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I was looking at long lens options for medium format and I kept circling back around to the Meyer-Optik Görlitz Orestegor 500mm f/5.6 because I already have a 300mm lens for P6 mount and I wanted to try some super-tele experiments. It's not super rare, but there aren't a lot in good condition these days and they go for more money than I was prepared to spend on a lens I'd maybe use two or three times a year. Then I saw an eBay listing from a German dealer without a Buy it Now price so I dropped a hilariously low bid on it and, to my surprise I got it at about a fifth of the prices that I was seeing on other auctions. It arrived last week and it's a beast. The barrel (which is huge) is all metal. The elements are both huge and heavy - the front element is a 118mm diameter chunk of glass. The thing weighs about 4kg before you attach it to a camera. This is not a lens for birding unless the bird is unusually still and patient. This is not a lens for action shooting unles you are very, very strong. This is a lens for putting on a tripod and seeing things a long way away. I have no filters that will go on that thing and I don't know of any manufacturers that make 118mm filters as standard. Even my 100mm square drop-in filters are too small for this beast. Here it is on my 6x6 Arax 88 with a 2x teleconverter between the camera and the lens for 1000mm goodness.   To put the size in perspective, here it is with some other lenses. L-R Orestegor 500mm, my previous hugest lens, a Tair-33 300mm, and the standard 80mm lens that usually sits on my Arax.  And here it is with a Canon 70-200mm lens and the case for the thing in the background.  Best of all, that knurled ring around the lens mount is a collar that lets you switch out the standard Pentacon 6 lens mount for a different one. I have a separate cone adapter for Exakta mount, so I can fit that thing to my 35mm Exakta VX1000 and try some tripod-assisted wildlife photography with it.
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VSOKUL girl posted:lens durability test results! Do the Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 next!
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digitalist posted:Looks like the Capture One Pro licenses are changing, I know it changes based on where you live but the Adobe Photography plan which includes all versions of Lr and Ps, as well as some cloud storage is £10/mo (so I guess ~ $12US/$15CAD/$∞AUS). 
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Mate, I am both a big DIYer and an even more massive cheapskate [ASK]me about spending several afternoons cutting and cleaning grungy glass plates from an ancient hothouse for shooting ambrotypes and even I don't make my own silver nitrate. Just buy it from a wet plate supplier. I had similar issues when trying to source ammonium iron(III) oxalate to make cyanotype sensitiser. No-one would sell me any in quantities smaller than 500kg. Eventually I got someone at a Chinese chemical factory on Alibaba to sell me 1kg as a sample and it came mislabelled so that customs wouldn't impound it. None of the materials data sheets, nothing. Just an unlabelled plastic bottle full of green crystals.
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I looked into whether I could boil it down into a more concentrated volume and travel with it as a liquid in a checked bag, but nope.
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Clayton Bigsby posted:Wait what? Sal Cincotta, a Las Vegas-based wedding photographer and owner of the company that runs the Shutterfest photo contest, won several categories at Shutterfest. https://petapixel.com/2017/04/28/photo-contest-owner-won-contest-pitchforks-came/
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