Dante Stella Site Down?

[kmack]

Looks like it's gone. Anyone have any idea what happened? Lost his domain name?

http://www.dantestella.com

 

[back alley]

no idea what happened.

 

[wlewisiii]

Some info here: http://www.nelsonfoto.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=779

Short version - his domain has expired.

William

 

[Aardvark Aallen]

here is a cut and paste from Dante to Craig at Nelson photo who offered hosting to Dante if he had some issues he couldn't resolve.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:30 am Post subject: Reply with quote
Got an e-mail back from Dante:


Dante Stella wrote:

> Hi Craig:
>
> The site should be back soon. I seem to be in a tug of war with myself over the site name (through two different registrars). Looks like my hosting service renewed it for me (they are the ones using enom), but the site managed to get disconnected in the meantime.
>
> If this doesn't resolve itself in a week or so, I will probably redo the site under stella.us.
>
> Cheers
> Dante
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[Huck Finn]

I'm sure that Dante's site will be back up. This has happened before. But his brother's (Davidde) site is also down. It too had much valuable information which complemented in many instances Dante's articles. I'm sorry to see it gone.

Huck

 

[rover]

I'm sure that Dante's site will be back up. This has happened before. But his brother's (Davidde) site is also down. It too had much valuable information which complemented in many instances Dante's articles. I'm sorry to see it gone.

Huck

Davidde went bye bye a while ago. I have been wondering what happened to him too.

 

[wlewisiii]

One thing to remember is the wayback machine at www.archive.org. Both Stella sites are available that way.

William

 

[Huck Finn]

William, you are a godsend! Thanks so much for this archive link. Greatly appreciated.

I was recently trying to access Davidde's excellent lens reviews & using your link I was just able to do so. I have been trying to find an alternative telephoto optic for the Zeiss Ikon rather than the expensive offerings from Zeiss & Leica. I remembered the M-Hexanon 90/2.8 & that Davidde had done a review. Now I've got the review & a link to a second one!

My only disappointment is that the lens diagram is missing & I am a fan of those. At f/2.8, it's not quite as fast as the latest from Zeiss & Leica, but it's longer than the Rollei 80/2.8 & it's fast enough especially since you don't need wide apertures on a telephot to isolate your subject. It will be on my short list.

Cheers,
Huck

 

[CleverName]

Dante Stella's site is back up now. Lots of good information there.

 

[Stephan]

A bunch of pages in the technical section dont seem to work right now unfortunately :/ Speaking of witch, am I right in my calculations that a 90mm fujinon lens in 6x9 format is a little over 35mm in... uh 35mm format ? 🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I think he just needed to renew his hosting fee, that was all. I wonder if they cleaned up some of his pages, for most links are indeed stale.

 

[Stephan]

Hey🙂

Yes I make it equivalent to 36mm precisely. 🙂 Which is hardly surprising since the two formats are similar (in the geometrical sense), and the length of the 90mm lens is equal to the long side of the 6x9 frame size. It therefore follows that the length of the equivalent 35mm lens would equal the length of the longest side of the film frame - ie 36mm.

ManGo

Thanks 🙂

Now I really want one of those gw 690's 😀

 

[Doug]

But the 6x9 frame is only nominally 6x9, actually about 5.7cm x 8.3cm (according to http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/mliu/g690spec.html ). So a lens focal length equal to the long side of the film would be 83mm. Of course lens focal length markings are often nominal as well... 🙂