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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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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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...
Really? How surprising. That really is an insight.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Many thanks Eugene - I appreciate the advice.
David
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...
Does anyone know of a source of 5x4 (ideally Velvia 100 but I can be flexible) in Cape Town?
Thank you.
David.
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...
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...
It was a bitterly cold day in Le Havre but the mist was nice...
http://blog.rivast.com/wp-content/uploads/LeHavre1a.jpg
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...
Me too please.
Thanks
David
Thanks Nate - I appreciate the reference. You're right - that is an impressive DOF.
Kind regards
David.
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...
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...
David.
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks to all for their advice. A plate is on its way to me.
Thanks Bill and Keith - that is very useful information. I will go on a plate hunt.
David.
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...
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...
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...
http://blog.rivast.com/wp-content/uploads/Julian.jpg
Apo Sironar S 180mm, Arca Swiss 5x4, out of date Tri-X