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Post by paulhofseth on May 24, 2022 11:56:10 GMT -5
Unfortunately the excdellent reputation of SLRs has led to many current digital creations trying to look like one, even if they neither need prisms nor moving mirrors. The SLRs are also guilty of starting the lens obesity trend: Dim viewfinders demanded high apertures and auto-mechanisms as well as optical tricks like retrofocus to accomodate the mirror. Good examples are Leica anmd Minoltas tiny rangefinder wide-angles compared with SLR varieties. The current electric wizardry made lenses even fatter and more vulnerable.
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Post by paulhofseth on Apr 23, 2022 11:25:21 GMT -5
I found that Novoflex still produces adapters for Nikon Z to use on their 60year old Bellows. This must be a record for long term company quality. Even leitz have given up on their older products. But thanks to Novoflex prsistence I acn still use my old Pigriff for closeups.
I do however dislike the focussing point on the Nikon moving around at random without any firmware fix to create an option of staying put in the middle.
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Post by paulhofseth on Feb 15, 2022 11:34:58 GMT -5
something similar was made by Leitz for their R-lenses, butg this time with an inverting prism inside. It is quite compact, about the size of their extender.
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Post by paulhofseth on Dec 16, 2021 10:32:37 GMT -5
along timeago I used a Linhof6x9 which gave reasonably good pictures, but nowadays I find that a high MP digital gives equally good prints plus a chanse to remedy my exposure errors & light dynamic errors made by the landscape motive.Also, there is no need to curse over the old Rollex back plus juggling darkslides when using sheet film.
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Post by paulhofseth on Aug 31, 2021 14:08:19 GMT -5
I find that using the venerable outfits will require supplementing the lenses with sunshades , caps and such -which needs persistent search in flea markets or home production from cardboard and plastic raw material + chinese fiter adapter rings.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 20, 2021 7:01:49 GMT -5
No experience with more recent elmars, but did use one ancient one with Ilford FP3. In a less distant past I used the M.mount 90mmtele-elmarit (slim version) but discarded it due to lack of contrast in favour of the tiny apo-lanthar. Later I got an elderly Nikon "sonnar-type" 105 to use on the PenF and found it very good, but nowadays I use the 100mm apo-elmarit on the Z. Large and unwieldy and only 1:2 without the special extension, but reasonably sharp&contrasty for my purposes-the prices were commendably low at then time when people stopped wanting Rcameras and thought only chipped Nikon glass was useful.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 18, 2021 1:20:22 GMT -5
When I ditched my PenF in favour of the z , I found that the canon EF to Z adapter could acommodate all of my R and Nikon glass that I used on my previous C 5d and an M to Z adapter accomodated my Leica optics. Since I got a MFT-Z adaptyer I recently I tried my old R to MFT adapters and despite the narrower mount neither the 16mm fisheye nor a longer one vignetted, but the OM 135macro did . (Explained in my posts ad Z on the rangefinder forum)
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 17, 2021 6:34:46 GMT -5
strange effects. First a messge that preview was impossible with " no effects uploaded and then after "remedying", double tiny crop. MAybe I should shrink the original and try again. same cryptic message and no preview wven though this version is shrunk to 1000pixels long and stronglycompressed. p.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 17, 2021 6:27:56 GMT -5
I was a bit late for "P" so here I present both P in the form of a Pontiac and D in the form of a Gallus Derlux . Both French narrowspool unobtainable film, but perfectly working, Both have simple triplets, teh first an Angenieux Z5 the other, a Gallix, presumably produced by themselves even if the Foth Derby that it was related to did not have such a lens. p.
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Post by paulhofseth on May 18, 2021 13:24:40 GMT -5
I used the / for a while, then switched to an M3 because I liked its viewfinder better and did not have to worry about crumpling the sensitive shutter foil-
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Post by paulhofseth on Mar 9, 2021 7:21:53 GMT -5
The small books by Hartmut Thiele would be easier to store. Lots of interesting info on German cameras and camra industry as well as comprehensive lists of lens numbers for various makes.
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Post by paulhofseth on Nov 17, 2020 8:46:40 GMT -5
I never bothered to notice what the makers would like to sell new but aquired stuff second hand and letting the previous, owner foot the depreciation bill, but did try out different film types and formats, I concluded that minox format was too small, Linhof 6x9 with sheet fil as well as rollex back too unwieldy while panatomicx and technical pan was too slow, so I settled for 35mm Ilford FP3 in Hyfin developer as a compromise between speed and enlargeability. When colour became desirable, Kodachrome would do until Fuji Velvia came along and one could avoid shipping film far away to be developed.
With currrent digitals, moderate speeds and slow optics provide all the opportunities I want for reframing. The industyr stil wants to flog excessively fast lenses chock full of vulnerable electronic and mechanical parts, but I can do without automatics that give pinpoint sharpness of the nearest twig rather than on what I wish to have in focus.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jul 17, 2020 12:12:29 GMT -5
addendum:
I now recall that the Werra is the most stylish camera ever. Its Tessar gave contrasty and sharp enough negatives wirh Ilford XP.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jul 16, 2020 5:56:09 GMT -5
I rather liked the size and ease of use of the Minox C, but not its filmsize.
For opticsl quality on old fashioned film,0 I currently lug around an R8 with too many, too heavy lenses that van also be used on my digital device (which I dislike, due to superfluous and distracting, if not directly destructive controls. Unfortunately the resurrected/renamed "SL2" is a bit too expensive, will need a whole new set of unavailable lens-adapters and does not entail any less luggage as long as I stick to my ancient lens team.
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Post by paulhofseth on Jun 26, 2020 9:41:05 GMT -5
Enlarger optics of the more recent kind suffer from a darkroom finesse, lit aperture scales that give light leaks when used to tgake pictures. The Rodenstock Apo- something I use to digitalize old slides neded black tape,but my ancient componons will work unmodified.
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