Camera and Coffee

Honu-Hugger said:
Front and center is a Tenax II with 40/2.8 Tessar, to the right with finder is a 27/4.5 Orthometar, remaining two are 40/2 Sonnar. These will soon be lost in the abyss known as Henry Scherer's waiting list :D. The cup honors New Orleans...my thoughts and prayers remain with the citizens.
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that's one good-looking group, D2!
 
A somewhat different take on the subject...

Dang, only after it was done, I realized that there's no coffee in the shot :(

Anyway, I just wanted to share my first foray into 4x5 format :)
Given that it was the first time ever I loaded a film holder, the first time I developed a 4x5 neg (in a JOBO processor, without the appropriate reel for 4x5 negs!), I think the banal and somewhat poorly scanned shot can be excused ;)

BTW, those 4x5 negs are really something! The sheer size of it..... :eek:

Denis
 
Wait until you make some real prints.......or better yet, contact prints. The tonality is just heavenly and the detail keeps going and going and going. If only they made them fit inside a leica m.....Come to think of it, I think the negative itself is actually taller than the entire leica m body! By the way, what type of 4x5 are you using? A monorail camera or a field type? One of the great things about LF is the complete freedom you get with unlimited camera movements. I am still trying to figure out exactly how they all work though...I have been away so much that I have not had as much time as I would like with the camera.
 
StuartR said:
Come to think of it, I think the negative itself is actually taller than the entire leica m body! By the way, what type of 4x5 are you using? A monorail camera or a field type?
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Stuart, you're right - the negative is taller than a Leica M :)

I have a Pacemaker Speed Graphic with Ektar 127/4.7.
Ektar seems to be in a nice shape, and I like the fact that even at 4.7, you can still get some pretty narrow DOF.... - for a moderate "wide angle" in 4x5 format. I think that a "normal" lens for 4x5 would be something like 150mm, if I'm not mistaken. So, this lens gives a perspective similar to e.g. Yashinon 40 on a Yashica Electro.

Camera movements are limited when compared to a "real" monorail, but even those will do quite fine for starters.
Next, I'll be doing some "vintage" stuff with a couple of old brass barrel lenses - the Ektar is way too sharp :)

Here's the other shot I got... Notice the bokeh ;)

Denis
 
On 4x5 a 127mm lens is equivalent to a 36mm lens on 35mm. A 150mm is equivalent to 42mm. This is per the Angle of View spreadsheet at South Bristol Views. Scroll down the navigation bar to "LF Lens Equivalents". It's a frames site. Big negs are pretty breathtaking.
 
This is one of my favorite threads. Here is my contribution to the thread, an electro GS. Picked it up from ebay for cheap and now I have to do the POD thing.
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It's here!!!

It's here!!!

Just picked up the M2 about 90 minutes ago... Gonna do some test-shooting with it tonight at the concert of 'Les Hommes Sauvages'.

Next to it is my Rolleiflex 3.5C


Roman
 
Very nice looking M2, Roman, congratulations! Does it have the frame preview lever (I hear some didn't)?
 
Yep, it does (it is just hidden by the hood of the Rokkor in the picture).
And it does not have the self-timer, which I'm very happy about - the way I hold cameras, I usually accidentally operate the self-timer on those cameras that have it next to the lens mount (tried that with 'hoot's M3, which has the self-timer...)
The serial number is 9938xx, is there a way to tell the camera's year of production from that?
It looks and feels very nice, there are a few barely visible marks on top (from a Leicameter, most likely), a tiny chip of leatherette is missing on the side, next to that lug where you mount the baseplate, and someone seems to have re-glued the frameline-illumination window in the past (it is ever so slightly crooked, and there seems to be a bit of dried glue on its edge, but I don't notice any effects from that. The camera looks, feels and sounds very smooth and solid, the seller said that he sold it because he recently got a second M6, and the M2 had been getting too little use to justify keeping it.

Roman
 
Roman, your M2 was manufactured in 1960, according to cameraquest. M2's without self-timer were produced throughout this model's history, something I found out recently.
 
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