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Pathscan Enabler 5
GIMP
Photomatix Pro
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You may have noticed i've not used my Leica M240 much since getting the Leica CL. I thought it was time to dust it off for a shoot. What amazed me after time away from the camera is how bad the low light ability of the M240 sensor is. It felt like the jump from the M8 to the M9 or M9 to the M240. Very noticeable! It shows how good the CL sensor is.
Low light and 1/30 motion blur gave a quite filmic looking photo to my eyes - imperfect. Fun catching up with Becca tonight after a long time.
Leica M240 + Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f1.4 + Leica M240 B&W preset
M240 presets - mrleica.com/shop/
The Rooks Breakfast.
Shot around 8.30am.
Minimum Edit for reality a few minor adjustments in Raw and it's a 2 shot joiner ISO 1600 as it was still quite dark. No need to enhance as this sensor is remarkable even at 1600 ISO.
First chance to try my new second hand 28-300 Zoom. Very Pleased. A few more examples shot at similar times coming soon.
Rig shots are always fun to edit, right? Ahaha, only if you have an addiction to cloning!
I was browsing through a photo set earlier and noticed this one. Apparently, my lens got tremendously dirty and wet from the rain. I specifically remember looking down and thinking, "Damn, that can't be good!" and cleaning my lens immediately.
While sensor dust has always been a problem, I think this effect was a bit interesting, so I kept it. Interesting in that, "Oh-god-I-don't-ever-want-to-clone-again" sort of way.
This is a tower located at the summit of Mt. Washington and it has many sensors and tech for the weather observatory.
Light Trails From A CCD Sensor, 18:48, England.
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This is an other picture of our new campaign for next summer.
I took it last week at the upper terrace which is on the top of our office in Varanasi (Benaras).
Anand who is our favourite model is holding a cushion in white linen with an embroidery made of flowers and swirls and matching with the throw in the background.
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Light Trails From A CCD Sensor, 18:40, England.
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I tend to take pictures of Light trails, Motorway traffic, Street lights, Buildings, Landscapes, Bokeh, Night bokeh and Hexagonal Night Bokeh in England.
All of my pictures are 100% natural and untouched in every way without ever been Photoshopped or altered or messed about with in anyway whatsoever, No multi layered photography, No HDR's and No image manipulation of any kind, all of my pictures look just the way they did when I saw them at the time of taking and I'm VERY PROUD of that.
I don't do any photo processing at all, I don't even own any photo software.
All pictures are JPEG, Never RAW.
All of my starbursts are all 100% natural without using any filters or anything else, as is all my bokeh, night bokeh and hexagonal night bokeh, its all natural, no funny gimmicks at all.
I don't do anything with my pictures apart from take them and then upload them , 99.99999% of my pictures don't even get cropped , they are all 100% natural and untouched and then uploaded.
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Vintage Nikon Digital (CCD Sensor) - 3 (of 15) - Nikon D50 (2005) with AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6G VR Zoom (F mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Swiss Flight Services Pilatus PC-12 HB-FOZ makes yet another East to West run at FL090 while surveying the UK coastal bay between Littlehampton and Eastbourne
Note the large belly mounted sensor window
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If you look closely, you will see the extra sensors on the right side that detect cyclists and pedestrians for extra safety.
Portrait of me beside the Nimbus temperature sensor for NWS records, installed with the help of my National Weather Service supervisor. Cabled sensor sends data to readout console in the house, senses temperatures from -99.9° F to 120.9°.
Photoshoot: 8th August 2009
Model: Jeska
MUA: Amanda Marriot
Assisted by: Jess
Strobist info:
70cm gridded beauty dish front above - 400ws monoblock - Skyport trigger.
80x120 softbox behind 600ws monoblock - optical trigger (I think from memory that I had a cable failure and I actually used a speedlight aimed at the optical sensor to trigger - with a Skyport on the speedlight)
Here is a shot from December 2. It was one of the craziest burns I've seen over San Francisco. There were so many colors and stages to this sunrise that I thought my sensor might have been fried from the overload.
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, and looking forward to shooting in 2016!
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A very popular camera by Agfa from the late 70s and a little marvel of industrial design. The "Optima Sensor" name had been used by Agfa for a series of simple electronic consumer cameras since the late 60s denoting the presence of a big, red, feather-touch shutter button (sensor) that adorned the top of the camera and was considered very hi-tech at the time.
This last series of the Agfa Optimas were marketed during the late 70s and production continued well into the 80's being hugely successful in the european market. At least 5 different models exist, including a rangefinder (Agfa Optima 1535) and one equipped with an electronic flash, aptly named "Agfa Optima Flash". The best online source of information regarding these cameras can be found here:
www.edition-oldenburg.de/agfa_optima.html
The Optima 1035 pictured here sits second from the top of the line-up feature-wise. It is a zone-focus camera with a fully automatic exposure system based on the Agfa Paratronic electronic shutter. Despite its introduction at a time when plastic was already being used extensively in camera manufacture, the littke Agfa is mostly made of metal with a very durable black coating. Some parts are made of plastic (like the film advance lever or the focusing ring) but the overall feel is that of a solid, durable camera.
