[HUG ] Re: A16 back
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:35:31 -0400
I shoot super negatives with my A16s's. Not super slides. Yet.
The millennium is still young.
S as in plural.
2!
I have a 16s back and an A16s back
I'd hate to make an S outa myself but....
Both I got a few years apart around the turn of the millennium.
Both for around 100 bucks each.
Ah! the joys of 4x4 let me count thee where do I begin?!?!?
16 on a roll instead of 12.
That's enough to change the way you see things;
And do things.... Walk up to things.
4x4 with an compact lightweight 80 2.8 planar;
Or a 100 f3.5 CFi Planar T*
Gives you what?
Grabbing power that's what.
Some reach.
As in with the use of a short tele.
But without the bulk and length protruding out at the world.
And a little Leica like frame thing to look around in your viewfinder;
Which gets you composing for ground figurer instead of figure ground;
Kind of a process of elimination.
I have a fiber based darkroom printed 16x20" print I made on one outing with
an x model of mine full frame black border.
Much easier to print than 6x6 which gives you two millimeters of film to
grab with your negative carrier.
The little arrow things on the black border are bigger.
Tipping you to the fact that its 4x4 instead of 6x6.
Otherwise you'd certainly not know it.
Tab grain films give you overkill easy in no time.
400 films are over kill as far as I can tell.
But I am getting a deja Vue explaining the joys of something which someone
is saying is only good for spare parts.
But I should do what is good for me. Everyone being so open minded and all.
mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mark William Rabiner
> From: Wilko Bulte <wb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:24:45 +0200
> To: "hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [HUG ] Re: A16 back
>
> Quoting Q.G. de Bakker, who wrote on Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:19:38PM +0200 ..
>> flexbody wrote:
>>
>>> You find A16S backs useful?
>>> Excellent make the most of it.
>>> What I object to is somebody telling me what I should do.
>>
>> You mean like telling us A16S backs make good A16 backs or sources for spare
>> parts, because, after all, if we want to make trannies, we shouldn't make
>> Mickey Mouse format 4x4s.
>>
>>> If Q and you want to save all A16S backs be my guest,
>>
>> Nice of you to allow us to do so.
>>
>>> as long as you do not tell me what I should do with mine.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I will refrase that then: it's rather silly to treat A16s as spare parts
>> donors or as possible A16 backs.
>
> I understand you find this silly. The only thing I do not understand why
> you find this silly. Is it because you want to preserve the A16S for
> posterity/historical reasons, or do you want them to continue shooting
> superslides?
>
> Wilko
>
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