[pure-silver] Aging Eyes and Weighty Cameras
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:43:49 +0900
Dear Chris and all others in the audience,
I have been chastised around here for being a photographic dinosaur - a
criticism I treat with disdain, merely lashing the offender with my massive
armoured tail and stomping off into the underbrush. I reinforced my
prejudices this evening by spending three hours in the darkroom printing
photos from a September holiday. Settled on whole plate size from 35mm
negatives as the best compromise of size and grain.
The camera selected for the holiday was a Voigtlander R3A - one lens and
a pocket full of Porta 160VC. Film chosen because I had the paid-for
leftovers of several weddings - camera chosen to see if the Nokton lens was
up to paid work. In a word - yes.
In the quest for detailed large negs I use HB 6x6 cameras and studio
Linhofs. Wedding work on Nikon F3. All fine gear and the negs all one could
desire, but the weight of a full HB wedding coverage....even with my servant
Igor hauling the caisson and entrenching tools, it has been a real saga. Of
late, the old eyes do not focus as well on a screen as they did....
I think I shall shift to the Voigtlander system in the field. Bodies are
cheap, I have the 21,40, and 75 lenses, and synch is up to 1/125th. I shall
not have to take a baseplate off to reload the camera in the middle of a
ceremony, and I will have a magazine of 36 shots instead of 12.
Studio will still be the big guns, but there I have a stand to do the
hefting and the distance between the camera and the model can be fixed by
stapling the model to the floor.
Now - put the sabre-tooth tiger out for the night and off to bed in the
swamp.
Uncle Dickosaurus
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