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Cape Town Docks 1966
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These images were taken in 1966 at Cape Town Docks. It was a dull, rainy day and I used Eastman motion picture folm rated at ISO 400 in Acufine (nominally ISO 80) in a Nikon F fitted with a Nikkor-H 50mm f2 lens. The negs have not fared well in storage and there are some scratches and dust marks, but I think the subject matter is more important than worrying about a few scratches. You can view all of the images here:
https://flic.kr/s/aHskVux5PJ

GrahamS
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#2

Great series, the dust and scratches add to the image for my eye in this case, rather than detracting. Thanks for sharing.
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#3

You've been around, well worth the look.

Used Acufine with Ilford HP4 Plates, 400 ASA, when shooting Rugby/Football on dreary November days, about 3pm. Ed.

To each his own!
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(May 23, 2017, 08:24)EdMak Wrote:  You've been around, well worth the look.

Used Acufine with Ilford HP4 Plates, 400 ASA, when shooting Rugby/Football on dreary November days, about 3pm. Ed.

I still have an unused tin of Acufine.

GrahamS
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#5

outdated?? Ed.

To each his own!
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#6

Fabulous nostalgic series !
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(May 23, 2017, 13:43)EdMak Wrote:  outdated?? Ed.

You bet! By 30 years!! But I'll still give it a try someday.

GrahamS
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(May 22, 2017, 09:50)GrahamS Wrote:  These images were taken in 1966 at Cape Town Docks.  It was a dull, rainy day and I used Eastman motion picture folm rated at ISO 400 in Acufine (nominally ISO 80) in a Nikon F fitted with a Nikkor-H 50mm f2 lens.  The negs have not fared well in storage and there are some scratches and dust marks, but I think the subject matter is more important than worrying about a few scratches.  You can view all of the images here:
https://flic.kr/s/aHskVux5PJ

I like the texture of the photos. Maybe it's a part of using film. They look archived. That's what I like about them.

Nikon D3100 with Tokina 28-70mm f3.5, (I like to use a Vivitar .43x aux on the 28-70mm Tokina), Nikkor 10.5 mm fisheye, Quanteray 70-300mm f4.5, ProOptic 500 mm f6.3 mirror lens. http://donschaefferphoto.blogspot.com/
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Don, if I could still obtain my favorite "proper" films (not some approximation re-branded as such) Tri-X, Verichrome Pan, Plus-X pro, FP3, I would still be shooting film.

GrahamS
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#10

An era i never saw,born in ' 92.Thank you for sharing Graham, i still believe you should create a book, i would buy it!
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(May 31, 2017, 12:08)RobertMurariu Wrote:  An era i never saw,born in ' 92.Thank you for sharing Graham, i still believe you should create a book, i would buy it!

Thank you for your praise - makes it all worthwhile. Watch this space.......

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#12

I like all of them I really like the 3rd one with the steam from the old engine
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(Jun 1, 2017, 15:11)jjford43 Wrote:  I like all of them I really like the 3rd one with the steam from the old engine
The entire rail network was mostly steam driven in those days.

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