rsolti
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Here are some more 35 Cron ASPH for you guys
Leica Summicron 35mm f/2: POST your photos
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rsolti
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and two more 🙂
ThangNguyen
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Thank Rico. But I don't like post process on film. Otherwise I will do it with my digital camera. I come to film for this purpose.
@Everyone: Could you please tell me if it depends on scanner to have these gorgeous pics? If yes what is the scanner you use? If no, please teach me.
Thanks!
@Everyone: Could you please tell me if it depends on scanner to have these gorgeous pics? If yes what is the scanner you use? If no, please teach me.
Thanks!
umcelinho
Marcelo
the shots you've posted look like they were underexposed and had brightness autoadjusted when scanned, due to the brighter and noisy (not grainy) shadows. This will lead to an overall loss in image quality. If you don't intend on exposing all your shots in what the scanner sees as a "correct exposure", you'll have this issue.
here I haven't changed the WB, but brought down exposure 3 stops, notice how it's much less noisy. I quite often shoot underexposing intentionally a shot to reflect the actual lighting on the scene, in darker situations. these shots come from the lab with exposure brought up, so what i do is to bring it back down and get what I was looking for.
It does look pretty dark, but what I did was to bring exposure down until shadows were black, not changing contrast or brightness. exposure only. from there you can do further editing.
Post processing is needed, unfortunately, even for scanned film. If you scan at a lab, they won't adjust every photo manually, they'll just use autoadjustments and that will lead to some errors in both white balance and exposure. If you scan them yourself, post processing will be mandatory.
Usually what you will need is just a simple fix, like a small wb correction or play with the shadow/exposure/highlight settings, it will help you get the quality you are looking for.
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__hh
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and two more 🙂
Seems like you are having the time of your life - a lovely family and wonderful camera gear put to excellent use.
JHP
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To me they look great...
Grimy film scans have an aesthetic that I like...
I keep digital for perfectly exposed, sharp work images. (boring)
Grimy film scans have an aesthetic that I like...
I keep digital for perfectly exposed, sharp work images. (boring)
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JHP
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and two more 🙂
This is beautiful.
inzite
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Looks like either the shot was kinda under when shot or post processing wasn't really done on it, as above, the edited versions of your shots looks mighty fine! Keep in mind that the shots I've posted so far is taken by my m9.
absolutely fantastic !!!!! makes me wanna have a kid RIGHT NOW. LOL
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ThangNguyen
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Thank you so much for your advices. I guess I should invest on a scanner so I can control the post process correctly by myself.
inzite
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yea investing in a good scanner is worth it, and post process is necessary for scanning imo.
first time shooting ektar. such a nice film.
m6+35IV+ektar100
ramosa
B&W
Rog ... Really like the first one.v3
Vics
Veteran
They look under exposed to me. Try in your metering to err on the side of over exposure.After looking through the pics here I feel really bad. Crying. Could you give me some advice how to make clear and high contrast like your pics? Or is it cause of developer or scanner?
My pics take with Provia 400.
Rogrund
Antti Sivén
Thanks, ramosa!
alistair.o
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helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Cool Alistar .... Please try & Thanks !!
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helen.HH
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asph again ...LOVE. LOVE . LOVE this Lens
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efirmage
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What a sweet lens. Just got my first Summicron (50mm), but someday it will have a little brother 😛
Mr G
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you're not helping me out here Helen =)
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alistair.o
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Beautiful set of pictures Helen. I bought 'The Americans' (Robert Frank) yesterday. Your pictures have alot of that quality. Have you thought of getting a set printed?
Also, I don't want to mislead you, the combo' I was refering to was Tmax and Rodinal.
papasnap
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agreed! I was a bit depressed when I first went back to shooting film when I saw how a basic flatbed scanner (or even the fuji frontera scanner at the local photo shop) made my slides appear. then I bought myself a nikon film scanner (a 5000ED) and was absolutely blown away by the difference, even without any postprocessing. But I also definately agree with previous comments that scanning will benefit from some slight postprocessing - eg an area in a slide that looked perfectly black on the lightbox under a loupe will still come out a little bit greyer when scanned, so some minor levels/curves/etc can help.
here's some I shot on 35mm summicron asph, in these I didn't do any postprocessing other than resize (and maybe use the Digital DEE in nikon scan a little bit; i can't remember now). it's only this year I've really started doing any corrections in lightroom on my scans. some shots just don't need it, and some shots greatly benefit from some minor tweaks.
