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RBSinTo

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The smoker
« on: December 19, 2015, 18:20:15 »
Chinatown, here in Toronto.
Taken last summer, I noticed a well-dressed Asian man striking a pose as he stood and smoked.
I liked the scene and grabbed this shot.
Nikon S3 rangefinder
Cosina Voigtlander 25 f4 in Nikon S mount manual focus
Fujichrome 100 ISO colour slide
5.6 @ 1/125th

I shoot with film. That's film. F...i...l...m. You remember film. It was in all the papers.

Jakov Minić

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Re: The smoker
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2015, 18:22:48 »
It looks like the photo was created at least two decades ago, a classic :)
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Frank Fremerey

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Re: The smoker
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2015, 22:38:39 »
Fujichrome / Sensia always was my favourite.

I had an EDDING permanent marker on me always.

Marking the film rolls: 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600.

That film can bare a lot of push processing. And the colour stability is astounding.

The only thing that might suffer ist the saturation.

Sensia100@ISO1600 is still better than Fujichrome800@ISO800

Pushing 4 stops might seem a stretch, but in the case of Fujichrome / Sensia it is not.

Get me a good scanner and I show you 800 and 1600 pushs. Always @f=1.4, FM2, 50mm
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Frank Fremerey

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Re: The smoker
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2015, 22:41:06 »
PS: concering the picture I feel the expression is great but the technicals are beyond your usual level.
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Re: The smoker
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2015, 23:19:08 »
Saw the title and the first thing that came into my head was...


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Re: The smoker
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2015, 15:11:11 »
Nice catch. I like the look.
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