The upper end.
Taken in January, 1974, Mayfair and Kensington are the ritziest areas of London. Then occuppied by the beneficiaries of inherited wealth, once those fortunes were expropriated by the state via inheritance taxes the properties largely passed to middle east oil seeking a safe haven.
Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, TriX, scanned on the Nikon D800.
All of a piece
The uniforms may have changed and the perambulators (“prams”) are now high tech, but the rich still delegate child care to paid help in upscale London.
Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, TriX, ‘scanned’ on a Nikon D800.
A brief video guide to scanning film with a DSLR.
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The Lightroom preset includes exposure, contrast and clarity adjustments as well as invoking the Negative Lab Pro converter plugin which changes the negative image to a positive one. I also hit ‘V’ before saving the preset which ensures that the image is converted to black and white, any color casts being removed. Do this on your first ‘scanned’ image and save the preset in the Devlop module, Develop->New Preset->Name your preset. Start the tethering process (Develop module, File->Tethered Capture->Start Tethered Capture) and input the starting number of the first negative.
Then tell the tethering panel to use that preset. In the case below the preset is named ‘D800 scan’.
Now when you ‘scan’ the negative the file will be correctly numbered when sent to LR and will have your exposure adjustments and negative-to-positive conversion automated.
Links for equipment used can be found in earlier articles.
Insane violence.
Doubtless Punch & Judy are long retired in out woke society, but the shows were incredible fun. They usually ended up with the two puppets beating the hell out of one another, much to the delight of the children watching. A single puppeteer did all the work.
These snaps are from August 1973 in Kensington Gardens, London. Note how well dressed the children are in what was an upper demographic area:
Leica M3, 280mm Telyt, Visoflex II, Ilford FP4 developed in 1:50 Rodinal, rated at 250ASA. Negatives scanned on a Nikon D800, 60mm Micro Nikkor.
At bargain basement prices.
Having returned to FF DSLRs with the Nikon D800 one year ago, I thought it might be of interest to show my outfit now.
When Nikon discontinued its DSLR range in favor of newer mirrorless bodies, with lenses to match, two things happened. The price of the latest gear shot up and that of the discontinued hardware crashed. As a result, if your psyche can tolerate a flapping mirror, just as most have these past 75 years, then look to keep your check book bruised but not battered as you acquire some of the finest photography hardware ever made.
There is nothing I can tell you about these lenses that is not already known – outstanding definition at any aperture, dead accurate and fast AF and robust but not heavy for what you get. Resale value? 100 cents on the dollar.
The Micro Nikkor will be sold when my film ‘scanning’ project is completed, making for a net kit cost of just $1,653. A Nikon Z8 mirrorless body runs some $3,800 and lenses are extra. Can you spell ‘Bargain’?
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