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rdenney
23-Nov-2009, 14:51
How about a thread for photos made with extremely wide optics?

I'm thinking a lens with a focal length of well under half the image diagonal. That would limit us to 47mm for 6x12, 65 for 4x5, 90 for 5x7, and 120/121 for 8x10. (You guys can do the math for larger formats than that :) )

Here's an initial entry:

Cannon and French Castle, Fort Niagara, September, 2009. 6x12 format on Velvia. 47/5.6 Super Angulon (theoretically a 6x9 lens but with -just- enough coverage for 6x12 if you don't mind about four stops of falloff). F/22, but I just didn't write down shutter speeds that day. For critical work, I'd need a center filter, though this is about as extreme as it gets by using Velvia with a lens right at it's coverage limits. I don't really mind it here, though--it helps isolate the subject while still showing the open emptiness of the place.

http://www.rickdenney.com/images/Niagra_cannon_scan19-20_lr.jpg

I originally scanned this on the Epson V750, but for some reason it could not handle that sky gradation without banding strangely, so I scanned it in two parts in my Nikon 8000ED. Aligning images isn't quite as easy as people say it is, when working down to the pixel level for a 150-megapixel image. I guess I need a new computer!

Rick "who laid on the ground to avoid casting a shadow--typical problem with ultra-wides" Denney

Mick Noordewier
23-Nov-2009, 15:57
Great theme for a thread. If you simplify the rule to allow FL of half the film diagonal or less, you'll allow 75mm on 4x5 and the equivalent on other formats. This is still plenty wide, and will probably substantially increase the participation.
-Mick

rdenney
23-Nov-2009, 16:22
Great theme for a thread. If you simplify the rule to allow FL of half the film diagonal or less, you'll allow 75mm on 4x5 and the equivalent on other formats. This is still plenty wide, and will probably substantially increase the participation.
-Mick

I'll accept that friendly amendment, not that my approval is needed for where the thread goes. I just like the idea of seeing how people visualize images with fairly extreme wides. We have heard that they are only useful if you do X, and maybe someone has done Y with theirs and can refute that assumption by example.

Rick "hoping for lots of participation" Denney

jb7
23-Nov-2009, 17:15
Very good...

Here's one from last night-
65mm ƒ/8 Super Angulon on my p&s Plank-

This one on Fomapan 200-
it metered at 20 seconds, I gave it around 40-
the interior was very dark, although it seems like daylight outside-
street lighting on the building across the road.

There was a session going on in the corner, very good musicians-
three sets of pipes, a whistle, a flute, and a squeezebox.

I waited until they took a break, the movement during the playing-
to say nothing of the vibration from the leader keeping time by banging on the floorboards,
might have made the shot even less defined than it is-

Taken upstairs in The Stag's Head in Dublin.

I've got a few more from the day to scan,
haven't even looked at them properly yet-


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/4128194003_f832274176_o.jpg

Ed Richards
23-Nov-2009, 18:10
65mm on 4x5, first image on this page:

http://www.epr-art.com/galleries/a1-new/

Serious wide, but not 4x5 - all of these are 12mm on full frame 35mm:

http://www.epr-art.com/galleries/c3/

rdenney
23-Nov-2009, 18:22
Serious wide, but not 4x5 - all of these are 12mm on full frame 35mm:

Sigma 12-24 on a 24x36 DSLR or a 12mm Heliar on a Voigtlaender Bessa?

Rick "knowing of no other choices" Denney

Ed Richards
23-Nov-2009, 19:15
A good sigma 12-24 on a D700, with DXO. Even without DXO there is very little distortion, it is a magic lens if you are an ultrawide nut. (But you might have to buy more than one to get a good one.) That was a self-assignment to see if I could get enough shots for a picture book in one afternoon. Even had time to have lunch in the second to the last place, the one with the smiling lady and the yellow paint.:-)

rdenney
23-Nov-2009, 19:35
A good sigma 12-24 on a D700, with DXO. Even without DXO there is very little distortion, it is a magic lens if you are an ultrawide nut.

