Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Last year I bought a Vivitar 2x converter for Hasselblad on ebay for a very good price. I think I paid $35 for it, and it came in excellent condition. I haven't had a chance to try it until now, since I rarely need very long focal lengths for my work.
I had wanted to photograph the big lighted GE sign atop one of the old General electric buildings in downtown Fort Wayne. GE once employed over 10,000 people here in two factory complexes, each made up of a number of large buildings. Over the years most of the jobs have gone to China and Mexico, though a fairly large number of people still works for GE here. One of the old factories was torn down a couple years ago. I figure one day, the whole place will be gone and the sign, a well known landmark, gone too.
My longest lens is a 150mm CF Sonnar. Not long enough to get the close view I wanted, so I put the 150 on the Vivitar 2x and shot this:
I had to shoot at f45 (the lens was set to 22, effective f45) to get the depth of field needed to keep the whole sign and the foreground building facade in focus. This aperture is diffraction limited, but I was pleased with the results, which were the same from center to corners (crappy teleconverters often give VERy soft corners).
Here's a couple of 100% crops from the 4000 dpi full-res scan:
They're not tack-sharp but at f45, would the Hasselblad lens closest in focal length (250mm) be any better?
I had wanted to photograph the big lighted GE sign atop one of the old General electric buildings in downtown Fort Wayne. GE once employed over 10,000 people here in two factory complexes, each made up of a number of large buildings. Over the years most of the jobs have gone to China and Mexico, though a fairly large number of people still works for GE here. One of the old factories was torn down a couple years ago. I figure one day, the whole place will be gone and the sign, a well known landmark, gone too.
My longest lens is a 150mm CF Sonnar. Not long enough to get the close view I wanted, so I put the 150 on the Vivitar 2x and shot this:
I had to shoot at f45 (the lens was set to 22, effective f45) to get the depth of field needed to keep the whole sign and the foreground building facade in focus. This aperture is diffraction limited, but I was pleased with the results, which were the same from center to corners (crappy teleconverters often give VERy soft corners).
Here's a couple of 100% crops from the 4000 dpi full-res scan:
They're not tack-sharp but at f45, would the Hasselblad lens closest in focal length (250mm) be any better?
