Show your Contax G pictures.

Oi, jaredangle, now you've done it. Revived this thread. A classic it is too. Like the camera.

This will make me dig out my one remaining Contax G1, check my four surviving G lenses (21, 28, 35, 90) for fungus, dust the lot off, and bring this wonderful ancient kit of mine back to life.

In my time I had four G1s and five lenses. A Japanese buyer I've known for many years came to Australia last year and relieved me of three of my four, also my 45/2.0, yes, the legendary standard lens for the Contax Gs. I was reluctant to let all this go but he made me an offer I couldn't resist. I did keep one G1 and the other lenses as he said G lenses were plentiful in Japan but nowadays not so many good operating G1s are available. Time passes, everything changes.

Not to forget I now have to go thru this entire thread and post Likes on all the glorious images youse'all have posted.

Truly, at this rate I will never get anything more done at home. But it will be a glorious way to spend my time...
 
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Nice pics, but kind of greenish. Is that typical of Vision 3? I bought a couple of rolls to try out, but I haven't shot them yet.
Also, where do you send it for processing and do they strip the remjet?
 
James Evidon said:
Nice pics, but kind of greenish. Is that typical of Vision 3? I bought a couple of rolls to try out, but I haven't shot them yet.
Also, where do you send it for processing and do they strip the remjet?
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Thanks! I sent it to Midwest Film Company (Midwest Film Co), and they strip the remjet when they process it. They use a motion picture scanner for 35mm and they provide a LOG file for color grading (this seems to be new, I did not have the LOG file with my scans). The final scan is a TIF with very flat contrast - the shots above are largely due to sub-par editing on my part as I'm relearning Lightroom. Here's an unedited scan of the first frame (Millennium Falcon). I may try doing my own DSLR scan of the negatives to see how my scan differs from their scan, and how that impacts the final edit.

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James Evidon said:
Nice pics, but kind of greenish. Is that typical of Vision 3? I bought a couple of rolls to try out, but I haven't shot them yet.
Also, where do you send it for processing and do they strip the remjet?
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Many of my color negative images, whether taken with a Contax G or my other 35mm cameras - Nikkormat FT2s or Leica iig - show a greenish tinge. So it may be the film. Or possibly the lenses. Or maybe even the processing. So endless possibilities here.

Color casts are easily corrected in post processing. But that's too much like work for me.

In the good old days of my film time I found Kodak negative emulsions tended to magenta. Agfa to yellow. Fuji to green.

Is this still the case? I've not used a roll of color negative film for many years, but I do have about a dozen left in my fridge.

Time to take them out and order a C41 processing kit.

My armory: Contax G1 (two), 21-28-35-90; Nikkormat FT2 (two), 28-35-50; Nikon F65 (two), 28-85. My brain runs to pairs, I reckon, but so far I've only one Leica, a iig. Maybe someday a mate for it will turn up.
 
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James Evidon said:
Nice pics, but kind of greenish. Is that typical of Vision 3? I bought a couple of rolls to try out, but I haven't shot them yet.
Also, where do you send it for processing and do they strip the remjet?
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It’s not the film. If you process ECN-2 film in C-41 all sorts of strange things happen, but I note that MFC does ECN-2 development, not C-41. It is very difficult to asses where something like this arises without control and checking at all stages of the process. But I’d guess given good ECN-2 processing it’s the scans/post processing.
 
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I will look up some images. I have the 45/2 also in Zeiss G mount. Such a lens is quite unique.
 
Memphis 2008 - When out photographing with late RFF member, Blake Billings, I spied Janet sitting on the steps of the homeless shelter, I drove a block away so she would not know I stopped just for her and parked. Blake insisted the neighborhood was too rough to leave the car unguarded, so he stayed behind as I set off down the street. I quickly ran into Steve in his wheelchair and his dog, Queen. Conversation quickly ensued and it turned out he was a friend of Janet and would make an introduction.

I remember asking Steve if Queen was housebroken. He gave me this incredulous look when he said "you realize we live in the street don;'t you?" I did give Steve a dollar to buy Queen a can of dog food.

Steve introduced me to Janet as if we grew up together, not just met walking half a block away. Then, I realized maybe he knew no more about Janet than he did me. But it was a great chance encounter. (btw, absolutely nothing having to do with it being shot with a Contax G)

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Bob Michaels said:
Memphis 2008 - When out photographing with late RFF member, Blake Billings, I spied Janet sitting on the steps of the homeless shelter, I drove a block away so she would not know I stopped just for her and parked. Blake insisted the neighborhood was too rough to leave the car unguarded, so he stayed behind as I set off down the street. I quickly ran into Steve in his wheelchair and his dog, Queen. Conversation quickly ensued and it turned out he was a friend of Janet and would make an introduction.

I remember asking Steve if Queen was housebroken. He gave me this incredulous look when he said "you realize we live in the street don;'t you?" I did give Steve a dollar to buy Queen a can of dog food.

Steve introduced me to Janet as if we grew up together, not just met walking half a block away. Then, I realized maybe he knew no more about Janet than he did me. But it was a great chance encounter. (btw, absolutely nothing having to do with it being shot with a Contax G)

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Blake was a cool guy. Photographing with him would have been a lot of fun.
 
Bob Michaels said:
Memphis 2008 - When out photographing with late RFF member, Blake Billings, I spied Janet sitting on the steps of the homeless shelter, I drove a block away so she would not know I stopped just for her and parked. Blake insisted the neighborhood was too rough to leave the car unguarded, so he stayed behind as I set off down the street. I quickly ran into Steve in his wheelchair and his dog, Queen. Conversation quickly ensued and it turned out he was a friend of Janet and would make an introduction.

I remember asking Steve if Queen was housebroken. He gave me this incredulous look when he said "you realize we live in the street don;'t you?" I did give Steve a dollar to buy Queen a can of dog food.

Steve introduced me to Janet as if we grew up together, not just met walking half a block away. Then, I realized maybe he knew no more about Janet than he did me. But it was a great chance encounter. (btw, absolutely nothing having to do with it being shot with a Contax G)

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A remarkable story, beautifully written. Congratulations to you, sir! And more, please.

It made me regret that I sold my (hardly ever used in 18 years) Zeiss G 45/2.0 last year. As you write, a truly unique lens. I now have to make do with my Biogon 28/2.8, or the less used 35/2.0 Planar. Being me, I may now look for another '45.
 
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A remarkable story, beautifully written. Congratulations to you, sir! And more, please.
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Thanks. Hopefully some others may realize these are real people we photograph, not generic photo subjects. Real people with real names and real stories. People that are really more important that lenses, film, or cameras.
 
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