Heh. I have one for my 5D. A little soft in the corners, even if it's a good one (and mine seems excellent). The 47 Super Angulon on 6x12 provides about the same horizontal field of view (which is what seems relevant for 6x12) as a 14 on 24x36. I don't know if it's the difference in format, but the SA is sharply resolved right into the corners. I'm seeing sharp blades of grass right at the edge of the coverage. Remarkable! I've had the 47SA for several years, with the idea of doing just this, but when I could not get it to focus on my Cambo, I put it aside. I pulled it back out this year when I decided to get back into view camera usage, and bought the Sinar system just to be able to focus it (and the 65). It lacks coverage for 4x5, but it's adequate for 6x12 and worth the $300 I paid for it. Now I just have to learn how to use it.

I wouldn't be without the Sigma, but I don't expect to be making large prints from it.

Rick "who also has a Sigma 14mm prime and actually prefers the zoom" Denney

Mark Stahlke
23-Nov-2009, 20:48
What a fun idea for a thread. I love ultra-wide angle lenses even though I find them very difficult to use well.

Here is my home office. I had just finished re-doing this room when the UPS man brought me an HP Combi-Plan and a box full of chemicals. Anxious to develop my own B&W film for the first time ever, I decided to snap some pics of this room. I actually got usable negatives. Imagine my surprise.

Shen Hao PTB 4x5, APO Grandagon 55mm, Schneider IIIb center filter, FP4+ in DD-X, flare from the ceiling fixture :( .

Cheers,
Mark

Ed Richards
23-Nov-2009, 20:50
Just do not put anything in the corners that matters. That is the real secret of UW.:-) DXO is doing a free 30 day trial - download it and see what it does for your 12-24. You might really like it. As for big prints ,if the image is graphically strong and does not depend on blades of grass, I am amazed how good the prints from FF digital can look. I use digital where 4x5 does not work - check out the Bouchere or Jazz Mass shots. With 4x5, my doors would have been impossible because most of the business owners would have run me off. OTOH, where I can use 4x5, it is my favorite wide. At some point I will also go for a 47XL.

Mick Noordewier
23-Nov-2009, 22:10
Rodenstock 75mm f8 4x5

1. HP5+/HC110
2. Polaroid Type 55

jb7
24-Nov-2009, 15:22
Here's a few more from Sunday-





http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/4131396987_de7ae89bde_o.jpg


Francis Bacon's Studio at The Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery.





http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2792/4131396803_88ca0c6f00_o.jpg



http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2674/4132159296_2e0e4c5e92_o.jpg



Connecting stairway to the Extension, at The Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery.





http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4131396689_efea0b3184_o.jpg


Installation, The Golden Bough | Corban Walker, at The Hugh Lane, Dublin City Gallery

gary mulder
24-Nov-2009, 16:27
SA 72 XL on 4 X 5
rotterdam saturday november 21

Brian Vuillemenot
24-Nov-2009, 21:28
A couple landscapes made with the 58 SA XL

MenacingTourist
30-Nov-2009, 11:48
Brooklyn Bridge and Wall Street in NYC.

Mike V
30-Nov-2009, 14:18
Brooklyn Bridge and Wall Street in NYC.

Hey menacingtourist,

I like the crop you have created with your shots. I guess that makes it a 2x5?

How did you cover up half the lens so cleanly on the Brooklyn Bridge shot? Im guessing a dark slide cut in half?

Did you draw a line on the ground glass so you knew what to compose?

I think it works really well on the wall street image.

