I'm wondering how he gets that great old photo effect. Very powerful indeed.

Dave

You really do the square justice, I always enjoy your images.

Alpa TC, Aptus 22

Bit of fun from today.
My rental place has lent me a Cambo wide DS to mess about with for the weekend.
unfortunately, the weather's a hazy goo today, so no chance of decent landscapes, so I've had a quick play by a new freeway construction near to me.

What a lovely camera

35mm Schneider/A65s

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& the hilariously wide (and good) 24mm Schneider

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I hope that isn't your house in between these freeways

The 24mm really looks good. It looks like it stays really sharp from center to corners. I also like the lanternpoles that remain straight on the side of the images, this you did not need to correct in post?

No post at all apart from levels.

That's what I'm most impressed with on the 24mm so far: It really is super sharp right to the edges & the verticals are superb- things start to stretch a bit horizontally obviously.
You also have to use custom gain adjuster with the 24. But the 35's straight out of the box as it were.

Great site. Have been there last week to take some night shots

This Orchid has been growing on our kitchen window and today I judged it ready to post.
P20, Hasselblad V, 100mm Planar.

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Hi Micek,
I was looking a bit on the Alpa TC as a possible camera to use with my Aptus;

I am wondering what your experience is in terms of focusing ... since digital is demanding with focus accuracy, what are your means to achieve focus?

Stopping down a lot, or laser rangefinder, tethered shooting?
And how do you rate the overall camera-based shooting experience?

Regards,
Peter

Thank's!
I was discussing today with a photographer friend of mine about the square format. He is a photojournalist. He said he could perfectly work with a squared sensor for advertising or sports because he almost always crop the pictures. In my case this is a bit difficult. I compose the picture at the moment of taking it. So if the camera I have in my hands is a squared sensor 90% of the pictures will be 1:1. But of course, I'd change this routine, if I knew the pictures will need to be cropped to 3:2 3:4.

P21+

JR

Peter,
I only shoot wide angle lenses with the TC (24, 35 and 47mm) and focusing is basically a combination of f8/f11 + "guesstimating" distance + checking on the back's screen + refocusing if necessary. It is not as complicated as it sounds and it quickly becomes second nature. I don't use a viewfinder either, the back's screen serves that function. It is -at least for me- a tripod camera that I generally use for interiors and urban landscapes. I have also successfully used it with a beanbag instead of a tripod.
As to the shooting experience, I suppose that depends on where you are coming from; the other camera I use the back on is an Alpa XY, and compared to it the TC is light and compact and a pleasure to use. I also shoot with 5x7" and 11x14" large format cameras and, again, compared to them the TC is also fast and easy to shoot with.

Thanks Frank and Dave! The texture is just something I painted, scanned and plopped over the image as another layer.

Best,

This is my first shot with a MFDB.

P20 on Sinar P2

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A few from yesterday.
Mamiya 645AFD/II with Leaf Aptus 22.
Shot mostly wide open f2.8 ISO200

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Greetings,
Frank

This is my first time posting to this thread. Shot on a p30 H2 combo.

Hassy H2 with PhaseOne P30+


Cheers
Boris

Really nice, especially the second one.

Thanks. The model´s expression really does it for me in the second one as well.

Pues a mí me encanta la primera. Es Capture One no?

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I love the first one. Capture One isn't it?

Pues, si es capture one. The shoot had two parts to it, so a little for everyone´s taste. Thanks for the feedback guys.

Here are some recent shots from me. Two band pics I made in February, two pics from my visit to Iceland recently and some shots I made on a walk around Beijing in april. All shots are made with a Hasselblad H2 with P30+ on my HC 50-110mm.

Very nice work




Here's another one from the Cambo wide DS that I was playing with this weekend (with the 24mm Schnieder).

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& back to normal - RZ/65mm/A65s

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nice shot, NBP.

Try to sell it to the "SBB"!



Thierry

Nice stuff everyone. There's something about this one that I like...

Awesome.

Alpa TC, Aptus 22, Schneider 35mm.

And a few from today, to share.

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Frank

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Don't you touch my OKI

Cool shot.

Here's a shot of my 85 year old mother in law.


Mamiya 645 AFDII
Mamiya 140mm lens
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Hopefully this director does not read in this forum!
Nice shot.



Thierry

Here's some recent photos from a project I'm working on with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The building is Renzo Piano's BCAM building. Shot with a Cambo Wide DS.

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Nice photos, Weldon.

I nearly dropped reading the the aperture on the last one!

(Exif viewer reported f91)

Is that what you shot at, or is it misreporting?
Thanks
Jon

It's because there's no data connection to his Ixpress 96 back from the lens that he was using on his Cambo Wide DS. Presumably, he was using the Flashsync cable, so the back or FlexColor defaults to f/91 and 30 seconds exposure.

Weldon, did you do stitching, or do you crop the square imaged down to a rectangle?

Jason

I'm a stitching fiend I only do 4 to 8 shots a day and putting them together in CS3 is a snap so it's not a big deal. I shift the Cambo Wide DS 10mm on either side and get a finished image that is around 6000x4000.

The exif data for the Imacon back is all wonky because it's just a flash sync cable. To be honest I never really pay attention to it.

W-

Thanks for the reply... I was wondering

Jon

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Wow Bruce. I have never seen such good skin rendition: color and detail. Was this straight out of the camera? If not how did you do PP to get this "realness"?

This is from a shoot I did when I first tried out the Mamiya 645ZD a few months ago. It was at iso100 f/11 with the Mamiya 80mm lens.

Mamiya ZD camera

@Micek.
Love the traffic light and the green
Did you shoot the same with red ?

Love humour in streetphotography.

Is this Las Palmas? It looks like the 'highway' next to the marinas and I thought I recognized one of the streets in an earlier post.

You should look at this work from London then.

http://www.mattstuart.com

Yes it is Las Palmas, not quite next to the marinas though.

@Frank: yes, I shot it in red as well, but I liked the body posture of the man walking past the billboard...

Cheers for that link, I looked at every single image in site. Very nicely observed stuff.

Thanks Ivo,

I always process using the Leaf software. I shot this with the Aptus 75 portrait 5 color profile.
I didn't do anything special in PS other than maybe a slight shift in contrast. Also it was shot with the 120 macro not a 140 like I posted by mistake.

Bruce

thanks for the link...really great stuff....

love that link

wonderful!:)