Color Skopar & Summitar good friends

[spiderfrank]

Hi guys, last saturday I was in Torino to meet some friends, and made some shots with my Bessa R.
Here you have two of them: one made with the new CV 35mm f2.5, the other with the old Summitar 5cm f2... I think they can be good friends, and enjoy them very much.
I hope you like my shots: Torino is known for Fiat, but it's also a beautiful old city, with a lot of history in its rocks

Summitar

Color Skopar "classic"

 

[Pherdinand]

Torino is a lovely city🙂

 

[Bingley]

A very interesting comparison. Both lenses produce v. pleasing images, IMO. The skopar often gets rapped for being "too contrasty" but I don't find the contrast in second shot to be problematic at all. In fact, both photos show a pleasing range of tones.

 

[Marc-A.]

Ciao Spiderfrank,
Two great pictures with lovely tones. Your first picture exemplified perfectly that the Summitar is very sharp when stopped down. BTW I've got the same winner combo: Summitar and Color Skopar Classic; I love simply those lenses. Post more pictures!
Best,
Marc-A.

 

[vrgard]

Nice shots, spiderfrank. Can I ask, how did you create that matting/raised background effect?

Thanks,
Randy

 

[infrequent]

how do you get the lovely sepia tone? using c41 b+w films or photoshop?

 

[back alley]

i'm curious if the shots were taken hand held or with a tripod mounted camera?

joe

 

[maddoc]

i'm curious if the shots were taken hand held or with a tripod mounted camera?

joe

Me too ! The first shot shows a tonality and details I would have expected from MF. Very well done ! The Summitar is a nice little lens 🙂

 

[maddoc]

Just curious, which film did you use and did you develop / scan the negs yourself or let a lab do the job ?

 

[David Murphy]

Stunning photos. The Summitar never ceases to amaze me.

 

[spiderfrank]

Nice shots, spiderfrank. Can I ask, how did you create that matting/raised background effect?

Thanks,
Randy

Matting/raised ? What does it mean? Sorry, I don't understand...

This is what I did, hope this can answer the questions :

film is Kodak bw400cn, developed at a minilab. I scanned the negs with a flatbed scanner, at 150dpi for a dimension of 20x30 cm, made a bit of regulation with Picasa (overall light and shadows - not sharpness), removed the dust with the "clone" of Photoshop, then I opened the files with Faststone, regulated sharpness (cursor near 3), then resized it, added the borders, and made the sepia effect.

I made the sepia effect by increasing saturation (the scan didn't produce a real greyscale image, there is still a bit of colour) and regulating the "colour tone"
( put the cursors near 15 for saturation and near 30 for tone)

Ciao
Franco

 

[spiderfrank]

i'm curious if the shots were taken hand held or with a tripod mounted camera?

joe

Hand held,
there was a lot f sun, the film is 400 iso, so I could use fast speed at middle aperture

Ciao
Franco