MenacingTourist
30-Nov-2009, 14:44
Thanks Mike. This is actually a cropped 8x10. I measured the best I could then cut an extra darkslide to make a 4x10 option. My groundglass is gridded so I can easily tell where to compose. It's not perfect but I like the look/ratio of very horizontal images. It's also nice since I can't afford a 7x17/8x20 :)

jb7
30-Nov-2009, 14:46
Yes, that vertical one looks great-

John Brady
30-Nov-2009, 15:35
Here are some of my 8x10 images. The first is with a 90xl with some corner vignetting cropped, the other two are Nikkor 90sw. Wide is about the only thing I do.

www.timeandlight.com

rdenney
30-Nov-2009, 16:13
Here are some of my 8x10 images. The first is with a 90xl with some corner vignetting cropped, the other two are Nikkor 90sw. Wide is about the only thing I do.

www.timeandlight.com

I particularly like the middle image, with the tree roots. Care to divulge some technical details? I am impressed by how much foreground detail you retained while not blowing out the background. I'm thinking I would have had to use negative film to retain that much scenery range.

This thread is shaping up to be just what I hoped--keep those images coming.

Rick "who just bought a center filter for the 47 from KEH" Denney

r.e.
30-Nov-2009, 16:38
Joseph,

I didn't know that Bacon's studio had been moved and become an exhibit. The Dublin City Gallery web site says that there were photographs on the walls of George Dyer. Did you notice these, and are they John Deakin photographs? The site also says that they found 120 prints and negatives of Deakin's work in the studio. I have read that Bacon kept some of Deakin's photographs on the floor, the better to walk on them :) Assuming that the reconstruction is faithful, did you see that?

I like your Stag Head's photograph.

jb7
1-Dec-2009, 02:23
Thanks Rory-

Yes, the photographs are there, but not on the floor of the studio- they're hung as exhibits.

Bacon used them to work from, they're pictures of his portrait subjects, in the main.
A lot of 6x6 contact sheets and enlargements, almost all of them folded, dog-eared, torn, spattered-

Bacon commissioned Deakin to produce some of these pictures to work from-
they don't look much like considered photographic portraits.
There are also some other pictures of people, seemingly more candid.

Peter Beard's photographs are also represented, apparently, he sent prints to Bacon over the course of a number of years.
Some of these were used to work from, the people, others, particularly of African wildlife, were carefully put away, untouched.
There's one big enlargement from 35mm, perfect except for a single vertical fold,
of a family of lion cubs...

Also represented are a room full of Muybridge figure studies, pages torn from books-

The studio would appear to be a faithful reproduction,
and the contents are, of course, authentic-
The steep stair is there, and the picture above is of a view through the door at the top of them.
Access is limited to a plate glass oriel in the doorway, not very deep;
that picture was taken with the camera lens pressed onto the glass.
(in fact, the only picture that used a tripod, out of the 5 posted,
was the Stag's Head one, though the exposures were all long)

A looped South Bank Show interview of Bacon by Melvin Bragg plays in an ante chamber to the studio exhibit,
where Bacon and Bragg walk through the mews house,
and it seems they might have used these pictures to help set up the recreation of the studio-
some of the details are very similar-

It would have been good to take a view to the left, that's interesting, texturally-
and the light from above is wonderful-
but the junction of the plate glass panels doesn't allow it-

Though maybe, the 72xl with a lot of shift....
but getting your legs out in a gallery might bring too much attention-
to say nothing of the monorail.
Better to get the snaps with a point and shoot-

The 65mm ƒ/8 doesn't allow any movements on 4x5, even if I wanted to,
so it suits a point and shoot perfectly-
nothing is wasted...

John Brady
1-Dec-2009, 07:03
I particularly like the middle image, with the tree roots. Care to divulge some technical details? I am impressed by how much foreground detail you retained while not blowing out the background. I'm thinking I would have had to use negative film to retain that much scenery range.

This thread is shaping up to be just what I hoped--keep those images coming.

