My brother and I both took many pictures during our vacation in Greece. I’ve posted some online and Adrian has uploaded some as well. His photos are in directories sorted by film type (b&w, print, and slides).
Adrian brought along two SLRs and two lenses (this way, he could load one with slide film and the other with print film). One of the lenses was a wide-angle which made for some striking shots (and I’m now tempted to get the wide-angle attachment for my camera). I don’t want to incorrectly write-up about the bodies and lenses, but perhaps Adrian can leave a comment with more specifics.
The pictures are perhaps best enjoyed just perusing through them on your own. But, I'll provide a few comments on some in particular:
- Theater.jpg: This was the shot that Adrian took on self-timer — you can see him preparing for the shot in this picutre from my Gallery.
Airplane.jpg: My brother got this errie shot of the airplane cabin through the pleasant accident of completely underexposing the film. It was taken with ISO 50 film — but the camera happened to be set for 200 ISO.
DadsShadow.jpg: Here’s a shot with a door and a shadow, but that description just doesn’t describe it well. It has such intense colors that I’m not sure if the shot would be achievable with anything but slide film.
Afternoon-Alone.jpg: At times, we didn’t all go to the same place. And, in this shot, Adrian found a quiet bar and some time for reading. I can really feel the tranquil atmosphere coming through the picture and the idea of an occasional afternoon with a good book and a cold Warsteinersounds rather sensible to me.
Equipment: Nikon N70 and Nikon 8008s bodies, Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 wide angle and Sigma 28mm-70mm f/2.8-4.0 zoom. Neopan 400 black and white print film (always in the 8008s), Velvia 50 (slide film, in the N70) and Agfa Ultra Color 100 (print film, in the N70).
If you go to freshmaker.mit.edu/greece, you’ll find that I have sorted each catagory into my favorite pictures and then “other.” Let me know what you like.
Adrian,
I’m curious – what kind of scanner did you use to scan these (esp. the slides)?
My G/F is looking at a film scanner (the Pacific Image PrimeFile 2650Pro3) and we’ve been researching scanners quite a bit recently.
It’s the Technique’s (the MIT yearbook’s) slide/negative scanner. I asked a friend and he said it was a Minolta Dimage, probably an older one. (The Minolta Dimage website doesn’t show it.)
I wouldn’t recommend it, though. It’s slow and the contrast tends to be bad. (I ended up adjusting the curves in Photoshop afterwards on most of them.) The yearbook is, in fact, going to get a new one soon, I think.
Oh and a quick correction to Alex’s post: I kept one camera with print black and white film and the other camera with color film, alternating between slide and super-saturated print film.