Large Format Landscapes

[jon.oman]

Me too...I like a lot my Nikkor 210. I've shot a lot of 8x10 negatives with it, too. Nikon had on their site the information about this lens that it would cover just untill 5x7" format, but it covers 8x10, with about 1/2 inch movements.

Nana, This is a good thing to know! I'm going to try mine on 8x10!

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Nana, This is a good thing to know! I'm going to try mine on 8x10!

If you want to be sure about covering, you must focus your lens to infinity and then, you look thru the lens, your eye the closest possible to the lens, then you move your head up and thown, to look at the 4 corners of the GG, if you can see the 4 corners, the lens will cover the format, you can even see how much extra coverage the lens will have. This is very helpfull with all cameras and lenses, especially when you do raise, down and shift movements, to confirm that the lens is covering all the negative.

Here are 2 photos made with my Nikkor W 210/5.6 and a Kodak 2D 8x10" camera:

[Sean Galbraith]

The Marble Canyon image is unusual for its choice of time of day (I would say between 10:00AM and 11AM?) and type of lighting (slightly side say 45-60 degrees). In fact I am going to guess that you had high thin clouds with a very modest reduction in intensity. THere are virtually no blocked up shadows with this lighting which offers so much detail throughout. The sidelit trees add wonderful color dimension. Really great image.

I am very fond of my Nikkor 210 as it has rendered many of my favorites.

Keep up the good work.

Thank you!

It was closer to 2:30pm or so I think. There were 0 clouds in the sky, perfect blue.

[C. D. Keth]

If you want to be sure about covering, you must focus your lens to infinity and then, you look thru the lens, your eye the closest possible to the lens, then you move your head up and thown, to look at the 4 corners of the GG, if you can see the 4 corners, the lens will cover the format, you can even see how much extra coverage the lens will have. This is very helpfull with all cameras and lenses, especially when you do raise, down and shift movements, to confirm that the lens is covering all the negative.

That will tell you if your lens illuminates the format. Try that with a petzval. It tells you nothing of the sharp coverage of the lens.

[nolan]

This was shot with a Speed Graphic using Astia.

[rich815]

This was shot with a Speed Graphic using Astia.

Nice.

[civich]

The delineations of texture in the shore line photo are so stark they are almost disturbing - but I like it alot! - Chris

If you want to be sure about covering, you must focus your lens to infinity and then, you look thru the lens, your eye the closest possible to the lens, then you move your head up and thown, to look at the 4 corners of the GG, if you can see the 4 corners, the lens will cover the format, you can even see how much extra coverage the lens will have. This is very helpfull with all cameras and lenses, especially when you do raise, down and shift movements, to confirm that the lens is covering all the negative.

Here are 2 photos made with my Nikkor W 210/5.6 and a Kodak 2D 8x10" camera:

[jardel]

Tree por Jardel Silveira, no Flickr

Shen-Hao HZX 45 IIA
Nikkor 75mm SW
Fuji Acros 100@64

[cpercy]

The delineations of texture in the shore line photo are so stark they are almost disturbing - but I like it alot! - Chris

well put Chris I wasn't quite sure how to describe it.

fantastic image Nana Sousa Dias

[Boinzo]

I recently returned from 3 weeks shooting in the South-West. Trip of a life-time for this Aussie beginner. I have started processing the many sheets of Velvia - here's an image from my first batch. Antelope Canyon. 150mm F16 @ 2:28.