Rick "who just bought a center filter for the 47 from KEH" Denney

Hi Rick, as one who is obsessed with wide angle I agree this is an interesting thread!
As for some details, I shot this one with my Ebony slw810 and Provia. The provia doesn't have as much latitude as color negative film it still has a greater range than velvia. The sun being behind the clouds helped to evenly light the majority of the scene. I metered the brightest area on the horizon and then opened two stops. My concern in making this image was to capture the sun rays coming through the clouds on the horizon. The detail in the foreground was visible in the transparency but it took a lot of coaxing in photo shop to bring it out. I used the graduated nd tool in photo shop to increase the exposure in the roots and desaturated some of the lower left area because of the color shift from under exposure. This image took many hours, I'm glad you noticed the effort.

www.timeandlight.com

MenacingTourist
1-Dec-2009, 10:25
Flatiron building in NYC. I really love this building and have shot it two different times. I'd like to go a few more times even. This is a full frame 8x10 on the widest lens I own. Just barely covers and when I use movement you get this shot.

r.e.
1-Dec-2009, 14:43
Thanks Joseph,

I'm going to be on Wight for a week just after Christmas and I just might get to Dublin afterward, in which case I'd like to see this exhibit. I saw the Bacon show last year in New York, and I'm intrigued by Deakin's work. I've had a copy of John Deakin: Photographs for some time, and last week I was able to pick up A Maverick Eye, the book on his street photography. The roughness of his images - figuratively and literally, whether the latter was intended or not - appeals to me.

jb7
1-Dec-2009, 15:01
Wight?

as in, the Isle of Wight?
What a coincidence, I should be there too, at least for lunch one day around New Year- weather permitting-

what a small world...

I did get the idea that he knew what Bacon wanted to use the pictures for,
and it seemed to me that no special effort was required,
considering what the pictures were to be used for,
and the treatment he expected them to get...

I could of course, be completely wrong, and I don't know his work apart from the prints and contacts I saw here...

r.e.
1-Dec-2009, 15:24
I have friends in Cowes. I'll be there from the 27th to the 4th. If you're up for it, we've been known to go for the odd pint.

r.e.
1-Dec-2009, 15:30
Re Deakin: Robin Muir, the former editor of the British Vogue, for which Deakin worked and got fired twice, brought out a book of his work in 1996. There's no doubt a copy in one of the Dublin libraries. Have a look at it, you may be surprised. At the beginning of the book there is this quote from Elizabeth Smart: "Who is John Deakin? He is a photographer with extraordinary eyes..." Maybe, all I know is that I go back to this book whenever I want to get photographically grounded.

jb7
1-Dec-2009, 16:13
Very good, will look it out-

will pm you my number,
an odd pint might fit in well between all the even gallons...

eddie
1-Dec-2009, 16:43
SA 72 XL on 4 X 5
rotterdam saturday november 21

hey, i was there! nice one.


Flatiron building in NYC. I really love this building and have shot it two different times. I'd like to go a few more times even. This is a full frame 8x10 on the widest lens I own. Just barely covers and when I use movement you get this shot.

what about the 180mm series V shots? they would cover easily.....didnot you use it on the FI?

eddie

Mike1234
1-Dec-2009, 16:46
phhht.

MenacingTourist
2-Dec-2009, 07:30
hey, i was there! nice one.



what about the 180mm series V shots? they would cover easily.....didnot you use it on the FI?

eddie

Eddie,

I haven't printed the FI negs with I made with that lens. The earlier shots I posted of the Brooklyn bridge were made with it though. Thinking I should have bought it from you when I had the chance :)

cjbroadbent
3-Dec-2009, 04:07
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OR3U2BmIDuk/SxeaxrZX38I/AAAAAAAAChc/JrxGK-TPiaY/s800/buffer.jpg
120mm SuperAngulon on 8x10. Very heavy stuck on the front of of the Sinar shutter.

rdenney
17-Dec-2009, 20:31
Well, Christopher, your photograph is so good that it is apparently intimidating the rest of us from continued participation, heh. I don't have any more in the large-format category to submit, but I'm hoping others do.

