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Cool


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Laughing Laughing Laughing


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Old fishing boat. Zenitar M2S 2/50 on EOS 10qd, Kodak Technical Pan developed in Kodak Microdol-X.



Rusting Jags, same camera/lens/film/developer:






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Carl Zeiss Silver Tessar 2,8/50 T 1953 unprocessed





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rush hour in Saigon taken with 'Pen-F' Zuiko f4/25mm on NEX5N





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Thanks for posting kuuan

Brings back great memories from my short stay in Saigon in 2011 !


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AF shot with canon 7D and Sigma 17-70 F2.8-F4.5




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Mir wrote:
Thanks for posting kuuan

Brings back great memories from my short stay in Saigon in 2011 !


very happy to know that you like them, that they bring back good memories Smile

India, state of Bihar, taken a couple of years back with Pentax K-x and AF Sigma 17-70mm

Ricksha drivers outside Patna Junction railway station


train compartment, Patna Junction


cattle fair in Sitamarhi


'taking' a bus in Sitamarhi


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My ride !

Gili Meno, Lombok, Indonesia

Voigtländer Nokton 1.2/35


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Beijing, Winter 1992
Minolta Dynax 8000i & Soligor UMCS 3.5-5.6/28-200mm


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Lankatilaka Vihara, Sri Lanka
Voigtländer Nokton Aspherical 1.5/50



Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Voigtländer Nokton Aspherical 1.2/35



Ella, Sri Lanka
Voigtländer Nokton Aspherical 1.2/35


Galle, Sri Lanka
Voigtländer Nokton Aspherical 1.2/35


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Wow !
Great pictures, Mir and Wolfgang.

Mir, for me Numara Eliya and Galle.
The first one for its composition with buses, and people very well isolated and seeming to dance a choregraphy.
The second one is a perfect use of depth of field with a beautiful old car in the first plan and great bokeh. The Nokton seems great for that.

Wolfgang, your second picture shows marvellously that a picture does'nt need to be sharp and detailed.
I love this picture which has much strength and shows movement and mood perfectly.
The choice of black and white reinforce it.
Congrats.


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Thanks a lot, Olivier!


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Merci Olivier !

@wolfhansen
How Beijing has changed !!


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Jakarta, Indonesia
SK Cinelux 40/2


rodagon 28/4




Yogyakarta, Indonesia
SK Cinelux 35/2




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Ever since my scanner went belly up, I've been thinking about another way to digitize negatives. This is with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm and a Nikon D610 on a tripod, shooting down to a light table with the negative under glass. The fluorescent light in the light table creates some real weirdness in color, so I converted into black and white. The negative was taken on expired Kodak Gold 400 with a Nikkormat EL and a Nikkor 85mm f1.8 K version. This lens is one of the first two I purchased when I got my first Nikon back in 1979.



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Hello Gaeger.

I digitalized films using a dslr (5DMkII), a micro lens (Canon EF 100mm f2.8 macro) and a shoe box.

I've created a DIY topic here :
http://forum.mflenses.com/viewtopic,p,1506697.html#1506697


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no 3 looks like a great architecture shot


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This Jaguar was sitting all alone in a marina parking lot in Edmonds. The wide angle is with a Nikkor 20mm f4 K, and the ornament is with an 85mm f1.8 K, both at f5.6, I think. Nikon D5500. Love shooting with these old Nikon lenses.




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WOW !
This Jaguar emblem jumps out of my screen !
Beautiful.
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Thank you both!


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Attila wrote:
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No way to beat Italian style. I took this image, I beilieve, with the Autoreflex TC and the 1.7/50 in summer 1988, when my parents took us boys for a road trip. I don´t remember the place, except it´s a mountain pass between Italy and Austria.




This, I surmise, must have been with the Autoreflex T and the older 1.8/52 in spring 1988. While the previous image looks quite modern in color rendition, this has a vintage look to it I can´t quite explain. Some part might be attributed to the lens, though I rather suspect the film emulsion has aged. The railway station is Stainach-Irdning in Austria, and those engines were already outdated at the time when the image was taken. 20 were built in 1924 and 1925, a second series of 9 engines the years after. Five of them are still in service at museum railway organizations. The mountain in the background is called Grimming, which has its roots in the Slowenian word grmeti and means to thunder, or roar, and was originally attributed to a creek with the same name.