Yep, you're right, the one on the left is some sort of Fuji and the Z7 is on the right. I guess the filename gave that away, I must cover my tracks better in future.
In both cases the highlights were blown, so I think what looks like chromatic abberation is actually just incorrectly recovered highlights around the blown edges.
I've attached a 100% side by side of the images from C1P showing before and after adjustment (Fuji on the left again). BTW, only one of those images is 100%, the other has been scaled to match.
Fantastic shots! These are my favorites. Even though I'm from Austria, I had to look up the Hochkönig region as I've never been there. Looks beautiful - glad you managed to capture such wonderful scenes and enjoyed the visit!
I know the scanning part might not be of interest to many, but it's really fascinating to me, because I use a number of different Noritsu lenses (mostly from their range of minilabs) on my camera. Do you happen to know which machine it was scanned with or are you sending it to some place via an online service? Some of these film scanner/processing lenses are quite impressive as taking lenses in my opinion:
I agree, the whole set is highly impressive, but this is very special. I absolutely love how the light itself looks and how it shapes the image. It's beautiful and haunting at the same time, like a dance interpretation of a Kafka shortstory! 😱 Excellent work! Hope the theater appreciated your work.
Thanks. I did some other work with this company, so I guess they liked my work. This was probably one of the most difficult photographic shoots I ever did. The light levels from these hand held lamps was very low and probably I was shooting at about 1/15 (without VR or IBIS) using my 300 .2.8. I remember I pushed the Tmax 400 to probably 3200. The piece was called "Sangue e Fragole" or The Strawberry Statement, to give it its English title.
I wonder how easy this shoot would be with our wonderful modern gear and software. I think a lot would be lost in colour, and I have seen that in many of my old shots, the technical imperfections seem to breath some life into the pictures.
The company was part of the Bologna art school scene, although they were based in Ravenna.
Nice to hear you are from Austria, what part would that be ?
For developing and scanning my B&W films I've used a lab in Vienna called Fotospeed.at, in 1080 Wien, and they are quite quick !
They have several different options, I used "Premium scan, 3x8 bit depth, 70MB" which gives me 256 grey tone values and 24MPixels
The scanners they use for this are the Noritsu HS-1800 or Noritsu LS-600/1100
The next film I'll send them will be a somewhat finer grained Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 II and I'll ask them to scan it at the next resolution level of "85MB" which uses the slightly better Noritsu scanner.
Well, it could have been 16, 24 or 26, but yeah, I went higher with the GFX100S. I did consider the GFX50SII, but there didn't seem to be a lot of benefit there over the Z7, so I figured if I'm going to splurge on a medium format camera it would only be worth it if I went for the higher res sensor.
For now I've only got the 35-70 lens, but the results are impressive at full res. Downscaled to internet sharing sizes there doesn't seem to be a lot in it, maybe subtle differences in colour differentiation and tonality, but it's pretty negligible, at least at base ISO. Of course I am comparing a top end 24-70 f/2.8S lens to what is in effect the kit lens on this system.
Here's a few more example images, all taken hand held. I'm quite impressed with the IBIS as I was still managing to get sharp shots at some pretty long exposures as the available light deteriorated.
I'm actually not that far away from where you've been, a little bit to the west in Tyrol! It's quite a nice place to live, albeit a bit rural for many people... 😅
That's great - thanks! I've once read the name, but never looked into the company. They seem to have quite an impressive array of high-end scanners. I'm particularly interested in scanner lenses, as some of those are among the best there is in terms of macro photography.
Don't want to distract too much by off-topic stuff, but just to re-emphasize how effective some of those minilab scanner lenses are, here are two shots with a similar (zoom) lens from an Agfa minilab:
I'd love to have a conversation with some of the fotospeed people about that stuff and am probably going to try and reach out to them. From my experience so far though most people dealing with these machines have a.) zero interest in the inner workings/lenses and b.) usually also not enough time to worry about that unfortunately. But we'll see - thanks for the information!