Rick "also hoping the mods will move it to the new category" Denney

mrladewig
17-Dec-2009, 21:55
I have to say that is a most captivating still life Christopher.

I think I posted this in the color landscape thread as well, but it fits here too.

http://www.ladewigs.com/Gallery/d/2372-1/45_E1VS_20091112_004.jpg
75/8 super-angulon on 4X5 E100VS, Zion

jack_hui
19-Dec-2009, 06:31
Fujinon SWD 65mm

http://www.pbase.com/jack_hui/image/60890114.jpg

eddie
19-Dec-2009, 07:04
4x5 zero image pinhole. 25mm "focal length"

you can see how close i was in this photo (http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4076775).

jb7
19-Dec-2009, 07:12
Close...

From spring this year, first test of the diy p&s.
50mm plastic lens focused at about 45mm.
Duh.

Second test was better,
but I like this one more-

FP100c45



http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6803/jonkhebgbjb72.jpg

pocketfulladoubles
19-Dec-2009, 20:59
4x5 zero image pinhole. 25mm "focal length"

you can see how close i was in this photo (http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4076775).

Eddie you rock! Great shot.

ImSoNegative
19-Dec-2009, 22:44
this was shot with a 90mm super angulon f8 on 5x7, that thing is the way was my shutter release.

ImSoNegative
19-Dec-2009, 22:51
75mm super angulon f8 on 4x5, 2nd image is a 65mm super angulon on 4x5. thanks for this thread

rdenney
20-Dec-2009, 18:00
4x5 zero image pinhole. 25mm "focal length"

you can see how close i was in this photo (http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4076775).

That is a very cool perspective. I like that a lot.

Rick "who has been tempted by pinhole stuff in the past" Denney

John Brady
20-Dec-2009, 19:41
One more with a Nikon 120sw on 8x10. f64 30 sec fuji provia.

www.timeandlight.com

Nana Sousa Dias
18-Jan-2010, 16:56
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/5231/urbanidades17.jpg (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/urbanidades17.jpg/)
Super Angulon on 4x5, Tmax 100, orange filter.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3158/urbanidades132.jpg (http://img51.imageshack.us/i/urbanidades132.jpg/)
Super Angulon 47 XL on 4x5, Fomapan 100.

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/6474/img048d.jpg (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/img048d.jpg/)
Super Angulon 47 XL on 4x5, FP4+, orange filter.

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/8/valefurado1.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/valefurado1.jpg/)
Super Angulon 47 XL on 4x5, Fomapan 100, orange filter.

Deniz Merdanogullari
19-Jan-2010, 13:30
Nana, I love the windmill-cloud shot!

perfect placement of the clouds on the propellers

Nana Sousa Dias
19-Jan-2010, 14:21
Nana, I love the windmill-cloud shot!

perfect placement of the clouds on the propellers

Thanks, Deniz!

MIke Sherck
19-Jan-2010, 14:43
*Sigh* Something tells me that prices of wide lenses are going to go up...

AbsolutelyN
12-Feb-2010, 08:59
Nice to see a thread on wide angle LF, some great images here! Here are a couple of my own wide shots:

http://www.absolutelynothing.co.uk/uploads/blogphotos/974-uhr.jpg
Nikon 65mm

http://www.absolutely-nothing.co.uk/uploads/blogphotos/dawn-cracks-the-vault-of-night.jpg
Nikon 65mm

http://www.absolutely-nothing.co.uk/uploads/blogphotos/autumn-past-900-1003.jpg
47xl

jon.oman
12-Feb-2010, 09:09
Nice set of images!

Jon

rdenney
12-Feb-2010, 09:56
Tristan, I like how you have made use of the extremely short lenses without going for the ultra-wide "effect". I like the pastel feel, too. I need to expand my color palette.

The middle one has a little of effect and isn't quite as pastel, but it really grabs me just the same.

