Orchid with Hasselblad H1 & Imacon Ixpress 528C

[EdBray]

Received my first extension tube for my H1 outfit this morning a 26mm (I also have a 52mm on the way) so I tried it with my wife's Orchids. As I can only use the 'microshot mode' (16x images combined) with an HC lens I took the opportunity to use that too.

Details are Studio flash hrough a softbox to the right of the Orchids with a small reflector to the left. Camera set to f23 @ 1/250 x16 combined automatically in Hasselblad's Flexcolor.

The original file size was 533MB and 10880 x 8160 which at 72dpi would have given an image 151" x 113".



If you want to see the original sized image try here, but I think you may have to actually download it.

100% crop for those of you who don't want to download the Original sized version.



And a 100% crop from the standard single shot mode (63MB file)

 

[Laudrup]

Just downloaded it, impressive detail, and 10880x8160 is crazy. You must have a hard drive the size of a suitcase. Did you upgrade your PC to deal with it all? On a related note I looked through your flickr and really like the blood thicker than water shot.

 

[EdBray]

Just downloaded it, impressive detail, and 10880x8160 is crazy. You must have a hard drive the size of a suitcase. Did you upgrade your PC to deal with it all? On a related note I looked through your flickr and really like the blood thicker than water shot.

Have not upgraded my PC yet but that is definitely on my to do list. Have a couple of external 1TB drives. The big difference is the 16 bit images and the greater dynamic range.

Thanks for your comment about the Blood is thicker than water image, it was taken for a challange on this forum to produce an image based around a proverb.