Wanderlust 4x5 P&S

[Corran]

Use bounce flash if you can. Read this recent thread - same techniques apply:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...low-DOF-Advice

[sperdynamite]

Use bounce flash if you can. Read this recent thread - same techniques apply:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...low-DOF-Advice

Yeah, I mean those techniques are more about the images looking nice in the modern way. I want my images to look like Weegee (with an absolute minimum of murder, if possible). :-)

[Corran]

Ah yeah flashbulbs had a much higher output than your average flashgun. Not sure about the contrast, maybe it was the (lack of) directionality?

[HMG]

Ah yeah flashbulbs had a much higher output than your average flashgun. Not sure about the contrast, maybe it was the (lack of) directionality?

Certainly a possibility; they have a much larger reflector. I wonder if the flashes like the Qflash or Sunpak 120 would be somewhat similar. And, of course, you have to consider the press lenses of the era.

[Tim Meisburger]

Weegee! f/8 and be there!

The Travelwide would be wonderful for Weegee-style stuff, but you need them honkin big flashbulbs.

[Kevin Crisp]

Put a Honeywell Tilt-O-Mite on one of those flash shoes and you're all set for bulbs.

[Corran]

Put a Honeywell Tilt-O-Mite on one of those flash shoes and you're all set for bulbs.

Sweet, now I'm curious.

There's a junk shop down in Tallahassee where I saw about 50 flashbulbs for like $10. Maybe they're still there...

[sperdynamite]

Haha! that thing looks so cool. Not sure I would want to rely on finding old flash bulbs. Maybe I'll look into a 120J. Though those things are HUGE.

As for the age of the lens, I shoot with a Nikon SB-22s on a Rollei 2.8E and I still get really high contrast so I don't think the lens helps that much to reduce contrast. Not sure what it was but they just seem so much softer...

[letchhausen]

Only made the comments based on historic (perhaps prehistoric) precedent set by PNW and West Coast perceptions. Glad to hear NY is cleaning up their act at last.

They cleaned up their act over 20 years ago. But personally I waaaay prefer 42nd Street of 1986 to the Disneyland that it is now. Actually I prefer the city as a whole of those days of yore....

[plywood]

Yeah, people expect Amazon level service from two guys in Chicago who've had the gumption to design a whole new camera and sell it at a fair price on KS. We've all found the delays unfortunate but people could be a lil more supportive rather than complaining about theoretical problems they haven't encountered. Getting into a KS means you're going on a journey with the founders and you may not end up with a camera in your hands, lucky for us, we finally get our Travelwides!!!

Not at all. But on July 3rd in the KS main comments section Ben was asked if shipping would be delayed until after the pick party. Ben answered the same day and said 'no, there would be no delay', Those were Ben's own words so of course, since by then all the parts were on hand I figured he had a plan already as to shipping. Now in more recent comments related to the last up date he says the pick up party will happen before the rest of the cameras go out. So you see there is some confusion going on here. Because of my neighborhood I'd really like to know when it's coming because I have to be home. A package left at the door is a invitation to theft around here. As usual, throughout this long delayed project no one is asking Ben and Justin for the moon, just a little concrete information.