Rick "keep 'em coming" Denney

mandoman7
12-Feb-2010, 13:58
Tristan, all three are very well composed and lovely. Excellent work.

jb7
12-Feb-2010, 14:10
One more with a Nikon 120sw on 8x10. f64 30 sec fuji provia.

www.timeandlight.com

Lovely stuff all round-

John, I'm presuming you used a centre filter for this one?
would love to see this transparency-

Ken Cravillion
21-Feb-2010, 10:42
http://www.kgcphoto.com/Upper_Michigan_Waterfalls/overlook-bw-1-2.jpg

Shen-Hao 4x5, Schneider SA 65mm f/5.6 w/CF, Fuji ACROS

Upper Michigan...

Nana Sousa Dias
21-Feb-2010, 11:32
Beautifull image, Ken.

Ken Cravillion
21-Feb-2010, 12:28
Thank you!

Stephane
24-Feb-2010, 14:47
I had trouble printing with the little separation between the lighthouse and the sky.
scan of an 8x10 contact print, shot with sinar p and a tiny dallmeyer 140mm

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/3920421274_5f566c87a7_b.jpg
Hvaler, Norway

r.e.
24-Feb-2010, 14:54
Stephane,

If I can say this, I think that it is unclear from this photograph what your subject is. If it is the lighthouse, you might have a look at Philip Plisson's photographs if you have not already seen them. I know that some people look down on Plisson, but a study of his photographs of lighthouses is instructive whether one likes him or not.

Stephane
24-Feb-2010, 15:18
r.e.
Dont know what to say...
Philip Plisson has waves, big ones. The Oslo Fjord is rather flat, similar to a lake, so it is not really comparable settings.
What about the subject? Well, there's a lighthouse, and there's the rocks. This simple combination grabbed my attention, and it is the way it was composed that made me happy (at least until I developped and printed). There was not much else to shot there, and it was the only picture taken.

r.e.
24-Feb-2010, 15:27
Philip Plisson has waves, big ones.

He is known for that because those photographs are dramatic, but he has done many photographs of lighthouses and other ocean-side buildings in fairly calm water. Have a look at The Sea Day by Day.

robertmgray
25-Feb-2010, 09:22
I like it a lot Stephane, the composition looks smooth to me. I love the high contrast, do you mind me asking what film/dev you used?

Stephane
25-Feb-2010, 10:25
rodinal 1:50
film was probably fp4, not so sure as I cannot see the notch... I'll look when I have some time.

SocalAstro
27-Feb-2010, 07:59
Hi John,

Is this image cropped a bit? I ask because I just got a Nikon 120SW and I get quite a bit of vignetting at the corners..

Cheers,
Leon



One more with a Nikon 120sw on 8x10. f64 30 sec fuji provia.

www.timeandlight.com

Chris Dunham
27-Feb-2010, 11:19
Your pulling our leg, right?


Stephane,

If I can say this, I think that it is unclear from this photograph what your subject is. If it is the lighthouse, you might have a look at Philip Plisson's photographs if you have not already seen them. I know that some people look down on Plisson, but a study of his photographs of lighthouses is instructive whether one likes him or not.

Nana Sousa Dias
5-Apr-2010, 07:10
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1149/maresias258.jpg (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/maresias258.jpg/)
Shen Hao HZX 45 IIA, Schneider SA 47XL, FP4+, CF+orange filter

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9643/maresias257.jpg (http://img525.imageshack.us/i/maresias257.jpg/)
Shen Hao HZX 45 IIA, Schneider SA 47XL, FP4+, CF+orange filter

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/1097/ri006s.jpg (http://img133.imageshack.us/i/ri006s.jpg/)
Home made 45 camera, Schneider SA 47XL, Fomapan 100, CF+orange filter

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1849/ilhas031.jpg (http://img717.imageshack.us/i/ilhas031.jpg/)
Home made 45 camera, Schneider SA 47XL, Fomapan 100, CF+orange filter

EdWorkman
5-Apr-2010, 08:09
nana-
incredible
thanks

PViapiano
5-Apr-2010, 08:33
Stephanie, Nana and Tristan...wonderful work! Hadn't looked at this thread in a long time and glad I did this morning!

rdenney
6-Apr-2010, 13:13
Nana, you really add worthiness to my idea for a thread of ultra-wide photos. Thank you for participating.

