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Spot the magpie.
Had to click through to Flickr but I did it!
Spot the magpie.
Very nice, did you use Cole's Law?
I'm toying with the idea of a 5x4 camera at some point (although not yet), but don't fancy having to upgrade my flatbed at the same time!
Huhmm, I may be able to help you with that.....;-)
Keep a weather eye on the classified section. Sometime soon a magical thing will appear.
It is 4x5, I cropped the top off because it was just black and I liked the uncomfortably tight crop at the top.Is this a 5x4 shot Chris, or do you have a 6x9 back on the camera? If the former, I'd be curious as to your scanning method on your V550. I know you've mentioned scanning in two halves and then stitching the results?
I'm toying with the idea of a 5x4 camera at some point (although not yet), but don't fancy having to upgrade my flatbed at the same time!
It is 4x5, I cropped the top off because it was just black and I liked the uncomfortably tight crop at the top.
For scanning I do use the V550, scan in two halves (actually more like 2/3 each way) and then use Panorama Merge in Lightroom, I guess any other panorama merge software would work. The main thing is don't change the scanner settings between the two scans and obviously the panorama merge is only going to work if the two scans are rotated correctly so that the overlapping edge is to the right on the left hand image and to the left on the right hand image.
In terms of positioning I used to just place the 120 negative holder on the scanner glass and then slide the 4x5 neg underneath until the edge of the neg was against the edge of the opening in the 120 holder. This worked OK but I was a bit concerned about scratching the negative so I now have a piece of 2mm picture glass with some PVC electrical tape on the back to hold it slightly off the scanner glass to avoid scratching and Newton's rings and on the top I have more tape to align the negative. You also need a small square of masking tape on the top left corner of the glass because the scanner uses this to detect if a film holder is in place, that took a bit of head scratching to work out.
He is a character with an incredibly strong Sospelois accent that at times is incomprehensible.
Do you think a crop or longer lens would be better as the window and road are of no importance
agreed that ideally a longer lens for portrait is better but with the Snapshot camera I have a 90mm permanently fitted( possible to change and mount other focal lengths), but I chose 90 mainly to allow a decent dof at f/11or f16whilst attempting to maintain a shutter speed of 1/100 minimum due to being handheld shooting.
Even pushing film to 1600, with failing light , it’s no easy task to get the shutter speed so a longer lens will just increase that problem.
In any case, the building and the road kinda place him in location..... chez lui!
Bronica ETRSi
Zenzanon 50mm f/2.8 MC
Ilford HP5+ (@1600)
Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 13mins @ 20°
Foggy Rother by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr
Perfection!