Excellent! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:37 PM Godfrey DiGiorgi <godfreydigio...@me.com> wrote: > I decided that yesterday was a "walk and shoot" day with the Hasselblad > 500CM. So I fitted the ancient Sonnar 150mm f/4 and the CFVII 50c digital > back, stuffed my PD Travel Tripod into a shoulder bag and put a neck strap > on the camera, and headed out for a hour and a half walk around the > neighborhood. > > Coming up on the end of the walk, I stopped at the cafe to grab a cup of > coffee to have with my lunch and walked over to the stone bench near the > fountain by the cafe. The sky was a clear pale blue, a bit of mist up > there, but just barely visible was the quarter Moon. "Hmm, I wonder how big > that will image onto the medium format digital sensor with this 150mm > lens...?" > > So I stuck the camera onto the tripod, set the lens to infinity and f/5.6 > (or f/8...?) and the shutter to about 1/125 (1/250 ..?) and snapped a photo > using my cable release. Using some post-processing to make the Moon as > visible as possible smashed the pale blue to nearly black … > > Quarter Moon - Santa Clara 2020 :: https://flic.kr/p/2kjkLiW > > It's a pretty small image of the Moon. But as I looked at it on my > computer display last evening, I thought I saw enough structure on the face > of the Moon and decided to crop down to it for a better look… > > Quarter Moon - Santa Clara 2020 (cropped) :: https://flic.kr/p/2kjq5vD > > Made with Hasselblad 500CM + 1967 Sonnar 150mm f/4 onto the CFVII 50c > digital back. > Exposure ISO 400 @ f/5.6 @ 1/125 (estimated). > > LOL! I don't think I'm going to believe anyone who tells me that "those > old Hasselblad lenses don't have enough resolution for the digital backs!" > any more. :D > > enjoy! > G > — > No matter where you go, there you are. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
