charles_curry_hyde

Thanks for the comments.

 

The fogging was definitely on the film - it is on the contact sheet.

I should stress that I did 2 short hops between regional Chinese Airports with a regional airline and a charter. The Age (local newspaper) have had exactly the same type of fogging from xray.

Another from my trip to NE China - Dunhaung. Southern edge of the

Gobi on the Silk Road.

Film was in carry on luggage.

I kind of figured what happened :)

Any comments on the photo?

I took this photo of my friend Daryl was taken in Lanzhou with an M6

50mm Elmar - he is holding his... The room is an artists studio. The

people his assistants. We were being entertained in the way only

Chinese artists can. Out of interest you will see the effects of

xrays in the lower 1/3. I had 12/25 films affected eventhough they

were in a foil bag!

Scanned with my new Ls40 scanner so will post some more from this

trip.

This may be a better size

I took this photo of my freind Daryl was taken in Lanzhou with an M6

50mm Elmar - he is holding his...

 

The room is an artists studio. The people his assistants. We were

being entertained in the way only Chinese artists can.

 

Out of interest you will see the effects of xrays in the lower 1/3. I

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Richard, you were lucky. Just returned from China (chengdu in the west, east into tibetan region, north to lanzhou, east along great wall to gobi desert) and my film was affected. i flew North West china air. I used foil bags, and went through 4 scanners and strangely only had 6 of 28 films affected (wavy band of underexposed film). film was Fuji NPH and Tri-x. will post some results - I have started printing them. The affected b&w can be rescued with some carefull burning. Colour is not going to be as easy.

Bill,

 

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i think the vidom is the one i am looking for. is that a variable

focal length? Where should i look on the web for an image or price?

 

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thanks - this is a great resource!

I am looking for a 50mm fixed viewfinder that fits into the flash shoe. I think it may have the name VIDOOH or something like that. It was made for non rf leicas and is great for composing photos as it allows a perfectly cropped view which is a lot more accurate than the range finder - which can be up to 10% out at infinity.

I am intrigued by the answer but also agree that each could

be 'balanced' by using different contrast/exposure combinations. LHS

could do with 1/2 grade more contrast IMHO. i have found that tri-x

is very suseptable to flatenning with too little contrast and too

much exposure (sometimes a matter of 2-3 secounds in a 60min exposure)

so it could be the LHS.

I use both and my observations are:

the elmar is more rounded tonally so better for soft light portraits.

the cron has a more graphic quality though.

i find the flair effects and halo that the elmar make can be very

beautiful if you like that sort of thing.

the elmar has a real lens cap that works!

my travel kit is: 50 elmar (or cron), tri x, hand held. i would keep

away from tmax if you want to print anything more than 6x4 or on

silver gelatin paper.

 

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its a leica, keep it simple!

Nige, the cat judging tent i think. i had my camera but took

nothing... this is good. does the rhs tell more about the context?

Hi Nigel,

 

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so you founght through the crowds too. we should have met up when you

were in Melb!

 

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good work

i used a schneider 4x loupe and have wanted one since. makes your

work leap off the page!

seems that the reset needs adjusting and baseplate checked. i just

can't bear to send my camera in for the 8 weeks it will take...

tripod is a manfroto 051 (?) pro which is relatively heavy. BTW my

baseplate does have a ding from the tripod too so may have been bent

at the same time. thanks for the comments.

i posted a question about this problem a few months ago... hasn't happened again until yesterday and i caught it in action. m6 (1 year old) on tripod, moved camera (should have used tripod head to move, i know) and zzzit - the baseplate has enough movement to trigger a reset! has anyone else had this happen? should i part with my m6 for 8 weeks for this to be repaired?

jason,

 

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liked this album - particularly the shot of ken station with the

people out fo focus in the foreground. thanks charles

Bob,

 

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i have a 21/3.4 asph that cost more than i care to remember but I

love it. I have been looking at how i use it and find that if it

comes out of the bag it does so for a special picture and generally

delivers. Is the voigt asph? i do find that as long as you keep it

level (have a little level) perspective can look acceptably 'normal'

- also keep heads out of the outer 1/3 of the picture. I am saving

for a 35 asph.

 

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I have 2 portraits that were taken with this lens on:

http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=73412

charles

meant to add, I have also been saving for a film scanner to reduce

the cost of printing.

Jason, good questions. I have been using an HP flat bed scanner to

scan prints - mostly 10x8's. Some results are on

http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=320712

Some work ok but others like 'David'seem to have a glazed look.

I would be interested in others comments on the scanning technique.

Charles

I am not a pro - i have a day job as an architect (www.chho.com.au)

I haven't really taken many photos until I got my Leica last year -

your comments are very kind, thanks

and some photos from a trip to Paris

 

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http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=73410

I have finally put together a folio for comments. I would be interested in any feed back, thanks

 

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http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=73412

thanks for the feedback - I have subsequently found great basic info

on http://www.scantips.com/faq2.html