In the first one, it looks like the Graphic camera might have a
teeny-tiny bit of tilt with the bottom of the front standard pushed out.
But it also looks like he's actually taking the photo with a DSLR he's
got perched on top of the Graphic, and that DSLR has a Lensbaby mounted.
On 10/19/2015 4:12 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Yes.
The Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5 I used at the Photo Staff when I was in
high school had a typical Wollensak Raptor 135mm f/4.7 lens, about the
EFoV equivalent of a 35 or 40 mm lens on a 35mm FF camera. One of the
challenges was getting the focus and focus zone right because you had
so little DoF to work with.
With the lens wide open (to get enough shutter speed for basketball)
and the focus set to 15' (a typical basketball shot distance at the
basket), you had about three and a half feet of DoF total. In 35mm
with the Nikon F, that would take a 35mm f/1 lens, wide open, at the
same focus distance. I certainly didn't have any 35mm f/1 lenses in my
bag in 1971… :-)
Interesting.
Here are a couple of the shots that gave me pause, where the plane of
focus seemed almost more geometrical then optical:
http://i2.wp.com/roadsandkingdoms.com/uploads/2013/09/1200w_hor-talagante.jpg?w=2048&quality=75&strip=all
http://i1.wp.com/roadsandkingdoms.com/uploads/2013/09/1200-mike-and-david.jpg?w=2048&quality=75&strip=all
http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/15
http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/1
http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/14
http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/11
http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/12
So you can see the dynamics of format influence are very profound.
Just sticking a lot of megapixels onto a tiny chip wafer does not net
a large format camera view of the world. For my needs with a 35mm FF
format camera, 24 MPixels are enough … More is occasionally nice, but
mostly unnecessary. And no 35mm FF format camera supplants the
Hasselblad 500 or SWC in terms of overall image dynamics … they're
just too different.
In theory, with something like the Lytro you could recreate a lot of the
feel in post processing.
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