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I got an Angulon 90mm f/6.8 to use on my Travelwide, whenever it gets here. This thing is tiny. I already have a Nikkor-SW 90mm f/8 but it's huge in comparison.
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Do I just suck with split prism? I seem to have more misses in focus with split prism on my Mamiya than the fuzzy focus thing that is on my Blad. I make sure the split line isn't broken, I even wiggle the camera a bit to make sure the split is true and I'm off really bad sometimes. Whats everyone's focusing screen of choice?
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Do I just suck with split prism? I seem to have more misses in focus with split prism on my Mamiya than the fuzzy focus thing that is on my Blad. I make sure the split line isn't broken, I even wiggle the camera a bit to make sure the split is true and I'm off really bad sometimes. Whats everyone's focusing screen of choice? Is it consistently off in the same direction and by the same amount? Maybe your screen was installed incorrectly or it's out of calibration and needs to be shimmed or something.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Do I just suck with split prism? I seem to have more misses in focus with split prism on my Mamiya than the fuzzy focus thing that is on my Blad. I make sure the split line isn't broken, I even wiggle the camera a bit to make sure the split is true and I'm off really bad sometimes. Whats everyone's focusing screen of choice? I use the split prism in my Hassy and it helps me to nail focus all the time. Is there a possibility that your screen or lens is not calibrated to the body?
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The focus screen on my Bronica was sitting just up a little due to the clasps not fully securing the screen, screwed up a number of rolls before I figured it out.
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Just wanted to weigh in with iPhone Lightmeter App. I've been running around with it for a while and an 18% GC. I also take my DSLR for more precise metering, and so far every iPhone reading is at least 1/3 stop over. Genrally it's about 1/2 to 1 stop over. It may be that my iPhone camera is faulty but I dunno. I don't trust it much now, or if I use it I just stop down another 1/2-1/3 e: maybe I should just buy a decent meter already
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Sludge Tank posted:Just wanted to weigh in with iPhone Lightmeter App. I've been running around with it for a while and an 18% GC. I also take my DSLR for more precise metering, and so far every iPhone reading is at least 1/3 stop over. Genrally it's about 1/2 to 1 stop over. It may be that my iPhone camera is faulty but I dunno. I don't trust it much now, or if I use it I just stop down another 1/2-1/3 You can probably get away with your iPhone meter if you're shooting negatives, but it's risky if you're shooting slides, especially if you're metering over. Or just buy a proper meter already!
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Get in the habit of using sunny 16/reciprocity in your head and using a meter as confirmation. It'll make dialing in your exposure settings quite a bit faster if you're already in the right ballpark. I've been trying my hand at street photography lately and even with a metered camera, I'm finding that the only thing I can really rely on is scale focusing and precalculated exposure settings, there just isn't time to do that stuff when you go to take most shots.
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If you can get a meter app that uses "spot metering", where you select on the phone the point your interested in, I've found it to be pretty accurate. But if I'm most concerned about it, I use my cheap little L-208 Sekonic meter by getting readings at the darkest and brightest areas of the scene and working it out from there, worked well when I only shot slides in Iceland.
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Sorry that you folks aren't baller enough to have real spot meters, IN MOTHERFUCKING QUICKDRAW HOLSTERS. 
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8th-snype posted:Sorry that you folks aren't baller enough to have real spot meters, IN MOTHERFUCKING QUICKDRAW HOLSTERS.
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It's pretty handy not to have to dig into my bag to meter or worry about it falling out of my pocket while carrying my stuff in the field (my last spotmeter died from blunt force trauma due to a fall from hoodie pocket). I bought it because I thought it was  but ended actually using it more often than not.
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In Russia camera shoot YOU!   But my favourite is this little fella, 4x5 BANG: 
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Spedman posted:In Russia camera shoot YOU! Look at how cool Konica used to be.  http://www.kehblog.com/2010/09/machine-gun-camera.html
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That is one kick-rear end winder on the side, kind of like modified film tommy-gun. I just can't get over the stupidity of the 4x5 gun, and it looks like a plate shooting camera too.
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aliencowboy posted:Get in the habit of using sunny 16/reciprocity in your head and using a meter as confirmation. It'll make dialing in your exposure settings quite a bit faster if you're already in the right ballpark. I've been trying my hand at street photography lately and even with a metered camera, I'm finding that the only thing I can really rely on is scale focusing and precalculated exposure settings, there just isn't time to do that stuff when you go to take most shots. Yeah I have "sunny 16" in my head but I have a brain like a hunk of swiss cheese so when lighting conditions get a little hairier I don't trust my memory because it has never served me well in that respect. I have a little book in my camera bag with it written down as well as reciprocity failure for all the film I'm using. Talked to a guy who makes great MF photos mostly on TMAX, PORTRA, EKTAR and he says he never takes reciprocity failure into consideration and never does LE's over 3 minutes. I know portra is pretty good up to 25 seconds or something.
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 The de Young Museum, San Franciso by JaundiceDave, on Flickr
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Does anyone use a mechanical self timer on their medium format stuff? I bought a Kopil self timer but it doesn't extend far enough to fire the shutter on my Hassey and am wondering if anyone has a recommendation.
