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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:48 pm    Post subject: Contax & Foma :) Reply with quote

Hello here

Got my film developed by a local lab to test, they done good work for the price Wink. here are two street portraits, taken few weeks ago.

Contax Aria, Planar 1.7 50mm and Foma 100.







PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice portraits. Seems like a sweet little setup for the foma!


PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well now, the street is very kind to you. the girls must have thought of how cute that aria is ...


PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like much the second one!!
But I would crop off the half guy on the left.


PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like old-fashioned and sharp film. Nice pics.


PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great results! Really like that first shot.


PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanx to all. Foma has its personal mood which i like much.

As for the first pic i had to convince myself to go and ask this girl if i can take a pic, i don't regret Very Happy


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hexi, you caught a great expression in the first. In the second shot, it looks
like Julie Andrews singing the "Sound of Music" without the Alps. Laughing I
have a shot that reminds me of the first, but certainly no where near as
pretty a subject, using Foma 400 and dev'd in Thornton's 2-bath homebrew:



The BG effect is similar, I guess. I've heard that Freestyle's regular non-Premium Arista is rebadged Fomapan. (?)


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Add some street shot ... (sorry for hacking)

This is simple street style. Shooting from back. I would like to be brave enough to ask my next objects for permission Very Happy

Ilford XP2 with Fujica st801 and smc-Tak 50/1.4 @2.8


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem (:

Asking people to be taken, makes photo better, proof of the girl in first image Cool

here is the rest of the photos taken that day, withe same stuff

































I forgot teh funniest ^


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is much better when Foma is developed by myself, isn't it? I mean that kontrast that white areas. It is pleasure to work with negs at dark room but those scans also mine are such "white".


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't complain, the lab has done nice job and quick. Ok nothing to do with home dev, but still the result is more than decent. I paid 5€ for the dev, and got the negs in 2 days, besides they do it in tanks , properly.

But that's a temporary solution, by September i get back to home dev Cool


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hexi wrote:
...5€ for the dev, and got the negs in 2 days, besides they do it in tanks , properly. ...


talk in money ...cost me 4€ for dev+scan on CD
talk in days... true BW process in my lab takes week or two... so great and fast! =)
that's why I try to dev myself but learning hurts sometimes Very Happy


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 2:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The scanning might explain the whites. Automated scans can do nasty things to them even if the detail is there.


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice set even if the whites are a little blown out. I like the bicycle seat with
the "No Oil" tag. Cool


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. I like the "No Oil" shot, too.
2. Sometimes I do not like McDonald's in shot, IMHO.
3. What is the story of the stone sculpture one? Should be a great history story.


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't like many disturbing things in shot either, but i couldn't destroy the building that day Razz

The sculpture is a monument in memory to 5 resistants killed in 1915 by German soldiers during WWI. It's called "Les Fusillés Lillois".


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i like best the mirror shot, and the man giving the boy a "plumber's friend." i want to know why such a gift ... Very Happy


PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its cause the guy was dressed like Mario bros Laughing


PostPosted: Sun May 30, 2010 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice set, congrat. The 50 1.7 is also a good "budget" lens...