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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 308309" data-attributes="member: 12827">I shot this a week ago but have been so busy with work I did not have time to process it until this morning. I found an old beaten up 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor P &quot;silver nose&quot; on Fleabay for $50. The cosmetics are pretty ugly but the glass is perfect. I used my F2 along with that lens and Tri-X exposed at ASA 200 and developed &quot;hot&quot; at 75º to accentuate the grain. I made a deal with a hundred year old bed and breakfast downtown that if they let me shoot stuff in unoccupied rooms of theirs for free, I would shoot all new stuff for their website free of charge. I would say that was a pretty fair deal. I get old settings and they get several hundred bucks worth of work for their website free of charge. This one was shot around 10 amI love the flare and lower contest in backlit images associated with those old, poorly coated Nikkors. There is just a certain charm associated with them that is impossible to duplicate with digital. I scanned the negative with my Super CoolScan LS-8000 and the only manipulation is some slight cropping and a good bit of resizing. Scanning a 35mm negative at 4000 dpi produces a rather substantially large image!<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/windowgirl.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/windowgirl.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 308309, member: 12827"] I shot this a week ago but have been so busy with work I did not have time to process it until this morning. I found an old beaten up 105mm f/2.5 Nikkor P "silver nose" on Fleabay for $50. The cosmetics are pretty ugly but the glass is perfect. I used my F2 along with that lens and Tri-X exposed at ASA 200 and developed "hot" at 75º to accentuate the grain. I made a deal with a hundred year old bed and breakfast downtown that if they let me shoot stuff in unoccupied rooms of theirs for free, I would shoot all new stuff for their website free of charge. I would say that was a pretty fair deal. I get old settings and they get several hundred bucks worth of work for their website free of charge. This one was shot around 10 am I love the flare and lower contest in backlit images associated with those old, poorly coated Nikkors. There is just a certain charm associated with them that is impossible to duplicate with digital. I scanned the negative with my Super CoolScan LS-8000 and the only manipulation is some slight cropping and a good bit of resizing. Scanning a 35mm negative at 4000 dpi produces a rather substantially large image! [URL="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/windowgirl.jpg.html"][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/windowgirl.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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