Jessica et al -
While I can certainly understand the need – or at least the desire – for increased dynamic range (the fourth shot I posted on [
ngdiscussion.net] would certainly have benefited from a modern camera), it's really hard for me to justify spending big bucks just to add 5 or 6 MB to an already huge 36 or 40 MB image. Unless – like Jerry, Roger, Scott and a few others who post here – you're shooting with publication in mind (or selling 12"×18" or larger prints) what's the point? The photo of U.P. 4014 that Jessica posted above is a 124K (1024×658 pixels) copy of a presumably much larger original, and even if you're not going to shrink your files to the old NGDF standard of 200K, the largest you can post here nowadays is 2.4MB. See [
ngdiscussion.net] for a 2005 photo of K-28 "472" in an early, too-pale version of "Moffat Green" taken with a 5 MB Pentax Optio550 camera that easily fit into my shirt pocket. The 600px × 900px image came in at 198+ K — just barely small enough for the NGDF back then.
BTW, all of the photos that appear in the new
Trains special were taken with a mid-range Pentax H3v camera with a non-integrated light meter clipped to the viewfinder (I had to read the meter, and then manually set the speed and
f-stop accordingly), using either an
f1.4 50mm "normal" lens or an
f4.5 70-150mm Pentax zoom. IIRC, Kodachrome 25 was available by then (late August, 1968), but I don't remember for sure.
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Roosso
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/02/2020 12:21PM by Russo Loco.