Fedor Karpenko

On 7/31/2023 at 9:50 PM, Kemalettin Sert said:

I live in Long Beach since 2020 and its worse than Syria.I came here with my wife from 3rd world country and LA literally is a hellhole.We never seen a crime before in our lives but in last 5 years my wife became 2 times only eyewitness to a manslaugter.One of them she was looking out from a window (such an evil act aint it) and she saw a homeless dude beating up our old neighbor lady to death just because she tried to help him.Last week i had to call 911 because some other homeless stabbed this homeless who stole her homeless girlfriend.

You dont see this in somewhere else thats why LA and California is a such a unique place.

Other unique sightseeings of LA is you can see a homeless emcampent right across the elemantary schools where they smoke meth and defecate (or other lewd acts )

I wish i never got in industry and had another profession so i can move somewhere else to live that so called american dream where you can own a house nice family and send your children to nice schools with no gang activity.

Amen brother, can't help but feel like the people who "love" LA just haven't experienced someplace better. Moving to LA from Europe is insane, car-centric city planning is an actual nightmare.

Still available!

CORRECTIONS:

- Pinprick blemish on rear element is actually on the 12mm, NOT the 9.5mm

- 9.5mm has a blemish on the coating of the front element that also has no effect on the image.

Pictures can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZsO2baFia05zwkk54DdNA03yX1XP4sWj?usp=share_link

Photos are annotated where there are blemishes or dust/reflections that appear as blemishes but aren't.

Lenses will come with the case if purchased as a full set.

Full set serviced less than a year ago by Charles Pickel at Serious Gear. The glass is pristine aside from a tiny pinprick on the rear element coating of the 9.5mm, has absolutely no effect on the image whatsoever. Message me if you're interested and want photos of the individual lenses, they really are absolutely pristine! Markings are in feet, NOT metric.

Here are a couple projects I shot with these lenses, they produce some really beautiful images:

https://www.fiokarpenko.com/thick-and-heavy

https://www.fiokarpenko.com/howl

Looking to get $14,000 for the full set.

5 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

Interesting, yea I never saw it. I went to order the day they announced it and all they had was NC500. Interesting. 

Yeah same experience here, got it the day of the announcement and didn't see NC400 available. Maybe it was a regional thing??

Just to confirm this is actually NC400 and not NC500 right? I don't think I ever saw NC400 available in 16mm or 35mm rolls, only the photography stuff. Your test does seem to make sense though because from looking at various test from photographers it looks like NC400 has a way cooler look and NC500 is much warmer.

Actually looks pretty nice! What did you rate it at? 400?

Anyone looking to sell theirs?

Yeesh I can't imagine they were unaware of these QC issues.

1 hour ago, Robert Hart said:

Before you set about keyholing the attachment screwholes or other surgeries to move the optical centre of that lens mount, it might be worth checking if there are any shims that have folded or creased at the screwholes and tilted the lens off-axis. 

A practical test for off-axis tilt might be to open the lens iris up to the maximum and look for soft focus on an upper or lower frame edge. You would need to have a flat textured surface or even better, a proper chart as a focus target with the camera set up dead level and square-on to the focus target. 

I'll double check, although I'm pretty sure there's no tilt. I checked the FFD with a depth gauge and it was pretty spot on across the entire gate, I'm guessing if there was a tile then the depth gauge would give me different readings in different edges of the frame, right?

4 hours ago, Dom Jaeger said:

Seems about right.

Thank you!

Hey everyone! Want to double check something with you guys:

I got a new front for my K3 that has a PL mount on it. The centering is a little off so my s16 lenses end up having some vignetting. (If you're looking at the ultra 16 image area then the vignetting is pretty bad, but in terms of the s16 image area it's not that horrible)

I'm able to get a new front for the camera with adjusted mount placement. From my understanding, the mount would actually need to move upwards a bit, not downwards, right? I created this flipped version of the image to see the way the image lands on the film out of the rear of the lens, along with an approximate image circle of the lens based on the vignette:

I estimated that the mount would need to move upwards by about 1mm to get it centered up on the Y axis. If you're just looking at the s16 area, it seems like the X-axis centering is actually quite solid. (not perfect, but probably not worth tweaking since I'm only going to use the s16 area)

Would really appreciate some input!

21 hours ago, Boris Kalaidjiev said:

Eric if you had to buy a tent for 16/35, what tent would you buy? 
 

You can use the tent as a changing bag too, right? 

Tent 100%. Never seen anyone use a bag on set for anything serious.

7 hours ago, Huw Wahl said:

I have recently got one like this, but it's been converted to Aaton mount by ICE Films and has very slightly different marking. It closes aperture fully though, covers s16 fully, and appears to be the same lens?

I don't know if anyone can shed any light on whether it really is or not.

Yes definitely looks to be the same lens, they all have the ability to fully close the aperture.

Would love to see some photos as well!

Sheesh it's like every time a 416 is listed the price goes up $10k ? Beautiful camera!

Hey everyone! I have the BP-7 15mm studio baseplate for my SR3 and am looking to trade it for the 19mm version - the BP-6. Anyone out there interested in that trade? I just accidentally bought 19mm accessories for my SR3 thinking that the baseplate takes 19mm rods and just realized that I made a big mistake ?

Just arrived from B&H today. Project got cancelled so trying to get rid of these ;(

$200/ea.

Pickup in LA

36 minutes ago, Dom Jaeger said:

Well a light leak is simply light exposing the film, unless the light itself was pulsing different wavelengths why would it create a colour shift that repeats every half a second or so in the image later exposed? It seems more likely to be some sort of processing error.

As an aside, can anyone tell me why light leaks are orange/red and not simply white? 

Not at all an expert but maybe the same reason halation is red? When light is intense enough it bounces off the film backing back up to the red layer causing it to be red.

Beauty ? Would buy in a heartbeat if I had the cash for it

14 hours ago, Jefta Varwijk said:

6k for a full set incl service sounds really great, also the fact that you have a set of 5... I'm eying a set of 4 (superspeedsmk2's) for 7500 euro. but then a set of 4. Do you happen to know whether the s16mm mk2 line also has a 32mm or 50mm that i should be able to find?

Set of 6 actually ? 8, 9.5, 12, 16, 25, 50. Yeah super happy with the deal we got!

1 hour ago, Raymond Zrike said:

Where are you getting the Optar Illuminas serviced? Thinking about buying one or two myself, but it seems most of them need to be CLAed these days. Also, are you aware of if their were different versions of the Illuminas? Hard to find info online (unlike the the differences between Zeiss Super Speed versions which is well documented).

At Serious Gear in Seattle! Charles worked for Lumatech for a very long time so he knows all of their lenses super well. There have been different versions of the super 16 Illuminas, I think the older version has the "Optar" engraving on the lens and the newer version has the "Illumina" engraving. Although you should speak to Charles, he can answer basically any question you could possibly have about those lenses.

7 hours ago, Jefta Varwijk said:

I love it! and also, that sky... Amazing. Super nice that you tested both wide open and 2.8. Wide open still looks pretty good, have to say. How did you like it? Would you use it wide open at all?

Did a see a pretty heavy blue shift at the 50mm?
And may i ask what price range you ended up spending on?

I think some of them are defeinitely pretty good wide open! The 8mm was pretty soft wode open though so probably will do T2 maximum. Blue shift might be from the eyepiece being open and flaring the shot ?

My friend and I paid $5000 for the full set, we're also probably going to end up paying just over $1000 to service them so somewhere arpund $6k total for a fully serviced set ?