Summaron 35mm f2.8

Great work Guilio, and you sure have a steady hand to maintain the sharpness your getting. This is my fav Leica lens, and I still maintain it's one of Lecias best all round built lenses.
 
Summaron Haiku

Summaron Haiku

giulio stucchi said:
m6, summaron 35 2.8, tri-x, lc-29

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Giulio
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With black-and-white film,
Be up close & personal,
Voila! It's magic.
 
Thank you all for the comments!

The summaron is indeed a rewarding lens.

Michael, the SA21 is still on top of my shopping list for next year!

Trung, I am using an epson V600 and a better scanning ANR glass. Scan and few adjustment in PS Elements 9 that came with it is all I do (on a budget laptop).

Now I just need to find a good address to get some of these portraits wet printed.

Giulio
 
giulio stucchi said:
Thank you all for the comments!

The summaron is indeed a rewarding lens.

Michael, the SA21 is still on top of my shopping list for next year!

Trung, I am using an epson V600 and a better scanning ANR glass. Scan and few adjustment in PS Elements 9 that came with it is all I do (on a budget laptop).

Now I just need to find a good address to get some of these portraits wet printed.

Giulio
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Your process must be very refined since the outcome is so clean. Fantastic work mate.
 
I am quite amazed that you are using a V600 to scan those photos. I thought they were from a high end scanner or at least Nikon coolscan.


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kiemchacsu said:
I am quite amazed that you are using a V600 to scan those photos. I thought they were from a high end scanner or at least Nikon coolscan.


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Giulio, Godfrey, and Erik have some of the cleanest and most nicely presented scans on RFF, so mayebe they cna be convinced to open a new thread to discuss their method.

However, when downsampling the scans to posting size, even files from scanners like the 600 can look quite sharp and clean.
 
Obrigado Estevao.

My workflow with the V600 is really basic and as Erik says the Epson is good enough for posting online.

Close up and wide open seems to be the spot where the summaron shines, an example from earlier this year:

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Giulio
 
Outstanding images here. I really enjoy this thread.

+1 to Froyd's suggestion that Erik, Giulio and Godfrey provide us a tutorial on how the scan with the V600. The results are phenomenal and well beyond what I would expect from a mid-level scanner. Please share your techniques! Thanks!!
 
Aaron Hellman said:
+1 to Froyd's suggestion that Erik, Giulio and Godfrey provide us a tutorial on how the scan with the V600.
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The scanner is delivered with plastic frames for filmstrips. These have to be trown away immediatly in the dustbin. Get yourself a piece of high quality antinewton glass and scan each frame individually.

Erik.
 
So do you place the film strip direct onto the scanner glass-plate (probably emulsion facing down to the scanner optics) and then place a piece of ANR onto the backside of the film? I have the V700 and tried this method (using the optics that focuses onto anything placed onto the scanner glass-plate but with slightly lower resolution (from specs)).





Erik van Straten said:
The scanner is delivered with plastic frames for filmstrips. These have to be trown away immediatly, in the dustbin. Get yourself a piece of high quality antinewton glass and scan each frame individually.

Erik.
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I never liked that cheapo plastic film holder / tray that came with the V600 either but I do use it every time. Few months ago I got myself an ANR Glass that I now use most of the time for my scan in combination with the plastic tray.

I never tried to put the strip of film directly on the scanner glass-plate as Erik suggested. I may give it a go.

Looking forward to see yours Summaron's shots guys!

Erik, time to take it out your Summaron for a spin?

Giulio
 
maddoc said:
So do you place the film strip direct onto the scanner glass-plate (probably emulsion facing down to the scanner optics) and then place a piece of ANR onto the backside of the film? .
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Yes, that is how I do it, but I adapt every scan carefully beforehand with the aid of the built in densitometer. First I make the setting for the high lights, then for the dark tones and finally for the middle tones. I have a very precise workflow for this, but it is difficult for me to explain this in words. No automation whatsoever. I carefully look for the lightest and darkest points of the negative.

Erik.
 
Erik, thank you a lot for the information. I will try this with my V700 at some time because my Coolscan 4000ED is getting old ....

Erik van Straten said:
Yes, that is how I do it, but I adapt every scan carefully beforehand with the aid of the built in densitometer. First I make the setting for the high lights, then for the dark tones and finally for the middle tones. I have a very precise workflow for this, but it is difficult for me to explain this in words. No automation whatsoever. I carefully look for the lightest and darkest points of the negative.

Erik.
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