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A Sunday afternoon with my Semflex Standard 3.5, a French TLR camera year 1959, Lyon, France June 16, 2024.
The camera was equipped with either a FOCA protective Anti-UV and FOCA metal shade hood.
Expositions were determined for 125 ISO using a Minolta Autometer III equipped with a 10° finder for selective measures privileging the shadow areas. Focusing was done using the camera screen and the build-in loupe attached to the view finder.
Typically I used the 1/100s (one at 1/50s) with aperture ranging from f/16 to f/5.6. For one view during the shutter relaease, my thumb touched the shutter cocking lever during its course.The view is still correctly exposed but my surprise caused a significant motion blur.
Rue des Tables Claudiennes, June 16, 2024
69001 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+25 and the film processed for 9min at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm films.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG.
About the camera and lenses :
New in my camera collection this French Semflex TLR year 1959-1960 equipped with f=75mm SOM Berthiot lenses.
The SEM company ("Société des Etablissements Modernes de Mécanique") was founded in France by Paul Royet in 1946, in the small city of Aurec near Saint-Etienne (Loire). The SEM camera's was known essentially for the TLR Semflex that were a great commercial success in France until the 70's. The camera's are constructed around an injected aluminum alloy chassis, very resistant and rigid permitting precise optical alignments. The focusing mechanism is made of a cam system like the Rolleiflex giving an accurate and smooth focusing. SEM constructed their own shutters called Orec with 5 leaves capable of the 1/400s to 1s with B.
Semflex received in majority French optics Berthiot with 3 or 4 lenses (Tessar type). Some camera's were also mounted with Angénieux lenses.
Semflex were trusted TLR camera's used by amateurs and for professional purposes. From 1949 to 1976, 171.000 Semflex were produced in many different types and versions.
My Semflex in a middle grade version Standard 3.5 type-10 (1959-1960). It was the last version mounted with the 3-lens SOM Berthiot 1:3.5 f=75mm. I got the camera with set of accessories and several documents including the user manual of the Semflex Standard 4.5 versions. The accessories include a leather SEM ever-ready bag, a Semflex push-on shade hood, a Semflex push-on yellow filter x2 in its original box, and close-focusing lenses. The 1D one is constructed with a prism for the finder lens that compensates the parallax in the zone 1m to 0.5m.
The decorative ring around each lenses can also receive push-on accessories in 36mm diameter as the FOCA or Leitz 36mm filter series. I adapted two protective lens caps from Kodak film canister snapped covers.
Southern pine beetle control at Tuckahoe WMA
5 image HDR Processed in Photomatix Pro. Lens barrel distortion corrected in PT Lens.
Rokinon 14mm @ f8
This little flag was tied to a little buggy used by the valet guys at Marina Jacks, Sarasota. Been awhile since I played around with selective colouring ~ not great but .....
112 Pictures in 2012 #15 Stripes .....
Our Daily Topic - STRIPES .....
Epidermal numbness, 131 days later.
A. Map of epidermal numbness on my left knee/shin relative to the incision from my ACL reconstruction. Morphological transformation from South America to.....Greenland?
B. Graphical representation of the area of numbness exhibited in (A). The rate of change is slowing.
A thing that's not numb:
When I push the divot in my tibia that manifests like a bruise on my shin, it sends an inundated stream of agony down the front of my leg, inducing involuntary flinching and weakness that renders me on the verge of collapsing. My shin hurtslikecrazy when I run, much of it attributed to muscular weakness, my physical therapist says; nevertheless I wonder to what degree this carved pothole in my tibia contributes to this regular, uncontrollable wincing. Each step is like, bam-ow!, bam-ow!, bam-ow!… One would think the sensations would eventually subside, similar to the manner in which capsaicin excessively depolarizes and subsequently exhausts neural transmission to sensory neurons thus dulling arthritic pain, but not the case. I guess it just doesn't hurt enough. I discovered this weak spot while in conversation with people at work--I curiously I leaned over and pushed it, and nearly ate it. Then I pressed it again just to make sure that it was for real, and the people I was speaking with yelled at me to stop and made me sit down. It's for real.
Another thing that's for real--running on a 2% incline, as recommended by my new physical therapist, reduces the load on my knee and has kept the patellofemoral pain at bay. Score.
is a post-processing technique that can be used to draw the eye to a particular element in the photograph.
Using your favorite photo editing software, simply select the object or area where you wish to retain color. If it's a relatively monochromatic feature, as in this example, the "magic wand" tool may be the easiest way to do this. Then, invert the selection, which will have the effect of selecting everything other than the colored area. Now convert to black & white using your favorite method. In this example, I used the channel mixer.
I do hope you were paying attention.
Original image seen at Exposure, 12/1/06
Loggers apply a tag to a stump to help track the impacts of tree harvesting on this privately owned tract of rainforest.
And then I realised that this was a good candidate to illustrate sharp focus with the foreground and background blurred.
part of my tome underneath my TV. this is pretty much me in a nutshell - sports, music, philosophy, business & technology (and if you notice on the left, jenna jameson's excellent autobiography).
tragically not pictured are my bookends - Stephen King's "The Stand" and "It".
This photo, taken in the Art Gallery of Burlington, displays a series of old letters. And in the photograph you have a nearly simplistic and repetitive photo, with just a select few focused, having the rest slightly blurred, and darker. Using a manual focus assisted in capturing what I really wanted to capture, and the angle added for a little bit of artsy, as well as the darker outside, minimizing the out-of-focus subject while at the same time adding a rustic feel to the photo.
Marimuthu Andiappan, ChE graduate student and member of ChE Prof. Suljo Linic's research group, demonstrates usage of a copper catalyst as part of the group's research project for rational design of novel catalysts for selective oxidation reactions.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
I'm not usually a fan of black and white stuff because I like bright, bold photos that look like the stuff they look like but I thought I'd try something a little different with this one. I uploaded the original for comparison.
UT had a nice start of a lead at the UT Auburn game on Saturday. In the end they lost with a devastating 23 - 55 from the Auburn Tigers
For We're Here and Red Car
I asked bron to draw me a red car so I can take a photo of it, she said I can do it, I said I have no drawing skills. She said everybody can draw....... I rest my case
Very happy polishing my photography skills taking a full Photoshop course... here is a sample of the first results ...