At Surprise View with Kodak Gold 200 and a Broken Zenit E

skida

The final film from our trip to the Lakes last week finally convinced me that the shutter on the Zenit E was not moving at a constant speed. As this is Zenit body number 6 with a problem, I may turn my back on Russian SLRs and use my M42 lenses on the Praktica Nova from now on.

All taken with the Helios 44M f2 58mm lens and all shots have been quite heavily (for me) edited for corrections to light and contrast. These are the only shots usable from the 36 frame roll.

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Linda Surprised by the view by skida, on Flickr

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The entrance to Borrowdale by skida, on Flickr

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The Lodore Falls Hotel by skida, on Flickr

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Treading carefully by skida, on Flickr

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Skiddaw by skida by skida, on Flickr

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River Derwent enters Derwentwater by skida, on Flickr

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

One of the best C41 result on long distance shoots what I ever seen! congrats!

Excalibur · Expire: 2014-04-21

Very good well done.

miran · Joined: 01 Aug 2012 Posts: 1364 Location: Slovenia

Wow, if these are the only usable frames then I can only guess your standards are very high. Because if the other frames are a little worse than this, they'll still be excellent. Smile

poilu · Expire: 2019-08-29

+1 maybe more sharpening than needed but quality & pop very good

skida · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:11 pm Post subject:

To give you an idea of what I started with here is the untouched version of the last shot (thank you Kodak for producing a film that allowed me to recover so much detail):

Before the edit by skida, on Flickr

skida · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the great comments folks. These were recoverable (even though I overexposed them, not the camera's fault), but the others had bands of very overexposed areas where I believe the shutter curtain had slowed down during its travel. These shots were overexposed because I had inadvertently knocked the A/M switch to A when taking the camera out of the bag.

skida · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 6:21 pm Post subject:

Hi poilu, I haven't sharpened these and I don't know if the lab's scanner has autosharpening, but when I look full size in Flickr, I can't see any artifacts on the hard edges were the mountains meet the sky. The water on the lake was displaying strange patterns due to the high winds.

poilu · Expire: 2019-08-29

davidbrat · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:45 pm Post subject:

I love the color rendition. Number 5 is my favorite, superb colors.

skida · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2012 10:57 pm Post subject:

Thanks David, but I would give most credit to Kodak and the KMZ lens factory for the colours. I just saw it, shot it and then edited for overexposure. Laughing