Docs from Scoo, tagged "Epson V500"

Matti Vanhanen

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:06:06 +0000

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Not that awe inspiring shot I think, I'm not used to having to use two windows (one for the rangefinder, one for framing). The follow-up was crap, wasn't quick enough.

Zorki-1E with Industar-61LD (55mm f/2.8), should have removed the yellow filter for this one as it flared a bit. Fomapan 200 in rodinal 1+100 for 60 minutes doesn't look nice. Not at all.

A study of pink amidst green and blue

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:44:04 +0000

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Shot at waist level (as TLR's are in a way supposed to be used) or a little lower than that.

The Kodak E200 slide film I used expired in 2007 so I got it for 2€ a roll. As it has been refrigerated I don't complain at all (in fact, I'm happy I got several rolls to capture my growing daughter and the autumn colours, would have had the latter cross-processed if the film would prove to be bad). More than anything, the entire roll show me that the acquisition of a handheld external light meter was well worth the investment.

Tall Ships Race in Turku 2009

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:25:59 +0000

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Ran out of film as things got interesting (this is the second last image on the roll).

Didn't have time to visit the event really (and we didn't fancy bringing the baby to the crowd).

5:2 crop of the middle of the frame.

Bench by a 70-year old

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:07:12 +0000

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A bench near the Cathedral. Shot with a pre-war Welta Weltix (see one being used for money laundering [grossly overpriced] here), 35mm folding camera equipped with an uncoated 5cm f/2.9 triplet (this one is unfortunately fungi-infested, adding to loss of contrast and flare in side- and backlit situations, the shot is processed during scanning for more contrast).

Framing is so-so [well, to be honest, it's rubbish] in this shot, I'll blame the tiny uncoupled viewfinder ;)

This camera is the one my father got started into photography many many years ago.

Golden minutes

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:22:53 +0000

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Ostrobothnia, Finland.

I know, sunsets are something of a cliché, still fond of this shot as it doesn't usually get any better than this in my stream :)

Taken with a mid 1950s vintage folding camera using Fujifilm's Velvia 50. Amazingly the shutter speeds were quite accurate without even an extensive cleaning of the shutter, just some "excercise". I think I used it wide open at f/3.5.

The ghillie blokes

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:22:59 +0000

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One of the more succesful frames of a roll of Delta 400 that was stand developed (that is left to 'cook' for a bit more than 1.5 hours without interruption).

Shot on December 6, 2008 (the independence day of Finland). Some trivia: the rifle on the right is a 7.62 TKIV 85 (7.62mm precision rifle m/1985), a design which uses some parts taken from Imperial Russia-era rifles, thus making some of them well over a century old.

Shot wide open at f/3.5 or stopped down to f/4 due to overcast conditions, hand held at probably 1/125 seconds. Scanned as-is including all the dust (normally I'd crop out the edges). Then a bit of contrast adjustment via photoshop's curves command followed by a local contrast adjustment (unsharp mask, 26% at 26px). Finally a yellow-magenta (highlights-shadows) tint added.

Cargo pallet

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:05:14 +0000

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At the site of public works strenghtening the banks along the Aura river (here next to the city library in Turku, its pilasters can be seen to the extreme upper right). It does not conform to either of the two usual standardized types found in Finland; the smaller european standard EUR pallet [120 cm x 80 cm, standardized by UIC in the 1940s] nor the slightly larger FIN pallet [120 cm x 100 cm, a.k.a. EUR 3]).

TMAX-100 in Rodinal 1+200 for 60min, agitation between the 0 and 30 second mark, then two inversions 5 min later and at the 30 and 45 min mark (in hindsight, 0-30s, 5min, 15min, 30min and 45min might have been better, or atleast something I'll try next time) with the developer poured out at the 60min mark. Thus a bit like the suggestions here at photo.net.

Roundpole fence, gravel road and farm structure

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:19:37 +0000

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Shot near the Halinen district of Turku. The building is used for drying fodder.

The first and last roll of APX 400 in 120 format I'll probably ever will handle (re-branded it exists as Rollei retro and such). Would have expired 07/2008, got it for free from Kuva-Paijula in Turku when I bought a bulk loader and a 30,5m roll of TMAX-100 and asked about it. Shot rated at EI 200 (as it was an ISO 200 film), medium yellow filter used; shot at f/8, 1/30. Rodinal 1+50 20°C 8 min.

Impeccable

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:55:31 +0000

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Keeping up appearances...

shot moments before or after this shot.

Lost and found (a.k.a. from the black hole)

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:33:07 +0000

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One of the large heaps of bicycles that have been lifted out of the river Aura that flows through Turku (due to public works renovating/reinforcing the river bank), if one were to excavate a bit more I'm certain the price one could fetch for all the junk metal would be rather substantial...

Zone focused and at best a guesstime exposure.

Snowless Cathedral in fog

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:25:43 +0000

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Wonder if this year's winter will be as warm & rainy as the last one (the lowest temperature in Turku last winter was -7°C...).

