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Eugen Rochko

Something for #FensterFreitag. Cumbria.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak Portra 400
Helios 44M 58mm/2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #WindowFriday

A white pane window on grey stone wall surrounded by green holly and its red berries.
10 Nov 2023 at 13:47 | Open on mastodon.social
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@Gargron Looks like central Kentucky. We have a lot of limestone here and many old buildings that were made out of it.

Stone House in May's Lick, Kentucky, USA
10 Nov 2023 at 13:54 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
Silversalty

@Gargron
Sharpness generally looks good on this except for upper right stone work. I'm wondering about your process of going from negative film to digital image.

10 Nov 2023 at 14:01 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko
Eugen Rochko

@Silversalty Oh, and the lab scans it with a Noritsu scanner.

10 Nov 2023 at 14:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Silversalty

@Gargron
But this image has decent sharpness. Deep corner blur is fairly standard.

10 Nov 2023 at 14:18 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko

@Silversalty I've been told it likely has misaligned elements.

10 Nov 2023 at 14:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Silversalty

@Gargron
I suggested that but the image I based that on had a very strange pattern of blur.

I was never a fan of third party handling of my film. I've seen greasy hands handling my film. Once.

10 Nov 2023 at 18:34 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko

@Silversalty Ah, that was you. Well, it's a consistent defect among the pictures taken with Helios, and not present in pictures taken with the Canon FD lens, so I don't think it's the scan that's the problem.

10 Nov 2023 at 18:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Silversalty

@Gargron
I've have in the past given up on poor lenses. I had a Nikkor 50mm f1.4. Later I got a 50mm f2.0. The 2.0 was much better in low light and only really half a stop slower. I sold the 1.4.

10 Nov 2023 at 18:47 | Open on mastodon.social
Eugen Rochko

@Silversalty The Helios works just fine for up close portraits where the edges are blurred. I will simply not use it for landscape photography anymore.

10 Nov 2023 at 18:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Olson
macke_47

@Gargron Which Adapter do you use and does it only work with a closed aperture.

11 Nov 2023 at 15:45 | Open on ruhr.social
Eugen Rochko

@macke_47 M42 to FD, and as far as I'm aware has no effect on aperture. I've shot with f2 through it.

11 Nov 2023 at 15:49 | Open on mastodon.social
macke_47

@Gargron A that 's the trick with aperture. And M42 lenses are a good wild card to be adapted to nearly every lens. I've bought two M42 lenses together with an old Practika recently. One of them has kind of an A-M Automatic-Manual switch to close the aperture.

11 Nov 2023 at 16:21 | Open on ruhr.social
Eugen Rochko

@macke_47 I don't think automatic works with a mount adapter, I've been shooting manual.

11 Nov 2023 at 16:23 | Open on mastodon.social
macke_47

@Gargron I heard something similar. My father had a Fuji he could use his old M42 lenses with an adapter, but only in manual mode. The aperture had to be closed with test button on the camera.

11 Nov 2023 at 16:32 | Open on ruhr.social
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