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Just wanted to chime in that this is so true, also for the 50mm f/3.5 Heliar for Leica M mount. The negatives look soft-ish, but the prints are spectacular.

You *have to* watch this in conjunction with the soundtrack that Biosphere (Geir Jenssen) composed for it - if you can find it.
Hauntingly effective, the work of two geniuses combined.

I love the etheral quality of this combination! Would love to see it applied to some other subjects?

Concave/Convex
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/060/3/a/concave_convex_by_philosomatographer-d5wmjnd.jpg
(1950s chrome Schneider Super-Angulon 90mm f/8, Linhof Technika V, Ilford HP5+)

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(Chrome Super-Angulon 75mm f/8, Ilford HP5, Linhof Technika V

Oh... you said of windows,...

My vote: A second-hand, good-condition Linhof Technika V. I picked mine up (plus a whole kit of lenses, including the Nikkor 360/500/720mm combo) for much less than your budget. It's more than good...

I love trains! Have not had much opportunity to photograph them in large format though, but I do have these:


GEA-class Garratt detail...

This sure is a large thread indeed! With my LF camera, the subject that I shoot least tends to be landscapes. These are three fairly recent images that I can contribute to this thread:


Hole in...

Fair enough, Ari, there are circumstances where I do find the focusing hood on my Technika adequate. But this is only in about 50% of cases, where there is not very bright light behind me, and the...

If you can wait a couple of days, go with your gut feel - just get one made from Steve Hopf. You'll end up with precisely the right dimensions, you'll have a nice, fine grip, and you can have the...

Great project, please show us what it looks like when you make some progress! One note regarding the lenses, I take it you don't actually intend on using those lenses for normal photography, do you?...

Thanks, Eddie -

Ah, the virtue of the view camera. On the tree image, it's very deceptive, but the rock is rather small, and jammed right up to the lens. I used fairly extreme lens swing/tilt on...

I recently printed these (oops, it's four now, can't change thread title!) images after a long spell of no-darkroom time. To be honest, I am still finding my feet with a view camera (being used to...

Thank you for sharing your experiences WJM! Very interesting...

I would be in some trouble if I were using a large format camera, and didn't know the difference between aperture and shutter blades, don't you think? ;)

I am definitely looking at the aperture...

Hi,

Much as I loved my original Linhof/Schneider Symmar 150/5.6 Convertible lens, the poor flare resistance due to the primitive coatings have ruined a number of strongly backlit images for me.
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No, Marko. The insane repetition is in response to Leigh, who just doesn't get what I am saying.

I am very happy with what I have. And it doesn't matter whether you use a $500 or a $5000 LF...

It's like you people are on a completely different plane of reality. Where did I "attack" a user outside of this website? Is it an attack to make the (joyful) observation that a large format film...

OK, Leigh, let's play:



No he did not use "the tool that he felt was appropriate to the task". The linked work was likely not intended as an artistic work - since this is from a staffer at...

Leight, are you cognitively impaired or something?? Good god man, have you even read a single one of my replies??

Not only did I never make such a fundamental assertion, I have repeatedly proven...

And where did my post claim to say anything otherwise? Nowhere, you say? That's the point.

So why, then, does my simple post deserve any of the rude, self-important replies from people who are...

Of course you're right, Brian! I used to do quite a bit of focus stacking when I used to shoot a digital SLR. Wonderful technique for going far beyond the possibilities of the image field captured in...

Would you be so kind as to reproduce this alleged promotion of my own views as universal thruth?

Leigh, your assertion that I posted, anywhere in this thread or any other, a "fundamental premise...

Leigh, you missed my point completely. The focus distance is irrelevant. My point was that, in this day and age of super-high resolution cameras like the Pentax, for certain goals (such as was...

Wow, after 30+ garbage posts criticising me because they misunderstood my post, SOMEBODY finally gets it. Thank you Jack.

I must say, I sorely regret ever posting this. It seems that the majority...

Bill, I did not by any stretch of the imagination "poo-poo" the 645D. It's a very desirable and capable system, by all accounts. My observation was that, when ultimate resolution is the quest, there...

Wow, talk about posting an innocent-enough "lounge" topic, stepping out for a few hours, and returning to a storm in a teacup. I am surprised that, without my further participation, my post has been...

...it's looking at the sample images of the (very tasty) Pentax 645D digital "medium format" (though it's on the small side of MF) camera. This one is particularly telling:
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This is the lens(s) used on the Leitz Epidiascope projectors, right?

This may be a bit off-topic, but does anbody know what the epidiascopes go for? I may have access to a second-hand one locally,...

Hi Craig,

Beautiful camera!

I am afriad I do not have direct experience with a camera this size, my heaviest camera is a Linhof 4x5in metal field camera, but I do use some pretty long lenses...

I have used a couple of older enlarging lenses (Rodenstock Rodagons, Schneiders - none of the APO models, but rather 1970s vintage stuff) but the one lens that consistently impresses me is the...

Hello Roy,

I am also a South African (Johannebsurg) and I also recently joined this forum owing to also recently (in the past year) having started large format photography (4x5in).

Loking...