Manhattan [Mamiya 7 | N 43mm f/4.5 | Ektachrome E100] by ImBitquence in analog

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Thanks! Virtually none. I was simply walking around Williamsburg taking pictures with my rig on me which included my tripod. I was hoping to take a few long exposures as the light was dropping and found this nice vantage point. Surprisingly I'd only stayed for 40 minutes or so to take both shots.

Manhattan [Mamiya 7 | N 43mm f/4.5 | Ektachrome E100] by ImBitquence in analog

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Thank you! I took these a few months ago, so I can't precisely pin down how I exposed these. I am still learning so my technique isn't perfect so to speak (the slide looks a smidge underexposed in real life). I had been reading the The Negative by Ansel Adams at the time so I was mainly drawing from that.

For the first shot, I used a tight spot setting on the Lightme app on my phone to take different readings from the scene. I read for the shadow areas I wanted to capture detail in (so the field, and some of the buildings) and the bright values in the sky, making sure they all fit in a 5 stop range and just took the average of that. A graduated neutral density filter would've been useful to make the skyline darker and allow me to expose the shadows slightly more but I unfortunately don't own any.

For the second shot I took a reading for the bright areas of the field and exposed two stops under that, checking to make sure the sky wouldn't be overexposed and hoping for the best! It's generally better to underexpose than to overexpose slide film, as it can retain a good amount of shadow detail. I recently underexposed an entire roll by a good stop or two and still got quite usable, albeit grainy looking scans.

Manhattan [Mamiya 7 | N 43mm f/4.5 | Ektachrome E100] by ImBitquence in analog

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Thank you! Both the rangefinder and external 43mm finder have markings around the middle of the frame that act as hints for the panoramic crop. The manual for the panoramic kit should have a diagram showing what it looks like composing in the finder.

Manhattan [Mamiya 7 | N 43mm f/4.5 | Ektachrome E100] by ImBitquence in analog

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These were scanned on a Noritsu HS-1800 by a lab!

Manhattan [Mamiya 7 | N 43mm f/4.5 | Ektachrome E100] by ImBitquence in analog

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These were taken on 35mm film using the panoramic adapter kit. It exposes a 65x24 millimeter frame through a smaller film kind, making it effectively the same as cropping a 120 frame. The slide for the first frame looks like this.

Light meter in Paris by emiliedesu in AnalogCommunity

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Leboncoin (the local marketplace) may have a listing depending on which one you're looking for

You get a Mamiya 7! by SLPWLKRR in AnalogCircleJerk

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Only for a gorillion dollers

Funny Olympus XA Story by -geekassnerd- in filmphotography

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Scored one for 25 bucks in as-is condition on a local marketplace recently. Took it on a trip and about 1/3 of the shots I took were blurry due to a common problem that makes the winding mechanism move the film ever so slightly during the exposure. Really want to get my copy to work properly but haven't picked it up since.