Jason’s converted camera produces files that remind me of what I see on Shorpy. Jim Arthur: 'I have never been a B&W guy but these pictures are impressive. (To see all the comments, click on the 'Comments' link below.) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Links in this post may be to our affiliates sales through affiliate links may benefit this site. Original contents copyright 2020 by Michael C. Please use our links they help support the site. These book links are your portal to Amazon.

This archive was once used by John Szarkowski, who selected the 48 images printed in Eggleston’s seminal book William Eggleston’s Guide, while the rest of the archive has remained almost entirely unpublished. That has resulted in it getting 4,509 views (over twice as many as others in the set), seven comments, and 72 'Favorites.'Ĭhromes is an edit of more than 5,000 Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken from 10 chronologically ordered binders found in a safe in the Eggleston Artistic Trust. UPDATE: Turns out Flickr has promoted one of my test pics on its 'Explore' feature for the last couple of days. Thanks again to Chris and Jason for kindly loaning me their cameras to try.

The loaner Leica Monochrom and Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH arrived yesterday, courtesy of Chris, so the next journey is going to be to make some comparison photographs with the two FF monochrome cameras to see what we can see. My purpose here is to see, eventually, if I think B&W from a monochrome sensor can compete with conversions from conventional color files, which I have more experience with, and with darkroom prints from film negatives. I consider myself very far down the learning curve and am only starting to feel my way toward knowing how to use the camera and edit these files.

These are the results of the first two days spending a few hours each day trying out this camera. It's important to mention that these are just my very first trials with a monochrome camera I've never tried one before. But we're completely different.I go on about pool and he goes on about pools.Īnyway, this morning I've uploaded a small album of sample pictures taken with the Sigma FP Mono and Sigma 45mm ƒ/2.8 I-Series lens.

Getting tired of B&W yet? Wish I'd get back to writing about pool? It's funny, Kirk Tuck sometimes goes off topic, and I sometimes go off topic.

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