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Shot on Ilford HP5 Plus (400ASA) with a Pentax SF7 and the standard kit lens. Last time I'll be using that lens, it has pretty drastic vignetting if I use a red filter. :/ Let alone if I add anything else. I found a 50mm Asahi Pentax prime lens (1.7f). Good lens?
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>> Anonymous
shooting B&W on a color CCD always fails
>> des
>>87544
lrn2reedlol
>>87535
Pretty much any pentax prime is going to be worth having around. Don't forget that with a pentax m42 adaptor you've got tons of great vintage takumar lenses out there. Also don't forget that you can find very thin red filters, too. It'll cost a bit more but it's good to not have to worry.
I'm not extremely into street stuff but I think 1.jpg is the strongest of these.
>> Anonymous
>>87544
Proof that these "shooting B&W on a color CCD always fails" trolls don't know what they're talking about.

>>87537is good, but not great. It would've been better if you had been a little closer and at a little more of an angle to their rear.

The others are meh. A good start, though: street photography is really hard to learn to do well, and even great ones got tons of trash. The difference was that they got better ones amidst the trash.
>> Anonymous
>>87558
C-41 B&W is just as bad.
the stock that carries C-41 emulsions is engineered for color and is not able to produce the type of results one can achieve with the kind stock that responds to D-19. the prints are just as dull as B&W prints from a color negative. the use of a heavy red filter in printing or a polarizer in the shoot can restore some of the lost contrast at the cost reduced overall dynamic range
>> Anonymous !MjcMqTX/iM
>>87553
Thanks for the info, and interesting that you say so, since I just noticed I actually have a few m42 lenses. (They came with Praktica bodies though, so I'm not sure how reliable they are.)
Are Chinese knock-off adapters like http://www.tiny.cc/dJ7HX good enough, or will I need to get something more reliable?
It's not really the red filter that causes the vignetting, but it's the ring around the filter. A simple UV filter will do the same, albeit a bit less.

>>87558
Thanks. This is the second roll of film I have ever shot, and my first try at street photography. Liked it a lot.
I keep having the feeling that 87539 is cliché and overdone though.
>> des
>>87564
>>ring around the filter
that's what I was referring to
>>will I need to get something more reliable?
I would personally go with the pentax and/or asahi branded adaptor
>> Anonymous
>>87563
I've always heard reduced dynamic range or reduced tonality was the supposed problem, not contrast.

If one is shooting digital, then just shoot raw and bump the contrast, then.

I don't see any problems with the results I get converting digital raw files, and if there was anything uncorrectable, I doubt professional and artistic photographers would use digital as much as they do for black and white, or at least, there would be more than one clunky old Kodak black-and-white only DSLR. Leica, I'm sure, would offer a black-and-white only version of the DMR.
>> Anonymous
>>87564
Praktica lenses should be good, as they absorbed half of Zeiss back in the day.

>>87597
Maybe if the DMR wasn't discontinued.
>> Anonymous
>>87776
You would think they would've come out with one while it lasted, though.