tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325696952024-03-13T09:17:11.340+00:00Photo UtopiaA Blog for the Film PhotographerPhoto–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-50304047832858933232015-10-20T12:26:00.002+00:002015-10-20T12:30:14.487+00:00Found PrintsRecently my mother presented me with some old photo's she had found that dated from 1979-83.<br />
These were my first images with an SLR camera, and were processed if I remember by Horizon Photo in the UK on Kodak paper most are 3.5"x5"<br />
They have survived pretty well and are some of the first colour pictures I took, I've put the film info under each shot.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kodacolor II 100 about 1980 Canon AV1; 50mm ƒ1,8</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kodacolor II 100 1981 Canon 70-210ƒ4</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kodacolor II 100 1979</td></tr>
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When scanning I didn't correct colours or density and I've tried to make the on screen look as close to the 35 year old prints as possible.Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-20340085312678816732015-09-18T14:39:00.000+00:002015-09-18T14:40:28.121+00:00One Roll of Film–Overstrand Beach NorfolkThe following Roll was shot at Overstrand just south east of Cromer in the county of Norfolk UK. A quieter section of the coast which has been steadily eroded over the years.<br />
The soft clay cliffs have been shored up with boulders (From Norway at a reported £1,300 each) and a series of wooded sea defences known as "groynes'<br />
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Overstrand is also famous as 'Poppyland' being given that name by writer Clement Scott and during the Edwardian period the village became very popular with visitors and especially with the landed gentry making it 'the place to be' for the elite.<br />
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The aforementioned erosion eventually claimed the hotel and other buildings leaving the village less fashionable to the London set.<br />
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Despite that Overstrand is a very beautiful stretch of coastline and one which is a family favourite.<br />
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The news form the Press Room over at Ilfordphoto.com is that they have been bought out.</div>
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<em>"HARMAN technology, manufacturers of the famous ILFORD Photo range of Monochrome Photographic products, have been purchased by Pemberstone Ventures Ltd for an undisclosed amount".</em></div>
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Of course in these days of reduced film choice such announcements are bound to induce a certain amount of anxiety among film users and this news will certainly do that in some circles.<br />
Since the management buyout that saved Ilford the company have gone from strength to strength, they are communicative and friendly and have introduced new products whilst keeping their existing product portfolio alive.</div>
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They have been quoted as saying they will be the last man standing, in other words when everyone else gives up they will still be making film and paper.</div>
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<em>“We are very excited by the potential of the analogue photography movement and believe that HARMAN is uniquely placed to drive the resurgent film market into the future</em>”.</div>
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This post is inspired by the recent road to Damascus conversion of a certain Mr Micheal Reichmann of the Luminous Landscape fame who recently <a href="https://luminous-landscape.com/rediscovering-craft/" target="_blank">purchased a Rolleiflex</a> in order to 'rediscover his craft'.<br />
In an <a href="https://luminous-landscape.com/rolleiflex/" target="_blank">earlier essay</a> on the LL a guest writer elucidated:<br />
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<i>"While I was browsing Flickr and searching for some inspiration for my next portrait assignment, I came across some beautiful medium format portraits taken by excellent photographers using Hasselblad and Rolleiflex cameras. I was really impressed by the characteristics of those pictures: nicely balanced composition in square format, beautiful black and white (B&W) tones, shallow depth of focus and “mind blowing” micro-contrast details. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">As a digital shooter and owner of a Canon 5D mark2, it was something new to me that I have not seen before.</span> Needless to say, I fell immediately love with medium format photography and I wanted to have a medium format camera to take pictures with similar characteristics".</i><br />
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Praise indeed! Especially from a writer on Mr Reichmann's LL blog which is not normally noted for espousing the advantages of film photography over full frame digital SLRs<br />
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My experience with Rolleiflex cameras goes back a few decades to the 1980's when I found myself training as a wedding operative.<br />
The cameras have many great features and only a few drawbacks, the most obvious of which are the lack of truly close focus, the lack of interchangeable lenses and the laterally inverse (mirror) image on the focussing screen.<br />
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The close focus can be somewhat ameliorated by the use of the <a href="http://photo-utopia.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/rolleinar-close-up-lenses.html" target="_blank">Rolleinar close-up lenses</a> which come in three (1, 2 and 3) strengths number three being the strongest; they can also be stacked and give surprisingly good results. I would say the Rolleinar is the must have accessory for the flex along side a lens hood.<br />
