This one was a complete accident, I was in the process of picking up the camera to shoot, and tripped the shutter by mistake when I gripped it. It still has some strange appeal to me - I'm putting it in the "Lomography" category (if there were categories here):
JulianDeLaRosa wrote:
I believe that's Tareq Alhamrani. If it's him, he jumped from and H4D-50 to a H4D-60 in a year!
No, i jumped to H4D-60 from H3DII-39, i am one of the first people in the world to get that H4D-60, but i am drooling on that Graham who shoot me gear, he has 80mp digital back
I will post his portrait with his camera later
I can't believe that i started Photography in 2005 and i don't know what is the shutter speed or ISO or whatever, and now i am using a medium format and even started to shoot film [MF & LF] last year, what's going on, what's wrong with me?
Tariq -- What's wrong with you? You're a freaking genius, that's what! Fantastic work! Congrats.
Carsten -- I'm not really happy with the flatbed imaging. The holders are a lot of it, but the IQ seems lacking as well. I've seen both drum and flatbed scans from my transparencies, and the drum were much, much better. I am reluctant to devote desk space to a flatbed if it doesn't deliver outstanding results from negative film. I think I was last looking at Micro Tec scanners with the film holder drawer. If I see more outstanding flatbed images, I may go that way eventually.
That first camel (okay, dromedary) shot is epic! There is just something about the way medium format renders which is so gorgeous.
Nice to see the shooter shooting the shooter
Do you feel like talking a bit about your Hasselblad? I am very (extra very) slowly beginning to think about my next medium format digital camera, and am wondering if I should be looking into Hasselblad as well, this time.
carstenw wrote:
That first camel (okay, dromedary) shot is epic! There is just something about the way medium format renders which is so gorgeous.
Nice to see the shooter shooting the shooter
Do you feel like talking a bit about your feelings about your Hasselblad? I am very (extra very) slowly beginning to think about my next medium format digital camera, and am wondering if I should be looking into Hasselblad as well, this time.
I love how the MF rendering the colors and the depth is different than 35mm DSLRs, and the DR is way better from what i can see [i have 1Ds3 and 1D3 as my top line from Canon, even Nikon D3X fall apart the MF in DR].
I wasn't planning to shoot my shooter, but as long he was shooting me and others i decided to shoot him as he did shoot me.
Well, i can't talk about MF because i am new to this format, i just started using my MF first time [H3DII-39] in Jan 2009, i didn't use it much, and just last year when they announced that H4D-60 i traded-in for H4D-60, also didn't use it much, but now this year and later i will try to use this Hasselblad more, and honestly speaking, i like the true focus of H4D bodies, and i can tell you that the higher ISO on H4D bodies are way way better than high ISO on H3D, my H4D ISO800 is cleaner than ISO200 or ISO400 on my old H3DII-39, also it is FF sensor from what i read, also the firmware just added few features to the H4D body lately such as the leveling measurement and full zoom with one click. Actually any new MF you will get it will do the job, there are people happy with Hasselblad and others with Phase One P series or IQ series and others happy with LEAF, even Leica S2 and Pentax 645D both have their own fans, so it is difficult to tell you which to go with, and honestly speaking, from GetDPI and LuLu i feel i want to get a digital back with technical camera for landscapes and outdoor shots or interior design, but i will choose my Hasselblad H4D-60 for studio portraits or outdoor portraiture, but i know if i am good enough, then i can use any MF for anything.
Visit me in UAE and i will take you out and use my Hasselblad with the 3 lenses i have and then decide, by the way, the camel shots are both done with Hasselblad HC f4/120mm macro lens, neither 28mm nor 80mm, and both shots are cropped.
Tareq wrote:
Visit me in UAE and i will take you out and use my Hasselblad with the 3 lenses i have and then decide, by the way, the camel shots are both done with Hasselblad HC f4/120mm macro lens, neither 28mm nor 80mm, and both shots are cropped.
I find myself liking the aspect ratio of medium format. For a while I started to crop images that way - but realized that it's not becoming the same thing anyway. Don't really know why. I find that APS-C can perform as well as FF given good-enough lenses in many circumstances. So here, there must be some untamed virtues to the optical formulas and rendering style involved.
BTW, agree with Carsten about the camel, and also the three BW shots just before by Tareq. Great work!
