Hello, I've been shooting LF with my Ebony for 3 years now though like everyone else I know, have fallen fowl of the digital bug - shot little else since getting my D70 last Autumn. I've gotten into...
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Hello, I've been shooting LF with my Ebony for 3 years now though like everyone else I know, have fallen fowl of the digital bug - shot little else since getting my D70 last Autumn. I've gotten into...
Ernest said, "You will have depth of field above and below that plane which is very narrow in front, but gets larger when distant from the camera".
Is this true? Surely the depth of field remains...
Manfrotto MN443 carbon tripod with old Benbo ball head and Manfrotto QR plates. Perfectly adequate for my Ebony RSW45. Always wanted to get a Gitso but had the oppotunity to try both out at a show...
OK, I have a RSW45 with Schneider lenses. !50/5.6 Apo-Symmar stored on camera, 80/4.5 Super-Symmar XL store in my old Sigma 17-35 case and a 270/5.5 Tele Arton in a padded lens case. I use a...
I bought a 2ndhand holder specifically for the purpose of making a half dark slide to make two 2x5s from a single sheet. I used a standard scalpel cutter to cut the plastic.Score it slowly, be...
I'm also something of a beginner with LF. I shoot primarily at f22 with my 80, 150 and 270 lenses, occasionally varying to f16 or f32. I havn't experimented much yet but to expand the question a...
One of each; Photographer - Colin Prior Painter - J.M.W.Turner Film - Koyannisqatsi Music (poet) - Roy Harper Literature - Stephen Donaldson (Chronicle of Thomas Covenant)
Colin Prior photographs panaramic landscapes of Scotland with the 6x17 format using the Fuji camera. He has two excellent books out call "Highland Wilderness" and "Scotland:The Wild Places". So far...
I am 40 and from the UK. Have been shooting 35mm for 25 years, MF (6x9) for 18 months and LF (4x5) for 3 months. I have never seen anybody else out in the big outdoors with LF kit and only a...
Having recently taken the plunge into LF and got an Ebony RSW45 camera I find my self wondering about using a short telephoto lens in the order 250-350mm. I can extend the bellows draw on the camera...
Having recently taken the plunge into LF and got an Ebony RSW45 camera I find my self wondering about using a short telephoto lens in the order 250-350mm. I can extend the bellows draw on the camera...
I've only been "LF"ing for about a month but I find that my Ebony RSW45 with Schneider 90/8 SA on a Benbo tripod with a Manfrotto QR plate is very quick. The camera will compress fully with the...
Having just got my first large format camera it has become even more important t hat I can trust my meter so that I can avoid the need to use my F4 to take readi ngs. I don't want two cameras in my...
I finally got my first LF camera 2 weeks ago (Ebony RSW + Schneider SA 90/f8). I was wondering if any other LF users in UK could provide advice on where they bu y their film and what labs they use....
There is still one picture of XXXX (fill in cliched location of your choice) that I havn't seen --> There one that I took!!!!