Recent content by adrianlambert

There are more efficient ways to arrange the drives which will save money but for me after buying a high spec synology nas which implied a long life ahead of it I found it to be limited. Currently it’s in a cupboard after being retired a few years back in favour of a simple external Hd system...

I used to use tapes in duplicate and a local online copy. Cost a fortune and was a pain. Now buy 2x cheap hard drives and duplicate my archive but also make lossy DNG files at full size which end up about the size of a jpeg and upload to backblaze. So I end up with offsite onsite and online...

Wondering if anyone could recommend a laser printer with good colour accuracy and no banding. Doesn’t have to be perfect but if it matches digital presses or close too I’m interested. Found some positive talk about Konica Minolta machines from the late naughtys. Anything else that’s recently...

I’ve been using Hahnemühle Photo Silk Baryta recently in my Epson 3880. I’m very happy with the look of it but am losing an unacceptable percentage of my prints to damage. It seems the surface is quite soft and prone to scuffing even from a light touch in a cotton glove. So I’d like to test...

Thanks. That’s an interesting option. Has anyone else done this? I wonder if the IQ is a good fit for the 5Ds.

That’s how the whole shebang works though isn’t it. I’m surprised that for years Nikon only had a 35mm TS and canon had the 24 45 and 90. 35 seems like such a sweet spot for a TS lens if you want to keep distortion down. In the 90s that wasn’t a big issue for architects but these days they want...

So nothing that can match the quality of the Pentax 645 (or other MF lenses) via a TS adapter. Be nice if an adapter could report the f stop and tilt/shift amounts so that correction in C1 was straightforward. Mirex, fotodiox, and Hartblei are you listening? BTW Fotodiox you need to at least try...

The 45 TS-E isn’t recommended with the 5ds. Quality reasons I’m guessing. I used it for years with the Eos 1ds through to the 5diii and found it fine with some extra sharpening. If I had one I could try on the 5ds I’d def give it a go but I don’t know anyone nearby with one that I could scrounge.

Tried that too. There’s about a 2fs range where the quality is acceptable and its still not great. My Pentax 645 option gives a much better result.

I didn’t think they were sold at the same time.

Just looked up samyang and it’s a 24mm ts. I should have mentioned I have canon 24mm and 17mm TS-E lenses already. It’s the 35mm FL that I’m missing.

Thanks but I’ve not seen anything to compel me to try a Samsung lens bar the price which is just not reason enough. My research on Pentax lenses showed them to be tack sharp when stopped down a little which I’ve found to be true. Does the samyang report f stops etc to the image metadata? That...

Btw some of the Pentax lenses are affordable and very sharp although the distortions are a bit of a pain to correct due to the shift in post.

Modded for EOS? I need something that’ll match with the EOS 5Ds for pro use. Currently using Pentax 645 35mm on an adapter but it’s a slow process and the hounds are constantly snapping at my heels.

As it says in the title!