So these were done by manually setting the focus on the lens - guestimating distance with the 40mm.
8/15/2005
One Umbrella
When I first began using rangefinders - years ago - I got myself to wear one-contact lens in my shooting eye. I've been doing that ever since. But last night when I went out to buy cat food and got caught in the downpour - no contact lens. I was shooting at f1.4 at 1/15th of a second.
So these were done by manually setting the focus on the lens - guestimating distance with the 40mm.
So these were done by manually setting the focus on the lens - guestimating distance with the 40mm.
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The 25mm f4.0 might be my next lens. What is interesting is that it has distance "click-stops" on the lens. Comes with a viewfinder as well.
Jeff: The Minolta Dimage 5400. As far as resolution goes - it goes beyond the grain of 400 film. You can increase the d-max by setting it to do "multiple" passes. I usually scan with two passes, but with some tricky negs. I go for the all time consuming 4x. Each time you double the scanning, you double the time, but you pick up more detail in the shadows. I scan in 16-bit and wind up with about a 78 MB file.
The prints are great. I wish I had something like this for medium and large format but can't afford it and I don't have that many medium / large format to make it worthwhile.
I do the larger negs on a flatbed with a transparency carrier at 1600 dpi in 16-bit color and then convert to b&w. This is a tricky operation for sure and usually requires a lot of PS afterwards to get what I want.
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