Camera and Coffee

The day before yesterday we finaly had a sunny morning. My wife likes to put flower pots we keep on the deck floor up on the deck table so they get more sun. I thought what a nice way to have my coffee and contribute to this thread. Both the Bessa T and the Leica M-1 are currently mounting Russian lenses as I am trying them out.
Kurt M.
 
If only every morning was like Tuesday. Incidentally, I managed to post two versions of the same photo, so I will try again
Kurt M.
 
Denis, it is a Medis rangefinder which came with the camera as the M-1 lacks a rangefinder. Oddly, although it was made in Germany it gives the distance in feet rather than meters. The camera originally came (I bought it used in Sweden, I think about 40 years ago) with a Cooke Amotal 50mm f2 lens which I still have and which is also marked in feet. All the other lenses I use with it are marked in meters, however, which keeps me on edge converting the distance as I shoot.
Kurt M.
 
Scarpia, great breakfast tray ;-)

Your levels in the photo had some gaps at the edges and I hope you don't mind me playing with your last image a bit.

This is how the levels looked like:
 
After chopping off the empty edges (basically dragging the triangle to where the curves started) and applying some light curves adjustments (for saturation and contrast) I ended up with this one:
 
Ok..so it's not coffee in this one but water...but I HAD been drinking coffee right before taking the photo. Promise!


Olympus 35LE and a bottle of Volvic (which was my favorite water back in Europe and I'm now happy to have found in California) - and some late afternoon California sunlight... :D
 
Richard, I don't mind at all and I think I have to adjust my scanning technique as the pictures are a lot sharper than my post. One thing though that you might find interesting. I just examined my prints from this batch through a 50mm lens used as a loupe. The prints are 5x7's processed by whoever does the processing for a local supermarket chain. Under magnification I can see pixelation, especially in shadowy areas and the entire print appears to be covered by a fine mesh. This is not visible to the naked eye. These photos were taken on FILM with a Rebel 2000 through the Canon 50mm f .18 II. I know that today most processors print digitally on photo paper, but it appears that the scanning was done at too low a resolution to save time and memory. Has anyone else had this experience?
Kurt M.
P.S. I always appreciate your time and effort Richard. What an asset to this forum you are.
 
Nice Gene!

(And how sensitive you are to logo-related issues by turning the cup around) ;)
 
jdos2 said:
Gene,

How'd you take that picture? That's an AMAZING DoF!
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Well, I cheated a bit. I used a digicam -- a Canon S45. Those little cams have unbelievable DOF. The downside is trying to get any kind of selective focus with them. This was taken with a 7mm lens at f/4 (equivalent of about 38mm in film terms but it has the DOF of 7mm)

Gene
 
Gene said:
The downside is trying to get any kind of selective focus with them.
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...which is why I've gotten really good at creating background masks and doing Gaussian blurr on it.
 
I finally got around to making a photo of my new Bessa R and a cup of coffee. I think the coffee cup gives away what kind of geeks my wife and I are.

BTW, I really love my Bessa. It is so much fun to shoot with. Unfortunately, I don't get as much shooting time as I would like. I just dropped off the third roll of film for processing.
 
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