Koolzakukumba
Real men use B+W
Leica M3, Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid, Tmax400, Adox MCC 110.
Erik.
A classic shot, Erik. This thread should be renamed in your honour. Have you given any thought to producing a book of your photographs?
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
Erik van Straten
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LCSmith
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Erik, your sense of tone is exquisite and consistent. Low contrast, but somehow far from flat. Like a smooth, gentle voice. We are fortunate to experience your work, even if by pixels.
Erik van Straten
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Thank you, I think this tonality is the effect of the split-grade method of printing.
Erik.
Erik.
FujiLove
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A print from last night on MGIV FB warmtone. Apologies for the poor quality phone image.
mike rosenlof
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I've posted this elsewhere on RFF, it is a scan of a wet print. Self portrait from last summer. Mamiya 645, probably the 80/1.8 lens.
Erik van Straten
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Nikkormat FTn, Nikkor H Auto 50mm f/2, TriX, printed on Adox MCC 110.
Erik.
Erik.
Erik van Straten
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Leica M3, Summilux 50mm f/1.4 v2, Tmax400, prnted on Adox MCC 400.
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Rolleiflex T, Ilford FP4+, Ilford Classic FB 16"x 16" (40x40 cm) Family travel portrait
Reykjavik
IMG_8086 by , on Flickr
Reykjavik
IMG_8086 by , on Flickr
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
olifaunt
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Do you guys see a difference in sharpness between this picture and the one above? I see a big difference.
This is what Flickr is doing to me.
Erik.
I see what you mean. My guess is they may be using a faster/cruder downsizing algorithm on the "live" server. They are in the process of migrating servers. Hopefully this is temporary, but who ever knows with Flickr, since they have no user support.
Erik van Straten
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A strange fact is that a friend of me, also in The Netherlands, seems not to be infected by this unsharpness on Flickr.
Erik.
Erik.
Erik van Straten
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I deleted all the pics that are infected by this unsharpness.
Strange that the pictures I've posted in february and before are still sharp.
Erik
Strange that the pictures I've posted in february and before are still sharp.
Erik
PRJ
Another Day in Paradise
Erik, check and see if you are uploading progressive jpegs.
You might want to tell us how you are making the jpegs too. Could be a problem there.
PRJ
Another Day in Paradise
I picked up a Focomat 1c a couple weeks ago locally that I couldn't pass up. The thing was in incredible shape. Not even any dust! I think it is an earlier one. It has a round lamphouse that is basically the same as my 1a. In fact, from what i can tell there is no difference between the 1a and the 1c except for the column (which is significantly larger on the 1c) and the brake. On the 1c it is automatic and the 1a it is a screw knob. The 1c came with anti newton glass and even the ring to space the condenser for the AN glass. It also had a 150 watt short bulb in it which I removed and gingerly put away. I had to rewire it of course. But for $60 I ain't complaining! I transferred the white ring for the condenser I made months ago to even out the exposure. Haven't printed since then so I was curious how all this new stuff was going to go. Worked well.
I haven't grounded it yet. The cord on it was a two prong, so I replaced it with a two prong. I might put a three prong on it and wire the ground to the column. Anybody got any suggestions?
Olympus Mju II, Eastman 5222, PMK, Kodak Polycontrast RC, Ansco 120
I haven't grounded it yet. The cord on it was a two prong, so I replaced it with a two prong. I might put a three prong on it and wire the ground to the column. Anybody got any suggestions?
Olympus Mju II, Eastman 5222, PMK, Kodak Polycontrast RC, Ansco 120
Erik van Straten
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Congrats with your Ic! Great that you have the anti newton disk. Usually these are much more expensive than the whole enlarger.
I do not know what "progressive" jpegs are. How I make my jpegs. I make them with my scanner. My workflow hasn't changed for many years. I scan the prints at 600 dpi and the negatives at 3200 dpi. The scanner is an Epson V600.
I download them from Flickr at medium 640 (portrait) and medium 800 (landscape) and post them in RFf, but already in Flickr the unsharpness is appearent. This unsharpness is there since a week or two. It attacs now also the pictures I've presented earlier in RFf because there is a link between RFf and Flickr.
Erik.
Ccoppola82
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I just really started getting into figuring out printing. I think I exposed this a little too long for selenium toning though. When dry, the non toned I think had a little better tonality, but live and learn! Hasselblad 500cm, Ilford Warmtone FB, ansco 130, Delta 100
Image.jpg by Chris Coppola, on Flickr
Image.jpg by Chris Coppola, on Flickr
BLKRCAT
75% Film
Hey Erik,
I haven't been on RFF or flickr or shooting even in the past few months because of work and family emergency but I saw your post about the sharpness. Flickr pulled something like this back in like 2015. A solution to avoid the weird compression was to re upload the same image using the "edit" feature. The compression they apply on the image at the upload screen vs the edit screen was different and the quality was higher when the images were replaced with edit.
Maybe give that a try.
Koolzakukumba
Real men use B+W
I wouldn't worry too much just now, Erik. Your pics don't depend on sharpness: just great composition and subject matter.
