That MicroNikkor is a great lens, but the mid 70's Vivitar Series 1
90 mm is better, at all aperatures and distances. Not a cheap lens,
though! List was $349 or so in 1978.
Kodachrome was available in 16mm initially (1934, I think), then
medium format (120), sheet of all sizes, and 35mm (1936 or so). The
initial version was not anything like the later ones, is quite rare
now, and fades horribly.
You can only get really good 35mm images by using a weighted tripod
with a large, heavy head, and a camera that does not produce
significant shutter vibration. Otherwise, camera movement will
significantly degrade the image. I found this out while playing with
some Technical Pan film for pictoral work. Hard to believe you can
reproduce such tiny detail if you are VERY careful. I've got a
picture of the lake on campus at SIU, and with a grain magnifier you
can read the labels on the discarded soda cans on the shoreline....
I know there are digital cameras with this kind of resolution, but I
think they are about the size of a bus these days, and fly around in
orbit spying on us.
Peter
On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
Some of the most stunning photos I've seen in magazines are shot on
35mm Kodachrome (what speed is that, about ASA 25?)
K2 was 25 nominally. You could get it in 64 and 200, and
the photoflood stuff was 40. (I think K1 was around 12 or so,
which is what your older images would have been. You could
get K in medium format for awhile, somewhere I have a roll.)
It truly could do an impressive job. My favorite stuff
was John Shaw's work. Try as I might, I could never get
anything like what he got. He used Nikon gear, my Canon
was supposed to be nearly as good, but I think his favorite
105mm macro Nikkor kicked the cookies out of Canon's equivalent.
OTOH, supposedly the two best 300mm lenses ever made were both
Canon's, and I have one of them. (The cheaper one, at f/4.)
-- Jim
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