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Another try at using soft-focus lens (p67/120):

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Well, using color meter is not really necessary. You just throw away many sheets of exposed transparency that look dull until you realize that buying a color meter right from the start would turn out...

Andrew is right, of course, but the more convenient way would be to calculate the correction factor.
300^2/210^2 = 2.05, that is, one f-stop.
And I suppose that the amount of aberrations...

(Pentax 67, 120 mm soft-focus lens)

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:) In this poor land they seem to be a major attraction.

Thanks, Michael. I wore a hat during that trip, too. Really helps. No beard, though.

(cropped from 4x5)

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:))) No, Ari, it wasn't. This is Delta. I used Acros once and found it too grainy to my taste.

Thanks, guys.
Arcos is the prettiest town I've ever seen.

Arcos de la Frontera, Andalusia:

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Thanks, Peter. Yes, looking through G-Claron's F9 is not easy.
Most part of the success is the perfect lighting inside, so contrast is not that high. And, yes, there is a small room above the altar.

Thanks, Jim and Leigh.
Unfortunately, using tripods is prohibited in some of the churches, so shooting exteriors is easier.

Seems to be a little off topic, since no one posts interiors here, but anyway:

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Granada, Basílica de San Juan de Dios.
Slightly...

Provia 100F.

Ruins of church of Our Lady of Kazan at Yaropolets.

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I was under the impression that RVP100F is a quite neutral film, though a contrasty one.
The twilight was apparently blue. I can't afford a color meter, so I exposed one side of the holder with a...

Yes, the view is really impressive (this is Moscow intl business center, some towers are still under construction).
Shot last week, half of an hour after the sunset. No polarizer, RVP100F plus a...

My first (and by far the last) LF transparency. Somewhat postcardish, but anyway:

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The strangest thing is that their products are hard to find even in Beijing. That spacer thing is useful, of course, but if you can't find one - a simple solution is pictured above.

A wide gamut monitor will let you see some highly saturated colors that your printer can reproduce, but your old monitor cannot. If your goal is to match images on your website to your prints, then,...

The quality is indeed very good. I use a smaller version of their leveling base, DYH-66, with my 4x5 and Pentax 67. I use it as a replacement for a heavy ballhead. The angle of tilt is limited, of...

The strangest thing is that these bushings have long threads on the inside, going all the way through the bushings, at least 1/2", and spikes are held in place firmly. They differ from the image on...

The thread seems to be old, and you might have already solved the problem, but anyway. The easy way of mounting spikes is to use microphone bushings and brass plumbing fittings, as described here:...

An old U.S. radar at Saipan

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The second one, with a center column and four sections, is much less rigid. I wouldn't recommend it for LF.

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A construction site somewhere at Beijing.

An image with an embedded profile should look consistently in Safari and in other color-aware browsers (Firefox, latest versions of IE), and it should look consistent between different calibrated...

Are you using Safari? It seems so because you see difference after embedding profiles in your JPGs. Other browsers treat untagged JPGs as if they were in sRGB.

I'll try to describe my own solution for Gitzo 1325, that should be applicable for other older models as well.

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Oh, I replied on the false premise that your goal was to show that digital way does not lead to "loss of detail". And to demonstrate how good the scanner is.

The crops are 1024 pixels wide and look like 1" wide on full image (it's 11x14, am I right?). This roughly corresponds to 1000 dpi scan. Not an awful lot of detail, really.

I do not try to...

Yes, this is a mistake in matching all three curves at highlights. Shadows are slightly greenish too, I should have been more accurate. Hint: include Q-13 when possible.

Glad you like it. No, I didn't use Cokin X-Pro, I used Cokin P, but there should be no difference. After all, they are just sheets of plastic cut to size. And we are too far anyway from meeting...

I've got some pleasing result with Cokin 003 (red) and Cokin 004 (green). Had no chance to compare them to the recommended #25 and #58, but the picture looks good:
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Thanks for the hint, I'm reading some of your articles right now.
Such a simplification might be misleading for some people. Some digital enthusiast with a drum scanner might think that color...

Yes, this is a reason for using color correction filters. Even an approximate correction is better than nothing. Even if you have a perfect scanner and the noise is negligible.

What I was trying to convey is that the problem is deeper than just the noise you mentioned. When some layers - say, red-sensitive layer in twilight - get less exposure, we, of course, get some noise...

It's not only the noise that we should worry about. First, modern transparencies use DIR couplers to boost color saturation: separate images on different layers of film affect each other during color...