Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-16 Thread David . Mann
Peter wrote: > Dave very nicely offered to unload & reload the van. And don't forget that lens I spotted in the queue, the one that will be polluting your shop floor for the next several months until you can find someone who wants it :) I can't believe I was shopping in the dealers queue even b

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-16 Thread Camdir
In a message dated 15/05/02 20:11:21 GMT Daylight Time, Cotty writes: << Nice tale re the personal touch with the Mamiya. Nice one Peter, too, for being so hospitable - - what was his cut? Just kidding :-) >> Dave very nicely offered to unload & reload the van. I think he probably got to see

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-15 Thread Cotty
Hi Dave, Nice tale re the personal touch with the Mamiya. Nice one Peter, too, for being so hospitable - - what was his cut? Just kidding :-) The best times to hang around those shows are surely when they're setting up (that's when the dealers stalk), and the first half hour on opening (that'

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-15 Thread David . Mann
Cotty wrote: > Sounds like you had a good time at Photographica. Out of interest, how > did you manage to hawk your RB67? I presume Peter allowed you a corner of > his stand? Or did you wander around wearing a gaberdeen mac with a large > bulge and whispering, "Oi, Bruce, wanna buy a *real* nice

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-14 Thread David . Mann
Cotty wrote: > I have yet to put a roll of transparency film through - what > would be good for landscapes on MF? I now have a polariser attached. I'm quite fond of E100SW and before I came over to the UK I was starting to get into Provia 100F a little. Velvia is not my cup of tea as the colour

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-13 Thread Aaron Reynolds
On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 06:57 PM, Jeff wrote: > I don't care much about the green color cast in the RSX. Eek! That's not your RSX, that's a warning sign at your lab: either the colour developer time was too short or the temperature too low, or the colour developer is close to exhaustion,

RE: Chevys and Dream Cars (was Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...)

2002-05-12 Thread John Coyle
Hey Cotty, I had one of those once! In Australia, the Charger was thought of as pretty much a rev-head's car, but my mother loved hers (mind you, the last time she drove one of my cars, I watched cruising at 130 in a 100 zone with some trepidation, so she's no little old grey-haired lady!). La

Re: Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-12 Thread Jeff
> BTW I've just mastered loading a Paterson multi- > format spiral with a > practice 120 roll. I could see where i was > goning wrong: the leading edge > needed help getting past the steel balls as the > front curl wanted to go > under the balls and not over them. That sounds like something obsce

RE: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-12 Thread William D. Sawyer
We may never make into the woods. > -Original Message- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist > Sent: May 11, 2002 8:10 PM > > If the weather looks good, I'll bring it. > Paul > > "William D. Sawyer" wrote: > > > > Hey Paul, > > > > How about bringing it to the M

RE: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-11 Thread William D. Sawyer
Hey Paul, How about bringing it to the Michigan PDML outing? > -Original Message- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist > Sent: May 11, 2002 2:27 PM > >BTW, I bought that Chevy in LA and brought it back here to Motor City > where it belongs :-). We do the Woodward

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Shel, I picked up a roll of EPP. I'll give it a try. In my former life back in the late seventies, when I was shooting a lot of transparency film in my Mamiya TLR, I used EPS, which was an ISO 200 film. I was quite fond of that. I suspect EPP is a similar formulation. The woman in the store

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
Hi Cotty, It was a 6x7 with the 105/2.4 lens. Just a quicky. I couldn't park there for very long, so I took a meter reading down the block with an incident meter. Parked the car, hopped out, and shot. The yellow curbs are reflecting in the grille. I don't like that. I'm going to go back and do it

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-11 Thread Paul Stenquist
I'm not sure if Ektachrome 64 is still available. But you're right: it had a distinctive blue cast. Ektachrome 100S is totally different. And if you want a slight warm cast, Ektachrome 100WS provides a bit of that. It makes it look like everything was shot an hour before sunset, which can be good

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-11 Thread Cotty
>> > I have yet to put a roll of transparency film through - what >> > would be good for landscapes on MF? >> >Ektachrome 100S produces excellent images with saturated but believable >color. And it scans very well. Thanks Paul. In 1981 I remember using Ektachrome 64 on an RB67 and being pretty

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Stenquist
Cotty wrote: > > > I have yet to put a roll of transparency film through - what > > would be good for landscapes on MF? > Ektachrome 100S produces excellent images with saturated but believable color. And it scans very well. Paul - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubsc

Re: Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread David Brooks
Not a big one;a nice one Dave:) Begin Original Message From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >;) Do I have to bring you some...shrubbery? 8-D Pentax User Stouffville Ontario Canada http://home.ca.inter.net/brooksdj Sign up today for your Free E-mail at: http://www.canoe.ca/CanoeMa

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Stenquist
Bruce Dayton wrote: > > Cotty, > > You had me chuckling as you related your experience. I have had a > similar experience with MF. There certainly does seem to be a mindset > difference when you use the bigger camera. I enjoy it more and yes, > more of my shots are well executed on MF. I f

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Jeff
To: "Pentax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 6:48 PM Subject: Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now... > >Sorry,thats what i mean the Agfa RXS II. > >I agree with Bruce on this one Cotty.Very > >nice colours > > Two votes. Any more? :-)

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Cotty
>Sorry,thats what i mean the Agfa RXS II. >I agree with Bruce on this one Cotty.Very >nice colours Two votes. Any more? :-) >Before it was discontinued, I loved Fujichrome Astia. Now I shoot a lot >of Agfachrome RSX. Aha! Three votes! >Welcome to the land o' big negs, Cotty! I know that you

Re: Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread David Brooks
00 +0100 To: "Pentax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now... >Glad everything worked out Cotty.I know what >you mean about setting up to shot a scene.I am >only using a lowly Y-M with fixed lens,but i approach >my MF shooting a bi

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Cotty
>Glad everything worked out Cotty.I know what >you mean about setting up to shot a scene.I am >only using a lowly Y-M with fixed lens,but i approach >my MF shooting a bit different.Seem to take more >time and think the shot out more.I just got back >a roll of Agfa rsx slide film,i also did a wow.

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Cotty
Cheers Bruce. I agree with your sentiments exactly. Especially the 'insurance' shots... Best, Cotty >You had me chuckling as you related your experience. I have had a >similar experience with MF. There certainly does seem to be a mindset >difference when you use the bigger camera. I enjoy i

Re: Medium Format - I can see clearly now...

2002-05-10 Thread Cotty
>maximum aperture >selected (f/22 in this case) OOPS - of course this should read 'minimum' aperture. But you know what I meant... Cotty ___ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Mac