Marrakesh 2005

[Luc]

In 2005 I took my then new Nikon D70s on a holiday to Agadir in Marocco. During a day trip to Marrakesh I shot some images with the new camera.
At that time a DSLR was new to me, I had little knowledge of it and RAW was still in my future so I shot in Jpeg.
Recently I re-discovered some images from that trip and did some minor postprocessing in Capture One.
I find these images quite film like, the color rendering from the D70s CCD-sensor esp. of red and green seems different from later (CMOS-sensor) cameras.

[Akira]

These look really appealing to me.

The tone reminds me of something like Technicolor.  Thank you for sharing!

[Hugh_3170]

The pink and redish colours certainly remind me of the Marrakesh colours as I remember them.

I recall that my wife and I had lunch in the outside upstairs area in the restaurant in the top right corner of the first image - memory lane stuff for me too!  Thanks Luc.

[tommiejeep]

Luc, very good stuff.  I kept one of my D200s' (first DSLR) for a long time just for shooting base ISO with that sensor.  I took it to Mexico for 3 months in 2007 and shot only jpeg because I did not take a laptop and really had zero PP experience coming from film.   Halfway through my Mexico trip I took a short trip to Houston and , by pure chance, picked up first shipments of the D300 (just sold) .   I was in Morocco in mid-70's (for US Navy) with my Nikkormat but halfway driving to Marrakesh the police turned me back due to some trouble up ahead.   Never made it back  .
Thanks for posting
Tom

[John Geerts]

Yes, lovely drawing and colours.  And indeed reminds me of the D200.  I like the files of the Fuji S5 Pro even better.

[Fons Baerken]

Very nice, interesting colours too, the 18-70mm i suppose. I still have my first nikon digital camera the d50 it still works too at least a few months ago when i last  tried.

[Luc]

These look really appealing to me.

The tone reminds me of something like Technicolor.  Thank you for sharing!

Thanks a lot , Akira.

[Luc]

The pink and redish colours certainly remind me of the Marrakesh colours as I remember them.

I recall that my wife and I had lunch in the outside upstairs area in the restaurant in the top right corner of the first image - memory lane stuff for me too!  Thanks Luc.

Beautiful light and colours indeed, Hugh. Sadly, that restaurant/cafe suffered a bombing in 2011 killing 17 people ...

[Luc]

Luc, very good stuff.  I kept one of my D200s' (first DSLR) for a long time just for shooting base ISO with that sensor.  I took it to Mexico for 3 months in 2007 and shot only jpeg because I did not take a laptop and really had zero PP experience coming from film.   Halfway through my Mexico trip I took a short trip to Houston and , by pure chance, picked up first shipments of the D300 (just sold) .   I was in Morocco in mid-70's (for US Navy) with my Nikkormat but halfway driving to Marrakesh the police turned me back due to some trouble up ahead.   Never made it back  .
Thanks for posting
Tom

A quite similar CCD sensor experience, Tom! I was quite reluctant to upgrade my D70s because I wanted to wring the best out of it before upgrading to a D700.

[Luc]

Yes, lovely drawing and colours.  And indeed reminds me of the D200.  I like the files of the Fuji S5 Pro even better.

Thanks, John. Ah Fuji, nothing beats Fuji at colour science.

[Luc]

Very nice, interesting colours too, the 18-70mm i suppose. I still have my first nikon digital camera the d50 it still works too at least a few months ago when i last  tried.

Thanks, Fons. The 18-70mm it is, the only lens I had at the time. The D50 was really good!

[Nasos Kosmas]

Really interesting colour!
I will try it, I still have my d70 with 18-70

[Hugh_3170]

Yes, we were there only a month or two after the bombing.  IIRC the restaurant that was bombed was to the top left in your first image.  I still remember it being cordoned off and notices on what was left of the building.  A terrible business in what was an otherwise liberal country.

Beautiful light and colours indeed, Hugh. Sadly, that restaurant/cafe suffered a bombing in 2011 killing 17 people ...

[Erik Lund]

These look really appealing to me.

The tone reminds me of something like Technicolor.  Thank you for sharing!

Ditto