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    Re: Show off your camera!

    Here's a "Danger, Will Robinson!" picture of my Arca Swiss 5x4 at Ogunquit in Maine yesterday. I'll try to post some of the images it took shortly...

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    Re: East of Bar Harbor, Maine

    Many thanks Terence. It sounds like picking the right spots to actually get down to the coast is going to be key part.



    Thank you JP. I'm not sure I fancy getting an LF camera onto a boat and...
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    Re: East of Bar Harbor, Maine

    Really? How surprising. That really is an insight.
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    East of Bar Harbor, Maine

    Folks

    In about a month I am going into coastal Eastern Maine - the stretch from the Canadian border/Eastport down to Winter Harbor. (I know most of the rest of the coast of Maine pretty well, but...
  5. Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers

    Hmmm, 'influential' is an interesting word. Someone who inspires you to make images not at all like them; someone whose images inspire intense dislike: they can be influential. But I don't want to...
  6. Re: Digital compact that can serve as a great light meter?

    I use a Canon S90 for this, and the light meter in it is fine - rather better than the one in my Pentax 67 II in fact. It has a fully manual mode. The only issue is the max focal length is f8, so...
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    Re: New Linhof 3D Micro Leveling Head

    My 3D arrived a few days ago and goodness me it is a lovely thing. The new clamp works beautifully, the head is completely rigid locked down, and the gearing works smoothly. This isn't cheap, but...
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    Re: post your Architecture photographs!

    I'm not sure if this counts either... a door way in a derelict building

    http://blog.rivast.com/wp-content/uploads/Vermont010a.jpg

    Can I interest you in a real estate development opportunity?
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  9. Re: Why are some of my 5x7 holders are really 13x18?

    I only nit pick when someone tries to pull something really unacceptable on me. You know, like a really ugly over-priced camera with a dodgy bellows - the kind of thing only a total asshole would...
  10. Why are some of my 5x7 holders are really 13x18?

    I bought a number of 5x7 Fidelity holders. They all say Fidelity 5x7 cut film holder at the top, and most of them are indeed true 5x7 holders. But two of them also say, lower down on the body of...
  11. Re: Any good lens repair service in UK?

    The natives are friendly... and one of the things they will probably tell you is to try Black on White in Bristol. They certainly did a great job for me on a Copal 1 which KEH had lied to me...
  12. Re: Useful items in your bag (that other smart photographers forget)

    A half bottle of Le Montrachet '96, a good glass, and some Osetra caviar and blinis to smear it on.

    Seriously... I don't take much more than camera, film, QL holder, tripod, head, dark cloth and...
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    Re: post your trees!

    Thank you. :) Yes, normal exposure and normal processing. Scanned on a V750, stitched in photoshop, no other manipulation. If only I could buy 5x7 Velvia for a reasonable price I wouldn't have...
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    Re: post your trees!

    Two 5x4s stitched, 110xl, Velvia 100 on an Arca.

    http://blog.rivast.com/wp-content/uploads/Crawley_Snow.jpg

    I can't decide if the amount the sun climbed in the time between the two sides...
  15. Re: Compare Linhof 3D MICRO with Arca D4?

    Does anyone have any further price information on the Linhof head? I really like the look of the 3D micro having had good experiences with the previous Linhof 77 levelling head.

    Thanks

    David.
  16. Re: Sharpness vs. Resolution vs. MTF vs. Diffraction

    Others have commented amply on other aspects, but I wanted to pick this one up. It's not true. Sensors have to contend with various form of shot noise and kT/C noise for a start, even before you...
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    Re: good/best portrait lens for 5x7

    I use a multicoated 300mm Symmar S on 5x7 for portraits and feel very good about it. It's a huge chunk of glass, and (to state what may be obvious) it needs quite a lot of bellows draw when shot...
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    Re: LF film in Cape Town

    Many thanks Eugene - I appreciate the advice.

    David
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    Re: LF film in Cape Town

    Thanks folks. No, I am not already there, but I was hoping first to avoid the airports and film thing (although I have just had an excellent experience asking for LF film to be hand scanned at...
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    LF film in Cape Town

    Does anyone know of a source of 5x4 (ideally Velvia 100 but I can be flexible) in Cape Town?

