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| Maple, Fence, Nandina - Marin County 2012 |
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| Large Pot - Marin County 2012 |
Wanting to see if my Mamiya C220 twin-lens reflex was still
in operating order I stopped by Marin Film Works in San Rafael and bought a roll of Fujifilm
Provia color transparency film for six bucks. Based on old habit I was able to
load the film without any difficulty.
I affixed the camera to a tripod and took it into the
backyard. Luckily that day there was a high overcast giving bright even light.
Looking down through the hood I composed the shot on the camera's groundglass
screen, then focused using the built-in magnifying glass. (By the way - any
digital camera's LCD screen is brighter.) For a light meter I used my Canon G12 set to ISO 100 and aperture
priority. Since the Canon will only go
up to f8 I had to take that reading and make adjustments for the Mamiya's
higher f-stops (up to f45.)
Part of the process that was giving me a little trepidation
was the switching of lenses. Would the light-proof interior flap remain
light-proof? I did the switch to telephoto, took some shots, then switched back
to the normal lens and kept shooting.
After taking the roll's 12 exposures I took it back to Marin
Film Works to be developed. I picked up the 12 transparencies, nicely trimmed and
placed in glassine envelopes, the next day.
They all came out!
Holding them up to the light you could see nice rich tonalities and lots
of detail.
I took them home, got out my Epson V700's 120 film holder
and scanned a few of the positives. I saved the scans as TIF files, then opened
the files and tweaked using Adobe Camera Raw. I've posted two of the results
above. Top photo taken with the camera's
normal lens, bottom with the telephoto.
I imagine that using a truly high-res scan, together with Photoshop, awesome results could be achieved.
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