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I went on a business trip back in December. We met the team and visited the office. It was a lot of fun, but the weather was dull and gray, and time was tight, so I got to see just a tiny bit of the excellent industrial-era brick architecture.
Taken with Pentax MV film camera and smc Pentax-M 50mm F1.4 lens, on AgfaPhoto APX 400 black & white film. Developed in Adonal, 1+50 dilution slightly above 22°C.
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 8100 film scanner using VueScan.
Camera: Pentax 645N II
Lens: smc Pentax-FA 645 45-85mm F:4.5 @ 85mm (yellow filter)
Exposure: 1/180 @ F/4.5
Film: Fomapan 100 Classic dev. in Rodinal (APH-09) 1+49
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, NGC 292, PGC 3085 and others) is a dwarf irregular galaxy located approximately 195,694 (0.06 Mpc) light-years away in Tucana and Hydrus.
NGC 104 (47 Tucanae, Melotte 1, Faust 10 and others), to the right of the SMC, is a Shapley-Sawyer class III (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Sawyer_Concentratio...) globular cluster located approximately 15,297 light-years away in Tucana.
NGC 362 (Melotte 4, Faust 127 and others), above the SMC, is also a class III globular cluster located approximately 29,354 light-years away in Tucana.
Luminance – 17x300s – 85 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 10x300s – 50 minutes each – binned 1x1
235 minutes total exposure – 3 hours 55 minutes
Imaged on December 15th, 17th and 18th, 2020 and January 8th, 2021 at the El Sauce Observatory – Telescope.Live (Rio Hurtado, Chile) with a FLI ML16200 using a Nikon lens f/2 200mm.
This is an updated image with more data collected by Jan Scheers - www.astrobin.com/users/JanScheers. His data was collected between my requests.
Original image:
LRGB - www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/50898792258/sizes/l/
LRGB annotated - www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/50899620377/sizes/l/
Small Magellanic Cloud, taken with Canon 6d and Samyang 135mm, 12x300" from Tivoli Southern Sky, Namibia.
SMC (K) 55mm f1.8. Wide open.
A prettier rendering than the Mamiya/Sekor 55mm f1.8 I've been using recently.
Asahi Pentax KX, smc Pentax Shift 1:3.5 28mm, Y48(Y2) yellow filter, f/11, 1/8, 4mm rise
Rollei RPX 25 film/ID-11 1+1 developer
For high-contrast scenes such as this, RPX 25 is not the best choice (nor is its second Rollei-branded incarnation, Retro 80S).* It needs quite a bit of curve editing to get decent contrast in the highlights, which then results in unexpectedly grainy skies. I did not try to wet-print such negatives but assume it will be difficult.
* Both are re-branded Agfa Aviphot Pan 80, a film optimised for high-altitude aerial photography with high mid-level contrast and a loss of detail in shadows and highlights.
At the end of our first full day in Yosemite I found a different way of looking at one of the Valley's iconic sights.
Pentax K-1
Mirex tilt/shift adapater
SMC Pentax-A 645 1:2.8 55mm
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