Dan: Sorry if I was unclear--Considering Tessars and triplets (and convertible cells) isn't the sign of ignorance you take it to be, merely that FoV is very much a secondary consideration. I...
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Dan: Sorry if I was unclear--Considering Tessars and triplets (and convertible cells) isn't the sign of ignorance you take it to be, merely that FoV is very much a secondary consideration. I...
For really, really wide I use a 35mm APO Grandagon on 4x5. It doesn't cover but it gives you a little under 3.5 x 4.5, about 11.5mm in 35mm equiv. And unlike other ultra-wide solutions, you're not...
75 or 90 on 4x5 would probably be my combo of choice, but I'd be flexible for the right situation. Probably not past 8 x 10 though. Not too concerned about movements. And I would vastly prefer...
For portrait use, remember that coverage increases as magnification goes up. Double at 1:1, right?
I like night photography with in-scene light sources, but that means a constant battle with flare.
It seems a multi-coated 6/2 Dagor would be a best case, but as far as I can tell the Schneider...
One of the things I've noticed is that the length of spikes on in-scene lights depends on how far you're stopped down--my 35mm Canon 24/1.4 at f6.3 has serious spikes, my Mamiya Universal 50/6.3 with...
I'm sad that Fotoman came and went before I could get my finances in sufficient order to get a couple. (I'm really much more fond of scale focus that I am of climbing under a darkcloth.) Especially...
People get all drooly over Sonnar bokeh--no bright rings, double lines, etc. Astonishingly expensive on ebay.
If you're on a Mac it'd be prety trivial to have Applescript call Photoshop Actions to assemble then run the files, even hit return for Photomerge.
The Pro Merchant program at $39/month + 15% looks like it makes sense for decent volume, but if you're only moving a couple of books a month the Amazon Advantage program at $29.95 a year + 55% seems...
You're all kidding, right?
Absent defamation, commercial usage, or maybe a presumption of privacy at the moment of taking, you do NOT need model releases in the U.S. Minors in no way change that...
I developed the wrong Grafmatic yesterday, 6 clear sheets, at least I'd been too busy to go out and shoot the other one (again).
But my best was medium format, a few years ago. I'd just gotten the...
How simple do you need? How badly do you need tilt?
There are a bunch of seriously simple 4x5's out there, with limited movements and helical focusing.
The Fotoman series comes in a number of...
Almost all of my tripod night work I scale focus, both my Cambo Wide and my Mamiya Super 23. To me that's a huge advantage of helical systems like the Cambo or Fotoman over a traditional LF camera. ...
It also matters what G5 you're looking at. The dual-core models made after some point in 2005 have PCI-Express, which is not backwards compatible with "old" PCI.
The hottest factory-config 9.2.2...
Because a negative has a lot smaller dynamic range (not how much info it can hold, but the actual range of dMin to dMax of the film), it uses fewer bits of what the scanner captures. If your scanner...
I don't think even a lot of vaguely expensive scanners are as good as a nice enlarger in skilled hands.
I know my Polaroid Sprintscan was a total disaster, all 3 of my Polaroids had gross...
Somebody removed the front filter threads from my first 35mm APO-Grandagon.
Worse, they apparently put a serious voodoo curse on it.
First I send it back to Calumet as defective. They come up...
And one tip I don't think the manual will tell you--these meters are very sensitive to battery voltage drop. Stable-voltage chemistries like silver and lithium last quite a while, but alkalines are...
Not true. If you change the focal length and the subject distance to maintain composition at the subject plane you change the DOF.
For many situations you make an unnoticable 0.000001% change....
This is a 35mm APO-Grandagon on 4x5 at f22 (on a pre-DS Cambo Wide), with a center filter. First image is the raw scan, 2nd is the final, with some cloning in the corners to accomodate a wider crop....
In a similar vein, anyone have any recommendations for glue to put a seam back together? The bellows on my Linhof color are still pretty decent, but the seam came unglued anlong most of its length.
Ray Atkeson--Oregon/Washington
You might add the Linhof Color to the Technika category--it's essentially Technika parts on a rail.
I've found pushed TMY, even stand developed in XTOL, very capable of producing highlights that have detail, but are well beyond the reach of a CCD scanner, even a Polaroid 120, which has a much less...
I'm with Eric--X10 seems like by far the cheapest and least complicated way of accomplishing this. Once you have an X10 you keep finding more stuff you want to hook into it.
http://www.punktures.com
Not LF, and yeah, the main page is Flash, but only because it's the most efficient way to get type up in an interesting face, not to make stuff fly around.
The body...
It seems to work now, at least as much as the Keh site ever works. I kept hoping they'd get the clue that the redesign was a disaster and go back to the old site. Web guy must be somebody's...
Things done on movie productions are horrible examples--to get distribution you need insurance, and to get insurance you need to do what the insurance company says, including getting releases and...
Biggest speed boost I've seen opening/saving huge files is making sure that you are reading/saving from a different physical drive than your scratch disk. Bonus points if neither is your system disk,...
That makes no sense whatsoever--the 47mm on 4x5 is a 12.3mm equivalent based on diagonal, 13.3mm equivalent based on long dimension only (ie cropped to a 3:2 format).
The only things I can think...
No, in fact just the opposite--a drum can see further into dense B&W than a CCD scanner, especially CCD scanners that use a collimated light source, like the LED-based Nikons.
Not LF at all, very seldom my manual-as-LF Mamiya Universal. Just too many picky details to get wrong.
But digital? Sure. Especially shooting punk rock--it just feels right. Can't imagine I'd have...
Jeff: I don't see how the difference in statute matters--the whole point of the diCorcia case was 1st Amendment right of expression trumping the state law. This line of reasoning seems mostly immune...
There isn't anything approaching unanimity amongst Orthodox Jews whether simple photography constitutes a "graven image". It's not like Islam where there are near-absolutes. (Although, like Islam,...
I know in San Diego it's an infraction ($25 I think) to place ANY personal property on a sidewalk other than for purposes of loading/unloading a vehicle. Sorry, don't have the code handy, but I did...
I get mine from
http://www.baypressservices.com
Navigate to "Pre-Press", then to "Scanner Supplies"
Backing off won't help either. If you keep the film CoC the same it will appear to add DoF, but if you (much more reasonably) use final print CoC the change in magnification will cancel this out.
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As of a year ago I could still get parts and service for my Screen 1045--haven't broken it since then :)
But I did have to pay several hours of drive time from Ontario (N.E. of Los Angeles) to San...
Did anyone ever make a multi-coated convertible (other than the beautiful, current, way-too-expensive Cooke XVa)? How well do modern (not intended as convertible) multi-coated Symmars hold up if you...