Topic: Plastic or Glass?

[Ed Wenn]

I'm just about to drive Family Wenn down to Cornwall for a week by the sea, so only have time for a quick final post.

These two were taken of the same subject with two very different cameras on my recent trip to Albania. One is a toycamera, the other is a decent Pentax SLR. Which has worked better? I like 'em both. I spent a bit more time scanning and toning the Commander shot and suspect I might be able to get more out of the Pentax neg if I could give it as much TLC (basically ado a proper scan then spend more time on dust and scratches and curves in Photoshop).

Anyway, I hope you like one/other/both. Pentax is first. Coronet Commander is second. I used the same red filter on both.

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[FrankB]

For me, the top one (which I'd hazard a wild guess at being the glass! )

The texture is just lovely!

[Francois]

The detail in the top one's sky is much nicer...
Bottom one is nice, but...

[moominsean]

bottom works more for me. has more warmth and comp seems to work better?

[artpunk]

I am a great lover of plastic, but...
The top one is perhaps the better technical shot, however if the bottom one had the sky of the top image and a bit more contrast with the wall, well, that would be a winner for me.
All in all, as is, they are both lovely. No I am not a wishy-washy indecisive fence-sitter, well, maybe a little...or not ...ummmm
 

[Karl]

glass, lovely pic

[astrobeck]

I like the composition of the bottom one best, and also like how the plastic lens softens the hardness of the rock wall.
The glass one does show the starkness of the scene and more sharp detail, but still I like the softer photo in this case.

Great shots both!

I hope you have more to offer like this so we can compare!

 

[db]

glass. (did I say that???)

This pic needs the extra punch. The  texture and detail are important elements in this shot, and those factors are never going to be the strong-points in a plastic picture

[LT]

as much as I like the three windows in the platic shot, i think i'm going to have to say glass too.  the sharpness and clarity that is lacking from the commander frame is what lifts the pentax version.  Now, if only you'd gone wider with the pentax, then you'd be talking .....

ps - Enjoy Crackington, given the weather, I'm sure you will be.

[chricela]

the 1st one...it's contrasty , dark and moody!

[Ed Wenn]

Thanks for the feedback everybody. Great range of opinions and suggestions. I've compiled a checklist and am now confident of the picture I need to take to please the most people on the FW forum. I've booked my flight back to Albania for tomorrow morning and will be presenting the results here next week.
 

Initially I was a big fan of the plastic shot, but the glass one does rather bash you on the head. I just need to re-scan it and take my time with the curves etc.

Although it may get old quickly, I almost certainly have some more photos from this trip that I can contrast in similar fashion so will try and do that here over the next few weeks (i.e. same subject different treatment/camera/colour/bw etc.).

[JOhn Reeves]

odd man out.

The plastic's the one for my eye. I prefer its composition and mood.

[Skorj]

My heart says plastic, but my eye says glass. Nice work both, but the glass would go on my wall... Skj.

[Ed Wenn]

Skj, does that mean I finally have a print I can send you???