After the last photo was posted into which I added some sunrays with the help of Luminar I wanted to redeem myself.

Continue reading “Woods, no artificial sun!”

I’m continuing my exploration into the world of digitizing negatives. After my quite successful results with black and white negatives which came out quite a bit sharper than with my otherwise excellent Plustek scanner (and the files are much smaller too – 18Mb for a b&w scan and 4,5Mb for a digitized version), I’m getting into color today.

And I’m amazed about how easy it was!

Continue reading “In Color!”

No words… Continue reading Enchanted Forest

No words… Continue reading Tourist Trap

I want it thank Pavel for sharing his thoughts today. At first I wanted to comment on his post but as I started writing I noticed that I had too much to say on this for a simple comment.There seems to be a trend to get off the high tech and social networking bandwagon lately.

Continue reading “DumbPhone?”

No Words… Continue reading The Dark Tower

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Continue reading “Dog in Car”

In my iPad-post from some days ago I promised to compare my Plustek Opticfilm 8100 Scanner to the act of digitizing the negatives with my Fuji X-E1 and a gorgeous Takumar 50mm f:4 macro lens. The film was Stephen Dowling’s excellent Kosmo Foto Mono film, in fact a rebranded Fomapan 100 film in a gorgeous packaging. Perhaps a rehash of an existing film but if this makes people take up film photography… why not!

Well, here are the results, and these are some of the first shots with my freshly CLA’d Spotmatic.

This is the digitized version, very nice detail, fine structures and the grain of the Kosmo Foto 100 film, in fact a rebranded Fomapan 100 film is very nice.

Continue reading “Scanner vs Digital Camera”

No Words… Continue reading Waiting!

After much time wasted talking about gear, I have at last some new photos to show. Nothing great, just some snaps from the first test roll out of my Pentax MX.

Darn, there I go and talk gear again! Nasty me!

But photography is also about gear, and about our way to see and to transform the things we see into pleasing (I hope) photos, using some gear or another.

Continue reading “Pentax MX, Photos at last!”

Two posts a day! Yes, I’m totally crazy! But in fact I promised to develop my first roll in the Pentax MX tonight and I keep my promises. An hour in Rodinal with a gentle inversion at thirty minutes did the trick. Of course I still have to scan the bunch…. or rather use my ‘new’ Takumar macro lens to digitize ’em. Next time there’s … Continue reading Done!

Yes, it another (short) gear post. Sorry for that but I just wanted to announce that my glorious Spotmatic SP is back from Knoxville, Tennessee where it got the loving and much needed care of Eric Hendrickson! Continue reading “Spotty’s Back!”