First bw’s with 35 Pancake II

Avotius said:
done a lot of long lens work too, its really neat, but I dont like carrying around a canon 70-200 2.8 IS on my 20D for street photography too much, I already have a wrenched neck from carrying it around before....you should click on my deviantart thing in my signature and take a look.
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I know what you mean about the long lens and the weight around the neck. I had that problem last year in India. I was using a D-70 with a 70-210 and the weight just killed my neck. What I was thinking about was the use of a 90mm on the rangefinder and not the DSLR.
 
Fantastic pictures! I just love the variety of textures and the feeling of space and depth in them. They really draw me into the picture. Congrats on some outstanding work!
 
Avotius said:
Note to toot my own horn here but I see a lot of people on here talking about their photos and overexposing so many stops to get shadow detail and what not and I keep thinking....why? Yes it exposes shadows but if you scan the film right you dont have to do this...
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Some films develop some not so polite artifacts in the shadows, so overexposing a 1/2 stop or so can help mitigate that. That is not something that can be corrected in the scanning stage. Especially with C41 films where that underexposure translates into a "grainyness" that I find really unattractive.

This is not a problem with traditional films, where I choose to overexpose and compensate my processing because I like the tonality I get as a result.
 
I thought I had seen these already so was pleasantly surprised to find that I hadn't seen them. These are absolutely stunning pictures. I love the rendition of that lens. I've been looking for a faster 35 than 2.8 which I have now, a Jup-12. I'm not sure what I will get but these are so good I might consider this lens. Thank you for sharing.
 
this is fantastic! I like wide street shots, you have feeling for moment & composition. few days ago, I red one test for Pancake 35mm lens ... I think that DOF with wide open lens is great - it is just enuff to see what the photographer wants to keep in focus.
 
Man your looking good! Your work is superb!

Lens looks great too but it's nothing without the eye and personality behind it.

Keep up the excellent work!
 
More shots, not the pII though:

Camera was Voigtlander Bessa R2A, lens was leitz 50 elmar red scale, film was Ilford XP2. Place of shooting was Chongqing, China.



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Guy washing bowls in an alley way restaurant.


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Guy painting a building.


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Same guy taking a break, notice his safety hook thing behind his head, 9 floors up on old scaffolding.


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Annoying ads that get painted everywhere.


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Old and new houses in the center of the city.


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Old guy taking a nap on the side rail.
 
Continued from last post, same camera, film, lens
(forum still giving me long message length problems, sorry)


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Old street and houses. What I like about this shot is I took it about 150 meters away from the Mazerati show room, a sign of the wide class gap here in China.


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This guy can’t hear his phone so he stuck his head out the window at the tea house. He probably shouldn’t have done it next to me.


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A very old run down tea house, one of my favorite places to sit around with a book and camera.
 
Your stuff is really wonderful, but have now motivated me to go to a new shop here in Korea for developing/ scanning.

Thanks for showing,

Bill
 
Bill58 said:
Your stuff is really wonderful, but have now motivated me to go to a new shop here in Korea for developing/ scanning.

Thanks for showing,

Bill
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Thanks, good scanning always helps good pictures! Btw, I think you should add a yashica gsn to your list of cameras, its brother the gtn would like some company
 
You have a great eye ! And you are only 22 ...

May I know if you scan the negatives or the print ? And which scanner ?

Thanks !
 
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jcr said:
You have a great eye ! And you are only 22 ...

May I know if you scan the negatives or the print ? And which scanner ?

Thanks !
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I scan the negatives, and the negatives were scanned on a fuji s-2000 lab station scanner
 
More excellent photos! Thanks for sharing these and your corner of the world with us.
Much appreciated,
Rob
 
Oh, I see ... but that would be a lab then ? Or can one buy such a scanner cheap for the home ? My lab uses that Fuji I think, but I only use the lab for color, not B&W (which I process myself) ... and I am looking for a scanner, my Canoscan can't cut it.

Avotius said:
I scan the negatives, and the negatives were scanned on a fuji s-2000 lab station scanner
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