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Jim Galli modified Turner Reich-Epilogue


I'm not uploading this to 'fish for compliments', but to serve up a better looking j-peg which'll give a better sense of what the Turner Reich can do.  Understand the tiff version of this shot looks several times as good as the J-peg, and the print looks a lot better than the tiff. 

After doing the shot which I originally uploaded here, I left the set-up in place, and put my camera up, and then decided to shoot some slightly different angles, and to shoot some versions w/Ilford FP4 which I'll get from the lab early next week.  If the FP4 serves up a quantum jump in transfering the values and nuances of the TR, then I'll try to upload those shots.  But bottom line, j-pegs just don't do justice to what this lens can do.  

I keep talking about this lens because of how good it is, and we're talking if memory serves me right about we're talking about $75.00 and change,  so it definitely re-affirms the great fun I've had, anybody can have, coming up with a lens like this, MADE BETTER by Jim Galli.  

I've spend some money on more famous lenses, don't regret it, and I'm happy I've got those lenses, and I know I'm preaching to the 'choir', but I gotta say, classic lenses are the best thing to ever happen to me as a photographer.  The best thing about it is the fact that how much the lens is worth, has absolutely NOTHING to do with what these lenses are capable of,  and this lens is capable of a lot. 

I want to thank you Jim, for what you did for me with this lens, and thank you for all your adventures, and experiments, which all of us should appreciate, particularly since you do all the work, while we get to sit back, and watch all these tests.



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Reader Comments (1)

Thanks for the kind words Jonathan. Sometimes I'm amazed at this technology, and sometimes frustrated like you are here. Last weekend I played with a little Cooke lens. I'll upload a picture in a minute or two. I think I'm seeing something kind of special with it. I hope to use it a bit more this weekend.

March 21, 2008 | Registered CommenterJim Galli

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