not to change the subject :-) but... photography with film

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mhardy6647

A nice fellow at the Polk Audio forums lent me an interesting lens this past fall: a very early AF-Nikkor (see link below) -- an 80 mm f2.8 lens that's rather uncommon and held in fairly high regard (absent its archaeo-AF capability).

This lens's odd natural history renders it uncharacteristically incompatible with modern AF Nikons, film or digital. Thus, with a mixture of glee and apprehension, I pulled down one of the shelf queens, a Nikon F, chucked the AF-Nikkor on it, popped a roll of Tri-X into it, and -- one pleasant November day, ca. Veterans' Day -- went for the gusto.

My son, just today, shared a Google Drive location with me -- over the holidays, he got the film developed and scanned; I guess he uploaded the photos this weekend.

I was very pleasantly surprised that the old camera worked and my ability to guesstimate exposures (with a little help from some parallel photos taken with the DSLR) wasn't abysmal.

I know this is on the egocentric side of esoteric, but I thought I'd share a photo (above) -- hope some of you can share my enthusiasm for images captured through the magic of photochemistry via grains of silver.

Have a fine MLK day on Monday!

all the best,
mrh
http://mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/nikonf3v (Open in New Window)

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Topic - not to change the subject :-) but... photography with film - mhardy6647 18:43:32 01/18/15 (3)

RE: not to change the subject :-) but... photography with film - pictureguy 00:33:37 01/19/15 (2)

i'm having fun with old glass on new bodies - stan2 14:32:24 01/19/15 (1)

RE: i'm having fun with old glass on new bodies - pictureguy 08:28:55 01/20/15 (0)

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