Medium Format ... long may it live!

Lake Kleifarvatn, Iceland





Mamiya RB67, 180mm Sekor-C, Ektar 100


Same lake just colder :)



Mamiya RB67, 180mm Sekor-C, Portra 400 VC
 
Autocord
Acros 100
Rodinal 1:50, 7.5 minutes, 30 seconds initial, 2 inversions per minute

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannelbrae/6089405283

Evidently mangos are produce id #4959.

This was taking at minimum focus distance, wide open. While I can't complain about lens sharpness in this shot, I discovered the focus was slightly off while shooting this roll. I think this one happened to come out sharper than others on the roll due to me failing to compensate for parallax. :) Easy to adjust and it at least looks better on ground glass now. We'll see how the next roll turns out.
 
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I've come to the conclusion that medium format is incredibly important as it encompasses cameras that go back a long way into our photographic history. If the film died a lot of usable cameras would die with it!

Feeling a little digitally jaded I decided to resurect a couple of old classics from my cupboard and run some expired Adox 100 through them. A Kodak pocket folder from the fifties (on loan) and and old Voigtlander Brilliant from 1933 that I bought from eBay on impulse one night. The Brilliant in particular is one of my favourite cameras and for the $35.00 it cost me has provided a lot of fun!

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Agreed, Keith, I started and shot most in 35mm, but this thread and the little MF I do just makes me want to have MF around. Completely different sense of space and place.
Giorgio
 
Just bought a 500CM with the 80mm Planar and waiting for the first roll to come back from dev. Off to the Goodwood Revival tomorrow (retro camera heaven - indeed, retro heaven, period) and absolutely cannot wait. I've learnt more about depth of field and EV/LV in a week than I have in many years of photography. I'm a stickler for visual indicators and heavy manual controls (have you tried cranking the focus on a Zeiss/Blad lens?!?!) so the Blad is perfect. Probably the best camera to learn about manual photography with - you have a huge depth of field markers which really make you think about aperture. You have the coupling on the older lenses of aperture and shutter speed meaning you think about exposure and soon come to learn (if shooting neg) that whilst light doesn't change a great deal and sunny 16 will do one notch of the EV scale is a halving or doubling of the amount of light hitting the film. Plus you get to compose on a ground glass. Limited to 1/500th you have to consider ISO and understand the restrictions in place to shoot at that speed rather than going the whole hog and following the current vogue for wide open extreme bokeh photography. The Planar is all about the sharpness, not the fuzzy bits!

Whole lot of fun with stunning photos that actually look like photos at the end of the day.
 
Graveyard Angel
Evergreen Cemetery, Manchester, Mendocino County, California
Hasselblad 500 C/M, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 T* CF lens, Ilford Delta 3200, Hoya K2 yellow filter, tripod, NCPS process & scan
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©2011 Chris Grossman
 
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Graveyard Angel
Evergreen Cemetery, Manchester, Mendocino County, California
Hasselblad 500 C/M, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 T* CF lens, Ilford Delta 3200, Hoya K2 yellow filter, tripod, NCPS process & scan
67380012xlr.jpg

©2011 Chris Grossman
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Wow, that is a super-nice exposure! Delta 3200? Amazing...
 
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