safe haven for tiny formats

[Corran]

I really liked the old Optima film. I think I have a few rolls left in a box of 120 film I bought, supposedly frozen since new and definitely since I got it. The one roll I shot was fine. I used to shoot it in 4x5.

The old Agfa Ultra 50 was like a negative version of Velvia, maybe MORE saturated. Amazing stuff when you needed that. And there is NOTHING on today's market like the old Agfa Portrait 160 - soft muted pastel palette.

Sigh.

Sounds pretty awesome...wish I had some of it in 120, or better yet 4x5. Oh well. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that Ultra stuff. Never heard of it before.

[goamules]

Early Nikkor 50/1.4 LTM mount. At F2.

[z_photo]

found this just a few feet from my door

[Tin Can]

Good thing you shot him!

Nice!

found this just a few feet from my door

[goamules]

found this just a few feet from my door

Man, I like that.

[bobwysiwyg]

Nice shot. What did you use?

[Roger Cole]

Sounds pretty awesome...wish I had some of it in 120, or better yet 4x5. Oh well. I'll have to keep my eyes open for that Ultra stuff. Never heard of it before.

Agfa Ultra 50 was only made in 35mm so don't bother looking for 120 or 4x5. It would have been kick ass in larger sizes though! I don't know how well it will have kept, even frozen. Agfa was great in those days. Not only did they have the only "three saturation level" line up of color neg film, they also had APX 25 and 100, two of the best B&W films ever. The 400 was pretty darned good too.

[Peter De Smidt]

This was taken with Ultra 50:

[z_photo]

thanks folks. the yellow bellied sapsucker was shot with a Nikon d7100 I was playing with to see how it would handle a 500mm f/4. it is a crop sensor and 24Mpixels. it is a full frame shot at iso 2000, 1/250sec and f/9. even better was getting to watch the bird drill holes in lines either horizontally or vertically up the tree and then revisit them every 20 minutes or so to eat the sap that flowed into the holes. the camera also has a crop mode with 13.1 Mpixels. so think about the reach it can provide. 500mmx1.5x1.3=975mm and with the celestron 1250mmx1.5=1875mm and then in crop mode ~2438mm at 13.1Mpixels. I wonder if one can get many sharp images with that. it might make for some interesting video of a bald eagle nest down the road.

[austin granger]

Early Morning, Clarksdale, Mississippi



Yeah, it's a little tweaked. I shot this handheld and did the best I could. I tried fixing the distortions in photoshop but got all tied up in knots-you fix one plain and then the other plain gets off and so on. Eventually I surrendered.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/