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As a young man I found using the Rolleiflex both inspirational and slightly frustrating, the top wedding guys all had Hasselblads and that was the camera I aspired to. It was only when I started using the 'Blad I started to appreciate the quiet handling and unobtrusive manner of the Rolleiflex, and in practical use interchangeable backs and lenses really didn't prove such a great advantage.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">So what is the reason I preferred the Rollei to all other medium format cameras I've owned? </b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Top of the list is the way it handles, and from the waist and almost goes unnoticed during portrait shoots; you maintain eye contact whilst still being able to frame the subject–in other words there isn't a camera plastered in front of your face so the subject has a more relaxed less intrusive sitting.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Did I mention it was whisper quiet in operation? No mirror slap or shutter clop just a smooth sounding schtick that makes medium format SLR cameras seem clunky in comparison.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">The build quality is exemplary; photographers from the modern era that hold one find the solid feel and positive operation even after fifty years of use are often extremely impressed–these are not consumer electronics with built in obsolescence; the Rolleiflex is a well engineered machine build to last a lifetime.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Optical quality is also impressive, Zeiss and Schneider are two of the best lens producers in the world Tessar, Planar an Xenotar types are as good as it gets optically, and have drawn many iconic images over the years.</b></span><br />
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</b></span>Those images were created by an astonishing list of photographers, far too many to list although a personal favourite being David Bailey (pictured above) who said recently "If I had to use just one camera it would be a Rolleiflex"<br />
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Not all of us have the skill of Bailey, Avedon and Arbus or even Mr Reichmann but few will deny that quality tools are great to have and use–even if we don't aspire to being as cool as this guy:<br />
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Quality never goes out of style, and life would be too short not to have owned a Rolleiflex. Or possibly you might be one of the many 'tonally starved' DSLR shooters like the one in the LL blog who would like to see 'mind blowing micro contrast and tones like you've never seen before' there is one thing for sure people will be creating wonderful images with them in the future just as they did in the past.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Short with Louise Gebhard Cann </td></tr>
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These images are of Yasushi Tanaka's studio in Paris circa 1960. Tanaka was a Japanese artist who lived in Paris from the early 1920's until his death in April 1941 at the age of 54.<br />
These photographs were given to me by Robert Short who is the young man in the images.<br />
The older lady is Tanaka's widow Louise Gebhard Cann, an author Tanaka met in Seattle and married in 1917.<br />
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The studio was situated at 70 bis, rue Notre Dame des Champs and had previously been the home of Ezra Pound; the table in the next photograph was made by him!<br />
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I find these images fascinating, no only do they show pictures of a family member in 1960 they also show a time that has since gone. These photographs were found in Mr Short's attic stored for 30+ years in an Ilford Print box–I wonder how many digital images will be so easily rediscovered in years to come.</div>
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The Rosary Cemetery was the first non denominational burial ground in the UK. It was established in 1819 by Thomas Drummond a non-conformist minister; the first burial being that of his wife in 1821.</div>
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The city also had a large congregation of non conformist worshipers including Quakers, Presbyterian and Congregationalists and these people had no burial ground as the law stated they needed to be buried in their local churchyards under the authority of the Church of England.</div>
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The Rosary is situated near Thorpe Road not for from the Railway station and covers an area of 13.5 acres. The oldest part is where most of these pictures were taken, it has a wonderful faded grandeur the Victorians had a certain way of celebrating the lives and achievements of their citizens these memorials are really quite ostentatious to the modern eye; but reflect the status of those interred. </div>
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These images were taken on a Rolleiflex T with Ilford FP4 film developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 12 mins. It was part of a project that I has researched and planned and placed in a book of future projects last year.<br />
They were taken on a dull afternoon just before the gates were closed, I chose this time and lighting to give weight to the sense of decay and faded splendour. Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-65147440544879156972015-08-19T20:44:00.004+00:002015-08-19T20:50:06.998+00:00In a Creative Rut?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Creativity can be a pain, when you have it you might not have the time to execute it, when you're at a loose end you can lack drive, vision and inspiration.<br />
Some people buy new cameras and lenses when they experience these 'becalmed' periods in their lives others just sit them out or do something else like take in others creative output looking for that spark to ignite the fire.<br />
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Last year I had a creative block, as you'll see by the lack of posts. Of course its happened before as photographers we're not machines so when this happens I'm happy to sit it out, buy a few books; look at exhibitions of others work etc.<br />
No point in shooting if you can't connect with the creative ghost inside.<br />
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<strong>Don't Panic</strong><br />
I do however, have a little modus that works for me during these times; it is a regimen that might seem to some a little rigid-- I'll try to explain.<br />
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I have a book full of projects. When all is well and the creative juice is fully flowing I look at subjects I wish to explore, it might be a portrait of a friend who has an interesting skill that you can capture. It might be a landscape that you want to take, one that inspires you or intrigues. It could be an object like a book or flower that would make a good still life.<br />
Place the idea in the book, limit yourself to 10-12 shots and try to think about the time, choice of film, camera type.<br />
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<strong>Research</strong><br />
The more you see the more ideas are generated. I go for long walks in the countryside, look for interesting angles and subjects record them in the book of future projects or snap them with a phone for future reference.<br />
The more you see and experience the better as your downtime will be shorter, sometimes these breaks will be followed by a renewed frenzy of artistic activity.<br />
Hope this post proves helpful.Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-75791014659718105702015-08-14T12:01:00.000+00:002015-08-15T08:07:54.276+00:00Brave New World<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Well I finally did it, I sold the Nikon DSLR and have bought a 4x5 camera. It's really a case of back to the future for me as I've gone back to the camera's I used 20+ years ago, and now all I have is digital wise access to the camera's owned by family members (for this blog)<br />
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<strong>Film! Are you mad?</strong><br />
Yes, folks to some I am. That sentence was an actual question asked of me whilst in a café with my children. A man about 10 years older than me saw my Rolleiflex sitting on the table-obviously he couldn't understand why in this day and age someone would use a camera from 1961.<br />
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I tried to explain why, but got the 'I have a Panansonic and a Macbook' statement as if I should have been even remotely impressed.<br />
So why go film only? Well the easiest answer is that it does all I could possibly want it to do, I don't need instant review as I know pretty well how the image will look; I don't care for speed of operation––the type of photography I do just doesn't need those things.<br />
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<b>Film is Expensive</b><br />
To a degree it is, obviously you need to choose what film to take on a trip and the cost is ongoing which means when I press the shutter it has a pretty obvious cost.<br />
What I can say though is for the type of images I take you don't need to fire off many images, most shoots are planned so a mornings work might involve 4-6 sheets of 4x5 or a couple of rolls of 120 and those outings amount to fewer than one per month so that would be 40-50 sheets per year and 20 rolls of 120 from which in that year I'd expect 15-20 prints. The total cost all in would be about £250 for the film and as I process my work the chemicals probably about £30.<br />
So less than £300 normally without prints obviously.<br />
That sounds pretty expensive, after all with only 20 good finished images that works out to £15 per image!<br />
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<b>Why sell my Digital Nikons?</b><br />
In all honesty I wasn't using them; the batteries would go flat between times meaning spontaneous shots were sometimes done with cameraphones.<br />
I liked digital but it just doesn't suit my use patterns and when shooting 50 very high quality shots a year doesn't make a £2000 DSLR a good purchase over its lifetime (over ten years of film for existing cameras).<br />
So I managed to sell them while they still had some value.<br />
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<b>Moving Forward</b><br />
At the moment the films I want to use are still available, I don't feel the need to change my shooting style or workflow or adapt them to fit the direction everyone else is heading in. In fact there might even be a perverse pleasure in swimming against the tide of people adopting fast and ever changing technologies.<br />
Just give me a supply of Ilford B&W and Kodak Ektar and I can be happy and creative.<br />
<br />Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-81057299824732452952015-08-14T11:25:00.001+00:002015-08-15T09:26:16.149+00:00The Eye of the Eagle <h3>
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The reason for this post is that I realised how many of my cameras have lenses that are either Tessar or copies of that lens design. The Schneider Xenar, the Ross Xpress on the Ensign 1620 also the Fuji 150W that I use for large format; obviously the lens on the Rollieflex T and the Tessar on the Zeiss Ikon and Rollei 35T.</div>
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Complex lens design was expensive and because designers needed to limit the amount of air-glass surfaces to aid light transmission and keep down flare, correction of aberrations was very difficult to achieve.<br />
So in 1902 when Paul Rudolph's Tessar design was put on the market by Zeiss it quickly established itself as a standard for others to emulate and earned itself the nickname 'Adlerauge' (Eagle eye). The four element design carefully mixed both high and low refractive glass and followed it with a cemented pair which reduced aberrations compared to the triplet designs.<br />
One of the things I like most about the design is the higher contrast due to fewer elements, stopped down a couple of stops and they can compete with later Planar (5 and 6 element) designs even in corner sharpness.<br />
Tessar types remained the standard by which others were judged until the 1950's when lens coatings made multi element lenses practical with their better correction and faster apertures.<br />
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Don't underestimate the humble Tessar it is a very capable lens capable of rendering wonderful images.<br />
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Over the last hundred years the Tessar has found itself on many iconic camera bodies and has been re computed to allow for both wide and telephoto versions; hopefully it will remain a useful design for many years to come.<br />
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My method of photography has always been driven by strong
pre-visualisation, coupled with the use of large format transparency and monochrome film often means
the choices made before capture are ‘baked in’ to the final image.</div>
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A photograph is a singular event, a slice of time presented
