Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great example of how black and white captures the soul, while color captures the clothes. I'm quoting someone there but don't remember who. The SRT-101 was my daily sidekick on my first job here in Eureka for KIEM-TV. I would load the bulk Ektachrome into cassettes, shoot the color slides for commercials, develop them with Nikkor tanks and E-6 chemistry, iron them into the cardboard slide mounts, and then later in the day, insert them into the TV color film chain and pulse the slides at the on-air control board. Did I mention Eureka was (and Is) considered a very small market television area? I experienced the golden era of 1950's television firsthand by working at Channel 3 here in the 70's! I think the Minolta lens was the 50 (or 55?) f1.4, and it was sharp enough stopped down a bit. Your portraits do seem soft - did you check the negs with a loupe to see if the softness was in original or in the scan? For the subject matter, the b&w contrast on my monitor looks perfect. Gary Todoroff >With all of the talk about Kurds and Turks, I was inspired to go >back through my files and find my photos of Kurdish men in the >bazaar in Kermanashah, Iran, in 1974. These were made with the only >camera I had at the time - a Minolta SRT 101 -