Okay, which camera took *THIS* picture?

[Abbazz]

I'm glad to see that others are proving the point that lens "signature" and other factors have little actual effect upon the resultant photograph.

I know a few guys who are able to guess a lens by looking at a picture with an amazingly low error rate. It requires a well trained eye and a good knowledge of the lenses, like a violin player with a trained ear is able to recognize the sound of a guarnerius between many others -- or an enologist is able to pick up a Château d'Yquem among other grands crus.

Cheers!

Abbazz

 

[dmr]

So, did you go up to King Fong (yellow sign in bkgnd) and have some egg foo yong? The atmosphere has to be seen to be believed... you half-expect Sam ***** to rush through on the trail of the Maltese Falcon... if I ever get into fashion photography, it would be a terrific location for a shoot.

I've been there, but not for several years. Definitely different.

There's chit-chat on one of the local boards that the building has recently been sold, and speculation of what may or may not happen.

[additional] Coming back to edit this post, I was surprised to learn that the name of Miles Archer's partner is apparently objectionable to the board's naughty-words filter!

LOL! I've been caught in the naughty words filter too. I had "running" inside of curly braces once and it censored it. I asked our then-resident Vbulletin jock if he could figure it out and he was stumped.

 

[Roger Hicks]

I know a few guys who are able to guess a lens by looking at a picture with an amazingly low error rate. It requires a well trained eye and a good knowledge of the lenses, like a violin player with a trained ear is able to recognize the sound of a guarnerius between many others -- or an enologist is able to pick up a Château d'Yquem among other grands crus.

Cheers!

Abbazz

Dear Abbazz,

And a well calibrated monitor and (above all) a strong imagination.

I can't tell my OWN shots apart after they've be strained though a lab, a scanner, Adobe Photoshop, a web browser and a monitor.

Cheers,

R.

 

[nzeeman]

it look to me like canonet - it is the only camera i have from that list and FOV on this photo look like canonet FOV...

 

[Ducky]

I agree completely.

 

[gavinlg]

I have no idea - like the shot though

 

[Rogrund]

The OP wrote two years ago it was the Mamiya... read post #27!

 

[JohnTF]

I know a few guys who are able to guess a lens by looking at a picture with an amazingly low error rate. It requires a well trained eye and a good knowledge of the lenses, like a violin player with a trained ear is able to recognize the sound of a guarnerius between many others -- or an enologist is able to pick up a Château d'Yquem among other grands crus.



Cheers!

Abbazz

Should be fairly easy, the other Grand Crus are red, right, I believe the d'Yquem is the only white Grand Cru? ;-) However, if you have a spare bottle will be more than happy to sample. ;-)

Regards, John

 

[ErnestoJL]

Dear Abbazz,

I can't tell my OWN shots apart after they've be strained though a lab, a scanner, Adobe Photoshop, a web browser and a monitor.

R.

Full agreement!
The only way I found to tell my shots are recalling which camera with which lens and with which film was used at the time I shoot, what I write allways with black ink at the beginninig of each roll. After that the best scanner takes its toll as well as the digital laser printer does.
Otherwise it´s impossible for me, and I guess it´s almost impossible for anyone.
Film varies from batch to batch, lenses being made at the same line and same day may be different and react accordingly, shutters also, so there are too many variables of which the final picture depends on.
It´s the same with wine, there is one that suits your taste better than others.

BTW,
Cheers
Ernesto

 

[arseniii]

Why bother, who cares what camera you used...
STUPID THREAD!

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Come on arseniii, this is RFF! What fun is it to own a Leica with a "Mother Of All Bokeh" lens and nobody can tell a photo from it from a Ricoh TLS?