The most prominent feature of the camera is the HUGE and extremely bright viewfinder which is a small revelation for first-time users. It is very close in size and brightness to the viewfinders found in premium rangefinders and makes using the camera a real joy. In the 1035 the VF features three distance symbols and a red needle that moves between them according to the chosen focus distance, the minimum being 0.9m. The frame line is illuminated and there are parallax correction marks for close subjects.
Another unique feature of the Optima is the lack of a rewind crank. With the help of (rather flimsy) toggle switch on the top plate, the film advance lever doubles as a rewind crank, a clever design that made the installation of such a bright finder on such a small camera possible.
Upon opening the film door, another clever feature makes its apperance: When loading the camera, the film is passed under a small shield on the winding side which protects film that has already been exposed from accidental opening of the film door.
The lens is a fast f2.8, 40mm four-element Solitar-S ("S" denoting multi-coating) which is quite sharp under good lighting conditions with good contrast and resistance to flare.
Shutter speeds go up to 1/1000s and in low light the Paratronic can stay open for at least one full second. The high top shutter speed combined with the minimum diaphragm opening of f22 ensure proper exposure of fast film even under the brightest conditions. The shutter is completely battery-dependent, it doesn't open at all if batteries are not installed. The feather-touch shutter release ensures minimum shake when taking the shot, reducing the chance of a blurry shot in relatively slow speeds.
Agfa engineers were clever enough to put the CdS cells of the metering system at the six o'clock position of the lens beauty ring, a fact that prevents shadowing of the sensors when a lens hood is used.
Not everything is good on the little Agfa though. For starters, the ASA setting stops at 400 which can be quite limiting if one wants to push fast film. Also, there is no backlight compensation provision, one has to change the ASA setting to deal with backlit subjects.
Additionally (and most annoyingly) the shutter produces an awful screeching sound when fired, probably the worst-sounding shutter I've ever come across, regardless of camera type.
Another ill-conceived feature of the camera (perhaps imposed by the necessity for small size) is the fact that the battery department is accessible only after opening the film door, so in case the batteries die mid-roll, the film must be rewound in order to change them. To make things worse, there doesn't seeem to be any means of knowing if the batteries are weak. The camera uses an uncommon arrangement of three 625 button cells, but at least its exposure system is designed for the common alkaline ones, not the obsolete mercury cells.
For some reason, Agfa deemed it necessary to equip the camera with a red LED lamp that sits above the lens barrel and lights up momentarily every time the shutter is fired, letting everyone know that you've taken their picture. It also blinks during countdown when the (mechanical) self-timer is activated.
As you can see from the picture, the Optima has no strap lugs, as Agfa chose to equip the camera with a proprietary screw-on neck strap that attaches on the left side, a solution that is a complete failure in my opinion. First of all, if you lose the strap there is no way you can replace it with a generic one. Also, the choice of a long neck strap is very poor for such a small, light camera which would benefit most from a short wrist strap, although a pair of scissors and a couple of rivets can easily remedy that. On top of that, placing the wrist strap on the left side is totally counterintuitive, as it virtually precludes secure single-handed operation of the camera with the right hand. According to the manual, the port for the screw-on strap doubles as the tripod mount, although this obviously implies that the camera can be used only in vertical orientation when on a tripod.
Overall, the small size and all-black color, combined with an accurate, fully automatic exposure system, a good semi-wide lens and an unsurpassed viewfinder, make this little Agfa very attractive as a stealthy street shooter. Still, there are a few shortcomings that make it fall short of being the perfect "little black beauty" a title I reserve for the Olympus XA2, my "golden standard" for this particular category of cameras.
When you gave a really sunny day in winter, the light is much better for photography than in summer.
Agfa Optima 1035 Sensor
Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 400 colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
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78F sensor temps, hazy, high thin clouds, fireworks smoke, looking into light pollution.
Lots, maybe too much noise reduction.
12@ 300 seconds HA Gain 111
15 darks at 78F!!!
Scope: AT65EDQ
Mount: iOptron iEQ45
Camera: ZWO ASI183M non cooled
Guide camera: QHY5Lii
Guide Scope: Meade 60mm achro fl 300
Orion 5 position manual filter wheel
ZWO LRGB
Schuler HA 9nm, Schuler 9nm Sii
MyFocuer Pro v2 (Robert Brown)
Software: APT, PHD2, Sharpcap, CdC, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Nic Dfine 2, Astronomy Tools plug in, Google Chrome Remote Desktop
With really warm temperatures, our workshop students' cameras were running a little hotter than normal. No, their cameras were not exploding but I did have a little fun with it in this single exposure image captured in Arches National Park.
How I Got The Shot
This is a 20 second single exposure image where I shot for about 15 seconds with the camera locked on the tripod before releasing the camera for the final 5 seconds. During this last 5 seconds, I moved the camera free-hand using the lighted LCD screens to make the smoke.
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Willy the dog in Guernica, Pais Basco, Spain, summer 2011
Original shots taken with an Agfa Silette LK Sensor 35mm camera, Color Agnar 45mm f2.8, 24x36mm format on some 100 asa film, light post processing.
Taken with 50/1.2 lens, cropped to ~100 mm focal length perspective on 35 mm sensor to properly align both views.
Agfa Optima Sensor is a very simple scale camera, but showed good enough results, which even surprised me. I took the photo with a new film of the Yashica Golden 80s. The film also made me happy!