I wasn't familiar with your camera and did some reading about the maker and his cameras today. Interesting fellow. Are there still many in Sweden?Quote:
Originally Posted by lassethomas
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I wasn't familiar with your camera and did some reading about the maker and his cameras today. Interesting fellow. Are there still many in Sweden?Quote:
Originally Posted by lassethomas
Nice shot Lasset.
Yes, interesting fellow. And he only ever did around 1500 cameras. Mine is serial number 1420 so it's one of the last. Early 60's one could guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by r.e.
Very well constructed, fairly light and with a few nice features as a slidable bottom plate for balancing the camera on a tripod and double fall/rise on the front standard.
Had a new bellow made by Customs Bellows and now it works perfectly, given its age.
They pop up now and then (a few times a year perhaps), mostly the 4x5 and then the odd 5x7 and more seldom the 8x10.
A well preserved 8x10 would be nice to have.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...42f55f0e_c.jpgperseverance by Paul Fitz, on Flickr
Darkroom print on ilford rc new. split contrast, dodge and burn selenium, bleach, agfa brown.
4x5 fp4 in pyro hd
linhof technika 4x5, 150mm lens.
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Originally Posted by awty
Tree and Grasses, Long Island, New York
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4x5 Velvia
Shot with Agfa X-ray film
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Brook in the woods by T. Chabry, on Flickr
Excellent.
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Originally Posted by johnmsanderson
Referring back to the lovely shot by Lassethomas, yes, Porta 400 can respond well to warm settings like that. Ektar is better hue corrected overall, but does have the Achilles heel of cyan contamination of the blues, and of excessive blue response in open shadows. I've posted numerous times how that is best corrected at the time of the shot, rather than entering the bullring with it afterwards using software options. And yes, it can be predictably corrected. I don't do any kind of digital printing - pure optical workflow only - but have probably tamed those Ektar idiosyncrasies better than anyone else, not to perfection by any means (no film is perfect), but significantly. If there are magenta issues, that must be due to something odd about either the processing or scanning step; it isn't native to the film itself - perhaps digital overcompensating with respect to the cyan bias? Yet in this particular instance, Portra would be the preferred product anyway due to its wider exposure range. Really good example.