Hi,
How are you guys doing? I hope doing very well : )!!!
I have used more a 75mm. lens. than another longer lens that
I also use sometimes. The other lens is a 135mm. lens
The 75mm. - I should perhaps be a bit embarrassed to say - is shot like a
point and shoot camera. I mean, I frame for and focus usually at a
distance of at least eighteen feet, and onwards, just depending on
what is photographed. (That is some six meters and onwards, and I
rarely frame or focus any shorter). My diafragm is set between f/11
and f/32, but recalling, I usually use it at f/16. Shutter speed is of 1/60tth
of a second or slower, depending on light conditions.
The 135mm., when used, is also used with the same characteristics as above,
more or less.
It is done in a way that both focal lenghts and the camera are used,
as I mentioned, almost like a point and shoot camera.
My negatives have come out ok. after developing. With more practice,
they can be better, I think, but are ok for the most part.
Being the photos framed and focused under the circumstances commented
above, the compensation needed, as you can see, is not much. I mean,
compared to wanting to shoot a 210mm. or 240mm. lens focused at
nine feet, (or some three meters), the compensation needed would be greater
for those longer focal lengths.
I like the way John A. Cook explains and uses the 'bellows extension factor'
method, here explained, (please scroll down once you have entered the link,
and please look for his name):
https://www.largeformatphotography.i...ws-factor.html
The thing that for me stills feels a bit awkward is the fact that if I want to photograph
any longer focal length focused at shorter distances like three, six, or nine feet,
it can not yet be that easily done for me, like a point and shoot. Unless one uses
a flexometer or meausuring tape, one can not know how much to compensate.
It takes time and it can be boring part of the process. How did you get the hang of it?
It's ok if there are no 'shortcuts' to it. It is perhaps the 'inertia' down in me that kind of
comes back to me, and wants to inhabit me, and wants it to be easy-peasy in this sense,
like 35mm. and medium format where these steps are (almost) inexistent.
Thank you in advance, very kind regards!
Ig : )!!!
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