First time shooting trains with rangefinders...

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....and it was different, that's for sure. Did alot of fumbling, forgetting to focus/meter etc., but I managed to get a few marginal keepers. I like the old timey look of these, which was probably due more to wrong film type, poor metering etc..but I'm learning.


Shot at mid-day on a typically hot, hazy day for DC. THis is at the wye at Jones Hill in North Brentwood MD, just past the District line. S2 and S3 with CV 35mm and Nikkor 105mm. Some cropping was done...

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I'm going to keep at it till I get some crispy ones...:bang: 😀
 
I generally stick with my SLRs when I railfan, but I have been known to take RF gear trackside. I shoot differently when I do, though - more light-dark studies and artsy stuff. Hardly ever action shots.

It gives you a new appreciation for the guys that shot in the 50s and early 60s, huh?
 
Ken Ford said:
I generally stick with my SLRs when I railfan, but I have been known to take RF gear trackside. I shoot differently when I do, though - more light-dark studies and artsy stuff. Hardly ever action shots.

It gives you a new appreciation for the guys that shot in the 50s and early 60s, huh?
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I usually stick with my DSLR for railfanning but with the recent aqusition of an F5 and the rf's I'm curious to try it with film so I'm going to keep hauling the "old" stuff trackside for awhile.

In the DC area there's a few good spots for artsy shots, very few....

I'm definately looking at the old photo's through a different set of eyes now...
 
Nice! Are those shot on print film, or slides? Be sure to post more of them as you scan them.

Oh, its good to see the CSX doesn't keep all their ratty locomotives here in the midwest - they send a few to the east coast too!
 
css9450 said:
Nice! Are those shot on print film, or slides? Be sure to post more of them as you scan them.

Oh, its good to see the CSX doesn't keep all their ratty locomotives here in the midwest - they send a few to the east coast too!
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Print film, I'll keep 'em coming, thanks!


When there's power shortages due to heavy traffic volume CSX pulls out engines from wherever they can find them...when you see a real ratty one the saying is "somewhere a coal mine is missing a switcher"....coal mine yards are where old power goes to die...
 
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