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Dec 30, 2016 20:36:18   #
jerryc41 wrote:
Like photo mags.
Hahahahaa....really..!! I don't understand any of them anymore... Nyms
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Dec 30, 2016 19:03:11   #
I hate wedding magazines...I read some at the hair salon and they haven't changed since the 60's. They are simply wish books for 'someday'. I don't even learn photo ideas. They are mags full of ads. Nyms
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Dec 30, 2016 16:11:29   #
Minor mixup, up above....my Clapton shots were with the digital Nikon p60 point and shoot, not with a toy camera, but it IS tiny. About 8meg or so. I do shoot weddings using, at the time, the Nikon n60 film camera and fragile, and Nikons F, F, F2, and two of the four Nikormats, all as backups. I shoot more of the candid type stuff, NOT the Hollywood type stuff. At the time we were running about 20 rolls of 36exp bulk loaded Portra, the saturated stuff...can't remember its designation. But we were pulling $1900 Saturdays, plus ALL the costs of film, processing, room rental, and once, a car rental. Surprisingly, when people find out there are out takes and blurs, they want THEM as well. The only times I felt stressed was shooting the actual vows, cake cutting, and strangers trying to pull me off of what I'm supposed to be doing by saying stupid things like, "Did you get a shot of what my 4 year old nephew was doing outside a minute ago..?" And they say this while holding a cardboard disposable AND their cell phone. "No, I thought the CAKE CUTTING would make a little bit better shot than a little kid I've never seen before, peeing in someone's purse..." Or the wedding where four Mexican groomsmen in powder blue tuxedo's got in a knife fight and the rented tuxes were all ruined and three were hauled to hospital with life threatening 'issues'... But usually, thing go well as long as you tell the bride that SHE has to tell everyone that YOU are in charge of arranging all the shots so nothing is missed. And of course, SURE..YES, when my two flash heads go off, IF they time it right, their cell phone photos will be perfect... I did have two polite gentlemen ask if they could shoot the pose I had set up.... So, I would shoot, pull the pc cord and let them plug in.... They were just so polite to ask. Soooo, shooting the Clapton concert with a Nikon p60 was a joy... over 200 shots.... Nyms
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Dec 30, 2016 08:26:00   #
Yes, but I never know why. If YOU don't know who they are, why would strangers want them..? I buy glass plate negatives just to print out and see what they look like. If there are old barns, old bicycles, rope swings, and especially old cars and Coney Island and beach scenes, there is actually quite a bit of interest. Check them out on ebay as 'antique photos'. Nyms
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Dec 30, 2016 08:16:05   #
That really is quite funny. And obviously, a huge black or white lens mean you're a 'professional', whatever that actually means. I own about 10 Nikons and Nikormats, plus two digitals, a d60 and a point and shoot p60, which is an astonishing camera. I shot an entire Eric Clapton/Steve Winwood concert with the p60, 2nd row centre stage, cropping as I shot, so these are full frame. The results were really quite good and better than some I've seen in rock magazines. I haven't used it for a wedding, or any of my toy cameras, or antique cameras, but I'd like to. I'd love to try using my 127 Empire Baby toy camera. But they don't have 'the look'... One lady shoots all her weddings with a Holga. Nyms




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Dec 28, 2016 18:16:08   #
burkphoto wrote:
That was 47th St. Photo that advertised in Pop Photo, Mod Photo, Petersen's Photo... I bought several items from them back in the '70s. 42nd St. plays on memories of their good name!
Yes, you're right, I WAS thinking of 47th St. They DO sound the same, and I guess they are hoping people will mistake the two like I did. Thanks for the info.... Nyms
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Dec 28, 2016 08:05:23   #
Just curious....if you already had the stuff, and it was what you wanted, and you say you could afford it, why did you want to return all of it..? The price was right or you wouldn't have ordered it. I deal with many places, ebay, Adorama, B&H, Freestyle, Film Photography Project, Lomography Store, and have never had a problem. I remember 42nd St. in the back of photo mags back in the 60's when I was 14. Never bought from them, though. I've heard some stories over the years..... Nyms
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Dec 27, 2016 10:15:51   #
You should be able to colour correct in Photoshop.....absolute worse case you can always change them to b&w. Nyms
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Dec 26, 2016 09:37:35   #
Ah..I have a Baby Brownie Special as well. It's amazing what good slides they take. What I'm using now is a 1925 Kodak Hawkeye Vest Pocket 127. One shutter speed and one for time/bulb, and four f stops. The format is 4x7cm so I use a light table and Nikon d60 for those. The camera is a great, tiny folder. I hope I was able to help you. I like the Wolverine, and as you can see, my 4x4 slide scanned as full image. Unmounted, though, so I cropped to lose the yellow Kodak info.. Nyms
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Dec 25, 2016 22:54:45   #
stevebein wrote:
A ceramic plate vest is better than a camera to take a bullet. So make your own decision. Is this becoming another endless Nikon vs Canon vs others thread again?
