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.
