Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning I'm going to Orlando today looking for a camera bag. Maybe I'll pick up a 4x5 while there. Can you image the results from putting my 28 Elmarit on a Speed Graphic? Heck, could shoot what's in from of me and behind me at the same time. :-) Walt Henning Wulff wrote: > At 7:38 PM -0500 1/22/08, Walt Johnson wrote: >> Yes, can cerainly see that. A 4x5/5x7 back on an 8x10 camera. >> Reversing that trend might give less than optimal results, even with >> Leica glass. . What was mentioned by Doug included a 35mm lens on a >> MF camera. Talk about falloff. It would make a 50 year old Summicron >> look good shooting into the sun. > > > > Nope. No falloff. Most of the older Leica lenses 135mm and longer > cover 6x6 just fine, with no falloff. > > And of course most 'large format' lenses come with no format attached. > A 120 SW Nikkor makes a fine 4x5 lens with lots of movements but will > also cover 8x10 with virtually no movements. > > > > Anyway, I'm still lusting after the C3 carried by Diane Arbus.. >> >> Lottermoser George wrote: >>> As a photographer who grew up in a studio where we had lenses of >>> many different focal lengths, and cameras of all formats; the whole >>> format thing never bothered me. We put 4x5 and 5x7 backs on 8x10 >>> cameras. Roll film backs on 4x5 cameras. 35mm and digital bodies on >>> bellows with enlarging lenses. What ever it takes to accomplish the >>> vision or find a new one. >>> >>> Right now I've got a Canon 5D sitting on my desk with a Hasselbad >>> 80 planar attached to it. >>> And an the M8 with viso and bellows with a nikkor enlarging lens - >>> see today's <http://www.imagist.com/blog> for results. >>> >>> I've always enjoyed playing with different glass on various >>> formats, slow, fast, b&w, or IR films, chips and what ever. I've >>> exposed printing out paper in cameras, used paper negatives and >>> contact printed them "wet." It's all photography. It's all wonderful >>> and full of potentially beautiful surprises. >>> >>> Camera / lens systems are great. I'll never sell my M6TTL. The >>> Leica M lenses can always fill it's negatives to their full useable >>> circles; just as the two R8's can give me a full 35mm negatives, >>> transparencies, or the DMR chip to capture my world in images - as >>> required or desired. Adapters which allow different systems to >>> interact with each other make the optical possibilities even more >>> wonderful. I can even hang my R8's on 4x5 if I want some view camera >>> movements. >>> >>> Imagine! Yes, indeed! Do! >>> >>> On Jan 22, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Walt Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> Imagine spending $$$ on lenses designed to cover a 24x36 mm format >>>> and sticking them on something else. >>> >>> Fond regards, >>> George >>> george@imagist.com >>> www.imagist.com >>> http://www.imagist.com/blog >>> Picture A Week - www.imagist.com/paw_07 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >