Re: [Leica] Noctilux Driving the great SW and Darkroom

[Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>]

Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> 
> Mr. rabiner!  you've had that Noct for several weeks now!
> where are the images??!
> 
> :-)
> 
> -rei
> 

I just made a scan of a fast black kitty in Carmel on my flatbed from a 10x10
image and I've scanned some medium format transparencies on that scanner, a Umax
PowerLook III  but my 35mm scanner a Nikon LS-2000 i need to clean or send in if
these angled tape cleaning pads i got don't work and I've been procrastinating.
Truth is after shooting mainly medium format for a few months now I'm only
recently back to dong a lot of work with my Leica. The new Noctilux has
certainly helped and turned my head around on this whole photography thing.
Also I've made a huge resurgence with my darkroom and not been scanning and Inkjetting.
I've got a new 16x20 4 bladed easel. New 16x20 trays.
I've had a ball designing and building 8 26x36 print drier screens and most of
all a rack to keep and use them in. Also a system of boards for flattening fiber
prints from 8x10 to 20x24.
All of which i plan to photograph and stick on my nerdy website in the darkroom
geek section. Plans and all.
So this photographing of my renovated darkroom (got a new 18 ft. rubber mat!)
I'd be leaning on doing with my Hasselblad.
Walking on cement is not picnic for my 50 year old ligaments. This rubber mat
might end up being my most cherished piece of high tech gear. Barefoot printing
at midnight in the rain!

Last week I shot 4 rolls of Kodak E100 VS film and edited 4 shots from it to
send to San Antonio to Bill Grimwood where i am still going to as far as i know
in 2 weeks for the Leica Historical Society meeting.  Walked 4 miles coming back
from Mt. Tabor here in Portland on the east side. So that's a roll a mile which
ended up being a slide a mile. 
All wide open only a very few stopped down a few because it was too bright or i
HAD to get some Depth of field.
F 1000th a second and be there!
I got a solid slide page out of it of 20 slides and took 4 out of there to send.
1.      Birch tree bark close-up        
        F1 @ 250th with the Noctilux and Kodak E100 VS film.
Focused at the minimum which is slightly less then a meter.

2.      White picket fence with Monkey tree in the background.
        F1 or close to it @ 1000th with the Noctilux and Kodak E100 VS film.

3.      Table at Rocco’s Pizza selective focused. Mixed lighting, daylight, tungsten
and florescent.
        F1 @125th with the Noctilux and Kodak E100 VS film.

4.      No nothin coffee shop front with Red checkered Curtain.
        F1 or close to it @ 1000th with the Noctilux and Kodak E100 VS film.
        I might have had to stop down a few because of the direct sun.

I also have a dozen rolls of Black and white I've shot with the lens all set to
print sitting on my big light table in my darkroom. I'll be printing them 16x20
and will really be seeing what this Leica - Noctilux thing is all about. ...be
exciting to see what the other LHSA people in San Antonio people think about it.

Also late breaking news for me is that i might not fly but DRIVE to San Antonio
from Portland Oregon…
Which means I'll be seeing about the only section of the U.S.A. That i have not
seen yet. The great Southwest!
Southern Idaho, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas coincidently is exactly
where i have not been yet.
And plan to get many shots with my Leicas and Hasselblads we're planning 6 days
driving in each direction.
After this trip the only states I've not been to yet would be Main, Louisiana
and Mississippi and Alaska.
But the whole country needs to be photographed with Leicas and Hasselblads. If
you're me.


Mark Rabiner

Portland, Oregon
USA

http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
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