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Post by mickeyobe on Sept 5, 2015 17:56:58 GMT -5
This simple cardboard device made using the waist level finder a little easier. Thanks Mickey. A shade like that would make it easier to use the screen on the back of a digital camera. Or why not a black cloth over your head, then photography would go full circle back to the 19th century. Sid, I have an 8"x10" gundlach Korona with a black velvet cloth. I must try your suggestion. But might it not be mistaken for a nikab and get me in trouble? Mickey
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Post by SidW on Sept 5, 2015 18:33:58 GMT -5
A long time ago we had a thread about macro, and I described a bellows set-up I had back in the 1950s, adding I really preferred to work with more recent macro lenses and TTL metering. Since then I've put together a Novoflex bellows, a bellows lens from Schneider (105mm/3.5, 1:1 macro to infinity using the full bellows range), and Magnear viewing lens, all on an early Varex (1950-51, Wrotniak 3.1.2). Film is so hard to come by I've not used it yet. Two racks, one to extend the bellows (set magnification), and one to move camera to and fro (set focus). And 60-70 years younger, a Canon 100mm/2.8 macro on an EOS 20D, that took the previous pictures:
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Post by SidW on Sept 5, 2015 19:00:13 GMT -5
Micky, a nikab with five legs? True, nikabophobes are short sighted. Just make sure there isn't a nikabophobe nearby. In any case you won't want to lug an 8x10 beyond your garden.
Rick, The procedure might have become more foolproof over the years, but this should work with any model: wind on the film (standard procedure was do that at once after taking a picture), set normal shutter speeds to B or T (like Stephen said), wind the slow speeds, set the slow speed or delay.
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Post by SidW on Sept 6, 2015 6:51:37 GMT -5
Micki, my mistake. Of course, your not lugging your 8x10 out, its a tiny compact, two legs, not five, but perhaps three with a walking stick, useful for warding off nikabophobes.
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Post by Stephen on Sept 9, 2015 12:33:01 GMT -5
Seeing the Exakta Magnifier adaptor on the viewfinder reminded me I had wanted one of these for ages, and that usually they are expensive, coming with the special magnifier lens, but of course other lenses will work. Looked on ebay and coming from the States is one on the units minus the lens, $20 including shipping. The Screen is said to be marked, but fortunately I have a few spare screens for Exakta anyway. Stephen.
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Post by Stephen on Sept 11, 2015 3:18:44 GMT -5
I know on the magnifier adaptor for the viewfinder that a Magnear lens was used, or you could use the standard lens, or a wide angle lens, but what was the focal length of the Magnear, is it marked on the lens barrel, or in the instructions? 50mm would seem right as it equates to the standard lens focal length.
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Post by Rachel on Sept 11, 2015 3:45:05 GMT -5
Stephen, My Magnear has no writing on it at all but mounting it on an Exa body I have handy it looks to be 50mm focal length.
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Post by Stephen on Sept 11, 2015 7:10:07 GMT -5
Rather what I assumed, I expect it is a simple two element magnifying lens, it's a bit neater than a lens on top of the camera, and may be brighter. A friend who specialised in macro photography always used a spare 35mm wide angle, with a modified 135mm lens, on bellows, that had plain stop holes fitted to about F120 or smaller, to increase the apparent depth of field.
It was for photos of 3.5mm scale model railroad structures or rolling stock, giving better realism to the photos, as the long focal length tended to flatten the views perspective, and the tiny stops gave depth.
The Magnear helped with the exact focus point, which is critical to getting realism in such close up shots. strictly black and white, and filtered red, as diffraction is an issue with such stops. In colour, the fringing is much too visible to give results beyond about F64.
My own model railroad shots with such a lens used Kodak Technical Pan, about 4/6 ASA, and no grain was visible, regrettably it is now discontinued, although some alternatives exist. Morris used Ilford PanF down rated in very fine grain developer at 8 ASA, the shutter times are long, very long, up to 15 minutes + in soft sunlight.
All his cameras were Exakta, he even had the RTL 1000, and had no problems with it....and had boxes full of the attachments for nearly every feature on the Exakta cameras. No other make approaches the variations possible, bar perhaps Nikon at a far greater price.
Stephen.
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