Posted on 07/29/2010 8:46:17 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
Thanks....:)
There’s more at
http://www.GardensOfNocturne.com
[a website perpetually “in progress”...post-processing IR and messing with HDR effects takes *forever*]...LOL
Very nice! I have an old Minolta (early ‘70s vintage) — all manual — that I dearly loved.... Finally gave into digital so it doesn’t get used anymore, but what a great camera.
Thank you...:)
Oddly enough, since it’s not really a “razzle dazzle” kind of photo, I like “Closer”.
It just seemed very poignant to me.
Back then, a gallon of gasoline sold at retail for much less than $1.00 ...
Mine was (and is; yes, it still works) a Canon AE1.
Excellent find. I still have my 1973 Nikon F to lug around when I’m feeling retro, though I don’t shoot much film anymore since I got my D300 a few years back. When I do, it’s with a beautiful 1955 Ricoflex TLR on Ilford 200, that I also found at a local recycle shop and talked the owner down to 10,000 yen.
Gonna pimp my shit and let y’all have a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbone
Batteries are standardized. You can dust it off and get it working in a flash. No reason put off developing your skills again.
Wow, nice work on these. Are these scanned negs boogied up in Photoshop. I used to love taking pictures at the cemetery in the hills of Sonoma when I was wee lad. Sepulchers are so damned photogenic, aren’t they?
Re: What do you think?
I don’t mean to be a burr in the bum, but these look like snapshots from a pocket camera.
Get your mojo working and get out there with an SLR (any will do) that makes a *K-chh* sound and a 50mm f/1.2/2.8 fixed focus lens and hone your skills.
Whatever you are using now, take it to the community center or junior college and sign up for some photo classes and you will find your composition and PoV will improve immensely in a matter of weeks.
Dunno what to tell ya. My SRT-102 never gave me prollems with 20+ sec exposures all night long (across multiple rolls); the X-370 crapped out on me repeatedly w/in course of a single roll - dead batteries. That, notwithstanding, that condition never happened in hand-held shooting environment.
Perfect example is meteor shower observing. Doesn’t matter if its Perseid or Leonid - one being colder than the other - the X-370 don’t like long term open shutter condition; at least mine don’t.
“Cameras thrive on exercise.”
Then that baby will be in GOOD shape! ;o)
I think you meant fixed focal length as opposed to zoom, instead of fixed focus. Some very inexpensive cameras such as the old box cameras do have a fixed focus but one would never use them on an SLR other than a couple of real odd balls.
Hehe, yes, that’s correct.
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