Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walt, Unless you figure how to drop the bed straight down, all you would get is a great close-up of the bed of the 4x5. I have one but haven't loaded a film holder in many years. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:M8 sighting now how many retinas equal a busch pressman > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >