New York LGBT Pride Parade on Film

I got 2 of 3 rolls of film from last week’s pride parade back. As expected, a number of the shots were underexposed due to my forgetting to stop down for metering on the old Non-AI (pre 1977) lens I was using, a Nikkor-Q·C 135mm f/2.8. It’s nice that my Nikon FE can mount and meter with those old lenses at all.

My D60 can mount Non-AI, but not meter, and most modern Nikons including my D200 won’t even mount them, though AI conversion is still relatively easy to do. Here’s hoping Nikon’s future DSLRs will be able to deal with these old lenses better. I’m not holding my breath.

Afro Ken supports LGBT rights, you should too.
Nikon FE, Fuji Velvia 50, Nikkor-Q·C 135mm f/2.8 Non-AI

Afro Ken is one of my favorite Japanese characters. Basically a marketing creation like Hello Kitty, he has the advantage of being a dog with a rainbow afro — the perfect mascot for LGBT rights. Someone should get on that. As for Afro Ken’s holder, all I can say is you need to dress like that if you want to compete with the Afro Pup.

On a related note, I’m planning on writing part 2 of my Plustek OpticFilm 7500i review at some point soon which will focus on slide scanning, but these make a decent preview. Post processing on all photos involved cropping, color correction, and curves adjustment, though the colors of the original slides are still not well represented.

Whistle Exchange
Nikon FE, Fuji Velvia 50, Nikkor-Q·C 135mm f/2.8 Non-AI

Free whistles are obviously essential to the parade, so proper distribution as shown above is crucial.

Purple and Rainbow Flags
Nikon FE, Fuji Velvia 50, Nikkor-Q·C 135mm f/2.8 Non-AI

Velvia 50 isn’t exactly the film one thinks of when shooting people, but it’s what I had on me. In hindsight it wasn’t too bad as there were some nice colors around to capture, and the skin tones aren’t too bad.

No Rights!
Nikon FE, Fuji Velvia 50, Nikkor-Q·C 135mm f/2.8 Non-AI

This last photo looks to me like it should be black and white. I suppose that’s an easy enough change to make, but I’ll leave it like this for now.

Posted by tai on 2009-07-07 21:16:57. Comments (1) | Tiny link