Rick "an admirer" Denney

Bob McCarthy
6-Apr-2010, 14:47
Hi John,

Is this image cropped a bit? I ask because I just got a Nikon 120SW and I get quite a bit of vignetting at the corners..

Cheers,
Leon

could be cropped, or....

you can focus out until vignetting goes away and cover with stops,

Plenty of DOF (for 8x10 anyway) to make vignetting go away.

bob

Nana Sousa Dias
6-Apr-2010, 15:05
Nana, you really add worthiness to my idea for a thread of ultra-wide photos. Thank you for participating.

Rick "an admirer" Denney

Thanks, Rick.

Nana Sousa Dias
6-Apr-2010, 15:06
nana-
incredible
thanks

Thanks, Ed.

Nana Sousa Dias
6-Apr-2010, 15:07
Stephanie, Nana and Tristan...wonderful work! Hadn't looked at this thread in a long time and glad I did this morning!

Thanks, PV.

Filmnut
6-Apr-2010, 15:08
Well folks, great work!
I've bought a 75mm, but its' still on its' way to me, so this gives me some inspiration to go out and try to make some images worth posting to here.
Keith

Laurent L
12-Feb-2014, 06:31
Yeps, so did I, I got myself a nice grandagon N 75mm to work on some projects but I still have a long way to go before daring posting one of my image in this thread... :o Til then I keep watching again and again thinking about benefits and limits of this kind of lens, I made so many mistakes during my first attempts...

Draganski
12-Aug-2015, 08:42
Is 75mm ultrawide? Here is on of my first large format shots.
Chamonix 045-N1, Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm, f45?, Ilford FP4, developed at the lab
I added a strong vignette in Lightroom
138279

StoneNYC
12-Aug-2015, 09:56
Is 75mm ultrawide? Here is on of my first large format shots.
Chamonix 045-N1, Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm, f45?, Ilford FP4, developed at the lab
I added a strong vignette in Lightroom
138279

Cool perspective.

I've noticed most of the images from the entire thread are either missing "poof" not even a broken link, or ... a broken link. :(

Also, as image size goes up, wide becomes a little tough to find... My 14x17 would need a 280mm or wider lens to qualify here according to the 1/2 diagonal rule. AFAIK the widest that covers is the 355mm G-Claron, is there another I'm unaware of that covers 14x17? The 355mm would work on 16x20 though. (Not that I own it, I have a 450mm that is my widest, for 14x17, the difference in 100mm is negligible to me and didn't seem necessary to search for a 355mm but it's more a curiosity about what lens would qualify for that format?).

Thanks!

Michael Jones
20-Aug-2015, 13:08
...is there another I'm unaware of that covers 14x17?

A 6" Hypergon with the fan will cover 16x20. Now if you could just find one and then figure out how to compress your bellows...

Mike

Maris Rusis
20-Aug-2015, 13:39
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5281/5269946859_50ec742002_b.jpg

Snow Gum View, number 9

Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens. The 121mm lens just covers 8x10 straight on and accurately centred. Even a thin rim filter screwed on the front will vignette the corners.

rdenney
20-Aug-2015, 15:52
Maris, very nice.

