Heaver
31-Mar-2016, 02:58
Hi,
I'm faily new to large format photography and have purchased a Sinar F2 camera along with a few lenses and have started a project which involves seascapes at night. I've aready tried a few shots with a digital camera and would like to try simular shots with my LF camera and 65mm Rodenstock.
I will be using Porta 400 pushed to 1600 and also have a few recomended reciprocity correction tables/graphs to allow for longer exposures...but my trouble is focus.
The landscape is reasonable flat so I would like to use the tilt function and hope to be shooting around f16 (to keep movement of the grasses to a minimal) and the focus will be required from aproximatly 4 meters to infinity.
I have a simple idea, but wondered if there is a simpler/better way of working out my focus through measuring the movement between my front and rear standard.
My idea is to stand in a field thats reasonble flat during the day time, focus and set the tilt required and then measure where the F/R stardards are in relation to each other. Then replicate these measurements when in the dark on the beach. I live 2.5 hours away from the beach, so its not easy to take the actual measurements there.
Hope you guys can help.
Many thanks
Mark
I'm faily new to large format photography and have purchased a Sinar F2 camera along with a few lenses and have started a project which involves seascapes at night. I've aready tried a few shots with a digital camera and would like to try simular shots with my LF camera and 65mm Rodenstock.
I will be using Porta 400 pushed to 1600 and also have a few recomended reciprocity correction tables/graphs to allow for longer exposures...but my trouble is focus.
The landscape is reasonable flat so I would like to use the tilt function and hope to be shooting around f16 (to keep movement of the grasses to a minimal) and the focus will be required from aproximatly 4 meters to infinity.
I have a simple idea, but wondered if there is a simpler/better way of working out my focus through measuring the movement between my front and rear standard.
My idea is to stand in a field thats reasonble flat during the day time, focus and set the tilt required and then measure where the F/R stardards are in relation to each other. Then replicate these measurements when in the dark on the beach. I live 2.5 hours away from the beach, so its not easy to take the actual measurements there.
Hope you guys can help.
Many thanks
Mark