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Fuji 6x9 professional GW690III. My new toy....
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:27 pm    Post subject: Fuji 6x9 professional GW690III. My new toy.... Reply with quote
....no, wait, no toy! That camera is serious!
Sunday I made my first two and a half rolls with it. 27 DIN 400 ASA Ilford XP2.
Sorry for the spots on "sensor" Laughing

Love that beast!

Here are a few first results, scanned on my Epson scanner.

Be kind, just learning to use that camera.


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Klaus

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Surely nice one!


PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
One of the bestest, and the scans are HDR-esque Laughing

So is this camera larger than your head?


PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nesster wrote:
One of the bestest, and the scans are HDR-esque Laughing

So is this camera larger than your head?


No, no, my blockhead is hard to beat....
Klaus


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If I ever were to go for a rangefinder, this would be it. Nice samples.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
No need to be kind.

Those samples are.........

great!!! Smile

Love your first one.

v700?

you develop at home?

Rodinal or ?


PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you.
No, did not develop it at home. It is a color-based black and white (Ilford XP2) and needs the C-41 process.


Klaus


PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Still waiting for a low ISO slide film to be ready to show. Worked a bit on develloping a kind of digitalising, that will give better results than with my flatbed Epson (which is already not bad). The gain in details is a real step forward.
Still experimenting, but found a way to get a 129 MP file from the 6x9cm negatives.
Use my Canon 5D II and Photoshop to stitch the single shots.
Think I am on a good way.
Here is a part of the 13788 x 9406 file. Don't forget that it is from a 27 DIN film. Unsharpened. And nothing is near to a perfect set-up.


Klaus


PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pretty impressive!


PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Better than anything I'm doing. Great scans!!


PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you, but the last sample was made with my Canon.

Klaus


PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
exaklaus wrote:
Don't forget that it is from a 27 DIN film.


I just love it when someone still refers to film speed in DIN Very Happy
I first learned photography with DIN.

How could you photograph a 6x9 slide with your canon?
As far as I know all film duplication holders only hold 135 format film.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
exaklaus wrote:
Don't forget that it is from a 27 DIN film.


I just love it when someone still refers to film speed in DIN Very Happy
I first learned photography with DIN.

How could you photograph a 6x9 slide with your canon?
As far as I know all film duplication holders only hold 135 format film.


Well, I made a set-up for testing, using all kind of parts I have on file, an Ihagee rail for bellows, part of a leitz close-up device, a self-made holder for the large negatives (making the slots into the two metal rails was a pita.....) Finally spoken, it enables me to shoot in one row (around 55-60 MP) or in two rows with 10 shots with my 5Dii of that negative, resulting in 129 MP after stitching in Photoshop.

Can't pay for an Imacon or Hasselblad scanner, so this is my low-price option to digitalize the negatives/slides at a better quality than with my Epson 2450. When having installed everything in an easy working device, I will add photos.

Klaus


PS: I still think in DIN.......


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
exaklaus wrote:
PS: I still think in DIN.......


I still think in ASA...

Excellent quality from that set-up. I may well have to investigate ways of getting good quality digital images from my medium format negs. I was thinking to try using a light box with my copystand and see what the quality is.

Best wishes, K.


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Now I get it, the truly impressive bit here is not the camera, but your scanning method !

I was wondering what sort of scanner it took to get that much out of film.


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Superb camera isn't it! I could love that. Mr. Green
The 400 ASA film shows its grain a little too much for my taste but I'd never use any grain reduction.
Brilliant scanning!

Yes Kris, I still think in ASA too. Smile


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, ISO = ASA so not much effort there... Twisted Evil Laughing


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
True! I still think in ASA though, it's nostalgia. Laughing

I've never got to grips with DIN. I had a Leningrad light meter when I started photography and I even understood GOST better than DIN in those days. Smile


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's a great camera and after I've given up trying to find a working Iskra I may seek one out. Shame they are so expensive.

peterqd wrote:
True! I still think in ASA though, it's nostalgia. Laughing

I've never got to grips with DIN. I had a Leningrad light meter when I started photography and I even understood GOST better than DIN in those days. Smile
Being a relatively newcomer to photography compared to the majority, I've only known ISO.


PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Few more 27 DIN shots, still waiting for the first 18 DIN slide film to come back from the developing.



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Klaus


PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
exaklaus wrote:
Few more 27 DIN shots, still waiting for the first 18 DIN slide film


O dewch ar, nid yw hynny'n bod yn deg! Rwy'n gallu deall Cymraeg yn well na DIN Smile
27 DIN = ?
18 DIN = ?

LaughingLaughing

Super pictures though!


PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ac Ni allaf siarad Cymraeg, ond DIN


PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
peterqd wrote:
exaklaus wrote:
Few more 27 DIN shots, still waiting for the first 18 DIN slide film


O dewch ar, nid yw hynny'n bod yn deg! Rwy'n gallu deall Cymraeg yn well na DIN Smile
27 DIN = ?
18 DIN = ?

LaughingLaughing

Super pictures though!

exaklaus wrote:
Ac Ni allaf siarad Cymraeg, ond DIN

Your keyboards are broken. Laughing Laughing Laughing


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martinsmith99 wrote:
Your keyboards are broken. Laughing Laughing Laughing

Laughing


PostPosted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
peterqd wrote:

I've never got to grips with DIN.


It's easy, in fact it helps for precise light metering in professional situations.
1 DIN equals 1/3rd of stop - so to advance of one stop you need 3 DINs
15-18-21-24-27-etc
as "orientation" just keep in mind that 21 DIN = 100 ASA
if you want 200 Asa you add three DINS, so 21+3 =24
and so on
Some old equipments were subdivided in thirds of stop - actually even some of today, like ZM lenses for rangefinder,
are subdivided in thirds.
Most professional light meters also of today offer steps of thirds, since half stop can be too coarse for very precise applications
like in studio photography.
My gossen digital meter for instance offers steps in thirds of stop.
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