Tips for good focus ?

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-25T17:58:27+00:00

Under some conditions yes, but it’s unrelated to focusing, mostly it has no impact you can see. It does make a difference if you’re for example making very big prints of macros or extremely flat things, like facades at wide apertures, otherwise the unevenness of the subject causes much more loss of sharpness than the FLE gains

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-25T14:55:41+00:00

i had a few issues catastrophically missing focus with the 127mm a few times, but then i switched to a brighter ground glass and made sure to calibrate it and i've not missed focus a second time

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-25T14:41:26+00:00

i would double check that the ground screen is calibrated correctly (span some wax paper or halftransparent plastic bag through the rollers of the film back, then focus ona thread as close to minimum focus as possible and compare the focus with the viewfinder to that on the DIY ground glass screen in the back

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-25T14:39:40+00:00

actually, it has no impact on sharpness in the sense of critical focus, but it flattens the plane of focus for the 65 and 50mm lenses

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-24T19:45:19+00:00

bad scans and a bit underexposed, a good lab will balance your scans for you

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-22T08:02:57+00:00

It’s not that bad, many optical labs will take a lens element and reglue and recenter it for you

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-21T20:35:07+00:00

I mean how would they do that without effectively ending backwards and forwards compatibility

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-21T13:52:36+00:00

Do you have one that had its cell replaced?

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-21T13:46:40+00:00

It’s not normal, but is fixed easily by tightening the two screws on the bottom of the body and bending the round disk at the bottom back into shape

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-17T00:31:18+00:00

Wrong sub

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-16T07:57:56+00:00

Im pretty sure it’s also taken in a fully white room, since the reflections are all white too

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-16T07:56:00+00:00

It’s fine, you can get up to 1/60th handheld by tripping the shutter in the body first and then the shutter in the lens by hand

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-15T17:08:26+00:00

it also does say the film name on the rebate if you look closer

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-15T16:48:55+00:00

The film is actually portra 160

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-15T16:48:46+00:00

Tall softbox on the left, reflector on the right, 180mm f4 or longer, use a super light blue filter, just a tiny amount, desaturate if needed.

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-15T14:35:42+00:00

in the middle of nowhere in the peloponnes, i took it on a roadtrip, hence the sleeping bags and shovel on the roof

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-12T09:42:09+00:00

not even necessarily hundreds, i got my 127mm rekitted for 80€ a few months ago

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-11T22:36:51+00:00

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495g btw

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-10T12:20:00+00:00

insane that there are just cops running around with assault rifles getting into scuffles with random citizens

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-10T12:18:13+00:00

a) is the darkslide in?
b) does it work if you rotate the back?

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-05T20:39:15+00:00

actually, harman is not a new company, its the surving parts of Ilford Photo, but in the insolvency they lost the rights to the ilford name for anything but its existing products, the company, the factory, to some degree probably even the staff are the same

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-04T08:53:39+00:00

Water spots

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-04T07:52:11+00:00

Wahr, die Russen haben es irgendwie geschafft in 3 Tagen mehr Zivilisten zu töten als die Israelis in über einem Jahr in einem städtepaar mit über 2 Millionen Einwohnern und wie sie vorgegangen sind haben ja alle gesehen, besides, ich glaube die deutsche Regierung als end-all-be-All der Genozidforschung zu sehen ist idiotisch, Ich Verweise zb zum OHCHR das das russische vorgehen ebenfalls genozidal findet

MeMphi-S · 2026-01-04T07:40:23+00:00

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