Thanks Darren, I really do wonder if I can devote my (always less than planned) time to "view camera" work...
Please continue to share your experiences. Bulent --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun 2016-01-27 8:37 GMT+02:00 Darren Addy <[email protected]>: > 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. -- 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.