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Where people get confused is when images are post processed; how that relates to ‘the photographers eye’ those choices made in the final presentation of a
negative or file are sometimes muddied by the increased options open to them; the subsequent lack of
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If we consider the long history of photography we find post processing manipulation were quite common. Early photographers were hampered by using blue only sensitive plates; making it difficult to record clouds so they would often add them in later.</div>
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The methods they used were to correct deficiencies in their materials rather than doing it for the sake of it, and the disappearance of ‘cloud plates’ from the market after the invention of Panchromatic film proves that.</div>
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But isn’t B&W itself a form of manipulation? Mono images must be a pre-visual decision, an obvious point being in the days of film you needed to pick a B&W film to give a mono end result.</div>
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This too has been muddied by being able to decide in post, I have often heard ‘do you think this shot would be better in mono?” The photographer needed to make a decision before the exposure, tones in the image might not suit a monochrome conversion.</div>
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We seem to have a group of people who are deeply confused by
the changes that have been brought about by a massive degree of control in post
processing. Those very changes have moved the singularity of the photographic
event into a realm where some final images have become derivative artworks of
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The singular is often diluted in this way, producing a
lack of direction because of a set of wider choices, working without prevision means accidental brilliance is the only way to record that instant of
time– which failing that will have to be created in post.</div>
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Those issues are not to be confused with tthe artists who wish to
mix different images and make fantastic images from many captures some of which
look wonderful as finished artworks; to those people the final image aesthetic
is all that counts and pretty much justifies images that have no real world
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These people aren’t photographers though, more digital artists who just use a camera. Many artists have
made such images but the final artwork is a fantastical invention; the genesis
of the work might be photographic but it is art and not a photograph.</div>
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That doesn't make me a purist, just that the digital artists are skilled in their own discipline which is wholly separate from the singular event which is a photograph.</div>
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I have read an article where an artist (who calls himself a photographer) describes himself as a 'data gatherer' who assembles his data in order to make computer generated composites to for a single work–I struggle to see how that is a photograph, I would call it collage.</div>
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That is not to say there is no right or wrong in the
creation of an image that you find pleasing, putting the pyramids in Antarctica
or making composites of a scene from several taken at different times of the
day to light your landscape from more angles are not photography because they
represent the impossible.</div>
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Harry Callahan was one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. His images were diverse in subject but showed a very developed sense of relationships of objects within the frame, angles people (normally his wife and child) added for scale and shapes both colour and tone.<br />
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As a body of work Harry's is astounding, from the simple shapes and almost graphic quality of his monochromes to the complex colour double exposures. </div>
<br />Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-61373320907315227712015-06-26T18:47:00.004+00:002015-06-26T18:48:44.978+00:00Phone box MuseumDeep in the heart of Rural England lies the village of Farthingstone which has a old British red phone box that is the village museum.<br />
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Rolleiflex, Kodak Ektar, May 2015Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-40442885959931803482015-06-12T10:50:00.001+00:002015-06-12T11:01:30.973+00:00One Roll: Rumburgh Morris dancersMorris dancing is an old English tradition dating from the 15th Century. No one really knows its origin exactly but it is likely to have come from outside the UK. It is mentioned in several texts and it has been recorded that Will Kempe danced from London to Norwich in the year 1600.<br />
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Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0Rumbough, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19, UK52.3613069 1.473712999999975252.3483919 1.4535429999999752 52.3742219 1.4938829999999752tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-21952357864928217162015-06-04T22:05:00.000+00:002015-06-12T10:53:06.039+00:00One roll: Minsmere RSPB Reserve. Minsmere was established in 1947 by the RSPB. It was created by flooding farm land during the war in order to make the coast easier to defend. This encouraged many wading birds (including Avocets) to colonise the areas of reed beds and lowland wet grassland. The nature reserve is recognised for its high diversity of bird species and other wildlife and is used as a demonstration of successful reed bed management. It is visited by thousands of bird watchers each year hoping to see Bitterns, Marsh Harriers and other wetland birds.<br />
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All of the images were taken on a Rolleiflex 3,5F with <a href="http://wwwuk.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/films/portra/400main.jhtml" target="_blank">Kodak Portra 400</a> film on a single day in March 2015</div>
Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB, Dock Lane, Melton, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 1PE, UK52.24300732762697 1.617393493652343852.223562827626971 1.5770529936523436 52.262451827626968 1.6577339936523439tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-55781823853362105542015-06-04T21:18:00.003+00:002015-06-04T21:18:48.300+00:00Found Film Kodak Vericolor 120Every so often I'm given old films, mostly from old cameras and this is one of those films. I have no idea who shot these or where they were shot the guess is in the early 1990's timeframe.<br />
The film itself is a Kodak Vericolor which was Kodak's professional emulsion before the introduction of the Portra range.<br />
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These images were quite faded and needed a little cleaning up, but aren't too bad having spent a quarter of a century in the back of a camera, ghosts from the past...Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-33953258762502617642015-05-25T23:04:00.002+00:002015-05-26T17:47:01.063+00:00Forgotten Pioneers of colour photography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ask most photographers about early colour photography and they'll probably mention Kodachrome, some might point to the Autochrome process from the early part of the 20th Century but most will be un-aware of the work of one of the colour pioneers Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron.<br />
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Ducos du Hauron worked on the theory of colour photography in the early 1860's writing papers and publishing a book <em>Les couleurs en photographie, solution du </em>problème in 1869.<br />
To start with most of his work was purely theroretical because the photographic emulsions of the time were blue sensitive only and Ducos du Hauron's process required three exposures with different colour filters placed over the camera lens; one green one orange and one violet.<br />
So for the moment the process was purely theory as the materials needed (film sensitive to green and yellow/red) didn't exist.<br />
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Then in 1873 a German scientist called Herman Willhelm Vogel made a discovery that would change photography forever. He discovered that the addition of a dye called Corallin when mixed with a standard emulsion extended the sensitivity into the green and yellow regions of the spectrum.<br />
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This had a massive impact, for the first time photographers could record clouds and images that differentiated between blue and yellow, this also meant that that now we could record a wide colour spectrum in B&W they could create negatives of differing density with colour filters; the possibility of tripack colour was born.<br />
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So now with his process a practical reality he published a paper detailing the process called: <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><br />
<i>Traite Pratique de Photographie des Couleurs </i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878)</span> </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">In it Ducos du Hauron details exactly how the image above was created.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">He found that eosin, a new dye announced in 1876, sensitized to green, orange and blue. A very small amount of the dye was added to collodion and cadmium bromide. This was then poured over the clean glass plate, which, while still damp, was plunged into a solution of silver nitrate and acidified with a few drops of nitric acid; albumen and glycerine were used as preservatives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The resulting negatives were exposed with three different filters over the lens giving three B&W negatives representing the scene; each negative then had a colour positive made which was then dyed in the complementary colour of the filter used i.e the orange filtered B&W was dyed blue, the green red and the violet yellow.</span></span><br />
The resulting images being sandwiched between glass and viewed with a light behind, rather like slide films of today.<br />
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Much of Ducos du Hauron's process is used today although gelatin panchromatic plates are used instead of collodion and RGB filters are used instead of green orange and violet.<br />
Most modern processes owe a lot to the colour innovation of Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron a man who shot colour images thirty years before the first colour process became available and over 50 years earlier than Kodachrome.Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-46275895201119312832015-05-22T21:14:00.000+00:002015-05-26T17:48:08.997+00:00Colour perception and the role in making photographs three dimensional.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Take a look at the image above a reddish circle on a grey background. After a while the red will start to stand out with a 3D like effect you might even imagine the circle border is lighter on the left and darker on the right.<br />
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The circle has become invisible because the red had the same luminance value as the grey surround, that was one of the reasons it stood out from the background in an almost three dimensional way.<br />
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So what practical use has an optical illusion in photography? How can the trick be utilised.<br />
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Notice how the rocks in the foreground seems to stand out from the sea? Normally you might achieve this by point of focus blurring elements in order to make the focus point stand out.<br />
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Not really possible here as the foreground and background are beyond the infinity focus of the lens.<br />
Instead colour can come to the rescue, briefly the yellow sun has fallen on the rocks and contrasted against the blue sea.<br />
Blue and yellow are opposites, and have a special role in our visual perception look out for this as it often occurs in landscape photography.<br />
<br />Photo Utopiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04357535750339135923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-35622405431154138502015-05-15T10:49:00.000+00:002015-05-26T18:39:09.161+00:00B. B. King 1986<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In 1986 he came to a city near to my home, so tickets were purchased so myself and a friend could go to the gig.<br />
