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Just a follow up:

<a HREF="http://www.orms.co.za/">ORMS Pro Photo Warehouse</a> on the corner of Roeland and Canterbury Streets in the heart of Cape Town.<p>

Cant go wrong.

Hi all,<br>

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Can anyone recommend a place to get and develop positive film in Cape Town. The

film i'm after is any fujichrome and ektachrome VS.<br>

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Regards,<br>

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A.

Thank you all for your answers. I probably misled you when I mention a wedding. The ocasion is a outdoors wedding in a contriside where people are farmers. It's not the bride and groom and all that that I want to pick but the local people against in their environment. More of a documentary type of photography.<br>

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Why I want slide: Im not the official wedding photographer. I just to want to record this occation and take advantage of the particular light you get in September in this location. Plus slide film is my favorite display medium.

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<br>I still maitain that I want saturated colours to exagerate the weathered faces of my subjects and the contrast with the setting I'm hopping to find.<br>

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I've tryed recently Sensia film and didnt get this contrast/saturation effect. I will probably stick to Kodak. I will probably need something a bit faster than ISO 100. Sould I use E200 or push the E100 one stop?<br>

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Thanks again.<br>

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PS. Will post any good enough results!

Hi,<br>

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Im going to a country side wedding and I'm looking for 35mm slide film that

will render saturated colours so that people mantain their wind bit tanned

faces. I'm not looking for soft toned gradation and i would like to avoid

getting pale green faces (that sometimes you get when shooting darker skin).<br>

In terms of grain what would be the best? Getting a 200 ISO film or getting a

100 ISO and pushing to get more saturation?<br>

Any suggestions?<br>

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Thanks in advance.

Thanks Pete, the 72mm push-on Kaise cap fitted the HN-7 perfectly!<br>

DJ, thanks for the answer. I will stick to the HN-7 for the moment. The only HS-7 I found was on ebay and the bidding closed at �77 which seems rather excessive for a piece of metal.

William,<br>

I had a problem uploading from a win XP if photoshop had the image I wanted uploaded open. Try closing the image first and if it doesn't work, try closing photoshop and make sure it isn't runing still (look for photoshop.exe in task manager).<br>(using capitals online is considered shouting)

Hi,<br>

I bought a Nikor 85mm f1.8 H with a HN-7 hood on. Someone suggested that I

should buy a cap for the hood in order to have it alwais screwed in.<br>

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Does anyone knows which cap the HN-7 hood can take?<br>

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Thanks in advance,<br>

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Thanks for all the answers!<br>

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The lens came in and it looks good enough (everything great except for a very faint and irrelevant scratch on the rear element) but it came with no front lens cap.<br>

The hood on is a screw-in HN-7. DJ SOROKA recommended a HS-7 with a 77mm cap. This cap wont fit on the HN-7 that has 69.5mm inner diameter. Any clues on what cap should I get?<br>

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Thanks.

Hi,<br>

After posting a question (and reading the answers) about the 3:2 format on the

fuji E900, I went back and tried to figure out how to get the best radiometric

recording out of my finepix.<br>

I couldn't find anywhere in the manual that says how many levels of gray I get

per channel in each format. For the JPEG 9N, 9F and 3:2 I checked the files and

it has a 24 bit (3x 8bit) format.<br>

Now the RAW format is a different story: in manual the table with the size of

each format (pag 127 english manual) the litle star under RAW reads "Number of

recorded pixel is 4864 × 3648 when displaying images on PC by using

FinePixViewer."; if I can still multiply this gives you 17743872 pixels!<br>

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Now the questions:<br>

-How come a 9 megapixels sensor gets transformed into a 18 megapixels image?<br>

-Does anyone know how many levels of gray each channel has in RAW format?<br>

-In photoshop when opening a DNG format from a RAF (E900 RAW format) I get the

option of 16 bit per channel. Does this mean that the RAF file has this

resolution or is it a remapping of the 8 bit graylevels?<br>

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Thanks in advance for your patience.

Hi,<br>

Thanks for all the input. I've been reading the articles on lens cleaning of Yashica mat-124 and I will need a spanner wrench to open the front element.

I looked in ebay for this and I found 2 cheap ones:<br>

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spanner-Wrench-Tool-for-Lens-Repair-3-16-5mm-Tips-New_W0QQitemZ300002862245QQihZ020QQcategoryZ79000QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem">Spanner Wrench Tool for Lens Repair 3/16" 5mm Tips New</a> and <a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spanner-Wrench-1-32-Great-Tool-for-Lens_W0QQitemZ140001592748QQihZ004QQcategoryZ43479QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem"> Spanner Wrench(1/32") Great Tool for Lens </a><br>

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Are any of these suitable for opening the Yashinon lenses?<br>

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Thanks in advance,

A.

Thanks to all for their ready and helpfull answers. I'll try the cleaning and applying the light seals first.<br>

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Regards,<br>

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A.

Hi,

I inherited a Yashic Mat-124 and went on and shot a roll of film with it. The

picture came out fuzzy and with general low quality. Having a closer look at

the camera it seems that the problem might be 2 fold:<br>

1. scratched lenses<br>

2. light seals<br>

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-Can I replace (and is it worth it) the lenses on my Mat-124?<br>

-Does anyone knows a place in Portugal where a can do this?

<br>-Are the light seals replaceable?<br>

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Thanks in advance,<br>

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A.

Hi,

I just bought a non coated Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 H from ebay and I was wondering

if double sided coated filter like an hama 1A would do the trick of reducing

reflectance or will light still bounce off the surface element?

Thanks in advance,

A.

Thanks for the answers,

Can you advise on what format to convert the .RAF files to take them to the lab?

Thanks in advance,

A.

Hi,

Does anyone know what is the difference between the 9M F and the 9M N and 9M

3:2 resolution formats in the E900?

The number of pixels look more or less the same(appart from the cropping done

at the 3:2 format). The files at 9M F are larger so I'm guessing there should

be a radiometric loss in the signal in the other 2 modes.

Any clues?

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