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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 22:47:23 JST Eugen Rochko

   Something for #FensterFreitag. Cumbria.

   Canon AE-1 Program
   Kodak Portra 400
   Helios 44M 58mm/2

   #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #WindowFriday

   • Silversalty (silversalty@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 23:02:00 JST Silversalty

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     @Gargron
     Sharpness generally looks good on this except for upper right stone work. I'm wondering about your process of going from negative film to digital image.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 23:05:23 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Silversalty

     @Silversalty It's the lens, it's flawed.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 23:11:32 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Silversalty

     @Silversalty Oh, and the lab scans it with a Noritsu scanner.

   • Silversalty (silversalty@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 23:18:33 JST Silversalty

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     @Gargron
     But this image has decent sharpness. Deep corner blur is fairly standard.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 23:34:15 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Silversalty

     @Silversalty I've been told it likely has misaligned elements.

   • Silversalty (silversalty@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 03:34:49 JST Silversalty

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     @Gargron
     I suggested that but the image I based that on had a very strange pattern of blur.

     I was never a fan of third party handling of my film. I've seen greasy hands handling my film. Once.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 03:43:55 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Silversalty

     @Silversalty Ah, that was you. Well, it's a consistent defect among the pictures taken with Helios, and not present in pictures taking with the Canon FD lens, so I don't think it's the scan that's the problem.

   • Silversalty (silversalty@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 03:47:13 JST Silversalty

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     @Gargron
     I've have in the past given up on poor lenses. I had a Nikkor 50mm f1.4. Later I got a 50mm f2.0. The 2.0 was much better in low light and only really half a stop slower. I sold the 1.4.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 03:49:33 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Silversalty

     @Silversalty The Helios works just fine for up close portraits where the edges are blurred. I will simply not use it for landscape photography anymore.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 00:49:35 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • macke_47

     @macke_47 M42 to FD, and as far as I'm aware has no effect on aperture. I've shot with f2 through it.

   • macke_47 (macke_47@ruhr.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 00:49:37 JST macke_47

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     @Gargron Which Adapter do you use and does it only work with a closed aperture.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:23:49 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • macke_47

     @macke_47 I don't think automatic works with a mount adapter, I've been shooting manual.

   • macke_47 (macke_47@ruhr.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:23:50 JST macke_47

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     @Gargron A that 's the trick with aperture. And M42 lenses are a good wild card to be adapted to nearly every lens. I've bought two M42 lenses together with an old Practika recently. One of them has kind of an A-M Automatic-Manual switch to close the aperture.

   • Raphaëlle (raphaellesieste@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 04:40:52 JST Raphaëlle

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     @Gargron