The classic approach to portraiture is to use a longer lens. A 210mm would probably be considered the 'standard' portrait focal length on 5x4. But the classic head-and-shoulders portrait look, with...
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The classic approach to portraiture is to use a longer lens. A 210mm would probably be considered the 'standard' portrait focal length on 5x4. But the classic head-and-shoulders portrait look, with...
If the UV filter is on the end of a good, deep lenshood, it might improve the picture quality! ;^)
Just a couple more points.In published test after test of registration accuracy; quickload/readyload type holders have performed very poorly compared with quickload film in a Polaroid holder, which...
Well put Riaan. I kind of nodded off at one point, but the rythm of your words was very pleasant.
William Blake condensed the essence of artistic and spiritual aspiration in the phrase "To see...
"My understanding of how multigrade filters function is that the yellow works on the emulsion layer to reduce contrast and the magenta will increase it. So how do you do a base exposure over the...
You don't really need to know the nodal point of the lens, you just need to know the distance from the film plane to some reference on the lens, like the mounting flange. But in any case, I doubt...
And you can read a ruler to better than 5 thousandths of an inch, can you?A 5 thou error will put your focusing out by nearly half a metre in 5 metres with a 90mm lens. At 10 metres subject...
Ooops!</b>Better turn that accidental bold off.
I think the marking on the lens is more likely to be right than the invoice.As Michael says; the only accurate way to measure the focal length is to find the position of the rear nodal plane of the...
File a notch. It's the 'right' thing to do, and you'll thank yourself when you don't have the lens coming unscrewed from the board every other week.Lensboards don't come ready notched because ...
The last expedition into my pockets found nothing! ;^)
I used to dodge with filters when colour printing, to correct local areas of bad colour - like blue shadows for example. You need to use only camera quality (CC) gel filters below the lens. Normal...
I don't think that rotary trimmers are suitable for cutting film. You always have to slide the sheet(s) under a location strip, and this is asking for scratches and slippage to occur.I've got a...
Why are you asking us? Just because we use large format film, we don't all use brass and walnut antiques and sport handlebar moustaches you know.
Anyway, old lenses don't necessarily give an...
The Metrogon 'sky' lens was a fisheye design for large formats. It's the only lens I can think of that might fit the bill directly. Rare as hen's teeth though, and I think you needed special curved...
I'd have more truck with post-modernism if the title itself weren't an oxymoron that shows utter contempt for, or total ignorance of, language and semantics.I think this is at the very heart of the...
Unless you're absolutely sure that your screen is in perfect register, and you also use precision filmholders, lke the $inar, then IMHO there is no point in ultra-critical focusing. A small bow in...
The thickness of glass used has no effect on the sharpness of a contact print, provided it's pressurised into close contact with the neg and paper. No glass, on the other hand, will give very soft ...
"Has anyone here ever worn out a plastic tray? - Yep!About half a dozen of them in fact. They all get little cracks and splits in the corners, and start to leak. The lightweight blow-moulded white ...
Errrm! Dare I suggest going to medium format for this type of work?This'll gain you two stops in terms of depth-of-field or useable aperture. The grain/format tradeoff stays about equal, giving ...
The Apo-Ronars are just 'standard' process lenses with a coverage angle limited to around 45 degrees.As Jeffrey said; Schneider's G-Clarons have a much wider coverage of up to about 70 ...
Aluminium is a definite NO-NO with photographic chemicals. Use plastic cat-litter trays, they're cheap enough.
Using camera movements on 3 dimensional subjects is always a bit of a compromise. As a general rule, use lens tilt or swing to get the focus you want on the nearest and furthest points of interest...
Sorry that this doesn't answer your question directly Adrian.It seems to me that the same mechanism that's responsible for reciprocity failure (electron recombination in the halide crystals, or...
"Great, two lens for the price of one!" - Well, no.One good lens, and a barely useable fuzzy bit of glass for the price of one, actually.
As someone else said, you remove the front of the ...
"Can I somehow get this gray scale from photopaper to film ?"Sure you can, if you don't care if the density steps are at all accurate.
Why not just buy some ND filter gels?
Sorry Wim. That wasn't aimed at you, but at smart Alec.
NO. It's called being a corporately owned sheep. You have the 'personal freedom' to do exactly what politicians and international companies want you to do.I'm glad we no longer have the ...
"Sometimes sacrifice is required in the name of progress." - Please define 'progress'.Is having more consumer goods than you have time to use progress?Is being able to get clinically obese on ...
Sounds like you just need to reduce the development time of everything except the Bergger film.Unless all the films are developed to the same gamma, and exposed to give the same Dmax, then there's...
Thanks Emil.From that article, it appears that there's a vast difference between the US made Grafmatics and the UK made ones, because even allowing for some distortion of the plastic, there seems ...
IR sensitivity is a BIG problem with most modern meters that use a Silicon cell, not just spotmeters. The manufacturers don't pay nearly enough attention to it.I bought an Elicar spotmeter that had...
Yes, I do mean compared to a normal double dark-slide. A DDS doesn't have springs riveted into the plastic, putting a constant pressure on it for 25 or more years. It's likely that a warped DDS of...
Paul, you may not care about, or consider the registration and parallelism of the film to be of much consequence in LF, but to say that a Grafmatic doesn't rely on plastic for it's dimensional ...
The Symmar-s is (or was, until about 10 years ago) Schneider's standard large format lens. It uses the same 6 element 'plasmat' optical formula that most other LF lenses use today. Coverage angle...
Paul: The septums in the UK made Grafmatics are metal. The warping problem is with the plastic (maybe Bakelite) body and mating face of the holder itself. I'm not even convinced that Graflex got...
The manual for the Minolta autometer IIIF is on Minolta's website in PDF format. Here's a great link to a page of links to Minola manuals.Unfortunately, the Minolta USA site seems unreachable at...
Scrap that about the perspective above.Of course, 1:1 on the Nikon covers a much smaller area than on a 5x4. Getting a small, say 25mm, flower head full-frame is actually about a 4:1 reduction on...
Are you kidding us all?Do you mean to tell us you bought the Nikon 995 without realising that it focuses to 2cm?Can't you even be bothered to read the manual?Anyway, even if this isn't a troll -...
Thanks for the endorsement David.FWIW, here are a few more things that aren't covered in any depth on the website.
Adobe Gamma is OK to use as the software for adjusting Gamma, but you ...