No worries, thanks for looking! Yep, I need to get up there again and to Toroweep. Plus a million other places before I go horizontal permanently.
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I'm liking the look of the Ektar shots I've seen so far. Would anyone like to comment on how it compares (positive/negative) to Velvia? I used Kodachrome for years until Kodak killed it in 120, and discovered Velvia 50 and moved to that (except for portraiture), and after spending almost 10 years doing B&W have lately started shooting Velvia 100. It isn't quite the same as the 50, but seems ok so far.
I like Ektar, but it is also seems to have a "harder" look to it on colors compared to Portra 160. Portra provides a "soft" color palette that works really well with things like sunrise/sunset where there is a pastel type of coloring. I haven't compared it to Provia or Velvia yet, but typically the shots I have done with slide film seem to have a much "wetter" look and to be very saturated. With scenes like this and sunrise/sunset, even with grad nd filters, it would be hard to capture the full range of the scene. Not that it can't be done, I just haven't had enough practice with slide film.
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Toyo 45A - Nikkor 210mm/5.6 - Kodak Ektar
It depends in how you use a LF camera.
First a LF shot may have optical 600Mpix equivalent, allowing for insane enlargements.
Second, Scheimflug is an integral resource in LF cameras, allowing for impressive things.
Of course one also may use a view camera like if it was an smartphone, and obtaining a similar result, but this is only a particular case.