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Re: [OM] Really wide medium format

Subject: Re: [OM] Really wide medium format
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:08:28 -0500
Thanks for the info and the link. Mighty impressive stuff.

Chuck Norcutt


Brian Swale wrote:
> To answer one of Chuck's questions; use of the  viewfinder provided with 
> the Obsession 617 involves some guesswork and some practice. In the few 
> rolls of film I have put through it so far, I have made some mistakes. 
> However, I also got some OK.
> 
> Re centre filter. My wide-angle MF format "hero" is Andris Apse.
> http://www.andrisapse.com/
> I happen to own a copy of nearly every book he printed, and I just won on 
> auction a set (actually 3 sets; no choice it was 3 or none) of 15 of his 
> prints 
> on good art paper??  about 680mm x 400 something. Maybe I could digitally 
> photograph a few and show what results he gets. I know he has several 
> Linhof Technoramas of diverse flavours. They will have Schneider lenses 
> with centre filters.
> 
> Using transparency film, his images are bright, with clean colours, and 
> sharp. No light fall-off.
> I do have a video of him working that came out on local TV, and I know he 
> now uses PS to make minor amendments to his images.
> 
> I guess I could also photograph some of his book images. His most recent 
> book costs about $4,000 (NZ) per copy. The last one I bought cost me $150 
> NZ, and the images are wonderful.
> This book and others are available online from Craig Potton Publishing. 
> Craig also is no slouch with a camera, and for years he used the Asahi 
> Pentax 120 MF SLR that looks like a giant 35mm SLR.
> 
> Oh well, this digest is a small one and at 2.30 am I can now go back to bed, 
> having had my photography chatter satisfied.
> Nathan's Seville senoritas are great. The reference to questionable cameras 
> on display leaves me a bit puzzled, Nathan.
> 
> Sometimes when I see all the people shots on the forums I frequent ( 
> including the Cosina-voigtlander usergroup) I am tempted to shoot people 
> as well as landscapes. Pun noted. Not many peeps here where I am though. 
> Landscapes don't move as much but the waiting to get a good composition 
> may be as long a duration.
> 
> Brian Swale. 
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