    Thank you.

    David.
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    Re: What did you compose at Water’s Edge?

    Thank you Sascha - very useful information. I had no idea that JPGs incorporated the profile. (I knew TIFFs did, but I thought when I saved as JPG, that went away. Clearly not.) This is really a...
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    Re: What did you compose at Water’s Edge?

    Ha, thanks David. I spent one Christmas in Sydney and remember the heat very well. 40C during the day didn't bother me but 35 at night was hard to handle without AC. Still when you are standing on...
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    Re: What did you compose at Water’s Edge?

    It was a bitterly cold day in Le Havre but the mist was nice...

    http://blog.rivast.com/wp-content/uploads/LeHavre1a.jpg
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    Re: Acra-Swiss model C

    I know this is an old thread... but just a couple of recent observations.

    First the old Arcas don't seem to have got that much more expensive. I picked up an absolutely mint C for £199 (roughly...
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    Re: Shutter speed tester

    Me too please.

    Thanks

    David
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    Re: Holders for V700

    Thanks Nate - I appreciate the reference. You're right - that is an impressive DOF.

    Kind regards

    David.
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    Re: Holders for V700

    Rick

    Intuitively this is obvious - indeed I can't see how it cannot be true. But when I went through the tedious 'adjusting the feet' business on my betterscanning holder I found that for quite...
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    Re: Crawley

    You know, I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about Crawley the town, and really wondering what aesthetic lessons cou;d be drawn from it. Boy do I feel embarrassed...

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  29. Re: Do I really need a 150mm lens? Opinions please

    I tend to agree with the general drift: you don't need a 150. I have 90, 110, 150, 180, 210 and 300, and the 150 gets the least use of all. If it weren't a decent wide on my 5x7 I'd probably sell...
  30. Re: Cheap lens 110-135 (to be sandblasted)

    Thanks all for your advice. I'll consider the XL plus filter idea certainly but something like an optar has a lot to recommend it...

    David
  31. Cheap lens 110-135 (to be sandblasted)

    I am going to Namibia next year, and plan to take my Arca 5x4. The problem is that there is a lot of sand where I'll be, and the wind blows. So there is, I suspect, significant danger of...
  32. Re: Are Super Symmar XLs the end of the line?

    Thank you - interesting report.

    Technology does not always move forwards. Sometimes, it moves backwards. The peak of steam engineering was what - 1920? 1930? I suspect that for all the progress...
  33. Re: Are Super Symmar XLs the end of the line?

    No offense taken - my question was 'is it possible?' I honestly don't know if it is. The Xenotars, after all, relied on very high refractive index glass which one wouldn't (and in most countries...
  34. Re: Are Super Symmar XLs the end of the line?

    Lynn (or anyone else)

    Based on your experience, is something with close to the performance of the XLs but faster achievable? The one thing that would persuade me to open my wallet given I have a...
  35. Re: Removing an old kirk plate from an old Arca ball

    Thanks to all for their advice. A plate is on its way to me.
  36. Re: Removing an old kirk plate from an old Arca ball

    Thanks Bill and Keith - that is very useful information. I will go on a plate hunt.

    David.
  37. Re: Removing an old kirk plate from an old Arca ball

    A kind person emailed me this link

    http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/replacing-quick-release-part1.html

    It suggests that the clamp is glued onto the screw, and that you can melt the glue...
  38. Re: Removing an old kirk plate from an old Arca ball

    Thanks Bill. The ball is indeed Arca Swiss - or at least, it is marked as such, and I doubt anyone would bother to fake that. The precision camera site seems to suggest that the clamp is integral...
  39. Removing an old kirk plate from an old Arca ball

    For my sins, I purchased an old Arca ballhead from the evil place. It was advertised as coming with a Kirk QR clamp, and certainly it comes with some kind of clamp. There's no marking on it so I...
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    Re: August Portraits

    http://blog.rivast.com/wp-content/uploads/Julian.jpg

    Apo Sironar S 180mm, Arca Swiss 5x4, out of date Tri-X
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