windsor pastoral

06 fun

not much movement in the scene, turned out less interesting than i hoped when i took the pics

borrowing my brothers old nikon d3200. using it with my Arsat H 50mm f/2. the camera can't meter through it, the focus assist dot has a hard time being accurate in anything but bright light, and the lens itself has sticky aperture blades so it's always firing wide open. went on a walk with this setup, it's very nicely compact. took pictures with exposure determined by vibe and these are the best results. it's a novel set of limitations to work with, different from how the digicams limit me.

oh yeah also, it has 24mpx resolution? which is way higher than anything i've used before o . O, 50% more than the Df had. It almost feels like too many pixels but my computer handles it just fine, only slightly slower than the 16mpx i'm used to, and it gives me more room to work with for cropping so it's more useful than not.

i found a dedicated scanner! controlled via usb! works right out of the box with xsane!

but uhhhh... it sees differently.
in the first image, you can see the wild depth of field that it's capable of
and in the second you can see that it sees through a lens... how my eye would. or how another lens would perceive it.
it's not scanning the projected image from the lens like the epson does. it's... taking a photo much more how a camera with a lens mounted to it already would. and i have NO idea why. i guess it's a different type of scanner? maybe i can mod it to behave the way i want? is this why i see people mention needing a ground glass in the setup? if so then why doesn't the epson need it? sooo many questions.

hoisted the thumbcutter up on the window and took some backyard photos. looking past all the exposure problems, these shots feel so wild to me even though they're so mundane. feels like there's lots of depth, sense of space? idk

the previous strip of good exposure in a sea of darkness is now a strip of clip with a small gradient of good exposure around it, then quickly fading off, but with much better corner details than the indoor shot.

i do believe this is a scanning problem and not a lens one, because looking back at the scannographs with my nikon lens in them reveals that those tiny image circles also possess the top-bottom vignette. interesting.

while i still do not fully understand the scanner ive seen mentions that there is slight parallaxing as the scanning head moves. maybe this means that at the top and bottom the light comes in at a shallow angle, and suffers loss, then head-on in the center where it's picked up nice and bright. how is this counter-acted? probably through modifying the scanner, which I cannot do with my houses printer/scanner :P

i hunted some thrift stores today but they have piles and piles of combo printer/scanners, no dedicated scanners. soon. soon progress will be able to be made...

fair warning im very sleep deprived right now and may soon catch the flu from my housemates so maybe this is all the ramblings of a mad plushie before certain doom.

from december

photo from last august. i think it could be pushed even brighter (edit in reflection i think it is quite bright actually)

from last august, was browsing my collection and liked the colors

found a cable for the LX3

indication of depression... or genius variations on a theme???

yet-to-be-edited shots from the 995

oops tif doesnt embed. (not surprised)

more old photo

back home snapping with the LX3.

got an update on the Df, damaged shutter blades, my repair guy is confident he can replace them, so it will come back to me eventually and for a repair cost i can actually cover!

putting my glasses in front of the lens lets the camera see the world the way i see it when i wear them. theyre my favorite glasses, the tint looks especially good in wooded areas, giving everything such warm hues

i have a pair of cheap red heart sunglasses and i took a buncha pics with them in front of the lens