Your Cameras

be careful of the sticky aperture

ya 4 real

picked up a big mini cheap off ebay

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i 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 china
and i could find plenty of places to develop what i shot but never anywhere to make good scans
it had a pretty soft hazy lens too
it was fun to carry around though
i sold it
i just bought a yashica a
yep

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not sure why i was posting elo lyrics

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On a plane to California and I've got a blacked out viewfinder on my M2!

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).

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.

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?

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!

Regarding the 50mm summicron, maybe just see what Youxin Ye quotes? He responded super fast to my email.

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???>???

shooting blind is not so bad imo

gbx, youxin is probably good - I also know a dude out in michigan who does great work

youxin is nothing if not prompt, yikes

while we're talking mail order, who is good for bulk development?

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

only place ive done bulk is Dwayne's and we've discussed ppl's likes/dislikes abt them before

North Coast Photo is good. Expensive, tho, IIRC.

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.

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Office Depot near me is closing, I got a Fuji Instax 210 and 100 shots of film for $25!

woah

where's my camera
who the hell signed for its delivery today
argh

sweet relief, got my hunk of metal back.
should prob insure this thing I guess

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?

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?

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

woah good lookin out

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bought for 1 usd. had a working battery in it.

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

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pretty name for a camera

u need a manicure, bro

i am simultaneously intrigued and insulted. could they be worked on as they are or would i need to grow them out?

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?

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.

yeah, it's the same size as its rollei and yashica cousins. quite carry aroundable.

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overexposed from the pearl river. i think portra 800.

how were those scanned? I'm sure you could get a lot more out of an exposed negative (are they from negatives?).

I mean "over-exposed negative"

epson v750? or v500. from negatives. you mean that i could get a better scan out of the negative?

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first, need to learn how to make proper exposures and focus this camera.

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

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).

ah, alright. that explanation + diagram is excellent.

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!

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're shooting digital? if so, that's kinda normal. you underexpose a bit to avoid clipping, and then later you go in and adjust levels or curves etc. to bring up the overall brightness.
it's one of the things I don't like about digital, since I can never seem to get the same sort of vibrance by bringing up an underexposed picture as I can by just exposing for a bight image at the outset. Recently I just decided to screw the highlights on a job I was doing in very mixed light, just to get the actual subjects right and it seemed to work pretty well.

an example:
http://www.altairnouveau.com/IMG_1781.jpg

not even worth worrying about the highlights here, imo
subjects are in deep shadow with backlighting. nobody really cares about lost detail in the trees, which are out of focus anyway.

looks good.

yeah, it's a canon sx40 i got pretty cheap, i wanted something that was versatile and easy to carry. at 35x i can take pics of my kids games and good video, and images are acceptable. i wanted a panasonic fz150 but i couldn't find one in time for a trip i was taking.

my pocket p&s is mostly ok, but really, for the kind of use i put it to, i might as well just use my iphone.

oh yeah the other thing is that it's hard to make *anything* look good in direct midday light.

yeah, i'm trying to learn the basics of like, just shooting good pictures using the basics. i need first to understand basic rules of lighting and composition. i want minimal fiddling around after the fact.