It was a fantastic evening, the man was on great form, very polished and entertaining.<br />
Most of these photo's were taken from close to the front while sitting on my friends shoulders; I used a Canon film camera with 50mm lens and Kodak Tri-x which I pushed a stop (EI800)<br />
After the show we stuck around and actually got to meet Mr King, shake hands and have a little chat-he was a true gentleman and a legendary performer.<br />
God bless and many thanks.<br />
<br />Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-71395298782192612422015-05-11T10:52:00.000+00:002015-05-26T18:39:45.144+00:00Better Than Real Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Those were the words used by my daughter while looking through the waist level finder of my Rolleiflex TLR. She found herself captivated by the large viewfinder 'it looks just like a film (movie) - like watching your life on a cinema'<br />
'Can I have a camera like this one'?<br />
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The large reasonably bright screen with built in magnifier is a very attractive system, the focus 'pops' in nicely and is especially easy with the built in magnifier.<br />
The viewfinder shows the minimum depth of focus, so some imagination is needed to judge the sharpness through the finder although there is a DOF indicator on the focus knob.<br />
The only other caveat is the laterally inverted image which makes it harder to track moving objects as everything is reversed left to right.<br />
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That said the view is marvellous and has a three dimensional tangibility that makes it look like a focussed window on your world.<br />
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To quote someone seeing it for the first time "It's better than real life"<br />
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<br />Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-5028965004085161092015-04-17T12:00:00.000+00:002015-05-26T18:40:25.049+00:00Rolleiflex factory sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently read that the Rolleiflex factory was being liquidated, this might come as no surprise to some as sales must have been small, I bet not many were aware that you could even buy a new Rolleiflex in 2015!<br />
Still the passing of one of the all time greatest camera designs should be at least noted and even celebrated for the iconic status the camera achieved.<br />
The list of great photographers that used these wonderful camera's is a long one, celebrated British photographer David Bailey said if he could just have one camera it would be a Rolleiflex.<br />
Personally I feel an incredibly lucky to have owned and used one for many years, these cameras are a joy to own and use, there are no automated features to fall back on you really do make images with this camera; like flying a single seated aircraft you are on your own with your skill will define the way the image will look, no auto anything.<br />
Life is too short not to have shot with a Rolleiflex, I have two and hopefully they will last me the rest of my life.<br />
Here are some images from the liquidator of the Rollei factory<br />
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It's sad to see it all go, and know that an era has passed I guess that's what some call progress.<br />
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Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-74562692480206244152015-04-01T11:17:00.002+00:002015-05-26T18:44:24.460+00:00Found Kodachrome <div>
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Here are a few Kodachrome slides from the early 1960's that I recently found, for a larger image just click on the photo.</div>
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Some old cars in this scene an oval window (1953-57) VW Beetle in a street probably Barcelona 1964<br />
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This one is Rome looking towards St Peters, no date stamp and 'KODACHROME'<br />
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These slides had been stored in a box which was in storage since the late 1970's! There are a few more to sort though which I may share in a later post.Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-1414589997594535492014-12-24T09:17:00.000+00:002015-05-26T18:40:59.335+00:00The Great Dynamic Range Mystery<b>Backdrop</b><br />
I have been a photographer for over thirty five years, and during that time have come up against many problems and hurdles whilst practising my profession.<br />
Recently I met and spent a social hour with an old photographer friend who showed me his latest Nikon (a lovely camera) and during the evening the conversation touched the subject of the range of tones that modern digital cameras could capture and how this related to the films we used to use for wedding and portraits.<br />
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There seem to be a consensus that digital can record a wider range of tones than negative films, which seems strange as that is far from the experience of most photographers I know who still use both mediums.<br />
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My friend pointed me to a site often used to back-up this assertion:<br />
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<a href="http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/dynamicrange2/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">A test of film vs digital dynamic range</span></a><br />
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The linked web page from Mr R Clark states:<br />
<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Digital cameras, like the Canon 1D Mark II, show a huge dynamic range compared to either print or slide film, at least for the films compared"</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A huge dynamic range? This is not what most people I know have observed!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The evidence put forward was a series of photographs showing a black box with test charts photographed on each medium the digital showing great shadow detail and good highlights the negative film showed OK highlights and non existent shadow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">(see website linked)</span><br />
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My first thoughts were how very strange quite the opposite to what I have observed-what could have happened?<br />
