$. It will probably cost almost that much to ship it to her, but it should be a good camera to learn on and enough camera to take her a good way in the hobby if she takes to it. The lens is only $0 since it's mine from the early 2000's, and I already had a Sigma 50/1.4 Art on my shopping list, so I guess that's sort of cheating.

Wouldn't you know I just faced this question? My niece has developed an interest in photography, and after a conversation to establish that she actually wants to take a class and learn the basics, I agreed to supply the camera. Since my experience is mostly Canon, and I'll be the source of advice/tech support, I hunted up a good-condition 40D on Craigslist. Same reasoning as above - good controls for manual use, decent viewfinder & rear screen, etc. I'm working out the lens question now. I'm thinking of putting a brand-new 50/1.8 STM on there for her. It's cheap & capable, and won't complicate the learning experience. Yes, she'll need to 'zoom with her feet', but I don't think that's a negative. Alternatively, I might give her my 50/1.4 and treat myself to a more modern 50 (Sigma Art/Tokina Opera). Depends on how much I want to give myself an excuse to indulge in GAS.

Wood Stork Canon EOS M5, Tokina SZX 400/8

I'm back home with my scanner sooner than expected. If you'd like to send the MF frames to me for scanning, get in touch here.

For just 14 frames, if you want to mail them to me, I'll scan them for you on a Polaroid Sprintscan 120 w/Vuescan. I can't do it until March because I'm away from home, but otherwise I'd be happy to help out.

Thankfully, I don't generally care what other people think of how I choose to decorate my space.

Really well, until the moment they don't. In particular, don't count on the SSD failing gracefully in to a 'read-only' mode when they exhaust their write cycles. I've had SSDs long enough to experience two failures, and they were both total losses. Make your backups!

My next upgrade will be an IBIS body, since that will help me improve my images in marginal light and upgrade all my lenses at the same time. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t buy a new camera in the foreseeable future.

I don't have the latest-and-greatest now, but the one thing I miss on all of my newer (autofocus-era) cameras is a viewfinder that is big, bright, and optimized for manual focusing. Photography is a hobby for me, and I enjoy that process just as much (if not more) than the result, so I want a camera that supports that.

I'll probably move to an IBIS body later this year, assuming I have the money. Meanwhile, here's one from my outing this past weekend, same lens/body combo: 1/800, ISO 1600

Dyke Marsh, Alexandria VA Canon EOS M5, Toking SZX 400/F8

It's a challenging combination: - no stabilization, lens or body - 1.6 crop sensor - fixed f/8 aperture - manual focus - sensor is only good to ISO 1600ish But, I'm having fun, and I'll get better :) Definitely faster shutter speeds when I can, but I've only got the light I've got.

Second outing with the new lens. Hand held at 1/800:

Trying out my new Tokina SZX 400/8, 1/500th @ISO800, Canon EOS M5: 100% crop: A lens that is definitely going to push me to work on my technique and drag a tripod along more often, but lot's of fun so far!

@tomspielman @glen_h Staging and recovery were both successful, although recovery DID involve a slightly hairy tree climb while wearing jeans/long sleeves/gloves for protection from poison ivy. :)