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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:06 pm    Post subject: Bicycle chat Reply with quote
Bicycle chat in the main piazza of Parma. (Zeiss Ikon, Voigtländer Snapshot-Skopar 4/25, Kodak Tri-X 400 in Ornano Gradual ST 20 developer. Scanned with Reflecta ProScan 7200 and Silverfast AI)



PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice shot, good B&W!


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio, I love the pic, but I hope you won't be offended if I suggest it would benefit from some correction to the perpective distortion.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
lovely "print ... "


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good capture. I quite like the distorted effect from UWA lenses, so I'd say leave it.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks guys.

@ Peter: I see what you mean. In general, with film photos, I am reluctant to apply digital corrections, because I prefer to stay within the possibilities of the orignal medium.
In this case, however, a perspective correction is also possible with an analog enlarger. So this can become a good occasion to finally test the tilting ability of my enlarger's head Smile

@ Martin: The distortion is unfortunately caused by me, tilting the camera (I did shoot from the hip, so I could not check perpendicularity).
However, the houses being only a background and not the subject, it may hopefully be forgiven since we have a near subject with interesting lighting and good detail.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another one, not as good as the previous, but it complements the theme Smile



PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio wrote:
Thanks guys.

@ Peter: I see what you mean. In general, with film photos, I am reluctant to apply digital corrections, because I prefer to stay within the possibilities of the orignal medium.
In this case, however, a perspective correction is also possible with an analog enlarger. So this can become a good occasion to finally test the tilting ability of my enlarger's head Smile

@ Martin: The distortion is unfortunately caused by me, tilting the camera (I did shoot from the hip, so I could not check perpendicularity).
However, the houses being only a background and not the subject, it may hopefully be forgiven since we have a near subject with interesting lighting and good detail.

Laughing
I was wrong about distortion Orio - actually when you rotate the picture 3° clockwise you can see that the amount of distortion is very small. So you could turn the paper very slightly under the enlarger lens without going against your principles. I didn't realise it was a waist-level finder, that certainly makes it more difficult. I have to adjust a lot of my shots with the TLR. Out of interest, what technique "within the possibilities of the original medium" did you use to add the caption? Razz

Martin, sloping pictures just don't look right to me - they give me a dizzy feeling. I don't know if that's peculiar to me or not, but I can see immediately when something is leaning or out of square. I guess it might come from having drawn countless vertical and horizontal lines on a drawing board over my working lifetime. Smile But that's not to say that sloping pictures aren't to everybody's taste! Smile


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
peterqd wrote:
actually when you rotate the picture 3° clockwise you can see that the amount of distortion is very small. So you could turn the paper very slightly under the enlarger lens without going against your principles. I didn't realise it was a waist-level finder, that certainly makes it more difficult.


Yes, there is a combination of both framing errors (roll and tilt).
It's not a waist level finder, just me shooting blind. 25mm lens allows for that Wink


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like them both, and some impressive results from your new scanner!


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Katastrofo wrote:
I like them both, and some impressive results from your new scanner!


Thanks Bill. I've had the scanner for 5 months now and I am 100% pleased by it!
The only negative aspect is that you need to buy the Silverfast SE Plus software to fully enjoy it. The bundled software delivers horrible image quality.


PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
They should include that software with the sale of the scanner. Smile

As I remember, the nearest vendor for that scanner was in GB.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, I forgot to comment on the scan quality; it is very good. I always have a problem with getting the film flat, even after storing it in a book overenight.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
This scanner uses stripe holders, so unless the film is curved like the Mont Blanc tunnel Laughing , it keeps it reasonably flat.
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