saph wrote:
Don't know if I can justify owning two lenses with the same optical formula... I'm considering to add a 50mm f/1.4 AI-S to the set though. Maybe a bit boring, but would be a good fit to the other two AI-S lenses and matches the look of the adapter better
Hang around enough on this thread and justifying lenses won't be an issue any longer
Amazing „birds”, Rafael, but your 55/1.2-collection is even more amazing to my eyes...
Leighton, the SW 90/4.5 is/was a well known lens among LF-shooters. Just a large and heavy wideangle-lens. That's why it has not many friends among „hiking” landscape-photographers.
Samy, I've used bag-bellows for this shot. Tried the regular bellows, but with the standard bellows the movements were limited to about 15mm shift. The synthetic bag-bellows on the other hand will work with lenses of 150mm easily and with some longer lenses too (I can focus a 210mm to infinity, but not close).
Unfortunately - it's difficult to store the camera with „very baggy” bag-bellows attached in the dedicated camera-bag (from Lightware, excellent „bag”).
The camera is a standard F-Line 4x5 from Arca-Swiss, I have this beast since ca. 1999.
Would love to get a more portable 4x5-field-camera like the Wista, but have too much „stuff” already.
saph wrote:
Rafael, where is this museum? There's an SR-71 here in the Smithsonian museum near Dulles, but I have never come across a B-52.
The family and I were just looking at the possibility of making a trip up to DC to hit the museums, but seeing they are still on timed pass reservations and some are already booked through July. Guess we will do Plan B, whenever we figure out what that is
AdaptedLenses wrote:
We took a day trip to the zoo last week, first time there, girls loved it and slept well on the way home. That’s a hike round trip from the main entrance to the bottom and back for kids! No MF shots, carried the 200-500 all day which might be longer than needed. Look forward to seeing what you got.
We were there Thursday. Too bad we missed each other.
Yes, it is a nice hike from one side to the other and back. My iPhone tracking had us at about 7.5 miles total for the day. It is the worlds largest natural habitat zoo.
Ken Hill wrote:
While road tripping in a Corvette, there’s not much room for camera gear. The 35-200 lens is among my favorites. I like the utility of it as well as it’s size for travel and find it’s range useful in museums, car shows etc.. Used in the Dx mode it stretches to 300mm with decent results. It also has a decent MACRO capability that adds to it’s capabilities. Enuf said! Enjoy your lens.
I am enjoying it! This lens is shaping up to be exactly what I was hoping it'd be for the same things you're describing. Road trips, hikes, walk-around stuff, etc. Really anything where an actual photo trip/shoot isn't planned. Not only is it super flexible, but I just really like the way it renders a scene. Both up-close and at distance, it seems to have its own thing going on.
I've been on a trip and haven't touched a computer for the past 10 days, so I've haven't been able to check the progress of this page until this morning. There have been some great images posted, as usual. Unfortunately, I didn't take any MF lenses on my trip, so I don't have anything to show from it.
I've got a roll of B&W film that I started about a month ago where I still need to finish the last few frames. Sadly, I don't even remember what's on the roll! Maybe it will have something worth posting.
