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Messing with the X-Pro2 sims a bit more to get a kind of Neopan film look straight out the camera.
35mm 1.4 shot wide open.
Photography
Great pics
Decent De1pro v1.45 - Niche Duo - Niche Zero - Decent is the best machine ever made -
Yeah the beard and tattoos come free with all white Linea Minis!
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Discovered a lens company called ‘7Artisans’… manual focus, 35mm 1.2 made in the Far East for around £120…
It’s amazing! Fun to use and loads of character to the images. Not a ‘pixel perfect’ lens and lots of flaws but I’m really impressed.
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I have been using a Sony A6400 for years. I was into photography in a big way. Had all the fast sigma primes (16mm, 30mm, 56mm f1.4’s), the 70-350 G, 85mm f1.8 but in the end I really need all those lenses and carrying it around was breaking my back.
Kind of lost the passion for it so sold all the lens and bought the Sigma 18-50mm f2.8 for all around use (27-75mm FF equivalent). Kind of wish I kept the 16mm f1.4 as bokeh is tremendous and pin sharp especially indoors where wide open keeps the ISO down without additional lighting.
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Back in the day when film was the only offering, used to lug around two Canon F1ns - one with black and white the other with slide film - invariably Kodachrome - 64 or 25asa. The latter was very contrasty as well as being very slow. Printed onto Ilford Cibachrome though gave fantastic results.
Moved house and lost my home dark room and fell out of love with photography until the early 2000s and got a Panasonic Lumix micro four thirds which was great but I hankered after full frame and eventually got a Sony A7r2 - its resolving power was amazing until I managed to wreck it beyond repair. Got a A74iv but found it wanting for fast moving stuff - animals, birds etc. Moved to the Alpha 1 with its eye watering price tag but it does effectively marry two cameras in one - or so I told myself. So far, it hasn’t disappointed.
As for favourite lenses, recall a guy in the film camera days when I was in a club demonstrating his Canon wide angle tilt and shift - an amazing piece of kit. I use the digital version on my Sony - no more tilting buildings or acres of empty foreground. With a tilt and shift lens, you can alter zone of focus both vertically and horizontally which can create weird perspective. If you’ve seen stills or moving wide angle images where people look like ants, it’s been shot on a tilt and shift lens.
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This was my first camera…well it’s a picture of someone else’s, but I bought mine used from a camera shop at the top of Tottenham Court road when I was a student.
Ah the dear old Zenith - the Lada of the film cameras
My first SLR was an Edixa Mat - West German and not very good. Moved on to a Minolta SRT 101 - a brilliant camera for the time boasting ‘contrast light compensation’ exposure control. Minolta were big players in the 70s and were the first camera manufacturer to introduce in camera auto focus. Fast forward and Minolta like other giants, Olympus, no longer make cameras.
I had a Zenit B, used to dream of having a Zenit E.
My first camera was a Kodak Cresta 120, followed by another 120 with a built in flash gun. Those bulbs were expensive on pocket money! First 35mm was a little Agfa which I lost. It took great pics. First SLR was a second hand Olympus OM1. Great camera! Put hundreds of rolls through it because I had a side hustle photographing for an estate agent. Still have a 17mm WA and an Olympus shift lens. Nowadays, I have a Nikon D90 and a couple of lenses but in all honesty I use the phone for almost everything.
Likewise😀 My first camera was this 127 film camera from Kodak
Loved the way the magnesium flash bulbs popped when you took a flash pic and the smell too. Have you noticed how, in movies and TV programmes, when news photographers are popping away, they overdub the sound of an old magnesium flash bulb going off?
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Way, way back, had an Elinchrom studio flash set up I picked up for a song. Comprised two flash heads and the output at full power was insane. You could smell ozone after they discharged.
