Erik van Straten
Veteran
Jon, your pictures remind me of the films of Shôhei Imamura.
Erik.
Erik.
menos
Veteran
Jon, I really like the first one with people in 4 quadrants in contrast!
Thanks Erik! That's very high praise indeed
Thanks Dirk and Helen!
maddoc
... likes film again.
Thank you, Gabor!
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Kevcaster
Well-known
Wow this is a GREAT thread, wonderful pictures.
bravo all you Nikon S users
Kevin
bravo all you Nikon S users
Kevin
Kevcaster
Well-known
Thanks Erik!
Here's a few more.
Yes! Great images
Thanks! Here's a few more taken today at Ueno Park in Tokyo. The cherry blossoms are in bloom in Tokyo now, and Ueno Park is one of the most famous spots to view them, so as you can imagine it was wall to wall people. There were lots of tourists wandering through, and lots of locals with sheets laid out to claim spots for drinking parties with friends and co-workers which were already under way or would begin later in the evening.
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Leica IIIf, LTM W-Nikkor 3.5cm F1.8
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Helen,
I own a 35/1.8 Nikkor in LTM. Only 1700 were made in LTM, and it is my favorite 35mm, and is especially great for B&W. The LTM versions are kinda rare.
The glass is radioactive (mildly) and my lens displays a yellow tint that is like having a yellow filter built in (about a half stop). The lens is also tiny.
I use it on a IIIG and my M-bodies. Has a very distinct rendering and contrast. Wide open it has all this glow in the highlights that is due to veiling flare, but slightly stopped down it goes away and is very sharp like a modern lens.
Cal
Thanks Helen!
I recently compared my LTM W-Nikkor 35/1.8 back to back with a recently cleaned very nice condition Summicron 35mm V1. Both are really good lenses, but I definitely prefer the Nikkor!
As Cal mentioned, the LTM version is fairly hard to find and priced accordingly, so the fastest route to getting a W-Nikkor 35/1.8 would definitely be to get one on a Nikon RF. Its worth holding out for an LTM version though
There's a great write up on this lens on Nikon's website here.
Cal, have you ever had the opportunity to run a Geiger counter over your lens? Would be interesting to see just how radioactive it is! I know Nikon used Lanthanum in this lens, which isn't appreciably radioactive, but Lanthanum is usually accompanied with Thorium, and that certainly is.
NIKON KIU
Did you say Nippon Kogaku
Brian Sweeney had a Geiger counter when I visited him a few years back, the 1.8 was definitely radiating.
We assumed it was part of Nikkor glow.
Kiu
We assumed it was part of Nikkor glow.
Kiu
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Jon,
My day job is being a Cyclotron Engineer so basically I work in a physics lab and I transmutate materials by adding protons and neutrons to target materials every day to create radioactive materials.
On a "Pancake" which is rather sensitive I get a few counts above background when surveying my old Nikkor.
Know that I live and work in Madhattan which has a lot of background radiation due to all the granite/bedrock. Brooklyn in comparision has a lot of sand and below average background radiation.
Cal
Thanks for that, Cal. Very interesting!
And one more pic for testing the W-Nikkor's flare resistance. Not bad at all for a vintage lens!
And one more shot taken wide open at 1/25. Hand held after one too many sakes.
Queue for the yakitori restuarant
Bar stools on the street
Lots of little bars - Noge-cho, Yokohama
This shot below shows the same row of little bars as above, but shot from the other end during the day.
Bar stools on the street
Lots of little bars - Noge-cho, Yokohama
This shot below shows the same row of little bars as above, but shot from the other end during the day.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
Great pictures, Jon. I'd love to see from your hand a 1960's style book with B+W pictures on the Japanese street life.
Erik.
Erik.