These are the good old days of B&W photography
Foto.Feola.Friday for February 23, 2024
And tomorrow we might not be together
I'm no prophet and I don't know nature's ways
So I'll try and see into your eyes right now
And stay right here 'cause these are the good old days
Foto.Feola.Friday
I’m starting to get the hang of the Pentax K-3 III Monochrome. I’ve taken to shooting the way I did with Kodachrome, only more so. Back in the Kodachrome days photographers knew you could blow out the highlights of the film, but it had tons of range down in the shadows. So we all set our cameras to underexpose, generally by a third of a stop.
The Monochrome is like that, but even more so. There’s usable detail even above 1,000,000 ISO! (No, not a typo. Over 1,000,000 ISO.) So I protect the highlights by setting the meter to underexpose by a full stop. These are DNG RAW files, converted in Photoshop. I use Levels to set Zone 0 and Zone 10, and…that’s it. No noise reduction, no sharpening, nada.
Here’s some fun with my old film lenses.
Next on Perfecting Equilibrium
Sunday February 25th — About that time I accidentally ate Japanese “Italian” food. One of the interesting things about living in Japan is their take on other cuisines. Italian restaurants don’t serve Italian food; they serve what Italian food would be if Italy was entirely populated by the Japanese. A supreme pizza comes with everything! Including raw squid and baby corn-two ingredients no Italian in Naples or New Jersey would ever use.
Great pix. And I agree on the exposure strategy and lenses. My oldest Pentax 50 is f/2 but I have 135, 35, a Spiratone 500 mm mirror tele (T mount) , Swift 1000 mm f/13.3 telescope (3" refractor) with machined stuff to accept T mounts, some M42 threaded lenses originally bought for my Miranda (which had its own mount but M42 threads inside as well).