Shot sometime in December last year (2007).

Not for the living...

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:16:37 +0000

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A canister of (presumably) ethylene glycol (used as an engine coolant, aircraft de-icer etc.) next to a renovating/building site. For some reason plenty of dust etc. has settled on the negative, didn't clone out all of them.

The text in Finnish and Swedish is somewhat gibberish though, the correct readout would be:

"Ilmaistuote! [Finnish]

Glykol kanister.
Ta inte om du vill leva. [Swedish]"

Translated it would be:

"Free product!

Glycol canister. Don't take (as in don't drink) if you want to live."

Shot during a test of the newly acquired Jupiter-12 (35mm f/2.8), this is shot wide open and due to the guesstimate exposure and focus (zone focused due to an untrustworthy rangefinder) a bit so-so. The darkish part to the left is due to vignetting and probably a quirky shutter.

At the same time this is a first test of Fomapan 200 (Creative), a mixed traditional and t-grain emulsion made by Foma (quite affordable at ~25€ per bulk roll of 30,5m film).

Rodinal 1+25 at 20° for 5 mins (EI 200).

Ilmatar

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:02:16 +0000

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A de Havilland DH.60 Moth (registered as K-SILA under the old naming convention, afterwards registered as OH-ILA) named Ilmatar, shot (most likely) by my paternal grandfather. A lot of post-processing has been done in order to bring out some details in the plane and crowd.

Newspaper article from 1934 (in Finnish, gibberish machine translation here).

Part of a series of circa 70 sheets containing mixed (unsorted really) 6x4.5, 6x6 and 6x9 negatives spanning from the 1920s-1930s to the 1950s-1960s (so far I have scanned about 450 images).

Farm house in colour (a.k.a. IT WORKS!!!)

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:54:56 +0000

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Blogged here.

Finally got the hang of colour separations, my previous attempts have produced very washed-out colours or only hinted at what's possible.

Three exposures of black & white film (using red, green and blue [25A, X1 and 80B] filters) scanned and using photoshop's channel mixer set to any of the three colours that make up RGB. Green and blue have then been added to the red exposure and have been lined up using the red exposure as an anchor; then the opacity of the green and blue layer has been set to 33% each. Then the image has been flattened (all layers combined) followed by fine-tuning of the different colour channels. Finally, some contrast enchancement.

I think the result is at least on par with cheap colour negative film, moving clouds etc. are a bonus ;) This was shot in June 2008 (at the same time as Mill in colour). The only limit is one's patience to get the colour balance right.

My inspiration? Sergei Prokudin-Gorskij (making of section at an exhibition at the U.S. Library of Congress).

A hint of Ostrobothnian delight II

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:24:22 +0000

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Discover Moby!

Sunset in June or July 2008.

Yashica-Mat 124G, Velvia 50.

Lakeside tranquillity

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:24:22 +0000

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Sunset in June 2008, Lake Larsmo/Luoto.

Yashica-Mat 124G, Velvia 50.

Mill in colour

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:37:23 +0000

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A disused mill on the northern Purmo å [small river] in Forsby, Pedersöre, Finland.

These full (red-green-blue) colour separations are difficult. Had to tone down the red content (seems all my shots will be biased to red as I use a deep red filter plus a light green and blue filter). Was taken in the shade of a cloud.

Three black and white exposures taken with three different filters, then stacked in postprocessing in order to yield a colour image.

Matmâta

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:24:59 +0000

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Subterranean village in Tunisia.

Cheap but not that good processing done in Hammamet, Tunisia. Fortunately the store owner ran out of developer after one roll, so I ended up with only one scratched roll.

same thing in colour by Marilou, six years apart.

Blurry people at the Tampere railway station

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:58:47 +0000

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Technically garbage (just wanted to finish the roll in order to load one of the two Kodachrome rolls I gambled on [want to try it while on can]) with handshake/walking blur and all, odd that the world chose to tilt a bit for that frame ;)

The (possibly) interesting bit is that this is "cross processed"; shot on a 10+ year old Kodak Supra 400 negative colour film (C-41) developed in Rodinal (1+50, 14min at 24°C). It yields very very dense negatives (must be viewed against a window or a lamp to see anything, the histogram shows everything compressed into 20% at the highlights corner). Still, can be scanned. Some shot are even more crappy, they look like late 1980's/early 1990's bitmaps and thus quite limited. Fog & grain is aplenty (the roll has been kept in room temperature plus cosmic radiation that doesn't help).

Did this test to see if it is doable at all, have a roll of Agfa HDC at my parents house that I shot in the late 1990's or early 2000's that I want to have a go at.

The jagged top comes from photoshops paint bucket, was a bit lazy.

Train headlights

nobody@ipernity.com (Scoo) — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:11:13 +0000

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See the previous for details. Shot at the Turku railway station. This one is a high resolution one (from a 2400 DPI scan) to illustrate the grain (the JPEG algorithm smudges/smoothens it a wee bit).

C-41 developed with B&W chemicals.