"Hey, kids, I'm just going to take a photo of this old camera a friend gave me - I'll come and play with you in a minute, ok?" They won.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/7326616480_7edc59cf0b_z.jpg
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 3 June 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
aw.
― ♆ (gr8080), Sunday, 3 June 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
oh X100 why are you such a flake. had mine 3/4 weeks and now it suddenly won't turn on. haven't been out in rain, dropped it, or anything. have tried different batteries.
welp, back to the store with you. ~sigh~
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
...
it was a corrupt mem card in the end. phewwwww
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
be careful of the sticky aperture
― un® (dayo), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
ya 4 real
picked up a big mini cheap off ebay
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Thursday, 21 June 2012 07:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/yashirker.jpg
ayi had a seagull tlr for a while and i loved it but never really properly used it and i had trouble getting interesting film in northeastern chinaand i could find plenty of places to develop what i shot but never anywhere to make good scansit had a pretty soft hazy lens tooit was fun to carry around thoughi sold iti just bought a yashica ayep
― dylannn, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/seagull.jpg
Electric Light Orchestra Telephone Line Lyrics Send "Telephone Line" Ringtone to your CellSongwriters: LYNNE, JEFFHello--how are youHave you been alright, through all those lonely nights,That's what I'd say, I'd tell you everything,If you'd pick up that telephone.
Hey--how you feelinAre you still the sameDon't you realize the things we did were all for real not a dream,I just can't believeThey've all faded out of view.
I look into the sky(the love you need aint gonna see you through.)And I wonder why(the little things are finally coming true.)
ChorusTelephone line, give me some time, Im living in twilightTelephone line, give me some time, Im living in twilight
O.k. so no--ones answering,Well can't you just let it ring a little longerIll just sit tight, through the shadows of the nightLet it ring for evermore.
Chorus -- repeat[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/electric+light+orchestra/telephone+line_20045339.html ]
Send "Telephone Line" Ringtone to your Cell Telephone Line lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
― dylannn, Thursday, 5 July 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
not sure why i was posting elo lyrics
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/01830035.jpghttp://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/01830028.jpg
― dylannn, Saturday, 4 August 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
On a plane to California and I've got a blacked out viewfinder on my M2!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
i have no experience of leicas but can you just remove the lens & check the mirror hasn't snapped up/down, that the lil shelves aren't just sticky? (i don't even know if leicas use mirrored lenses but this works for my om-1).
― , Blogger (schlump), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
No mirrors in a rangefinder. Probably the old glue in the rangefinder mechanism has finally given way. Already sent an email to Youxin Ye inquiring about a repair.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
so my ("my") cron 50 has never been able to open all the way to f2, the aperture ring just stops at f2.8. having that extra stop sure would be useful, but I'm not sure how much it would cost to repair. anyone done this before? how much is a body CLA anyway?
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
Already got my estimate back. $150 for CLA, $160 for fix, and $20 to finally shave my 35mm lens to bring up the right framelines. Going for it as soon as I'm able.Paid $8 for airplane wifi for all this! Can't get it fixed soon enough!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
Regarding the 50mm summicron, maybe just see what Youxin Ye quotes? He responded super fast to my email.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
what a bummer -- did you take any other cameras on your trip??
and more importantly - did you get a window seat so you could take a window photo before it broke???>???
― ○ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
shooting blind is not so bad imo
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
gbx, youxin is probably good - I also know a dude out in michigan who does great work
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
youxin is nothing if not prompt, yikes
while we're talking mail order, who is good for bulk development?
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
dunno about bulk development
google 'dave's camera repair' to get the number of the dude in michigan if you're interested - calling him is the quickest I think
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
only place ive done bulk is Dwayne's and we've discussed ppl's likes/dislikes abt them before
― ○ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
North Coast Photo is good. Expensive, tho, IIRC.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Brought the rollei 35 out here too, thank god. Gonna shoot at least one roll blind in the m2 to clear out the camera tho.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 9 August 2012 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/0006_9.jpg
― dylannn, Monday, 27 August 2012 07:41 (eleven years ago) link
Office Depot near me is closing, I got a Fuji Instax 210 and 100 shots of film for $25!
