Welcome to the group.
My wife is deep into genealogy and we've been going on genealogical
vacations over the past few years - traipsing through small towns and
cemeteries in New England and the midwest. They are fun trips. I shoot
film and digital and usually use B&W film in cemeteries - Tri-X pushed
to 1600 is a favorite. I don't document info but focus on the graphics
in the stones themselves. Digital infrared and color (especially in the
fall) also come into play.
I'd be very interested in hearing how you use colored filters on the K70
for digital B&W.
Mark
Dale H. Cook wrote:
I am a recently retired broadcast engineer who is taking up photography as a hobby
after using it largely only for work and genealogical research over the last 30+
years. Most of my genealogical photography going forward will undoubtedly be
photographing gravestones in B&W, the preferred format for those photos (I am a
member of the Association for Gravestone Studies).
I used SLRs for years (most recently a Pentax K-1000). but switched to a digital
camera (a Sony Cybershot) about 15 years ago for convenience. With retirement I
decided to upgrade, and recently bought a Pentax K-70 with a DA 18-270mm as my
walking-around lens. I am still mastering the amazing array of settings but am
making progress. I am using a variety of colored B&W filters for gravestones,
because 1) I am on old guy who was used to doing that with film, and 2) although I
have done a fair amount of image post-production over the years I would rather get
the correct image in-camera than fix it in post.
Dale H. Cook, 50+ years as an SLR photographer,
Pentax K-70 w/ Pentax-DA 18-270mm lens, using
colored filters for B&W gravestone photography
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