Nate the technika and some other types have rangefinder coupled lenses so that can work when shooting handheld. Basically those types started as updated better versions of the crown graphic design.
There's also some 'cone' cameras in 4x5. They use semi-fixed lenses and don't offer any movements. But they are set up a bit more for handholding. Fotoman used to make them and I think there are a couple of other Chinese manufacturers of them.
BTW, the noise in these are due to lack of sufficient light - I shot these in the hallway at night.
Nice.
The noise seems to be from your scanner, not film grain. I see color noise too. Consider experimenting with multi-sampling when you scan. I'm sure folks much more experienced than I am can talk more about that.
The noise seems to be from your scanner, not film grain. I see color noise too. Consider experimenting with multi-sampling when you scan. I'm sure folks much more experienced than I am can talk more about that.
Those are digital images from a Nex-5 taken of the wet prints
Morfeus wrote:
Those are digital images from a Nex-5 taken of the wet prints
I see more noise on the print area than the black frame, leading me to believe that the noise is on the print. Is it really a wet print? I'm seeing things, then.
Morfeus - yes, these are wet prints hanging on my wall - and the shot of them was taken by my NEX5 (with, coincidentally, a Rokkor lens, too). The noise - well, these were drastically underexposed, as the baby was asleep and I wasn't about to go around turning all the lights on - so I turned on one and just fixed in post. I upped exposure in LR +2, corrected the wildly orange white balance (tungsten light), and then added fill light - which is why the pictures have noise in them. The blacks in the frames were clipped - and not recoverable at the measures I used, so they remained black (with less/no noise). Of course there is no noise in the actual prints, as they are optical prints. Surprisingly, there is really little grain, too.
I am finding myself wanting to scan my negs less and less now that I am printing more in the darkroom. I don't care to learn all the ins and outs of that aspect. I will give you a good example here:
These prints on the wall were made Friday evening by me with the help of my 9 year old son. When my husband returned home from a trip the next day and asked my son what he did - he said "I worked in the darkroom with Mom and saw "the magic happen". He was really impressed with the process and had so much fun that he asked me last night if we could do it again. WOW. In my MANY years of shooting digital, he has NEVER EVER not one time asked if he could watch me upload and edit images on the computer. As the Mother of three kids ... which route do you think I'm more likely to go down here? The physical, interactive route; in which I can include my kids. Anytime I hear that something is "magic" - I think that might be the more soulful way to go, don't you think?
I wish I had a second garage so I could fit a large format enlarger in
Good on you Katie, I totally agree about the organic aspect. Probably of less importance but maybe a little interest, is that optical prints sell for a LOT more than inkjet prints.
