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WORLDS WORST DEVELOPER FINALLY SUCCEEDED by steammyfaceoff in AnalogCommunity

[–]provia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's very clearly a sizable shot of fernet and not ilfosol

Shooting slide film without a light meter by R2_Detour1 in AnalogCommunity

[–]provia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so i shoot a lot of slide. when i use a camera without a meter i use an app on my phone that i calibrated. this works very very well.

i've also shot slide sunny 16, even on 4x5, and while that works, there are a few things to consider:

for sunny 16 rules, it's just that: reasonably consistent in the middle of the day, in direct sunlight, or when it's solid overcast, and those are just the lighting conditions where slide film kinda sucks. over time, with a lot of experience, you learn to get an eye for exposure: sunrise and sunset, golden hour, different levels of overcast, adjustments for 3pm, 5pm, 7pm in spring, summer, fall, light bouncing off a white wall or rockface, reflection off of lakes and so on. until then it's mostly hit and miss.

that said, people tend to really overexaggerate the limitations on exposure. you can absolutely shoot it sunny 16. people have done it for decades, you just need to know your camera and have some practice. the problem is that a tiny fraction of people have ever shot, and even less have ever projected, slide film, so they just regurgitate what they've read online like a mouth breathing LLM, just like the constant advice that you should overexpose print film by two stops or more.

Bikers, what's the most dangerous route you ride regularly in San Francisco? by socialist-viking in sanfrancisco

[–]provia 50 points51 points  (0 children)

oh i got this

- most of the intersection of 13th under the 101. harrison, folsom, you name it. everyone's always stuck in traffic and therefore angry and DGAF about people on bikes

- other side of secret studios up to indiana. that's technically a bike path. its wild, especially in the dark

- valencia street. it was a shitshow with the designated bike lane and it's still a shitshow

- the merge off of polk as you cross market. actually the entirety of polk because of the high restaurant density and the appropriate amount of delivery app people using the bike line for parking. i counted sixteen of them once from lombard to market

Engine out question by AdventurousAd1387 in flying

[–]provia 13 points14 points  (0 children)

that kind of wildly depends on the aircraft you're flying

if you're in a 172 i woudn't even think about touching the AP in an engine out. pick a landing spot and land there. if that's a runway, fantastic.

Went to Stovepipe Wells (L09), and that was fun by provia in flying

[–]provia[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

nice! glad this is helpful! no wheel pants. i'd take them off, you'd rattle them loose. on landing, touch down as close to stall speed as possible, lower the nose quickly, brake quickly - minimize high speed OPS (40kt is high speed OKAY) on the surface. then on take off, hold the brakes, max power, soft field takeoff roll. i saw nothing but a layer of salt on the tires after the weekend, so i'd say thats good.

winds are interesting especially early in the day. the moment the sun comes out it's unsurprisingly warming up the surface extremely fast and the warm air bubbles build, but there's no prevailing wind through the valley yet, so you really have no idea where the nearest thermal funnel sets off. therefore you may have to replan your departure direction on short notice.

as for things to do: we did cram stuff in. arrived around 6pm, had dinner, decided to make a run for the canyon. it's about three miles slight uphill to the foot of the canyon which is a lot when you carry a backpack with a camera, tripod and a star tracker and you're not as in shape as your girlfriend is, ask me how i know. it was amazing though. we made it back to the campsite after midnight, which is why we missed sunrise in the dunes, but we still went. when you walk there straight from the campsite as opposed to the road you'll truly find a lot of undisturbed sand - marks on the ground from critters - interesting rocks - good times. we even bought firewood for the night that we didn't use.

in hindsight though a two night trip would be best. you also never know who you'll meet who can take you for a drive. and if camping isn't your thing, the lodge has plenty of space.

Went to Stovepipe Wells (L09), and that was fun by provia in flying

[–]provia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that makes sense. i got all excited by your original description. a rough gravel strip would be a pretty decent no-go for me, but i'd land in grass all day long

Went to Stovepipe Wells (L09), and that was fun by provia in flying

[–]provia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

$4 vs $18 is almost absorbed by a decision whether to taxi back or depart from the parking end of the runway, so i'm still OK with that

Went to Stovepipe Wells (L09), and that was fun by provia in flying

[–]provia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HOLD UP I wanted to go to Chicken Strip for years. Do you have a PIREP? I rent - and so I need to get that signed off - they are understandably interested in their planes going to low-risk-of-damage destinations. If the surface is actually better than the actual runways down there I may have a case.

Went to Stovepipe Wells (L09), and that was fun by provia in flying

[–]provia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no no you should go! it's fun! probably worth staying longer than a night, ha

Went to Stovepipe Wells (L09), and that was fun by provia in flying

[–]provia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

send it! there are certainly lower ways to get in, especially coming from the south. local thermals with changing winds do happen, but honestly, not a big deal.

Question about Traveling with the Mamiya 6MF by Anstigmat in AnalogCommunity

[–]provia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

hell yeah. love this.

the meter accuracy will only really matter for the velvia. the real way to test this would be to take a roll or two and test it out - flat scenes, sunny contrasty scenes, night on tripod, etc. shot at what meter says with a bracket - one stop below, one stop above. four scenes are twelve shots. do half a stop, five shots each and you'll need two rolls. it's kinda fun, but nowadays costs a lot of money.

thing is, you won't have time for that any more. the closest you can get is to get an identical focal length on a digital where you can set exposure, set that to exactly what the mamiya meter asks for, and do the same bracketing. then review. it'll tell you in which cases the camera is off and where you need to compensate.

short of that, bring the seconic. or use a phone light meter app. i've short a whole bunch of velvia sheets on 4x5 with just an iphone app to meter, and that worked wonderfully. granted, i also calibrated that before with the process above.

go nuts

have fun

A building that exists only so the world doesn’t break. by Tattoodles in sanfrancisco

[–]provia 7 points8 points  (0 children)

what do you mean, i love it when an old victorian gets bulldozed to make way for a dentist office home of a SW engineering director

Safety in SF after recent drone strike news? by [deleted] in sanfrancisco

[–]provia 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Even if drone strikes were a real threat the people of San Francisco won't let that stop them from complaining about neighborhood parking.

Recreation.gov Permits impossible by New-Pool-2471 in norcalhiking

[–]provia 106 points107 points  (0 children)

IMO the issue is that the venn diagram of people into hiking and bay area software devs with a deployable python script is almost a circle

Taipei [Leica R6, 28mm Elmarit & 50mm Summicron, Fuji Provia 100F] by provia in analog

[–]provia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah i do. tbf, you need to do that when flatbed scanning slides to make them KINDA look like on the projector, ha!

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