Medium Format ... long may it live!

Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm Planar, Portra

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Wow what a beautiful photo! It's as if when Velvia was invented 20+ years ago, Fuji had that lake specifically in mind for it. How did you accomplish this?!

I've been loathing the cost and the length of the flight(s) to get to NZ from eastern USA, but every pic like this chips away at my trepidation. I think resistance may be futile...

--Dave

Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
Fuji GA645Wi, Velvia 50

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Dave, you definitely won't regret a trip to NZ; the endless blue skies alone are worth the flight time. These shots were taken from an ancient Cessna 206 with old hazy windows; I'm actually surprised to have ended up with anything useable. The lake shot is a very small part of the frame...

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Dave, you definitely won't regret a trip to NZ; the endless blue skies alone are worth the flight time. These shots were taken from an ancient Cessna 206 with old hazy windows; I'm actually surprised to have ended up with anything useable. The lake shot is a very small part of the frame...

Thanks for sharing it. Very nice.

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[...]These shots were taken from an ancient Cessna 206 with old hazy windows; I'm actually surprised to have ended up with anything useable. [...]

Definitely that worked well; the haze does not seem visible at all to me, and in fact that's why I asked how you did it. It seemed not to be through a window, but it looked a high enough altitude that you'd not have wanted to dangle your head and the camera out an open window even if it were a plane where that was possible. And it's a good job you brought medium format; I suspect that on 35 mm, that tight crop might have started to show considerable grain when enlarged/scanned, even with Velvia. The retained part of the frame would have been almost like a 110 negative.
--Dave
 
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