I have three tripods (gitzo 1228 carbon, 340 and 410 aluminum). I find I use the aluminum ones most of the time due to increased mass. Last week, I shot in 3 F at Bryce Canyon. I keep the legs ...
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I have three tripods (gitzo 1228 carbon, 340 and 410 aluminum). I find I use the aluminum ones most of the time due to increased mass. Last week, I shot in 3 F at Bryce Canyon. I keep the legs ...
I have the 90/5.6 SA XL and use B+W MC 95mm filters with them plus the Schneider IVa center filter (95mm to 110mm threaded). For one, if your movements are limited (like an inch of rise), you can...
I believe the 160 lpmm spec for RVP is for resolving black and white targets while 80 lpmm is what you get in the field shooting real material.
Or they could require that one show several forms of identification (this doesn't eliminate the possibility of fake i.d.'s) or fingerprints. :-) Then at least the parcel could be traced to a ...
I think he's referring to color transparency film. No real way unless you leave them in holders, unless you fastidiously unload each holder and place the sheet film in the box in the same ...
Can anyone recommend top-notch prolabs in Los Angeles (south bay or west LA areas). I really only need B&W/E-6 processing for 4x5. I hear many prolabs no longer do 4x5 B&W.
I had the 1999/2000 Toyo catalog in Japanese and also noticed that while they did sell 5x7 view cameras, they didn't offer any 5x7 holders.
I use the 90/5.6 XL. Although most of my shooting is landscape (hence overkill in the image circle), I occasionally shoot architecture shots that require large amounts of rise (more than 3" w/ a...
I used to fly internationally all the time w/ 4x5 film loaded in both holders and quickloads. I keep the holders in ziplock bags, exposed quickloads and rollfilm in a lead bag, and unexposed QL's...
Bill has the most precise answer. It's basically a summary of Merklinger's articles. The DOF is a cone/wedge-shaped region about the plane of sharp focus. It opens up to infinity at infinity, as ...
I'm a sharpness nut with top-end MF and LF glass. I also have the 300/9 M, my only non-German lens, and it just doesn't compare in sharpness to my 150/5.6 super symmar XL and 210/ 5.6 apo symmar....
When I was living in Japan for a few years, I saw the yen range between 102 and 146/dollar. US prices don't fluctuate much; a weaker yen merely means profits, when converted from dollars to yen,...
When I was living in Japan for a few years, I saw the yen range between 102 and 146/dollar. US prices don't fluctuate much; a weaker yen merely means profits, when converted from dollars to yen,...
Same with high-end telescopes, too...one can wait for years.
The "10% at the most" deviation in the MTF for any random sample is also incomplete. As other posters mentioned, there is an occasional lemon. Of course there is! It's IMPOSSIBLE to claim that ALL...
Last time I ordered from B&H, they were totally out of velvia 120 rollfilm and didn't have an expected restocking date.
I'm using Schneider 90XL, 150XL, 210 apo symmar, and Nikkor 300M. The 150XL (and maybe 210) are the only two lenses that are sharp between f32-45. I'd give the edge to the 150XL..could be because...
One thing to be careful about is that Rodenstock often uses f16 for the published MTF's while Schneider uses f22, and it's known that an f5.6 lens is going to give the maximum resolution on film...
I've been told by Aoyama Labs in Tokyo that the way to remove them is to run them through the rinse process again (or whatever it's called), but that may change the color (this is for color ...
I use Linhof Technikardan lens boards (fits the TK S45) w/ a 90XL. The 90XL I have has an outer ring (the part the inner lens cap grips) that unscrews, which allows one to fit the rear element...
Fujifilm markets this apparatus in Japan, called "Quickchange." There's a skeleton holder (costs about 20,000 yen) and a sealed cartridge containing the sheets of film. You load the cartridge in ...
Since you can get 324mm of extension using the screw-on end inserts, you don't need a long rail unless you plan to do macro work w/ the 210mm. You can use up to a 300mm non-tele lens or the 400/5.6...
Larry, this is no sweat. When I was living in Japan in Kamakura (capital under the first Shogunate), the streets were incredibly narrow (built for defensibility and to confuse the enemy), and as I ...
I would think that 6x7 would be plenty for even large magazine covers and full spreads. Unless you need the movements, there's really no need for LF if you're just making magazine covers. Medium...
Take a look at the article entitled "35mm, medium format, or large format?" at http://www.photodo.com/nav/artindex.html . Look at the numbered T-Max 100 shots at the end of the article, namely #4...
I put them back in the foil pouch in the quickload box, but place them in the opposite way as the adjacent sheets. In Japan, Fuji offers a slightly different QL holder (has a thing where you can ...
Base tilt monorails are usually yawl-free, which is important if you're doing studio product shots. Since the lens moves a little forward and down when you apply base tilt, you need to coarse focus...
I think golf shops sell rangefinders, too, though they might read in yards. A friend of mine uses a laser rangefinder to measure distances. We've used it along w/ self-computed DOF tables to ...
When using tilt, you don't focus at a certain distance as you do with no tilt. Conventional DOF rules go out the window. The DOF is now shaped like a cone rather than a vertical slab/wall, and the...
I belive the compensation for a polarizer should be fixed regardless of orientation. I just meter the scene w/ no filter, compensate a fixed amount for the polarizer (1 2/3 stops for a B+W...
All the 90mm lenses have falloff. I think there's way to design to a lens so that the falloff isn't as severe, but the design is likely to be sub-optimal (i.e., not as sharp?). I have a 90XL and...
Actually, the front side of the lens board to the film isn't necessarily the focal length when focused at infinity or twice the focal length w/ 1:1 magnification. On my 210 apo-symmar, this method ...
The Nikkor 300/9 M is also a popular alternative. My guess is that a plasmat will perform better on 8x10, but there's a major cost/weight difference.
Correction, it's ALMOST all been done before. :-) The easy stuff has been done before. Has anyone shot from the summit of Everest, K2 or Trango Tower w/ a 4x5 before? Here's a opportunity for a...
I put all film boxes (open or unopened) in the freezer (not in ziplock bags, but it's dry here, so I only need 1 hr of warmup time). Loaded holders that were unused after a photo trip go into...
I believe there is enough of a difference between 90mm and 105-110mm. I find that a 90mm is perfect for architecture shots. That extra 20mm of focal length doesn't seem like much, but it's nearly...
As a follow-up, in the field, I performed a comparison of velvia and astia loaded in Toyo holders. The lenses used were the 90XL and 150XL, lens to subject distances of at least 60 ft and apertures...
I keep my film in the freezer and defrost them the night before loading. For loaded holders that I, for some reason, didn't expose, I put them in small zip-lock bags, squeeze all the air out, put...
I number each exposure of each holder (Toyo holders have a spot to write the number, or use a piece of tape). I then record what typeof film is in each holder (always the same type for both shots)...
Does anyone have any suggestions for favorite spots from which to shoot Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood at sunrise/sunset?