Vintage pictures done with Nikonos …in ‘Freediving’

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dcvf2

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The Nikonos 2 … with my adaptations :
- the tray
- the flash rebuilt with the electronics of a terrestrial Flash Canon … disassembled and reassembled in the available volume of the red ball, an old lamp of +/- 1975.
- A laser pointer in the center of the front of the red ball ... that I synchronized so that it goes out by means of a small electronic circuit I developed.
So the red dot (showing me if the flash is correctly oriented) is turned off when the flash is fired.
Nikonos + Flash 2004.jpeg


Sorry for the poor quality of certain the pictures, it coms from my ‘process’ :
- subject photographed on slides ( film 100 or 200 ASA)
- slide projected on my screen
- screen photographed with my Canon AE1 ( film 100 or 200 ASA) to get the photo on paper
- photo on paper scanned with my Canon Printer.

Later I got a slide-scanner, but the result wasn’t better.



Mediterranean sea Spain
- Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, (Baleares 1977),poulpe in French
Poulpe 1977 ?.jpeg


- Xorix (local name), Dactylopterus volitans, (Menorca, Binancola in 1992), Grondin volant
Grondin volant de Menorca 19920728.jpeg


Red sea (2002…2008) at Shark’s Bay in the Sharm El Sheikh area
- Roving coral grouper, Plectropomus pessuliferus, mérou corallien
Mérou coraillien.jpeg


- Yellowbar angelfish, Pomacanthus maculosus, Poisson ange géographe
Poisson ange géographe.jpeg


- Red sea bannerfish, Heniochus intermedius, poisson cocher de mer Rouge
- Blackspotted sweetlips, Plectorhinchus gaterinus, gaterin tacheté
- Bluecheek butterflyfish, Chaetodon semilarvatus, poisson-papillon jaune
Cocher, Gaterin Papillon jaune.jpeg


- Red sea racoon butter, Chaetodon fasciatus, poisson-papillon raton-laveur de mer rouge
Papillon raton laveur.jpeg


- Spotbase burrfish, Cyclichthys spilostylus, poisson porc-épic à taches jaunes
Poisson porc-épic.jpeg


- Sabre squirrelfish, Sargocentron spiniferum, poisson-écureuil…à grande mâchoires ou sabre
Poisson écureil sabre.jpeg


- Milk fish, Shanos Shanos, ( that can grow up to 6 feet )…never seen again since 2003, poisson de lait.
Milk fish.jpeg


Other pictures in the next message.
 
Continuation of 'Vintage pictures done with Nikonos… in ‘Freediving’'

- Yellow-edged lyretail, Variola louti, mérou croissant jaune
Mérou queue croissant jaune.jpeg


- Manta ray (the second in June 2004), Manta alfredi, raie manta (d’Alfred)
Manta ray.jpeg


- Leopard shark (or zebra shark), Stegostoma fasciatum, requin léopard
Lying on the sand at a depth of 50 feet.
The strobe failed (the original one with a big bulb, not yet the electronics from the first picture above)
Requin léopard 20050531.jpeg


- Whale shark, Rhincodon typus, (first in June 2008 it’s a snapshot from my video…not Nikonos), requin baleine
Whale shark .png


- Sailfish ( The Unique I saw …bad exposition), Istiophorus platypterus, espadon voilier.
When I was approaching its huge dorsal sail was totally developed.
It was a warning...'Be careful'(*)
I reduce my approach speed and stop to tweak my framing.
He thought I understood his warning and unfortunately he folded his huge dorsal veil ... when I pushed the lever of my Nikonos to take the photo.
(*) At home later, I read, "A spearfighter's thigh was pierced by the rostrum of a sailfish"

Espadon voilier 20031220 copie.JPG


Red sea (2002…2008) In the Marsa Alam area (El Nabaa, Abu Dabbab, Brayka Bay)
- Halavi's guitarfish ( The first …it’s not a shark !), Glaucostegus halavi, raie guitare
Raie guitare.jpeg


- Dugong, Dugong dugon , (The first at El Nabaa in 2004), dugong
Dugong.jpeg


- Whitetip reef shark (The first at El Nabaa 2004 ), Triaenodon obesus , requin corail
At the end of the day, without flash.
Requin corail.jpeg



A Camel …’Not my wife :wink:, but the small on her hand’ ! ( With Canon AE1 not Nikonos)
Camel ...the small one.jpeg


That's all folk :)
 
Great job. I Have to get my Nikonos II cameras going again.

SeaRat
 
Hi
Thanks 'mattherat' & 'John'
Best wishes

As i said in french ' bonnes et heureuses APNEES' :wink:
 
What a lot of people don't realize is that the 35mm film camera has as fine a resolution as the most expensive full-frame digital cameras. This photo of a snail eating off a fisherman's lead sinker, which by the way introduces lead into the food chain of Aquatic organisms, was taken using a Nikonos II camera, Ikelite strobe, and a 1:3 extension tube behind a 35mm Nikonos lens. The 1:3 extension tube men's that the subject will be 1/3 life size on the film, which was an Ectachrome slide (ISO 100). I think the F-stop was either F-11 or F-16, shutter speed at 1/60th second.

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Snail feeding on lead006 by John Ratliff, on Flickr

H
ere are some more photos I have taken with the Nikonos underwater camera, which by the way is about as robust a camera system as has ever been produced.

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Underwater Swimmers Sch003 by John Ratliff, on Flickr
USAF Pararescueman surfaces from a deep dive at the U.S. Naval School for Underwater Swimmers in 1967.

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PJ Okinawa Dive003 by John Ratliff, on Flickr
Pararescuemen Terry Wetzel and Stephen Samo diving a coral reef off Okinawa in 1968. This is a flash bulb photo with the Nikonos II underwater camera and its flash system.

SeaRat
 
Thank you for the very nice pictures
And I suspect back then the environment was much more intact than now...
 
Thanks Sbiriguda...Yes sure
 

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