john michael white
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Mark,
Here are several of my older images that I shot on Velvia 50. Granted these have been scanned, but I adjusted them to look like my slide transparencies did.
And here are two black and white using the Ilford. I’m sorry I don’t remember which film it was. It was one that had a large grain. Black box with light green lettering if I remember correctly. These are scans from the negatives.
“Personally, having shot slide film for so many years prior to going digital I tend to process my digital files to resemble the look I achieved from my favorite slide films (velvia primarily). I think many converts to digital did the same thing and as a result this look has become pretty standard in the digital world many years later, especially in nature photography.”
I can completely identify with this, as I used to only shoot Velvia…and Ilford for some B&W shots as Chad mentioned. I can’t say I knew all the tech specs, but I liked what I saw with those films. And now that I shoot digital, I definitely process to get the look of Velvia.Eric,
Thanks for posting your photos from the 100-400. Those look really nice.
You may be right, as I looked again, and the 70-200 f2.8 L weighs 2.8 lbs and the 100-400 weighs 3.0 lbs. By the time I added a teleconverter, the 70-200 would weigh as much or more than the 100-400. Cost would be about equal. What about size though; isn’t the 100-400 humongous? Oh, and I was incorrect above about the 70-200 shooting at f4 with a 2x teleconverter. The specs say it is f/5.6. Also, they say that auto focusing is possible with the coupling of the 70-200 and 2x tele, but you can only use the center focusing point. If you couple the 100-400 with a 2x tele, you can only use manual focus. Of course with the 40D, if I used the 100-400, it would actually reach out to 640mm. And it would have IS.
I could swear Guy Turk used to have an article he wrote on his web page that told how to make his custom made fly fishing lanyard, but for the life of me I can’t find the link.
It was made out of steel cable and had too strong magnets at either end so that it would hold together tightly, but if you went under water and got it snagged, the magnets would break open allowing you to get free. The advantage of the thin steel cable was that it wouldn’t colapse and would keep all of your gear seperated so it didn’t all dangle together in one big pile.
