Sounds like the trip will be as enjoyable as the destination. Enjoy !
-----Original Message----- >From: Darren Addy <pixelsmithy@gmail. >Subject: OT: Enablement... 4x5 monorail view camera > >My Toyo/Omega 45D arrived from KEH today and it is a Beautiful Thing. >I don't know why, but I feel like a whole different way of thinking >about photography has finally arrived at my door. (Both my lens for it >and the recessed lens board are delayed thanks to the blizzard in the >eastern U.S. so it will be a bit before I get to take it out.) Then >again, maybe I *do* know why: > >It is like the diametric opposite of my Whiz-Bang K-3 II. It's a >bellows with endless swings, shifts, and tilts on both ends and a >rotating back. Composition with it requires a very slow, templative >process, the opposite of 8 fps. It requires separate metering >(preferrably spot metering). Each exposure can be developed >individually (or not). The resulting negative can be scanned (to go >back into digital post-processing world) OR printed the traditional >way in a wet darkroom. (I'm fascinated by both "stand development" and >"Lith Printing" at the moment and learning more about both.) > >This camera has me pulling Fred Picker's "Zone VI Workshop" off the >bookshelf, with a purpose. It embodies the romance of an upside down >image projected upon a ground glass, under a focusing cloth, with the >ability to manipulate the plane of focus as well as perspective >correction at exposure time. > >With the addition of this new format, I'm as excited about photography >(in all of its many forms) as I have probably ever been in my life. > >-- >Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
