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 Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject: Another Kodachrome 25 Klose-up. |
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Another one from the archives.
Good old Praktica BC-1 + Sigma Zoom Master 2.8-4/35-70 with Kodachrome 25. Shot on the same cloudy and overcast day back in 1988 at Inverewe Gardens near Ullapool in Scotland.
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Such a good scan and shoot!
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Breath-taking colours...
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GrahamNR17 wrote:
Amazingly good 
You, Kodachrome and the BC1 were a match made in heaven  |
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beautiful one!
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Excellent film and reckon to last about 120 years before slight fading of some colours (mine are nearly half that time and still excellent).......where will digital JPGs be after that time. 
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GrahamNR17 wrote:
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| Excellent film and reckon to last about 120 years before slight fading of some colours (mine are nearly half that time and still excellent).......where will digital JPGs be after that time. |
This is my biggest fear. If you clear-out a dead relatives house, you find boxes of photos and slides, so you keep them. When I curl up my toes, will they just look at my computer and think "it's old and crappy" and toss it in the skip, along with a million jpegs that could be historically interesting? Multiply that by the population of the world, and we are going to lose a shit-load of history. It scares me  |
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Excalibur wrote:
The young don't care (or think about) for 50 or 60 years in the future, but now that I'm old I found you do care and I like looking back at my old negs.
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bob955i wrote:
Thanks again for the kind comments guys and I'm glad you like the shots.
@ Graham: I still have the original BC-1 body and the S(t)igma zoom I used for this shot although the camera itself jammed about two years later due to me fitting a motorwind. I replaced it with another BC-1 which had a plastic film rewind knob that later broke so I took the metal one off the jammed body to repair the newer one. This body still functions to this day and I should really bring them both back out of retiral. The motorwind stays in the box though...  |
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Thanks again for the kind comments guys and I'm glad you like the shots.
@ Graham: I still have the original BC-1 body and the S(t)igma zoom I used for this shot although the camera itself jammed about two years later due to me fitting a motorwind. I replaced it with another BC-1 which had a plastic film rewind knob that later broke so I took the metal one off the jammed body to repair the newer one. This body still functions to this day and I should really bring them both back out of retiral. The motorwind stays in the box though... |
Oh, you don't want to use a motorwind on a BC-1 
I'm half-tempted to get a decent BC-1. It was one of those rare cameras that just "felt right" in the hand and required no concentration to use properly. A bit like an old-style rangefinder.
The S(t)igma lenses did well in the reviews at the time. I had the 70-210 until recently, and it never failed to turn-in a sharp image across the frame. At any rate, your 'chromes speak for themselves, and nobody could knock the image quality |
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| Oh, you don't want to use a motorwind on a BC-1 |
Tell me about it... It was for the Jenaflex AM-1 and only did 2fps - what in God's name was I thinking...?
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| I'm half-tempted to get a decent BC-1. It was one of those rare cameras that just "felt right" in the hand and required no concentration to use properly. A bit like an old-style rangefinder. |
Very true - I got to the stage with mine that I could take it out the bag and have it ready to shoot by the time it reached eye level. I've never had a camera like that since. The 'B' series camera I liked the most was the B200 because it reminded me of a grenade.
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| The S(t)igma lenses did well in the reviews at the time. I had the 70-210 until recently, and it never failed to turn-in a sharp image across the frame. At any rate, your 'chromes speak for themselves, and nobody could knock the image quality |
The 35-70 I used for the above shot spent 20 years on both the first and second BC-1 bodies and was rarely off the camera. I liked that lens so much, I eventually hunted down an M42 version as well. Even though I went digital in 2002 with the Minolta DiMage 7i, I only retired the PraktiSigma combo in 2006 when I got the 5D as it just blew the Minolta away IMO, good as the latter was. I also remember pestering Jessops in Edinburgh in the late 80's to try and get me a Prakticar 2.8/20 (Flektogon in disguise) as I wanted something much wider but the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and that was the end of Praktica et al. I still have some Jessops pricelists from 1985 onwards. |
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skida wrote:
Marvellous! That camera, lens and film really did a good job in recording your great shot. I was at a car boot sale last year and a bloke was selling a BC-something with three prime lenses in an aluminium case, all in excellent condition for £25. I said "Ner, it's too much." and walked away. Doh! |
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koji wrote:
bob955i: "The 'B' series camera I liked the most was the B200 because it reminded me of a grenade."
The first PRAKTICA Bayonet mount camera, was very advanced at that time (early 1980s).
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Hood wrote:
Spectacular!
I really do have to try shooting some slide film.
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| Marvellous! That camera, lens and film really did a good job in recording your great shot. I was at a car boot sale last year and a bloke was selling a BC-something with three prime lenses in an aluminium case, all in excellent condition for £25. I said "Ner, it's too much." and walked away. Doh! |
A seller was so pleased to sell this lot to me at a boot sale, she started off hours before at a higher price (£40 without the mirror lens) and no one wanted it even when she was dropping the price gradually...well I came along and said "is the mirror lens inc..all for £18" and she said "go on then" BTW included was a winder and all as new.
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@ koji: That's the one. You're right about the B series being advanced. They had one of the most comprehensive focus screens you could get and a stepless shutter when in auto mode. I reckon the only thing that beat them was the bayonet mount and the limited amount of lenses for it. There was an M42-PB adapter (I have two) but had it been possible to use the Pentax K mount, it would have been an even better camera, excellent as it already was.
Think I might look out for another one now... |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Think I might look out for another one now... |
Look for two, I want one an'all |
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bob955i
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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bob955i wrote:
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| Think I might look out for another one now... |
Look for two, I want one an'all |
Someone on here started a Meyer Trioplan 100 thang a while back - have I somehow just elevated the Praktica B series cameras to cult status?   |
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GrahamNR17 wrote:
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| Think I might look out for another one now... |
Look for two, I want one an'all |
Someone on here started a Meyer Trioplan 100 thang a while back - have I somehow just elevated the Praktica B series cameras to cult status? |
Possibly, but either way, you'll get the blame  |
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@ koji: That's the one. You're right about the B series being advanced. They had one of the most comprehensive focus screens you could get and a stepless shutter when in auto mode. I reckon the only thing that beat them was the bayonet mount and the limited amount of lenses for it. There was an M42-PB adapter (I have two) but had it been possible to use the Pentax K mount, it would have been an even better camera, excellent as it already was.
Think I might look out for another one now... |
They also had the light-conduit inside of the mirror, and there was an electrical connection which
eliminates F-stop of the lens linkage, the camera can know the lens' WO F-stop using a kind of
bridge circuit. The light from the conduit inside of the mirror is collected into the sensor inside of
the camera, which determines the shutter speed if in the AE mode. Etc...
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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bob955i wrote:
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| Think I might look out for another one now... |
Look for two, I want one an'all |
Someone on here started a Meyer Trioplan 100 thang a while back - have I somehow just elevated the Praktica B series cameras to cult status? |
Possibly, but either way, you'll get the blame |
And in 2012 too.
You know this means that before the world ends, the prices will rocket to stratospheric levels.
£2.50...
@ koji: With the specs and technology the B series had, you have to wonder what Praktica would have been producing now? |
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