Still-Life Images, 2014

[gbogatko]

Wollensak Vitax -- wide open on #5 diffusion.
It's been said (and I agree) that if one is willing to sacrifice razor sharpness, then, on #5 you can get a huge depth of field. I really never believed that until this shot.

[mdm]

Whole Plate Foma 100

[Mark Sawyer]

Wollensak Vitax -- wide open on #5 diffusion.
It's been said (and I agree) that if one is willing to sacrifice razor sharpness, then, on #5 you can get a huge depth of field...

And that was the original intention of the very first intentionally soft-focus lenses, (Dallmeyer's Patent Portrait Lens of 1866), not to make a soft image but to spread the depth of field! (Lovely images, btw!)

[Bill Christian]

Some color photos taken with a monochrome large format digital camera. This is three separate images taken through red, green and blue color filters combined together. I didn't color correct the images fully so they mostly have too much red.

Kodak Dark Red #29 Wratten
Kodak Deep Blue #47 Wratten
Kodak Deep Green #61 Wratten



Camera: LargeSense LS911 Pre Production Camera
Large format digital camera (single shot sensor, size bigger than 8x10 inch)
Experimental Color Wheel - color not fully calibrated, image has too much red
Direct Einstein Flash for flower
Schneider Kreuznach G-Claron 9/305- used at f/64
Photo Taken: Dec. 16, 2014 Santa Clara, CA, USA
Copyright LargeSense LLC
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Camera: LargeSense LS911 Pre Production Camera
Large format digital camera (single shot sensor, size bigger than 8x10 inch)
Experimental Color Wheel - color not fully calibrated, image has too much red
Direct Einstein Flash for flower, blue gelled flash for background
Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Tessar 4.5/ 250 mm - used at f/32
Photo Taken: Dec. 15, 2014 Santa Clara, CA, USA
Copyright LargeSense LLC
http://largesense.com
All rights reserved

Bill

[lkkang]

WOW... so real !

[Corran]

Really impressive Bill!
When we were talking about your camera, I was wondering about a tri-color process. I see it works well! Do you just need to adjust the exposure on the red filter to tweak it?

[StoneNYC]

Certainly impressive! I'm still trying to understand why the "larger than 8x10" non standard proportions were chosen instead of choosing a standard size, not sure I understand the logic.

Amazing image though, thanks for sharing, glad it's going well.

[Bill Christian]

Thanks. I took another photo in the same setup with a color chart. I just used a white balance, which still leaves too much red. I also used the Adobe DNG profile editor to get more accurate colors but I'm still working at applying it in Lightroom, so these images are not with the profile applied.

Bill

Really impressive Bill!
When we were talking about your camera, I was wondering about a tri-color process. I see it works well! Do you just need to adjust the exposure on the red filter to tweak it?

[Bill Christian]

Exactly 8x10 would be nice. Though if it was 8x10 the electronics would not fit into an 8x10 film back. Because of the availability of parts it is easier to make it a bit bigger than 8x10. I find that most lenses for 8x10 cover the sensor well.

Bill

[ghostcount]

11 more days 'til 2015 - any word on the LS911 release?