You're right, of course, but my ceramic plate vest takes terrible photos and weighs more than the above cameras... Nyms
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Dec 25, 2016 22:40:11   #
Hello, David in Dallas... I looked at mine and the carrier for slides does do 127 slides. The hole in the carrier is 1 5/8" tall, and 1 15/16" wide. This is set up for a 2" mount but the center seems arbitrary. When set for 127, colour, slide, it will block out the entire edge of the white slide mount. It may lose about 1/32 of a large Super Slide 127. This part of a slide is usually the slight black edge of the slide as it goes into colour. They usually are not centered very well. I don't have a Super Slide to try out...but with a 35mm slide, put in vertically and horizontally, but set for 127 colour slide, there is about 1/32" more beyond the long side of the 35mm frame. So I would say yes, it will do the full, square image of a Super Slide, minus about 1/32" or so off each edge. I also put a blank 127 b&w negative strip into the carrier, traced its full image, put it into the Wolverine without any carrier to find where the trace lines were, and it shows 1 5/8"x1 5/8" square, minus perhaps, 1/32" on each edge. So I still say yes, it will do the 127 Super slide. If you want, you can send me one slide, not a favourite one, I'll run it thru this scanner, and send you the image, plus a light table digital photo to show what is close or exact. And then see if it is what you want. Oh, I forgot...I ran a roll of Ektachrome 100 thru my first camera, a Kodak Brownie Starlet 127, from 1959, thru the unit as a 127, colour, slide, thru the main carrier I've been talking about, and the entire square was there, nothing cropped, because it was not mounted. (I made a 120 splitter to make 127 and a 110 camera strip from the 16mm remnant, so I still use fresh, homemade 110 and 127 film..) Here is my image of the full frame 127 square image, minus a very slight trim, removing frame numbers and other yellow Kodak letters to keep it square. Brownie Starlets have a bit of a rough edge on the image. These images are from June 2016 on frozen 2008 Ektachrome 120, slit to 127. Nyms






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Dec 25, 2016 07:24:50   #
Actually, mine is this one.... Another thing, the footprint is only about 6x6 inches... Nyms
https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Mighty-20MP-Digital-Converter/dp/B00O46B7TY/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
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Dec 25, 2016 07:17:19   #
I use that little $120 Wolverine unit, the F2D Mighty. It does 35mm, 127, 110, 16mm and 8mm movie stills, negatives and positives, b&w and colour. But it doesn't do any 120, or my antique Kodak 127 long formats without cropping. I just use my light table and a Nikon d60, and for 4x5 as well. I do all adjustments in Photoshop. This is the only scanner I've had that didn't conk out on me... All my flatbeds died too soon.
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Dec 25, 2016 07:07:44   #
Definitely my Nikon F's and Nikkormat's.....preferably all six hanging at once, spread over my 'centre of mass'. I may walk like Groucho but Mama didn't raise a dumb girl.... Nyms
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Dec 22, 2016 07:25:21   #
I had a 1963 used Corvair Monza, 4 on the floor, navy blue two door. And I never should have traded it in. It was the best car I've ever owned. It was simple, low slung, and only a tiny smidge of common sense got you around a corner safely or into the desired powerslide, with no problems. My Corvair and VW Bug went thru snow when others could not. I would love to be able to afford build a convertible Corvair. I would paint it school bus yellow with a triple red racing stripe running up the drivers side hood and out the back. 60's style dark grey mags with chrome spinners. Or chrome reversals and baby moons...none of that 20" rims chuck wagon look for me.... Perhaps even a front hood mounted Firebird style tachometer. I would take this over anything new offered today. Wouldn't all the other grey haired boys and girls be jealous of ME... Nyms
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