On Mar 4, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > You nailed the focus and exposure. How unwieldy that all seems today. > Those double edge halos are something new to me. Seems a product of bokeh.(?)
Thanks Jack. I think the haloing is just the odd bokeh of an ancient lens.. I'll have to get out my loop and have a close look at the transparency. > > Jack > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:31 PM > Subject: PESO: Sky HIgh > > A curiosity for a slow Sunday. Click to make smaller. > Shot this with my Speed Graphic and Wollensak 127/4.5 Raptor about 35 years > ago. It was one of the few times I was successful shooting drag cars in > action with that camera. I also got my jerry-rigged Honeywell potato masher > strobe to fire here, as evidenced by the illuminated wheelwell. Film was > Ektachrome 64 4x5. Stop was probably f8. DOF is just barely adequate, as the > nose and tail of the car are a bit soft. Of course, that could also be a > result of the panning. Out of focus background elements have halos. That may > be a result of the wackiness of the lens. The transparency is very dirty. > Found it in the basement while trying to deal with my flood problem. I should > try washing it now that I've at least scanned it. The 16-bit scan that I > generated on my old Epson flatbed was over a gigabyte. I cropped it to about > 770 meg. The pic shown here is the largest that photo.net allows. I was an > ambitious young man, who lacked common sense:-). > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15291993&size=lg > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
