New Ansel Adams upload on youtube (1957)

[Curt]

I found some 7x17 glass plates in my house when I moved in many decades ago. I wonder if they are worth anything?

[Steve Feldman]

Yipes! The 5x9 foot platform on AA's car top is 2 feet longer than my entire darkroom.

[Curt]

The two part video is really great to watch and was fast paced. I wonder if Ansel made any recordings of his piano playing, it was wonderful to see and hear him play. It was definitely another take on the man.

[msk2193]

Thanks for posting the link. GREAT clips.

[Mike Anderson]

Looks like he had a Calumet 4x5 (like me). So I guess I can't blame things on my cheap camera anymore.

...Mike

[Merg Ross]

I wonder if Ansel made any recordings of his piano playing, it was wonderful to see and hear him play. It was definitely another take on the man.

Probably not for public release. I did hear him play, and it was wonderful. But that is another story.

The piano scene was from his home in San Francisco, where Minor White and some of the CSFA students stayed early on.

[jeroldharter]

Thanks for posting. Very enjoyable. I was surprised how much I liked the music. Old school.

I wonder what gear he would use today? I suspect that film would be part of it. But maybe Ansel would hear music in a jpeg? Just goofing around. I know that has been covered a million times. But watching that video is very evocative and nostalgic. Hard to imagine Ansel in a Sony digicam commercial.

[Curt]

This film was shot in 1957 and he was a lot less afflicted with arthritis than the later films where he was reluctant to play the piano for the audience. I could sit for hours and listen to his music as he played. There is no doubt that he was a concert pianist.

[Gary L. Quay]

I'm feeling better about my methods. I shade my lenses the same way. I have too much gear. I have a Kodak Commercial Studio camera exactly like the 8x10 that he had, which I also use in the field occasionally. I handle my negatives with my bare hands, and I flip prints in the trays as opposed to rocking them. If only I could get my negatives to look as good.

--Gary

[Steve M Hostetter]

Yeah, but what about that telescopic spot meter thingy..?