Scans from Olympus 35rc

[Katastrofo]

These are from the 4x6" prints. I'll try scanning the negatives this
weekend and if they're better, will replace these. Walmart sure did
a lousy job on the prints!

yeah, the cat again:



and in black and white:



low light indoors, no flash:




and here's one from my Chinon with the J37A and really cheap color
film, then converted to greyscale. A friend of mine, great jazz guitarist,
and expert at Muay Thay.



The line you see in his picture is on the print! Incredible amount of noise
with these, but I didn't use NeatImage, might try it tho.

Bill

[Attila]

Yes , very noisy like my E-1 above ISO 800

[Katastrofo]

Yep, very noisy, and this is a scan from the negative at 300dpi:



Bill

[Jigt]

Good shots. Love the cat picture (and i don't like cats that much).
There is a difference between grain and noise. I doubt that software can do the trick.

But the grain suits the subject.

[LucisPictor]

Sometimes minilabs try to "improve" the pictures and indeed do destroy them. That's why I usually tell my lab not to work at the picture, just to develop it with standard parameters. The rest I will do with PS.
This is no good if you want to have prints directly, but I only order the negatives and a CD with scans.

[Katastrofo]

Thanks for your comments, guys. I should know better than to take
film to Walmart to be developed, but it was convenient since they're on
the way to work.

I'm in the process of uninstalling my twain driver to the scanner and
loading up a new one for Windows XP. Hopefully some of the bugs will
be worked out.

Bill

[Katastrofo]

Here's another one with the Chinon, same roll. This is after I installed
new twain drivers on the Epson scanner:



This is with the J37A lens, like the bokeh!

Bill

[LucisPictor]

[Katastrofo]

Here's a boring pic I took right after I had replaced the seals, and installed
a new battery, an LR44 which is 1.5V instead of the appropriate 1.35V. I
used the "A" setting which automatically sets aperture and shutter speed
and this one turned out better than the ones where I used a separate
light meter and did manual settings. I was going to get the 1.35V battery
and now, I just don't know...

This is a pic of one of my work benches that I repair woodwind instruments in a shop I keep downtown. It's also good for working on
cameras, cleaning, replacing lightseals, etc.


Taken with Olympus 35RC rangefinder, and scanned from the negative.

Bill

[Orio]

It's not boring, Bill, I actually find it the most interesting. The instruments tell a lot about a person. One can make PORTRAITS by shooting ONLY instruments!

I mean look at Van Gogh, he portrayed himself and Gauguin painting two chairs and he could have never done it better if he painted their faces instead.

[Katastrofo]

I guess it's just a boring, rather mundane scene to me. I was
actually checking to see if there would be any flare with the acetylene
torch on, but there wasn't.

Bill

[Orio]

I love the photos of man's instruments.

There is a museum not far from here, made by just one man who for all his life collected about everything. Mostly old farmers instruments, but also other kind of weird stuff. It is just amazing.

You can visit it virtually with quicktime 360° here:

http://www.museoguatelli.it/

go for "visita virtuale" and click on "piano" (floor) to change floor.