"The Girl in the Black Dress" Holga 120N // Kodak Tri-X 400 // 20 sec exposure
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The Story:
While on our travels last Nov, the wife and I were sitting on the beach watching the sun set. Then this young girl came walking by wearing a silky black dress. I jumped up and asked her if she would pose for me. She agreed and stood very still for a 20 - 30 secs exposure. In order to judge the distance of this shot, I used broken plastic toy shovel placed beside her left foot. This is the end result
You just may have an example that needs the focus adjusted. I've seen a procedure for this somewhere -- YouTube, Instructables, somewhere else, don't recall, but it basically requires some disassembly to adjust the infinity stop so you get correct infinity when the lens is all the way back.
Me too. There is at least 1 benefit of -8 prescription.Seems very possible. One way to check is to put a piece of frosted plastic where the film would got (with the camera back off), hold the shutter open on B, and see if moving the lens off the stop a hair improves the focus. I wouldn't use a loupe (got one built in, I'm significantly myopic), but most would need one.
There is at least 1 benefit of -8 prescription.
This example makes me think of photos of miniature models set up to mimic life size reality.Cheers, I wasn't sure if the results I was getting was to be expected. On inspection I found that the close-focus and infinity stops are some plastic tabs interfering with a screw so a fix shouldn't be difficult.
I had my suspicions about infinity focus so took this photo at the sunny aperture (i'm guessing f11 isn't accurate) to see if I got anything "sharp".
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Is it focusing past infinity in your opinion?
Hi. These were all taken with the normal setting, handheld. I've yet to use it on bulb-mode.@Jonno85uk It would help if you posted what your exposure times were while tasking these images. Then lets not forget that the camera has three settings on the lens which deals with distance. I suspect that in my Girl on the beach image, I did not have the distance setting correct because my exposure time was more than 20 secs and the subject was about 30 feet away from the camera. When you start seeing image blur it's either because the lens setting was set correctly or you're holding the camera instead of mounted on a tripod. You have some good artsy shots with minimal light leaks.
Oh man, how can you say that? Finland is my favourite place on earth. But it does need colour film.By the way; usually Finland is not that appealing place to shoot photographs
I think i need to clarify, that's not my concern. It's a moulded, plastic meniscus lens so I get what I get. My concern is that nothing in the centre is in focus/sharp at infinity.suspect that the distortion is due to the rounded plastic lens. at some point I wanted to replace the plastic lens with glass and test the results.
thanks. i know what that is. I'm assuming you were insinuating zone focusing?@Jonno85uk research "depth of field" aka DoF
@Jonno85uk remember you're dealing with a camera that is not run through stringent testing for quality. Even my images have turned out blurry but I'm pleased with the results. Just accept the camera as is even with it's flaws. you have some great shots. ideally, if you like what you see, it might be suggested to move up to a better camera which is what I might do myself at some point.
it's obvious that my images and my methods are being questioned here. These closed minded persons need to keep the drama out of my conversations and take off the blinders. I see no point in returning to a community of closed minded persons who continue to jab or bring up their irrelevance within my conversations..
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