Tuesday, April 14. 20092009.03.25: New Film Business Card Photos
Last month I acquired a silver Zeiss Ikon Leica M-mount range finder along with an early M-mount Leitz Elmarit 90/2.8 and Zeiss Biogon 35/2 ZM. I have shot more film frames in the last few months than I have in the five years since switching to digital capture and it has been a rewarding experience for the most part. I learned a few things:
- Don't trust London Drugs 149St. Stony Plain Road in Edmonton to cut your film; - Don't trust London Drugs to process your black and white film (I was told that it gets sent to a Calgary London Drugs); - When London Drugs 49St. Stony Plain Road offers 1hour photo processing, they really mean that they'll be out for lunch until your film is due and sometimes that means you'll need to come back the next day; - Don's Photo 99 St. and 35 Ave. in Edmonton can't/won't handle C-41 push processing and won't tell you that; - Don's Photo in Winnipeg has been a great lab to deal with for black and white processing and printing as well as E-6 processing; - The Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED is a really nice scanner to use for small format film when the software decides to behave. Right now it isn't. Anyhow, here are some of my favourites from the last batch of film business cards. For more information on the business card idea you can check out a previous blog entry about it.  Temperature with windchill was around -30degrees C this day and conveniently this was the day that Leanna and I had planned to work through a few locations. Leica Elmarit 90/2.8 (39mm filter ring), Zeiss Ikon, Fujifilm Provia 100F from an expired 100' roll. This time, more than usual, frame is very literally right out of the camera and scanned without adjustments.  Another shot from the same location except this time I stopped pretending that the Ikon has continuous autofocus and just told Leanna to hold still.  Despite being such an inexpensive and old lens, the lens held sharper and with higher contrast than I had hoped wide open. It also seemed to control flare and ghosting really well. Usually these are good things but I was looking for a lens to give a more vintage feel. Some of my current Japanese lenses actually have higher propensity to flare though they don't flare as characteristically as my German lens formulas with German-designed coatings.  We continued shooting in studio. This would be the first time ever that a brand new hat that has been hanging out on my coat rack for years ended up in a photo.  Bowens Quad X 3000 driving a Quad head and modified by the Bowens Soft Lite w/ 7" 20degree spot grid in the centre of the 15" dish. No fill. Scanned with the Microtek Artixscan M1 and Silverfast. Using a flatbed scanner, while fine for doing medium format and larger film in many instances, is far from an ideal solution for scanning small format film which is what eventually drove me to purchase a Coolscan 5000 ED. This frame is actually a screenshot of a scan preview using Nikon Scan 4's automatic adjustment setting. I haven't yet figured out how to get the automatic adjustment setting to consistently produce what I want it to produce. Rim light provided by a Chimera Video Pro Plus Medium soft box with a Lighttools 20degree Soft Egg Crate powered by another Bowens QuadX and Quad head. Comments
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