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The clue is early on in the text, he compares a digital camera, a slide film and a colour negative film and states:</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">the three data sets are registered at the bright end. This is why the curves in Figures 8 and 10 overlay each other at the high end"</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Now it begins to make sense why the author only sees the film has a range of seven stops–he used the same exposure for all three mediums so he has exposed for the highlights.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Let me explain; both digital and slide film need to be exposed so you don't clip highlight information and just end up with either clear film or saturated sensor wells, so you effectively expose for the highlights</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Negative film on the other hand needs exposing for the shadow info and let the highlights fall on the upper part of the curve.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Expose negative film so the shadow falls in the toe</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The correct way for Mr Clark to evaluate the DR of each medium would need very different different exposures for each medium; the one for the negative should place the darkest shadow in the toe of the curve so the shadow will be perfectly reproduced and because of the compression effect of the negative films shoulder the highlights will still be recorded.</span><br />
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My experience (and Kodak's figures) has shown that most negative films have a range of about 12-14 stops (albeit the top of the range is compressed). Negative films have a shoulder that means the highlight roll-off is very gradual on the other hand digital has better shadow recovery so more detail given the same exposure.<br />
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So what Mr Clark has done here is exposed to give good highlight retention on the digital and used the same exposure on the negative film; thus showcasing the shadow recovery of digital and showing up the poor shadow of film when underexposing (the exposure values for each are different)<br />
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He has either deliberately or by accident truncated the film curve (used only the left part of the curve and placed the highlight on the 'straight line' of the curve this caused his underexposure and that is why he gets only seven stops of useable data rather than the fourteen Kodak cite<br />
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You could conversely do this 'experiment' again exposing the film correctly (expose for shadows and stop down 2 stops) and then expose the digital with the same exposure values thus blowing the highlights; this would give us a very different conclusion from Mr Clark's test.<br />
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I could verify Mr Clark's results by making my own 'black box' (that might be a future post) and placing the negative exposure on the correct part of the curve for that medium.<br />
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Here though are a couple of tests that show the effect:<br />
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<a href="http://archive.bigben.id.au/tutorials/360/technical/hdri/acquiring.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Film and digital compared over a wider range than Mr Clark's test</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.janrik.net/MiscSubj/2007/FilmVsDSLRTests20070528/A_Comparison_of_Film_and_DSLR_Images.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">A test showing film vs digital over the complete range (mentions Clark in the conclusion)</span></a><br />
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Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-92216019758156919552013-11-12T08:44:00.002+00:002015-05-26T18:45:08.430+00:00Weston Exposure meters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Weston Company has a very interesting history, the founder was a British born American citizen Edward Weston an engineer with hundreds of patents to his name.<br />
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The company made a range of products from the speedometers used on Harley Davidson motorcycles to long life arc lamps.<br />
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As well as being a prolific inventor he was also a keen photographer and along with his son (he must have had some spare time) called Edward Faraday Weston they invented the worlds first photographic exposure meter in the early 1930's in fact the early prototypes were used on the film 'Gone with the Wind'.<br />
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Weston had two factories, one in New Jersey, America and one in Middlesex in Britain, the British model being slightly different and distributed by the Ilford Photo company.<br />
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<b>Practical Use</b><br />
Here at Photo Utopia we're not afraid to use antiquated photographic equipment; in fact it is one of the reasons for this blog.<br />
The question a lot of you will be asking is why a handheld meter? Further to that why trust a meter that is over half a century old?<br />
Don't they drift and become out of tolerance?<br />
I have three meters currently, a Minolta spot, Sekonic Digilite and this one – a 1960's Weston, and I can honestly say hand on heart that this is one of the most accurate meters I've ever used at any price.<br />
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For everyday photography I normally use cameras with built in meters, even then a hand held is a great addition to you photo-bag.<br />
It has a Selenium meter cell thus using no batteries–magic eye!<br />
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For accurate metering hand held units with an invercone (the translucent white attachment) can be used to take incident light readings which overall I have found to be more accurate than the reflected type or the ones built in most older film SLR's.<br />
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Incident readings are taken with the meter cell (covered with an invercone) pointed at the camera, in other words they measure the light falling on the subject.<br />
