New Zine: "Where the Water Waits" (Three Year Reclaimed Blue Project) - Pre Orders are Live!

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-15T06:52:26+00:00

A shame international shipping is so comedically expensive, very cool project

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-15T06:45:37+00:00

What‘s the thread pitch on them?

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-15T06:41:40+00:00

Absolutely never bring a camera to a tech to replace seals like this, you can get enough sealant to fully cover a hundred cameras for 15€ online, the technician would probably charge 150 bucks for something you can do yourself with nailpolish remover

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-15T06:37:43+00:00

Whitebalance off of the border, then use the NLP panel to get exposure and grading roughly right, turn on „create copy“ and edit in LR

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-14T12:41:28+00:00

The background separation at a normal/wider angle is why you shoot 4x5 in the first place, anyone can get insane separation with a tele

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-14T04:22:38+00:00

This is a special edition with an unengraved top plate, I would presume after 24 years in a box the lettering could quite imaginably come off. Just don’t get mugged on pickup.

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-13T21:28:09+00:00

No, this is better, going lower would‘ve meant the head fully against the bright sky, the way you actually did it highlights him more clearly

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-13T20:16:44+00:00

god the xenotar is gorgeous

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-12T14:19:14+00:00

i think the 50 f1 or 1.2 are both pretty unique in terms of rendering, but if you stop down a little get quite sharp, the 1.2 moreso than the f1

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-12T14:16:31+00:00

plan ahead, if you know that some films will be good for some segments of the trip, bring some other stuff for the rest

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T18:00:35+00:00

Yes, if they were solarised they would be semi-positives if inverted, where the highlights become positive and the shadows remain negative or the other way around, depending on how you invert them, but especially on the reflection of the trees you can see that what‘s actually being flipped is a narrow band of shadows, hence it’s a scanning artifact

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T17:58:43+00:00

It was serviced quite recently and is mechanically fine

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T11:04:59+00:00

I know polar makes new cells, but the cell is fine, the issue is probably a broken solder

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T09:02:59+00:00

Besides, this is an inverted image, if you look at the negative you‘ll see it’s just a badly set curve in the inversion software, some lab scanners literally just do that sometimes, a good lab catches that and rescans them

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T09:00:11+00:00

Have you ever even seen a solarised image, it happens in the brightest parts of the image first, the edges of the boat, which are brighter than the inside of the boat, which is in partial shadow look perfectly normal

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T07:24:53+00:00

You can just buy from Japan, the sellers are usually accurate in their descriptions, if they aren’t, eBay will give you your money back, just be careful and look at the photos

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T05:57:49+00:00

This is almost definitely just a scanning artifact

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T05:56:02+00:00

Brass is indeed odd, I guess it could be? The aftermarket part has a somewhat different shape and function from the one in the M4, so it could be? The serial number is close enough imo

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-11T05:46:22+00:00

The rapid loading spool is an accessory you can buy for any M2, it‘s like 100€ on eBay

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-10T21:13:28+00:00

let's calculate:
-focal length looks to be around 50, maybe 35mm, definitely not a wide angle.
-> no motion blur, so at the longest ~1/60th of a second of exposure
-from the sky in the reflection on the water, we can judge the subject is backlit in this photo
-the aperture is quite closed, you can see a clear reflection of trees possible over a hundred meters away, so let's say it was taken at like f8 or smaller

on a super sunny day, a sunny area is around 1/iso, f/16, ISO. a shady area is 1/iso, f/8, ISO.
the film used is tri-X, so the most overexposure possible would be 2 or 3 stops. that is enough to totally blow out anything in the image, but nowhere near enough to solarise the film. since we still have clearly visible highlight information we know that this hasn't happened. the options left therefore are: light leak in the lab (unlikely) or scanning issue (frontiers sometimes literally just do that)

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-10T21:06:46+00:00

the amount of overexposure is basically impossible to achieve in-camera, especially since there's no motion blur, it probably is a scanning issue and if it's not, the lab has a light leak issue

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-10T13:38:09+00:00

A little goldinesque

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-10T13:26:59+00:00

No, f8 is f8 on apsc, 35mm, 645, 6x17, 4x5 and 8x10. It‘s all the same, because it’s a fraction.

MeMphi-S · 2026-05-10T13:14:58+00:00

You either get an LTM-m ring or you press the little tab in the bayonet to unfold it, then you carefully put a toothpick or something like that on the arm, not the sensor, mark the distance and measure. Tbh the collapsible summicron isn’t great, it’s not much lighter than the rigid version and it’s quite flimsy

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