Rick "who loves that lens on 4x5, too" Denney

RSalles
20-Aug-2015, 17:55
Is 75mm ultrawide? Here is on of my first large format shots.
Chamonix 045-N1, Rodenstock Grandagon 75mm, f45?, Ilford FP4, developed at the lab
I added a strong vignette in Lightroom
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Hard to tell how much I like this shot. The only remark would be the leveling of the bridge pending to the left, there is so much dynamics on this image not-so-usual to see in LF shots,
congrats, great start,

Cheers,

Renato

TML74
21-Aug-2015, 01:24
Here is one of mine, I love ultra large lens, Schneider 72 SA-XL for 5x7, Nikkor 120 sw for 8x10, schneider 210 SA-XL for 12x20...
This one is with the nikkor...
Thierry M.L.138698

bRokEnVIEW
27-Aug-2015, 06:01
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5624/20647456646_f86ef1ed09_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xsxBvQ)

Shot with a Cambo Wide, 58mm XL, Kodak Portra 160

AlexGard
27-Aug-2015, 06:34
Dam? Or Tank?

Awesome shot.

StoneNYC
27-Aug-2015, 07:23
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5624/20647456646_f86ef1ed09_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xsxBvQ)

Shot with a Cambo Wide, 58mm XL, Kodak Portra 160

This is pretty awesome! Yea how did you get access to that?!!

Corran
27-Aug-2015, 07:56
Nice one. I'd also like to know what/where that is, out of curiosity.

Here's a 58mm XL landscape shot. Took forever to get the tilts/swings just right - I'm just about half a foot from the tree in the foreground.

http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/deadriver-2108.jpg

bRokEnVIEW
27-Aug-2015, 08:11
Thanks! It's the inside of an abandoned cooling tower (https://www.flickr.com/gp/brokencapslock/H54X4e). Access was easy: Just climb up the stairs :D

Old-N-Feeble
27-Aug-2015, 09:59
I like that one, Corran. I love the depth of detail and tone.

Corran
27-Aug-2015, 12:30
Thanks!

StoneNYC
30-Aug-2015, 15:36
Finally got around to developing some recent work.

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I made a YouTube video about my adventure.

https://youtu.be/C35EQeAZnGA

mdarnton
30-Aug-2015, 17:00
65mm/5.6 Super Angulon on 5x7. Didn't cover; I don't mind:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7371/14174772411_f3dec08af5_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/nAzpZM)

Adams St (https://flic.kr/p/nAzpZM)
by Michael Darnton (https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeldarnton/), on Flickr
This is the camera responsible: https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaeldarnton/13995403977/in/dateposted/

gsinico
31-Aug-2015, 11:05
http://gelatina.altervista.org/FundacioMiro'/content/images/large/Maiorca003.jpg

58 XL , Maiorca, Miro Fundacion.

StoneNYC
31-Aug-2015, 12:33
http://gelatina.altervista.org/FundacioMiro'/content/images/large/Maiorca003.jpg

58 XL , Maiorca, Miro Fundacion.

Cool perspective, chrome? Needs a CF :/

Gary Tarbert
31-Aug-2015, 16:35
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5624/20647456646_f86ef1ed09_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xsxBvQ)

Shot with a Cambo Wide, 58mm XL, Kodak Portra 160 Love this , very well seen , the composition works so very well ,

TrentM
31-Aug-2015, 16:40
Nice image, Michael D. I don't mind the image cut-off at all. It works with that picture.
I have a B&J 5x7 just sitting in a case. (And a Wisner 5x7
) Whered you get the recessed lens board. I'd love that for mine.

gsinico
1-Sep-2015, 04:16
Cool perspective, chrome? Needs a CF :/

yes, chrome, and...it needs a CF... sob!

mdarnton
1-Sep-2015, 04:57
Nice image, Michael D. I don't mind the image cut-off at all. It works with that picture.
I have a B&J 5x7 just sitting in a case. (And a Wisner 5x7
) Whered you get the recessed lens board. I'd love that for mine.

I glued the board up from pieces of model-making plywood from the art store. It's just as deep as I could make and still reach in and manipulate the lens settings.

TrentM
1-Sep-2015, 05:53
Ah ha! Thanks.

gsinico
3-Sep-2015, 12:49
Venise!