Edit. Forget it. Not worth my time.
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Edit. Forget it. Not worth my time.
Just to clarify my earlier post... The variation between the "big four" is slight for sure. My comment about my 150mm Schneider being subtly the best late modern lens I have owned could just as...
To the original poster, KEH -- in my experience -- is a much, much more reliable way to get good equipment than here, in my experience. You might pay a little more, but you know what you are getting...
My old 210 W I sold here had the same issue as my current 135mm NW.
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=95367
I ordered it from his website. But it was a pre-order. I don't think he has started shipping yet.
Fujinons can get little white dots around where the lenses elements meet the housing. The one Fujinon I own now that I bought from a member here has this. (He didn't mention it during the sale of...
A lot of it depends on your subject matter. I wanted extra sharp detail and contrast on lights and support cables on bridges and details on buildings that were miles in the distance. If you are...
The largest print size that met my standards from an 8x10 neg scanned on an Epson V750 was 24x30. So my answer would be no. Get a drum scan or print smaller if you want a digital print.
Since I do not use 11x14 and have only been contemplating it, I am not going to vote, obviously. But after all the thoughtful responses to this post of mine...
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?p=1002079#post1002079
It just keeps being more and more funny every time I watch it.
Now get off my lawn!!!
Yawn.
This lament by some has been hashed to DEATH as a concept in art culminating with ready mades... Many decades ago.
What I find ridiculous is people who think using film somehow differentiates their work, as opposed to using digital. There is a whole history of the greatest photographers to date who used film....
I do 90 percent of my scans for b&w by only adjusting in the histogram dialog box. I try to get as full of a tonal range there as I can. I make sure that I have not blown out my highlights and that I...
You have to hand adjust the curve with every image. I use the epson software with a similar scanner model (v750) and it works well. As said above, use you eye. Practice scanning the same image using...
Are you ever going to have a hybrid workflow where you scan? Are you only going to shoot b&w? Are you going to develop b&w at home? If so do you have a darkroom or a space big enough to do 11x14?
The amateurs will get the you know what out of dodge once it becomes expensive as 8x10 chromes. There were about 10 of us as of last year on this forum doing 8x10 chromes by my count.
Fuji is about to raise prices again, and they are reportedly doing it because of declining demand for film coupled with increased production costs.
I doubt more people are getting into LF than...
The good thing is as film continues to fall out of favor (and the current for several years now retro film interest wanes, as it is sure to do), there will be fewer people looking for used shutters...
There are already multiple iPhone apps an websites out there that do DOF calcs for all formats. DOF Master is one that I have.
I find them quite useless since DOF calculations are based on an...
That is an interesting and accurate observation.
Panoramas are not part of my goal personally, but it does add a twist to "what is a big print".
I am done printing big or even planning to print big.
For me it is 10x10 to 16x20. That is a photo you can be intimate with. And own. And display in a normal home.
Indeed. Drew probably DOES have a lot to offer on the things he actually KNOWS from his own experience. I am not convinced he knows anything about digital however. He constantly references his...
Drew the conclusion was basically that 8x10 was ahead by a certain margin for most people. That is why I don't believe you read it or understood it.
Frankly I am skeptical of your own...
You obviously did not read it carefully and understand the parameters and the conclusions.
Can you be a little more specific, Drew? What is doofey technique?
I think Tim's test was great for potential resolution on big prints. I would like to see the same tests done for prints at 16x20.
So thinking about all this... a 600mm on 11x14 placed roughly two meters from the subject gives you a head and shoulders. That actually sounds like the PERFECT focal length. A few more steps back and...
Ken and C.D., thanks for those clarifications on the magnification calculations.
Looking at some of my negs... It might have been the varying distances of the buildings I was shooting in the urban landscapes that caused this effect.
If I plug in numbers for a 35mm camera, an 85mm lens gets you about the same magnification. That doesn't seem right to me.
Great info. Thank you!
I know the distortion seems LESS as you move up in formats, but at least in 8x10, I still did see distortion quite significantly when you came in close enough to get head and shoulders with a 14"...
Actually, I found a great solution to my problem... using the Viewfinder Pro app on my iPhone.
Can anyone give me the true image area dimensions of 11x14 film?
Yes, this is what I really want to know... If the lens was 5 feet from the subject (using 600mm and 11x14) what framing would this be of the subject? Same question for 7 and 10 feet away.
Interesting Jason. That is somewhere around 35mm equivalent on 35mm film. How close to the subject were you to get head and shoulders with that? If closer than 5 feet, I can't see how you did not get...
Yes. The working space is not quite as much of an issue in my place. But how far away do you need to be for just at the waist level up?
Yeah I got a 4x5 again already. But I am really intrigued to try 11x14 as I have moved almost exclusively to B&W for film work, and I have settled on working with smaller print sizes. So 11x14...