Tariq Gibran wrote:
"Lot's of people" is a vast overstatement. The majority of people who shoot with an RZ do not hand hold it on a regular basis as it weighs a ton and is quite cumbersome off a tripod. To try to paint the RZ as an easily hand-holdable came is ridiculous.
Tariq, is that Ole's Pic? if you're going to use Ole's picture, at least give him credit...
My RB's almost never see a tripod, unless I'm shooting landscapes or still lifes. Handheld with a 150SF or 180 is a natural for portraits, though I've tended towards the 250 adn 360 for tightly cropped portraits personally. Looks like you're holding a bazooka with the 360 and a prism.
philip_pj wrote:
I think Adams did use either the digital version or maybe its analog predecessor. An outfit called Zone something produced a calibrated version of the digital meter and also one can get a stick-on zone system-friendly chart for the meter.
Very addictive are handheld meters if you shoot high DR scenes...I remember John Shaw saying he still used one long after he came to trust the Nikon's in-camera meter.
Zone VI. Lovely piece of kit. Very easy to use, very precise - takes the mystery out of it all.
Congrats on the TLR. In contrast to some of the other posters, 6x6 is a wonderful format - no need to crop. You get to partake in the great compositional contest of many years running, and try your mettle vs. some pretty good company. Maybe, after a while, you'll even come to think that the more extreme formats (2x3) are.... not quite as fun!
Erie Patsellis wrote:
Tariq, is that Ole's Pic? if you're going to use Ole's picture, at least give him credit...
I have no idea. It came up using Google images and I simply linked to the image. Take it up with Google I guess.
Here is the original URL for the image: (hxxp://static.photo.net/attachments/bboard/00B/00BOWp-22205284.jpg)
...more research turns up this page: http://photo.net/large-format-photography-forum/00BOLY
The image is posted by Ole Tjugen with the caption: Hand holding 5"x7". I guess we can assume it is of him though there is no copyright nor any attribution to a specific photographer.
I was watching Manufactured Landscapes about Burtynsky's work again last weekend, and it was pretty cool to see him pull out his MF rangefinder, and know what it was now. It looked like a Fuji. Anyone know for sure what he uses as a walkaround?
joekraft wrote:
I was watching Manufactured Landscapes about Burtynsky's work again last weekend, and it was pretty cool to see him pull out his MF rangefinder, and know what it was now. It looked like a Fuji. Anyone know for sure what he uses as a walkaround?
I will have to go back and watch it. I remember his main camera was a Linhof I believe but don't recall the rangefinder.
I didn't watch the whole thing again this weekend, but it is definitely in the scene where he is walking around the Chinese village where they reclaim the materials from computers. Looked like it was his walkabout camera.
Update: Not 60 minutes after posting this last comment, I googled "Burtynsky rangefinder", and on the first page this very thread was returned. Google indexed this in less than 60 minutes. Pretty amazing. Next year, they will probably be indexing things even before we type them. Hello, minority report.