The Weston strength is the quality of the invercone which is a concave rather than domed device, and is more accurate because of that clever design.<br />
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Even in bright light with transparency film the Weston gives readings that are very accurate, tested against my other 'modern' meters confirms that fact.<br />
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Furthermore the dozen or so Westons I've tried or used over the last twenty years seemed similarly accurate, coupled to that I've been told if the needle functions the unit is probably OK<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rolleiflex 3,5F Provia 100 metered with a Weston</span></td></tr>
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Most people are worried about using selenium meters of a certain age, but I've been quite lucky and have never found one that didn't work–others experiences may differ, but at the price these seem to go for on auction sites (I paid less than £10 for this one) they make a cost effective choice for those who want to try a hand held meter.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">©Photo Utopia 2013</span></div>
Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-80194377453894240712013-08-14T12:08:00.001+00:002015-05-26T18:46:33.214+00:00Nikkormat EL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Nikkormat EL was Nikon's first foray into the world of aperture priority <i>(you set the ƒ number and the camera sets the speed)</i> electronic cameras in 1972.<br />
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The model is a much overlooked by modern buyers compared its more glamorous FE/FE2 successors, perhaps people are worried investing in such an old electronic device fearing failure or out of tolerance forty year old electronics.<br />
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I decided to take a chance on one I found for less than £50 in a well known UK camera shop, after all the unit came with 6 month warranty–what could I lose?<br />
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My fears were totally unfounded, the camera arrived and checked out flawless against a known good meter all shutter speeds and mechanics seemed fine, the only issue I could see was the foam mirror dampener and possibly rear light seals so a kit was ordered from a well known auction site and fitted in less than an hour<br />
at the cost of about £5.<br />
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The Nikkormat build quality is from another age, everything from the metal shutter dial to the re-enforced strap lugs are made to last even the shutter speeds are etched into the metal rather than just screen printed — everything feels solid.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear and easy to read controls, with a solid feel.</td></tr>
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Another thing I like compared to the Nikkormat FT is the control placement, which to me is perfect, shutter dial top right (compared to lens mount) ASA dial under the re-wind knob (rather than on the fingernail breaking flange) with nice locks for the film door and ASA setting.<br />
In use the camera feels very positive, the weight is well balanced with most common lenses and wind-on is smooth; the shutter... I just love the soft ssschtick sound just love it!<br />
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The batteries are very easy to get hold of type PX28/4SR44 which is a 6V cell. The Cds meter is a little tougher on batteries than later SPD types so you might like to keep a spare handy.<br />
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The metering is by match needle on the left of the large relatively bright screen:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In manual mode just line up the green and black needles</td></tr>
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I put through a roll of Poundland Agfa Vista C41 and was pleasantly surprised by the results, the meter seemed pretty accurate, especially for one with a simple centre weighted area.<br />
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The best way to really give it a test is to put it on auto with a roll of E6; that type of film having less margin for error with exposure.<br />
After all the main reason for buying the camera was to have a 'lazy' camera to take on holidays and trips.<br />
Loaded with Agfa CT Precisa which is a budget slide film (actually made by Fuji) I took the film to the beach for the day:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just about every frame came out perfectly</td></tr>
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The automatic meter and Nikons early attempt at making the associated electronics have proven to be a very robust and durable one, my initial fears at buying a forty year old electronic camera were totally unfounded.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a nicely saturated well exposed slide.</td></tr>
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So next time you see a Nikkormat EL for half the price of a later Nikon FE don't dismiss it out of hand because of its age, its a well made camera that should last many years of picture taking.Photo–Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14933432574703415143noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32569695.post-43472544373106625222013-08-13T12:25:00.002+00:002015-05-26T18:47:12.012+00:00Agfa CT Precisa E6 film<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This particular film can be found very cheaply in quite a few outlets, and although 'Agfa' by name is a totally different film from the boxes you may find of CT Precisa with the Agfa rhombus logo from before the bankruptcy most of which will be out dated by now.<br />
This film is in fact made in Japan by Fuji and is actually a pretty good emulsion in its own right, probably very similar to RDP.<br />
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One of the things I've always liked about Fuji films is the way they render European skin tones, they accentuate the sun tan and coupled with the nice saturation give nice tones.<br />
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The colour saturation and to my eye accurate rendering of tones and colour make this film a little bit of a bargain, well worth getting a roll if you've never used E6.<br />
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