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A Sunday afternoon in Surry Hills during 2009.
The police car is a 2009 build Commodore SS since it features an Active Fuel Management-equipped V8. This new technology, which saves fuel when cruising, debutted on V8 automatic Holdens earlier this year. Wheels magazine managed to drive a V8 Calais between Sydney and Melbourne on one tank of fuel, returning 32 mpg, not bad for 6.0 litres and 265 kW ...
Hong Kong Culture | Modern Hong Kong History started in 1841.
Visit Hong Kong - one of the World‛s GREATEST Cities!
Hong Kong is blessed with some of the most amazing panoramic city views in the World today and even better 75% of the land area consists of country parks and wetlands plus we have 575+ named hills and peaks offering some great hiking trails and lots of very fine beaches and remote islands - in a nutshell, Hong Kong is full of surprises!
Victoria Peak, The Peak Tram, Victoria Harbour, The Big Buddha | Po Lin Monastery, Tai O Fishing Village, The iconic Star Ferry, The Ocean Terminal Deck, The iconic Street Tram on HK Island, TST Promenade, Cheung Chau Island, Peng Chau Island, Temple Street Night Market, The Ladies Market, Chi Lin Nunnery | Nan Lian Garden, Statue Square, The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tsz Shan Monastery, Tai Kwun Centre, Hollywood Road, The Mid Levels Escalator, Aberdeen, Stanley, The West Kowloon Cultural Centre, Food Markets... the list goes on and on of cool and unusual places you should “visit or do” when you come to Hong Kong.
Book a Private Tour of Hong Kong to maximise your time here and gain an in depth understanding of this amazing city, in addition we have a great food culture and night life scene with some 15,000 - 20,000 Restaurants and Bars officially and unofficially and any and all visitors should take a private or group food tour in Hong Kong!
Hong Kong has one of the very best public transport systems in the world (MTR Subway and Buses + 18,163 Taxi‛s) they are cheap, reliable and easy to use.
Hong Kong - Some Facts - Population 7.5 Million people | 92% Ethnic Chinese | English is an Official Language along with Cantonese and Mandarin | 1,114 sq km or 430sq miles of diversity | 263 Islands | People | Street Scenes | Traffic Scenes | Nature Scenes | Animals | Buildings | Shopping | Gardens | The Countryside | Islands and the Ocean + Daily Life and anything interesting, all Districts, Hong Kong
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With a garage full of Harley's this poor little truck gets a pine bough for a roof. One of the few old dodges in town. Well maintained with just a few character wrinkles. (Yes it's true: the white spots are falling snow.)
Hand held six frame image,
Merged and mapped in Photomatix Pro 4,
Adjusted and corrected in Photoshop CS4 Extended,
More adjustment in DxO Optics Pro 6 Elite,
Final fiddle and crop in THE GIMP.
This was a test shot with my latest aquisition a Fuji GX680 MkII using a 125mm lens (with full upward shift) and using Agfa's Rollei Retro 80S 120 film with this frame rated at ISO200. The exposure would have been 1/125 sec at f20. I had used the full upward shift available on the camera to negate the effect of my shooting 'uphill' and enabling me to keep the camera level. I was very pleased with this as the image exhibits no vignetting at all so can assume that the lens has an even greater coverage than that required to cover the full range of available movements on the camera.
The film was exposed at various ISO's from it's nominal ISO80 up to this ISO200 frame. This frame was the best of those exposed and still shows that when developed as this was using the Caffenol CL formula (500mls distilled water, 8g Sodium Carbonate, 5g Vitamin C, 0.6g Potassium Bromide and 20g of Tesco's Really Rich Roast Coffee) at 21 degrees C for 65 minutes using a semi-stand technique after a 5 minute water bath the developer was introduced with 30 secs continuous agitation initially, then 3 further inversions after a further 2 mins, 4 mins, 8 mins, 16 mins and a final stage of 34.5 mins before discarding the developer, this was followed by 3 water washes before a 5 minute fix in an Alkali fixer. The film was finally washed for 5 minutes with continuous agitation using fresh water changes every 30 seconds before being dried in my film dryer.
First impressions of the negatives were that they looked a 'bit heavy' and suspect that even with the ISO200 frame there is a little scope for going a bit higher. The negatives also look overdeveloped and the frame numbers back this up by being very 'black and fuzzy'. The biggest surprise for me though was the amount of curl that the film had, this was further brought to light as a definite disadvatage of this film as it was a real PITA to try to get to lay nicely in the film holder's of my Epson V750 scanner. Fortunately I have purchased the 'Better Scanning' MF film holder for my scanner with 2 pieces of AN glass which by inserting the film upside down in the holder and using the AN glass to flatten enabled a decent scan to take place. The image was flipped back to the correct orientation in PP. The very pleasing attributes of this film though do give hope for it's use when developed this way as it has excedingly fine grain and a beautiful tonal range.
The image was scanned at a resolution of 6400dpi using the Vuescan software (also my first time of using this as I usually use SilverFast AI Studio V8) and the image has only had some USM applied in PP, the image is other wise as 'shot and scanned'.
So where do I go from here, I am going to try some more Rollei Retro 80S (particularly as I have another 4 rolls in the fridge) but will rate it at ISO250, I will also reduce the dev time in Caffenol CL by 10% keeping everything else the same.
It is a pity that the film has this awful curl as It would make a really great 'day to day film, especially with it's bias towards Red (which has been well documented) giving an effect of having an Orange filter on your lens and bringing out the Blue tone of the sky in a very natural way. I am hoping the film curl will reduce after being flattened for a while under a pile of books.
Eastney Road, Eastney. Note the wall advertisement on the old shop. I think I bought a secondhand brass telescope there back in the 1960s.