Pebbles From Paradise

Archive for September, 2009

Photography ~ Old 35 mm lenses on DSLRs

Friday, September 18th, 2009

The Carl Zeiss Jena M42 Flektogon adapts well to digital use providing sharp but delicate images.

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Amos: Kodachrome Colours

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Somewhere I’ve some Photoshop plugins that enable me to replicate the brightness of Kodachrome in my digital images, but I’ve yet to install them into CS4. The natural colour from the Olympus E-400s Kodak sensor is, somewhat, Kodachrome like. This image, however, was processed in Adobe Lightroom using the Prophoto RGB profile and then converted [...]

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Amos Estate: Bees Are About

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Olympus E-3, Carl Zeiss Flektogon 35mm at F 5.6

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Amos Today

Weather Report from the Turkish State Meterological Service

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Difficilis,querulus, laudator temporis acti.
Sepuero, castigator, cesorque minorum

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