Analog film photography and cameras

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Trailer on Vimeo

I used to love his work, but I think i OD a bit on it and went off it, haven't look at it for years. Looking again now is amazing.

went to the Cartier-Bresson/Question of Colour exhibition at Somerset House yesterday.
Really liked it.... reccomended!

Have to see that at some point. And the Barbican one. And the Ansel Adams.

Ansel Adams exhibition is defintely worth going.

Need to go to the Somerset House and Barbican one soon.

Barbican one really is excellent. Larry Burrows and Raghubir Singh in particular, stunning prints

Minox 35 –*yes / no?

Interesting piece of TV about Viviann Meyer here: http://www.svtplay.se/video/582219/del-7-av-12-kobra-om-kulturens-nekrofiler

It's from swedish telly so fw to 17:30

^ Actually what I'm after is a small pocketable camera with aperture priority, zone focus (or slr / rangefinder if possible) that'll be good for street shooting. Missed too many shots with my ricoh due to the autofocus missing, and my XA1 only takes 400 / 100 film, so would be nice with something a bit more versatile.

Maybe try to get hold of an XA?
25-800iso
Rangefinder
Small
Aperture priority and it tells you the shutter speed.

Reminds me of that famous Daido Moriyama shot:

Slightly less terrifying though!

I've been retouching 350 meg scans for an upcoming exhibition for the last week and I'm about to crack... and I still have 70 rolls of 120 to look through!!

Maybe try to get hold of an XA?
25-800iso
Rangefinder
Small
Aperture priority and it tells you the shutter speed.

Was reading up on good compacts last night, and that's one of the contenders. Not sure how it'll work with my glasses though? I assume it has a quite a small viewfinder?

I use an XA from time to time, I wear glasses, and yes it is a problem.
To really see the comlete frame I have to press my face / glasses against the camera.
If I want to do something serious with a camera like this I bring contacts.

And let's not forget about the Cecil Beaton exhibition at the IWM and Daido Moriyama/William Klein at the Tate Modern. 2012 has been a good year for photography exhibitions!

went to the Cartier-Bresson/Question of Colour exhibition at Somerset House yesterday.
Really liked it.... reccomended!

Have to see that at some point. And the Barbican one. And the Ansel Adams.

Last year also was good with the Don McCullen exhibition too.

Hinius, can you put the details of the film and scanner etc. is it possible to upload an original 350mb file somewhere just to have a look at the spectacular stuff : )

Hinius - that's some lovely work there. Your stuff?

Yeah, they're all my images, shot on a Mamiya 7 6x7 camera with Kodak Portra 400 film.

The scanner is a Hasselblad X5, which outside of a drum scanner is probably as good as it gets: fast (it can do 20 full-resolution scans an hour) and equivalently expensive (probably £15,000 new, but I rent them for £30 an hour). The files are the probably largest I've ever had to deal with regularly, it's not because they're big (pixel-wise) but because they're 16 bit images.

Unfortunately, maybe because I'm so painstaking, the retouching process takes a while, about 1 hour per image (sometimes more, sometimes less). After a while, one settles into a routine of retouch, browse LFGSS bike porn, retouch, browse LFGSS current projects, retouch...

Hasselblad X5 scan, 8902 x 7141 pixels, 16 bit 355 meg TIFF

100% crop:

Hasselblad X5 scan, 8616 x 6996, 16 bit 315 meg TIFF

100% crop:

For reference, comparing them to a drum scanner:

Itek/ICG drum scan, 11190 x 8960 pixels, 8 bit, 300 meg TIFF

100% crop:

Itek/ICG drum scan, 8688 x 7038 pixels, 8 bit, 120 meg TIFF

100% crop:

For a digital comparison, my 36 megapixel Nikon D800E (in 5x4 crop mode) would pump out 6144 x 4912 pixels, 16 bit TIFF at about 160-180 megs. A 80 megapixel Phase One or Leaf digital medium format back would of course outsize these scans.

Really interesting.

Love this, where is it?

Was reading up on good compacts last night, and that's one of the contenders. Not sure how it'll work with my glasses though? I assume it has a quite a small viewfinder?

Small viewfinder and it is fiddly but that's the price you pay for having something that is actually pocket sized.

It's the reason my Mju II gets used so much, it's small and quick - yes it doesn't have as much control as an XA but there's plenty of shots I'd have missed if I was shooting on the XA.

Still love mine though and they take great photos.

is the AF on the mju II decent?

Beautiful shots hinius ;)

Psa William Klein documentary tonight on bbc 1 10.35

Hinius just ended the thread IMO.

Amazing stuff.

Really interesting.

Love this, where is it?

This is Cliffe, east of Gravesend in Kent. You're looking north over (and across the Thames) with the massive Thames Haven refinery in the background. Incidentally enough, it's a quite enjoyable ride (from either Gravesend or Rochester) to get there!

Beautiful shots hinius ;)

Psa William Klein documentary tonight on bbc 1 10.35

William Klein is such a dude... at the opening of the Klein & Moriyama exhibition at the Tate Modern, he was zipping around on his electric wheelchair snapping photographs. At the age of 84 no less! So many great photographers live to an old age, it can't be a coincidence.

Is anybody selling a Olympus mju ll ?

Great stuff, hinius!
Like the first one you posted the most.