Nikonos V Kikipan 320
On October 16 and 17, 2024 the weather was very degraded on the Lyon city and the region with very heavy rains, a phenomenon common at this season called here a "Mediterranean episode". Warm and humid air that came from South condensed on a cold air zone that came from North-West of France.
I decided then to take my Nikon Nikonos V year 1990 (see below) fitted with the Nikkor lens for the Nikonos 1:2.5 f=35mm. This camera could resist to the worse tropical typhoon and reassured me to take no risks for any other beloved camera of my collection, necessary less weather resistant.
In addition, I returned to the Lugdunum Gallo-Roman museum of Lyon, especially to visit the new temporary exhibition relating the cosmopolitan population of Lyon at the Gallo-Roman period. Most of my pictures were taken inside the underground museum that could not be better protected from the outer elements ...
I loaded the Nikonos V with a never-tried film the Kikipan 320 for 36 black-and-white exposures. I exposed th film for the given 320 ISO using either the camera TTL metering or my external Minolta Autometer III lightmeter in the incident or reflected mode. For timing below 1/30s, I left the Auto mode of the Nikonos operating, finding some good stabilizing points without the use of a tripod. Operating at wide aperture indoor (full f/2.5 or f/3.5) focusing distances were determined using a laser meter and reporting the value to the focusing system of the Nikonos.
Orientation Table, October 17, 2024
Place des Minimes
69005 Lyon
France
After completion of the film outside, it was developed using 300 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta Auto Bellows with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version of Adobe Lightroom Classic 13 and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the Gallo-Roman Lugdunum Museum of Lyon, France : (from lugdunum.grandlyon.com/en/a-museum-of-sites/museum) The museum and the theaters are located on the slopes of Fourvière Hill, on the very site where the Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 B.C..
The idea of creating a museum to house objects related to the Roman city of Lyon was first discussed in the thirties. But it wasn't until the sixties that the project took shape and was entrusted to the architect Bernard Zehrfuss.
Zehrfuss was responsible for the idea of burying the building so that it would fit smoothly into the exceptional setting around it and would not "offend the professionalism of my Roman colleagues". Construction began in 1972. The museum was inaugurated on November 15, 1975.
Nearly invisible from the outside, the museum blends into the landscape of a unique archaeological site composed of two major monuments of the city of Lugdunum: a theater and an odeon, both of which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Photo building / site) The concrete structure disappears under the vegetation, and two large windows channeling light make the theaters part of the exhibition.
One of the remarkable characteristics of the building is the aesthetic quality of the reinforced concrete, both inside and outside. Providing a very simple background, the architecture highlights the works. The customary arrangement of rooms has been replaced by open spaces following a large spiral ramp.
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About the camera Nikonos-V :
I bought this Nikonos V camera brand new from the Bic Camera store located in Shinjuku 3-chome, Tokyo, Japan, in December 1990. It dove a couple of times about ten years ago in Cassis, France, Latter on, I used several a underwater photographic systems in particular based on Sony A7 bodies coupled to the Nikonos lenses (15, 20, 35 and 80mm) in a special housing Nauticam coupling the Sony A7 to the Nikonos lenses.
Nikonos V Kikipan 320
On October 16 and 17, 2024 the weather was very degraded on the Lyon city and the region with very heavy rains, a phenomenon common at this season called here a "Mediterranean episode". Warm and humid air that came from South condensed on a cold air zone that came from North-West of France.
I decided then to take my Nikon Nikonos V year 1990 (see below) fitted with the Nikkor lens for the Nikonos 1:2.5 f=35mm. This camera could resist to the worse tropical typhoon and reassured me to take no risks for any other beloved camera of my collection, necessary less weather resistant.
In addition, I returned to the Lugdunum Gallo-Roman museum of Lyon, especially to visit the new temporary exhibition relating the cosmopolitan population of Lyon at the Gallo-Roman period. Most of my pictures were taken inside the underground museum that could not be better protected from the outer elements ...
I loaded the Nikonos V with a never-tried film the Kikipan 320 for 36 black-and-white exposures. I exposed th film for the given 320 ISO using either the camera TTL metering or my external Minolta Autometer III lightmeter in the incident or reflected mode. For timing below 1/30s, I left the Auto mode of the Nikonos operating, finding some good stabilizing points without the use of a tripod. Operating at wide aperture indoor (full f/2.5 or f/3.5) focusing distances were determined using a laser meter and reporting the value to the focusing system of the Nikonos.
Orientation Table, October 17, 2024
Place des Minimes
69005 Lyon
France
After completion of the film outside, it was developed using 300 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer prepared at the dilution 1+25 for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta Auto Bellows with the Minolta slide duplication accessory and Minolta Macro Bellow lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel CineStill Cine-lite.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within the latest version of Adobe Lightroom Classic 13 and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG's together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
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About the Gallo-Roman Lugdunum Museum of Lyon, France : (from lugdunum.grandlyon.com/en/a-museum-of-sites/museum) The museum and the theaters are located on the slopes of Fourvière Hill, on the very site where the Roman city of Lugdunum was founded in 43 B.C..
The idea of creating a museum to house objects related to the Roman city of Lyon was first discussed in the thirties. But it wasn't until the sixties that the project took shape and was entrusted to the architect Bernard Zehrfuss.
Zehrfuss was responsible for the idea of burying the building so that it would fit smoothly into the exceptional setting around it and would not "offend the professionalism of my Roman colleagues". Construction began in 1972. The museum was inaugurated on November 15, 1975.
Nearly invisible from the outside, the museum blends into the landscape of a unique archaeological site composed of two major monuments of the city of Lugdunum: a theater and an odeon, both of which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Photo building / site) The concrete structure disappears under the vegetation, and two large windows channeling light make the theaters part of the exhibition.
One of the remarkable characteristics of the building is the aesthetic quality of the reinforced concrete, both inside and outside. Providing a very simple background, the architecture highlights the works. The customary arrangement of rooms has been replaced by open spaces following a large spiral ramp.
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About the camera Nikonos-V :
I bought this Nikonos V camera brand new from the Bic Camera store located in Shinjuku 3-chome, Tokyo, Japan, in December 1990. It dove a couple of times about ten years ago in Cassis, France, Latter on, I used several a underwater photographic systems in particular based on Sony A7 bodies coupled to the Nikonos lenses (15, 20, 35 and 80mm) in a special housing Nauticam coupling the Sony A7 to the Nikonos lenses.