|
|
Post by philmco on Sept 19, 2006 23:56:09 GMT -5
I finally got around to finishing off the film in the Argus C44. I shot a roll of Ilford FP4 in it and unfortunately I forgot what film was in the camera from when I first loaded it in early summer. I often have as many as 10 cameras on the go and I usually use HP5 in them for B&W - so I am getting old and I forgot. I finished off the roll yesterday and developed it in Ilfosol-s and most of the images were surprisingly sharp and well exposed. The range finder appears to be quite accurate and the shutter speeds must at least be close (all 4 of them).
I don't think I will use it again as I find it a bit too limiting but it was still fun to put a roll through it . The C44 now goes to join it's brethren the C3's on the shelf. ;D
|
|
|
|
Post by Randy on Sept 20, 2006 6:29:52 GMT -5
In the past on other forums I've heard the C44 had amazingly nice glass and produced exemplary photos. Please share those pics with us if you can.
|
|
|
|
Post by philmco on Sept 20, 2006 8:55:34 GMT -5
Hi Randy I will scan a couple of shots for the group. I was surprised to find out that it is an interchangeable lens camera but it is a real pain to actually take the lens off. I just have the 50 mm f2.8 "Cintagon" lens to go on mine.  Here is a shot I took at a "Tall ships" festival here in Victoria. I converted the B&W to sepia and added a vignette around it. It seemed to give it a more old fashioned look that I thought was appropriate. |
|
|
|
Post by John Parry on Sept 20, 2006 15:01:01 GMT -5
Nice shot Phil - but you can't post a photograph of a ship without telling us about her! (OK - I know she's the Pallada, but we like a little background!)
Regards - John
|
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on Sept 20, 2006 15:34:49 GMT -5
Hi Phil, Nice picture, and I like the toning and oval mask to give it a period feel. Just one point, and this isn't a criticism and it doesn't detract from the picture, but it isn't a true vignette, it's an oval mask. Nowadays an oval mask is often termed a vignette, and I've been guilty of this, but it isn't. With a true vignette the edges of the oval mask aren't distinct, they gradually fade the background away to nothing, When this was done under an enlarger, it was done by cutting an oval (or round) hole in a piece of card and moving it up and down over the image during a long exposure. I haven't got a darkroom any more so I can't do a true vignette, but you can get quite close to it in Photoshop, which is what I did with this picture of a 1920s Vauxhall. I also toned it sepia. The original was taken in the 1950s on FP3 using a 6x9 Super Ikonta.  PeterW |
|
|
|
Post by philmco on Sept 20, 2006 18:45:30 GMT -5
Hi Peter
re vignette
It somehow got lost in the transposition from my computer to photobucket to this site. The original is similar to your car shot. I may try sending it again but I don't know why it lost it's blurry fade.
Thanks for the comment.
As to the ship - it is a sail boat with three masts and is quite big.
It is about where I am with flowers - which I define by color. I am a bit better with autos BTW.
|
|
PeterW
Lifetime Member
Member has Passed
Posts: 3,804
|
Post by PeterW on Sept 21, 2006 12:27:56 GMT -5
John, you wrote:
How did you know she's the Pallada? Your ship recognition must be pretty good!
Just for the record I looked her up. She's a steel ship and was built in 1989 at the Gdansk shipyard in northern Poland as a training ship for the Soviet Union, but now sails under the Russian flag (there ought to be an accent mark, like the French acute accent, over the n in Gdansk, but I haven't got that on my computer).
I discovered there was also a four-funnel battle cruiser called the Pallada in the Russian Imperial Navy in the early 1900s. Don't know what became of that one.
PeterW
|
|
|
|
Post by John Parry on Sept 21, 2006 14:15:12 GMT -5
Sorry Peter - we should all know all of the tall ships that are left. One of the few legacies from the maritime past that are quite beautiful. Problem is - when we see them at tall ships events, we don't see them under full sail.
Instead of going to see them alongside in Liverpool a few years ago, I took the family to Crosby to watch them sailing out. Unfortunately the wind was wrong, so they all went out under power.
The Crosby shore-line was black with people that day, and it was really nice that as we were talking to the people stood around us, nearly all of the men I got talking to had served in the Royal or Merchant Navy. "I was with Blue-Flue", "I was with Clan-Line", "I was Cunard". "I was with the grey-funnel mob". It was a good day - there are a lot of us about!
Regards - John
|
|
|
|
Post by kamera on Sept 21, 2006 16:40:04 GMT -5
I too have heard kudos on the C44. I do not have one, but do have the C4 which I like to use but not as much as the good ol' "brick" C3.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
|
|
|
|
Post by Just Plain Curt on Sept 21, 2006 19:17:34 GMT -5
I have a C44 with both the 50 f2.8 Cintagon and the 100 f3.5 Cintagon but I've got to admit until you mentioned it, I've never run a roll of film thru it in the 25 years I've owned it. Soon maybe?? I've got a few Argus bricks (C3's), C4's (2 working and 2 NFG), A2's etc but though I've used my C3's I've never used my Sandmar 100 f4.5 either.
|
|
|
|
Post by Just Plain Curt on Sept 22, 2006 8:03:05 GMT -5
My C44 with 50 f2.8 and 100 f3.5 Cintagons  |
|
