safe haven for tiny formats

[Tony Evans]

Ramiro,
I got a brighter screen for the P6 off Evil Boy. Makes a huge difference.

[Corran]

A close-up picture of the moon!!

Just kidding. It's just a rock on the edge of Blackrock Lake in Rabun County, GA. Mamiya 645, 80mm f/1.9, Superia 100 film:

[t0aster]

I like this one quite a bit. It really does have an extra-terrestrial feel to it, well done.

A close-up picture of the moon!!

Just kidding. It's just a rock on the edge of Blackrock Lake in Rabun County, GA. Mamiya 645, 80mm f/1.9, Superia 100 film:

[Corran]

Thanks! It's not bad for cheap outdated color film developed at home either!

[austin granger]

Crows, Portland


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

[mdm]

Have you ever seen The Solitude of Ravens by Masahisa Fukase?
Here is one crow but thay are mostly birds.




Then there is Ted Hughes poetry book Crow, extremely interesting.

The Kill by Ted Hughes
Flogged lame with legs
Shot through the head with balled brains
Shot blind with eyes
Nailed down by his own ribs
Strangled just short of his last gasp
By his own windpipe
Clubbed unconscious by his own heart

Seeing his life stab through him, a dream flash
As he drowned in his own blood

Dragged under by the weight of his guts

Uttering a bowel-emptying cry which was his roots tearing out
Of the bedrock atom
Gaping his mouth and letting the cry rip through him as at a distance

And smashed into the rubbish of the ground

He managed to hear, faint and far - 'It's a boy!'

Then everything went black


by Ted Hughes

My point is crow imagery is a very creative vein, but maybe its not a good place to be.

[civich]

Wow! I think a photo with poetry thread would be very cool...
Perhaps in the "Image sharing and discussion" forum to keep it LF?
-Chris

[Jay Decker]

How do you focus with this? I can barely focus the Biometar 80mm with the ancient Pentacon screen.

The Pentacon Six TL I have was recently purchased from the guy who runs the pentaconsix.com website and it came with a good focus screen. The focus screen has a split, micro prism around the split, and a bright Fresnel - it reminds me of the old Nikon SLR focus screens. It makes such a difference that intend to get one for my Exakta 66...

[Scott Schroeder]

Fog this morning - digital

[rdenney]

The Pentacon Six TL I have was recently purchased from the guy who runs the pentaconsix.com website and it came with a good focus screen. The focus screen has a split, micro prism around the split, and a bright Fresnel - it reminds me of the old Nikon SLR focus screens. It makes such a difference that intend to get one for my Exakta 66...

Trevor's a good guy and he knows his stuff. If you speak to him again, tell him I said "hi".

Rolf Dieter-Baier and Hans Roskam both used to offer Rollei-type focus screens for Pentacon Sixes. The Exakta 66 Mk. III included it from the factory, near as I can tell. The Kiev 60 screen is just about as good, and really far better than any of the old Pentacon screens. It requires some digging around in the camera to change them out, however. On the Kiev 60, the top plate needs to be removed to remove the screen, and that's somewhat of a pain. I don't remember the procedure for the Pentacon.

Bill Maxwell has also made screens for Pentacon and Kiev cameras at times. But I have three Kiev 60's, a Pentacon Six, an Exakta 66-III, and a Kiev 88CM--Putting Bill's screens in all of them would take some provendar.

Rick "noting that Baier's adapter for a Kiev 60 prism on an P6 makes for brighter viewing and the ability to see the whole screen" Denney