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 27 August 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
woah
― ○ (gr8080), Monday, 27 August 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
where's my camerawho the hell signed for its delivery todayargh
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
sweet relief, got my hunk of metal back.should prob insure this thing I guess
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Friday, 31 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
if i wanted to start fucking w/ an 35mm SLR/Telephoto setup, what would be my cheapest option? Ideally i'd like to be taking pictures of surfers half a mile away i guess?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
do you have any good thrift stores? at the better ones I always see some old SLR or other, usually with some lens options. like a canon ae-1 or olympus om-1 or something similar. just run it through all shutter speeds, check the mirror, open and close the back, etc. and grab it!these things seem to be priced in the $50 range usually (at least back in CA, I haven't priced any out in NYC, where I see them less at thrift stores and more often at flea markets).otherwise... craigslist?
you're thinking 35mm SLR + something in the 100-200mm range?
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know where in Hawaii you are (or even which island...) but this would be interesting to check out maybe: http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/pho/3225770333.html
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
woah good lookin out
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/yashicamg1_zps0e4850a2.jpg
bought for 1 usd. had a working battery in it.
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
i love chinese tlrs :(( fingers because i hated the way the bare bulbs in the room reflected in the lenses digital point and shoot fukc
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/1pearlriverand3fingers_zps66d17617.jpg
― dylannn, Sunday, 23 September 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
pretty name for a camera
― let's get the banned back together (schlump), Sunday, 23 September 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
u need a manicure, bro
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 24 September 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
i am simultaneously intrigued and insulted. could they be worked on as they are or would i need to grow them out?
― dylannn, Monday, 24 September 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
ha don't be insulted I'm just fucking around. but since you ask yes they could be worked on as they are now.
is that a lot smaller than most medium format cameras?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
TLRs are smaller than you'd expect (aside from the Mamiya Cs) - whether Rollei/Minolta Autocord or the various Chinese TLRs. About half the weight of any given medium format SLR, I'd say.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's the same size as its rollei and yashica cousins. quite carry aroundable.
― dylannn, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/03790006.jpghttp://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/03790005.jpg
overexposed from the pearl river. i think portra 800.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
how were those scanned? I'm sure you could get a lot more out of an exposed negative (are they from negatives?).
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
I mean "over-exposed negative"
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
epson v750? or v500. from negatives. you mean that i could get a better scan out of the negative?
― dylannn, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/comparison222.jpg
first, need to learn how to make proper exposures and focus this camera.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I'm sure you could. it looks like you're scanning the entire range of the *negative* (like white and black points determined by the unexposed sections, or pure black sections covered by the negative holder) but not the image itself.it looks like you're scanning a lot of the "blank area" outside of the normal range of the histogram of a negative and are picking up a lot of gray as a result.
here's where I cut off the RGB channels when I scan fuji superia 400:http://www.altairnouveau.com/various-curves.jpg
...which is already pretty low contrast, but your images look as if the highlights especially could be cut off a little closer
xpost
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
so your images look as if the lines on the right (determining where to cut off highlights) are much further to the right, which would create that gray tone. on my histogram you can see that there is *information* to the right to scan, but it's just the pure black of the negative holder. so if the scanner were to calibrate its white point based on the *purest white* it would come out somewhat gray since the purest white is much brighter than anything that actually appears in the image (since it's that negative holder shadow, essentially).
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
ah, alright. that explanation + diagram is excellent.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
cool. I don't know the Epson scanning software or I'd be able to get more specific.camera looks like it's making good pictures in any case!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 05:38 (eleven years ago) link
disclaimer- i do not know much about photography, sorry for dumb questions.
i've got a superzoom p&s that allows for a fair degree of manual and programmed controls. it is often very sunny here. this is making dynamic range a bit of a problem when i shoot outdoors, i seem to get a lot of clipping. so, i tried to counter that by adjusting EV -1/3. this gave me a histogram shape without clipping, but i then have to go back in shop and adjust the curve both to the right and left. if i go full auto, i don't get as much clipping, but i can't force flash unless i'm in P or M.
is this a normal way to handle this problem? i mean, it seems to work, but i'm not very good at photoshop.
― you all a buncha takers (say the sad bells of romney) (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link