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pootiebigwang posted:Does anyone use a mechanical self timer on their medium format stuff? I bought a Kopil self timer but it doesn't extend far enough to fire the shutter on my Hassey and am wondering if anyone has a recommendation. IIRC you can adjust the Kopil by loosening the knurled tapered part and pulling on the shaft (that's what she said  )
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Yeah I have a couple of cheapo, mechanical self timers, and even the cheapest one (forgot the brand name - Hansa I think?) that sounds like it's full of choking angry bees has a part that you can unscrew or screw in tighter to adjust the length of the shaft. So yeah what MrBlandAverage said. Be sure that you don't extend the shaft too much, the timers don't seem to like it. I had one where, like you, I didn't know of this adjustment and just used it as-is and now it obsessionally misfires. I guess something got jammed up by the shaft not being able to extend fully and the gears going *crunch*.
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So guys, this is a thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/96793993/hasselnuts-hasselblad-camera-iphone-digitalback-ki Use your iphone as a digital back for you hasselblad.  
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Amazing! Turn your Hassy into a $1k+ iPhone camera filter!
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Santa is strapped posted:So guys, this is a thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/96793993/hasselnuts-hasselblad-camera-iphone-digitalback-ki Anyone who buys one of these should be shot
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I mean, it sounds like a cool project, to gently caress around with in your lab or whatever. But to sell it as a product? That's pushing the limits of what useless or ridiculous things people would buy.
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Jesus Christ
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Thanks for the heads up, got in on the early bird special and ordering an iPhone and Hassy as we speak. Finally the quality of medium format without the expense and hassle (excuse the pun) of film.
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Santa is strapped posted:I mean, it sounds like a cool project, to gently caress around with in your lab or whatever. But to sell it as a product? That's pushing the limits of what useless or ridiculous things people would buy. It's not even a cool project in the abstract. The whole point of MF is to have a bigger sensor size, which incurs heavy penalties in weight, size and expense. You then stick that on a cell phone sensor, which are the smallest, cheapest, shittiest sensors money can buy. The comment about "a $1000 instagram filter" is exactly right. That's precisely what this is. At best it's an extremely expensive way to get a 80mm f/2.8 lens onto your cellphone, when you could just buy a CCTV lens and figure out some kind of magnet mount. Anyone who thinks it's a cool project feel free to send me half of the $975 I saved you, thanks in advance. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Sep 9, 2013 |
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That's true, look at this:quote:Image Size: Up to 8 mega pixels. Awesome! Welcome to 2003 boys and girls!
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SMH if you've never stuck medium format glass onto tiny sensors. Start living people!
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quote:Those digital backs usually come with very large amounts of pixel. However in reality, that many pixels are not required for the regular usage of digital photography. Well, I'm sold.
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I am beyond mad and am simply refusing to believe that exists.
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Reichstag posted:I am beyond mad and am simply refusing to believe that exists. Probably works better than Portra.
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Would be free if you just use a iPhone to take a photo of the focusing screen though.
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What are the bad things that are supposed to happen when you forget to reverse a camera's pressure plate to take 220 instead of 120 film? I did this and everything came out hunky dory.
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The plate is there to compensate for the different thicknesses of the film (since 120 has a paper backing, 220 doesn't). So all you're pictures are probably slightly out of focus as a result, but it's not a giant difference, so if you aren't shooting wide open you might not notice.
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Santa is strapped posted:So guys, this is a thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/96793993/hasselnuts-hasselblad-camera-iphone-digitalback-ki More like Hasselbad, am I right?!? LOL!!!!
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MrBlandAverage posted:LOL!!!!
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I was recently given a super old camera. The inside of the back cover says this is the camera Ansco V.P. Speedex No. 3 http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ansco/ansco_speedex_3_3a/ansco_speedex_3_3a.htm I cannot find much other information on it at all. I believe I am missing the shutter release cord. Does anyone know anything about this camera or a similar model? Is it worth trying to use? More images here: http://imgur.com/a/aNxOS FACKER fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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FACKER posted:I was recently given a super old camera. The inside of the back cover says this is the camera Ansco V.P. Speedex No. 3 http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ansco/ansco_speedex_3_3a/ansco_speedex_3_3a.htm I cannot find much other information on it at all. I believe I am missing the shutter release cord. Does anyone know anything about this camera or a similar model? Is it worth trying to use? It takes 120 film (Kodak medium format) according to this list: http://www.vintagephoto.tv/anscofilmtable.shtml The lens says 'Anastigmat' making it a triplet, as triplets where the first lenses to allow for correction of all seidel abberations. That said; the lens looks uncoated, extremely fogged and the general state of the camera isn't much better, either. The bellows is bound to have more holes than a sieve. You can use either a special lacquer or some sort of black tape to go and try to fix it. It might be very dry and will need to be given a careful treatment with the proper leather-treating stuff, otherwise it is possible that it'll crumble in your hand. That said folders can be fun, and the only way you're ever going to pocket a 6x9 or similarly large format camera. Don't underestimate triplets either, I have a triplet TLR -- and when stopped down to, what I guess is f/6.3 it's neigh indistinguishable from it's Tessar equipped brethren. VomitOnLino fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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From what my naked, untrained eye can tell, it looks like the only light leak is through the lens itself. Not to mention the lens is pretty cloudy and very speckled (probably mold?). Also the lens is very hard to move along the rail, making focusing pretty difficult. Seems like its better suited as a decoration for now.
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