{"id":17436,"date":"2016-12-14T05:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=17436"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:07:32","slug":"conrail-sd50s-move-tonnage-on-the-water-level-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/conrail-sd50s-move-tonnage-on-the-water-level-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Conrail SD50s Move Tonnage on the Water Level Route."},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 9, 1988, I exposed this view on Conrail\u2019s heavily used former New York Central System \u2018Water Level Route\u2019 west of Silver Creek, New York.<\/p>\n

Clear skies and bright afternoon sun were ideal when exposing Kodachrome 25.<\/p>\n

For this image of Conrail SD50s working westbound I used my Leica M2 fitted with an f2.8 90mm Elmarit.<\/p>\n

Using a telephoto with a Leica rangefinder was always a bit tricky.<\/p>\n

Although a window in the M2\u2019s viewfinder provided a pretty good sense for the limits of the frame offered by the 90mm lens, the camera didn\u2019t offer any sense of the effects of visual compression or limited depth of field that are inherent to this focal length in the 35mm format.<\/p>\n

Yet, the combination of Leica glass and Kodachrome 25 allowed me to make some exceptionally sharp images.<\/p>\n

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I scanned this original Kodachrome slide at high resolution (4000 dpi) using a Nikon Super Coolscan5000 operated with VueScan software. For presentation here, I used Lightroom to scale the scanned file (which was more than 110 MB) into a Jpg. I left the corners of the slide mount in the frame to show that it hasn’t been cropped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On April 9, 1988, I exposed this view on Conrail\u2019s heavily used former New York Central System \u2018Water Level Route\u2019 west of Silver Creek, New York. Clear skies and bright afternoon sun were ideal when exposing Kodachrome 25. For this image of Conrail SD50s working westbound I used my Leica M2 fitted with an f2.8 … Continue reading Conrail SD50s Move Tonnage on the Water Level Route.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[3963,53,29,1980,2590,391],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Conrail_6755_wb_on_NYC_west_of_Silver_Creek_NY_Apr9_1988_Leica_KM_BrianSolomon\u00a9589893.jpg?fit=1710%2C1169","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17442,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17436\/revisions\/17442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}