[rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...

  • From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:04:24 -0400

I gave Jim a Rodenstock copy camera lens awhile back to use on that monster.
I think it was a 480mm but I don't think it worked out too well.  Jim does
nice work though and has cobbled up some nifty cameras - I like the
fisheyes.

Rob   

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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...

You guys are thinking small... shoot as my friend Jim Hemenway does...
an 11 x 14 Korona


Eric Goldstein

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On 3/26/08, Dennis Purdy <dlp4777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Long as we are lusting for 4x5s my dreams would include this:
>
>  http://www.littman45single.com/02cm/models.html
>
>
>  What a strange life for coincidences.  Lately I have been wanting to
>  get the 4x5 going especially for a particular project and yesterday
>  took 3 sticky shutters in for CLA.  Came home to find the list consumed
>  with 4x5 talk and a rare call for a 4x5 studio job.
>
>  It occurred to me as I have been thinking of creating large multiple
>  image panoramas with the Rollei and Pano attachment for printing in
>  platinum that I could set my front standard on the 4x5 so the lens was
>  centered over the tripod connection and I could do the focusing with
>  the rear and then if the tripod and camera were level it could be used
>  for panorama just like the rollei attachment only with front rise.
>  Dennis
>
>
>  On Mar 26, 2008, at 00:05, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>  >> bingo, mark - you hit the nail on the head there.  we teach best of
>  >> both worlds and have students scan large format bw and color negs,
>  >> and transparencies to work on in photoshop and print digitally.
>  >>
>  >>  i'm in awe of you shooting model/hair period but especially in 4x5!
>  >>  i wimp out having preferred products or architecture that holds
>  >> still and doesnt have an attitude generally!
>  >>
>  >>  Bob Laubach
>  >>  Northern Virginia Community College
>  >>  Photo Dept
>  >
>  >
>  >  I shot the models with the Hasselblad.
>  >  The bottles with the Cambo.
>  >
>  >  Mark William Rabiner
>  >  markrabiner.com
>  >
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