Always used to be 50mm, but now if I put one on I can walk around all day and not take anything. I'd guess 35mm is the favourite focal length. I've been enjoying the 35-70 zooms, despite dropping the Pentax-M one (I now have a Vivitar replacement which is not quite as nice). Oddly, the short version of both of these is 70mm, which I use far more than the 35mm end. Scratches head.What focal length do you use the most on your most used camera, @ChrisR? And also, if you did invest in LF, what would you aim to shoot with it subject wise?
Filter sizes are presumably another thing... apparently that Fujinon lens is 67mm (I guess that could be useful if you have digital autofocus lenses). Having older Pentax lenses it would be really nice to have 49mm or 52mm filter threads, which would let me use existing filters and the Cokin system I've got... That Thalmann article suggested there were lenses with those filter sizes, just followed a clue to a Rodenstock one and it was £1500! Is there a way to check filter sizes easily? Ffordes don't tell you anything about their lenses (except that a few are fitted to weird lens boards).
Does any one know if you could mount one of those Shen Hao 6x17 or indeed any other make of 6x17 roll film back on this machine?
Cheers
So what is this Fuji Quickload film holder @stevelmx5 is taking about?
I tend to agree, personally. 50mm on 135 does nothing for me, whereas 35mm somehow just works. As such, yes, a 120mm ish lens might suit you well. If I hadn't the money at the time, I'd not have bought my schneider 120mm and instead gone for the Fujinon 125mm CM-W. This is a tiny lens, so nice and light (265g), but also f/5.6 and 204mm of coverage (image circle, at f/22 I believe), so it has room for more than enough movements for landscapes. Kerry Thalmann rates it as well, which is very much a good sign.
So, who knew a lupe (loupe?) could easily cost more than a lens? And I'm not talking about the £1,900 fleabay stakeouts either. Most of the ones I can find are £60 upwards.
What magnification is desirable for focusing? I presume one of those that sits on a flat surface (ie the ground glass) would be better than the kind that folds up into a little case? Any pointers?
Try and find a used one, 4x ish is probably ideal. Any more and its difficult to see the image for the grain in the ground glass.
Bummer! Back for another search! (I want to take a camera out into Holyrood Park, but it's whiteout 75% of the time, looks like the best light was this morning :-( )
Yeah its pretty bad. Kids were out in the garden for an hour but no where to hide from the snow it just swirls round the leaward side of the house. We're out of nappies so I'm going to have to brave it sooner or later!
Yeah its pretty bad. Kids were out in the garden for an hour but no where to hide from the snow it just swirls round the leaward side of the house. We're out of nappies so I'm going to have to brave it sooner or later!
So, who knew a lupe (loupe?) could easily cost more than a lens? And I'm not talking about the £1,900 fleabay stakeouts either. Most of the ones I can find are £60 upwards.
What magnification is desirable for focusing? I presume one of those that sits on a flat surface (ie the ground glass) would be better than the kind that folds up into a little case? Any pointers?
Not as light as a loupe but I've been using an OM Zuiko 50/1.8 lens reversed instead :0) Does the same job and lets me get a good magnified view for focusing.
I thought I should noodle about LF lenses and stuff here rather than on Steve's Chroma build thread. I've been trying to read up about LF lenses in case I'm mad enough to back this (which I'd love to, though I have strong doubts I have the chops to actually make a decent image). Anyway, there appear to be several extra parameters, like the various different Copal shutter sizes. Steve refers to Copal 0 to Copal 3; elsewhere I saw references to Copal A and B. Confused!
There's also the image circle. Steve's pics show some fairly extreme movements, but one review site was suggesting many lenses only have a big enough image circle for very minor movements. How big an image circle should one look for, and how do you find out how big it is for any given lens?
Clearly there are some lenses available in the £100-£500 range. Then I followed some recommendations and found I was looking at lenses for £3,500! Gulp...
Out of interest Andy do you dev your own E6 or send them off to get developed?
If so how, I mean I guess you do not send the film holder and film off?
I have been watching a lot of videos on Large Format and people use colour film so always intrigued on how they get them processed.
Out of interest Andy do you dev your own E6 or send them off to get developed?
If so how, I mean I guess you do not send the film holder and film off?
I have been watching a lot of videos on Large Format and people use colour film so always intrigued on how they get them processed.
Well this is my recent addition:
A Toyo G45 monorail and a few barrel lenses. The camera is in great condition
I bought the lenses from the same seller as the camera on ebay, only one has a shutter at the moment, and that's the tiny Leonar Extra Rapide mounted on the lensboard, the others are a Kodak Anastigmat, a Bausch and Lomb Tessar for 5x7 and a Cooke Anastigmat.
Thanks to @Andysnap I'm looking into the Fujinon lenses on ebay, but they may have to wait until next payday!
Ooo, is this 'show off your LF pr0n' time?
@Nomad Z would it work to buy square coloured filters to go with your Grads?