Konica A4, Kodak Vision2 100T, Fomadon LQN

[iangreenhalgh1]

I'm really happy with these results, so much sharper than my last couple of rolls, and exposed perfectly - the Konica A4 is a wonderful little camera, absolutely eclipses the others I've tried lately.

Development was spot-on too, I didn't do any PP at all on these shots, they were already great in contrast, tonality and sharpness.


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[Attila]

nice series! Congrats!

[Katastrofo]

Agree, IQ seems to be up there with the Ricoh FF series.

[skida]

I think the camera is out-performing the film. The grain pattern in the sky areas is quite unattractive and detracts from what would otherwise be a good set of shots.

[mmelvis]

Gotta love that Rover, what a great car. The pictures show the cars details nicely.

[Attila]

[skida]

[iangreenhalgh1]

Interesting, thanks for the feedback guys. I wasn't bothered about the grain, it looked okay to me, but it's simple to remove it with noise reduction. I always apply PP to my film shots - sharpen then noise reduction and I've found that the effect somethings isn't appealing to me as it can smear fine detail, so I didn't apply any to these A4 shots as I liked them as they were.

Here's a shot where I did some noise reduction, it's pretty much removed the grain on the sky, perhaps this looks better?



I have switched from using Fomadon LQR to Fomadon LQN, as I find the LQN gives a nicer tonality for most subjects (LQR is a contrast increasing dev) but it also seems LQN is giving more grain.

To illustrate what I mean about noise reduction and smearing, here's a shot from my next roll through the A4, first one is no PP, second one has been sharpened then noise reduced, which looks better?

[Attila]

PP did won as usual.

[iangreenhalgh1]

What do you prefer about the one with PP?