Recent content by Paul Taylor

I drove out to Canyon Lake today - it is a little outside Phoenix and is a great driving road - and there being a couple lakes usually can make for some good photos. I pulled off the road to take some pics of the paddleboarders that were floating around and I heard something odd. I recognized...

I have a D800 that I usually use in conjunction with my Nikon F4s film camera. I have a few lenses for it (Nikon 20-35mmF2.8 , Nikon 50mmF1.4 , Nikon 35-105F3.5 , Nikon 105mmF2.8 Macro , Nikon 80-200F2.8 , Nikon 80-400F4.5) All old enough to have the manual aperture rings so they work with all...

This is a great shot.

I don't much care for DPR's forum structure - so I don't ever pay attention to it. Photography wasn't offered during my scholastic years, as the town I grew up in was very small and "backwater." It is a unfathomable miracle that a very motivated and extraordinary technology teacher somehow...

Negative lab pro. I noticed with the FPP chems it seems to go a bit crazy with red/brown tones - so I need to make a profile for that. I may try my Epson V550 scanner to see what it does. This would eliminate if it was the chemistry or the software.

And for comparison - here is the Nikon F4s. This was also Kodak UltraMax 400 and mostly used with my Nikon 80-400mm. Amazing how now matter how far you go - you can't escape sh*tty people. Nikon F4S -Ultramax400 - 9-4-25 - FPPCS41 - D800-2366 by Paul Taylor, on Flickr Bridge / Dam Nikon F4S...

So here are some film shots. I developed this with a new-to-me developer - Film Photography Project's C41 kit. And here are some shots from the new-to-me Canon F-1. Needless to say, it appears to be working correctly. This was some Kodak UltraMax 400. Lens was either the TTartisan 75mmF.15 with...

After last week's debacle of batteries with the F4s - I decided to go back to Arlington, and take some more shots. Since we had a heavy rain last night - the temps were nice so I wondered around a bit more on the hunt to channel my inner "Grainydays" (youtube photographer who loves...

I don't mind constructive criticism or suggestion - however I would prefer my images be left as I present them unless I grant permission for someone to mess with them. I wouldn't presume to re-write sections of someone's short story, grab a brush and add a color to a painting, or add a few...

Thanks Beth! I am going to try to head out there this week and shoot the film I originally planned to.

I will pick up a speed finder for it - thank you for the suggestion! I was surprised at the condition when it arrived - but I did pay on the upper end of the market for it (and glad I did in this case.) Excellent article as well! I was sorely lacking in the Canon department when it comes to my...

The Ebay suggestions algorithm has me figured out pretty good. I seen a Canon F1 pop up in the "You may like" section - and since I am not a big Canon guy - that led me down a rabbit hole.I learned there was three versions. The last version was made 1981-1992 as a "tribute" to the old F-1 - and...

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Since today is my last day off for the week - I thought why not brave the heat (even though it was cooler today than usual at ~102 degrees) and do some photo-ography. I hadn't shot my Nikon F4S in a while, so I thought I would load it up with some UltraMax 400 and take it. I had some freshly...

I should shoot the same scene with my other CCD equipped camera - an Olympus E500, then shoot it with a CMOS camera (I have several.) Would be an interesting comparison. You see a ton of chatter about CCD vs CMOS - but very few comparisons of the same scene.