A Totally Analog Afternoon

480sparky · Jan 31, 2015

Got the wide-angle 50mm for my RB67 medium format camera Thursday, so I took a bit of time Friday afternoon at the state capital to 'get back to my roots'.

150mm f/11 45 sec.

50mm f/8 2 sec.

50mm f/8 4 sec.

50mm f/8 2 sec.

50mm f/8 4 sec.

50mm f/8 3 sec.

Ricardo Miranda · Jan 31, 2015

Very nice!
I always have a totally "analogue" morning, afternoon and evening!

What film was it?

snapguy · Jan 31, 2015

CORN PATCH? I hail from Prairie Rapids, myself. I detasseled corn, slopped the hogs, marveled at the "singing silo" at the local college and got a dynamite photo of an Illinois Central locomotive spitting out thick black smoke when I was 12 years old. For that epic photo I used a Brownie Reflex on 127 film. The quality of the photo is truly amazing. I am quite taken with your image of the spiral staircase. Impressive.

Trail Images · Jan 31, 2015

All are truly excellent IMO. Love the comps and exposures throughout. The symmetry on the capitol dome is as good as it gets.

horacekenneth · Jan 31, 2015

Very cool!

whlogan · Jan 31, 2015

So, what, after all did you expect? These machines do this every day, day in and day out we all know this and reverence it and applaud your spectacular efforts. Show more of this to our digital friends and we shall win them back to real photography. Thank you for some real winning work here.

Logan

BrianShaw · Jan 31, 2015

Very nice!

M Carter · Jan 31, 2015

Tell us about your exposure and developing choices - some of those look like challenging latitude, esp. the spiral stairs. That's the one problem with MF... hard to do rolls for plus or minus-n developing. I've been thinking of bringing different backs out and mark them for special developing... if one didn't want the misty-blowouts on something like the stairs shot, a minus-N back could be popped on, for instance.

That 50's just a mojo lens though, ain't it?

480sparky · Jan 31, 2015

M Carter said:
.............That 50's just a mojo lens though, ain't it?

I'd read some negative reviews on it, about being soft or full of distortion. I sure ain't seeing it.

FYI: Ilford Pan F, exposed at ISO 25 and pull-processed in DDX. Exposure determined using Gossen Starlite and 1° spot.

Theo Sulphate · Jan 31, 2015

whlogan said:
Show more of this to our digital friends and we shall win them back to real photography. Thank you for some real winning work here.

Yes, indeed. Spectacular and inspiring photos.

Hatchetman · Jan 31, 2015

Very nice. Surprised they let you set up a tripod in the capital building.

480sparky · Jan 31, 2015

Hatchetman said:
Very nice. Surprised they let you set up a tripod in the capital building.

Never been a problem. But I usually go in when there's nothing going on. If there's a ton of cars (or worse, buses!) parked outside, I go elsewhere.

I think I had to 'contend' with a total sum of 2 people.

NedL · Jan 31, 2015

Trail Images said:
All are truly excellent IMO. Love the comps and exposures throughout. The symmetry on the capitol dome is as good as it gets.

Agree! I really like the last one too, a lot!

Now go for a totally analog life! I wonder what my daughter would think if she saw a rotary telephone.. .those things were cool, the high impedance earpiece ran completely off the tiny amount of power delivered over the lines. It was actually superb technology, with super low impedance lines resistant to noise and power line hum....

480sparky · Feb 1, 2015

NedL said:
Agree! I really like the last one too, a lot!

Now go for a totally analog life! I wonder what my daughter would think if she saw a rotary telephone.. .those things were cool, the high impedance earpiece ran completely off the tiny amount of power delivered over the lines. It was actually superb technology, with super low impedance lines resistant to noise and power line hum....

Just tell her you're getting her a new cell phone.

Ken Nadvornick · Feb 1, 2015

480sparky said:
Just tell her you're getting her a new cell phone.

There is a god after all...

Ken

Trail Images · Feb 1, 2015

Just tell her you're getting her a new cell phone.

I grew up at first on a 10 party telephone line, then a 4 party line before they finally got us on to single party lines. In the early days we had to listen for the number of rings to know if it was a call for your home or another, so, basically you had your phone ring each and every time on the party line setups. I think ours was 3 short and 1 long ring. No dials on the phones, just operated assisted.

btw: the single line shown on the link was a 500 as they indicated, when they went to touch tone or multi frequency dial pads they were designated as 2500 sets.

NedL · Feb 1, 2015

480sparky said:
Just tell her you're getting her a new cell phone.

For the first time, I can imagine wanting to own a cell phone. It needs one of those old leather oversize briefcases... so you cnan whip it out when it rings and answer... I'd want one of those old cradle modems to plug into my laptop too....

ME Super · Feb 1, 2015

I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but the rotary phone's dialing mechanism actually sends digital signals to the switchboard, not analog signals. Touch tone dialing actually uses analog signals. If you're using rotary dial, one pulse is sent for a 1, two pulses for a , e three pulses for a three, and so on up to 9 pulses for a 9. Dialing zero sends 10 pulses (not zero) across the line. Touch tone dialing sends tones (I think they use since waves) which are analog signals!

NedL · Feb 1, 2015

This is true! Take that hybrid thing to DPUG!

480sparky · Feb 1, 2015

NedL said:
This is true! Take that hybrid thing to DPUG!

Apparently DPUG is dead. I've registered there, but have never been approved. So posting there is not an option for me.

Sirius Glass · Feb 1, 2015

480sparky said:
Apparently DPUG is dead. I've registered there, but have never been approved. So posting there is not an option for me.

PM Sean.

It is alive. Alive. Alive I say.

Sirius Glass · Feb 1, 2015

480sparky said:
Apparently DPUG is dead. I've registered there, but have never been approved. So posting there is not an option for me.

PM Sean.

It is alive. Alive. Alive I say.

Trail Images · Feb 1, 2015

Touch tone dialing sends tones (I think they use since waves) which are analog signals!

True touch tone phones send Dual Tone Multi Frequency. Hence the term DTMF signals. The -48 line voltage is used by the tone generators in the key pad to send the various frequencies. The central office or on site PBX systems in turn had cards that received the signals and in turn would convert to analog, pulse, signals to standard registers that stored the numbers analyzed until all digits were received for routing.

The true touch tone phones are not to be confused with "quick step dialers". Those phones had "key pads" that actually sent pulses like a rotary dial phone. A standard rotary dial phone merely opens and closes a set of contacts across the -48 volt line and again registers either on site in PBX units or the central office units stored the pulsed information until a complete number was received before routing it. It is the number of opening and closings of these rotary dial contacts that determines the numbers of 1-9 or 10 for "0".

A Totally Analog Afternoon

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