Speakers’ Corner

Photographs

The original, in Hyde Park, London.

If you wanted free entertainment at the weekend, Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park was the place to go. With rabble rousers from across the political spectrum there was something to amuse or outrage all tastes.

These were snapped in May, 1974. After two and a half years, this was my 99th roll of film through the wonderful Leica M3 which had now become a part of me.


Back when the British bobby was not focused on rape and murder …. by his own.


Screed.


Yer what?


Ice cream.


Sceptics.


Are you kiddin’ me?


Nothing changes.


A presence here for over a century, per Wikipedia.


Lost interest.


Out for the count.


Comrade Lenin. British dental work at its finest.


Yeah, right!


Four eyes.


Surely not?


Shy.


Meh!

Leica M3, 35mm Summaron and 90mm Elmar, TriX developed in Rodinal, scanned on the Nikon D800.

Brighton

Architecture, Photographs

On the coast.

A scant one hour south by rail from London – if the trains are not on strike – Brighton is a showpiece of glorious Victorian architecture, replete with ornate cast iron and beautiful masonry work. These snaps were taken in February, 1974.














Leica M3, 35mm Summaron, TriX, ‘scanned’ on a Nikon D800.

Mayfair and Kensington

Photographs

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.

Nannies

Photographs

All of a piece


Hyde Park, London, November, 1973.

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.

Scanning film with a DSLR – video

Film

A brief video guide to scanning film with a DSLR.

For an index of all my Film related articles, click here.


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.


I have input the starting frame number in the tethering dialog. The number for the starting ‘scan’ is identical to that of the negative in my physical film strip binder.

Then tell the tethering panel to use that preset. In the case below the preset is named ‘D800 scan’.


The preset is enabled in the tethering panel.

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.