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What do you do with a 4x5 Sinar-P?
Take a picture of it with your i-phone! I was at a professional photography school the other day, watching students (early 20’s) interact with a view camera. These students will be doing virtually all of their work in digital, but the school still insists on some fundamentals, including a course in view camera proficiency. I watched a course where the students had their first hands-on contact with the beast. They had a couple of 4x5 Sinar Pll’s and a "to die for" cabinet full of lenses there! All of the students were taking pictures of the view cameras with their i-phones, and of each other behind it. They certainly felt it all looked very funny, maybe even classy in a way. In using the camera they were intrigued by the movements, and were experimenting trying to get the wildest geometric distortions possible form extreme movements. They way they handled the lenses showed they had none of the reverence those of us here would have for all that beautiful glass. They didn’t have a lot of lighting set up for the subjects they were shooting, and they were dumbfounded when their instructor explained that, taking reciprocity failure into account, they would need two minutes of exposure time. They found that wildly funny! There is a touch of sadness in all this, but then they are right not to cling reverently to things of the past. And a few students in that school actually do see the value in it, as witnessed by a few graduate projects using large-format film. |
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"VOR-DME" wrote in message ... Take a picture of it with your i-phone! I was at a professional photography school the other day, watching students (early 20’s) interact with a view camera. These students will be doing virtually all of their work in digital, but the school still insists on some fundamentals, including a course in view camera proficiency. I watched a course where the students had their first hands-on contact with the beast. They had a couple of 4x5 Sinar Pll’s and a "to die for" cabinet full of lenses there! All of the students were taking pictures of the view cameras with their i-phones, and of each other behind it. They certainly felt it all looked very funny, maybe even classy in a way. In using the camera they were intrigued by the movements, and were experimenting trying to get the wildest geometric distortions possible form extreme movements. They way they handled the lenses showed they had none of the reverence those of us here would have for all that beautiful glass. They didn’t have a lot of lighting set up for the subjects they were shooting, and they were dumbfounded when their instructor explained that, taking reciprocity failure into account, they would need two minutes of exposure time. They found that wildly funny! There is a touch of sadness in all this, but then they are right not to cling reverently to things of the past. And a few students in that school actually do see the value in it, as witnessed by a few graduate projects using large-format film. ***** The simplest challenge to those students is with their phone cameras to take an image of the top half a tall building, a tree, or even a pole at a minimum distance - where the top of the image just includes the top of the subject - without the subject "leaning" backward in the resultant picture. A more difficult one is with the camera pointing vertically straight down to take a picture of a baseball about a foot or so below the camera and six inches or so from the vertical axis of the camera lens without making the ball's image appear as an oval. The one I like is to take an image of the receding line formed where the vertical wall meets the carpet on the floor. The camera is placed close to the floor horizontally several inches or so from the vertical wall, pointing down that line. Everything along that receding line in the image front to back is tack sharp. But everything a few inches above that line along the vertical wall and a few inches to the side of that line along the floor is increasingly blurred the further away from that line. The issue is not one of clinging to "things of the past"; rather it is one of today in the here and now being able to obtain desired results. Yes, those phone cameras are adequate most of the time. But there are instances where any - repeat, any - camera with fixed lens and imaging plane will fail to yield the desired results. |
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On 1/17/2011 12:49 AM, Lawrence T. Akutagawa wrote:
"So elucidate, please, how with the phone camera one can create each of the three images discussed....not with after image manipulation, but with in camera operation. I for one would be particularly interested in how that third image - the one of a tack sharp receding line with everything away from the line increasingly blurred the further from that line - is created with a phone camera." Easy! 1) Lots of light 2) A view camera with suitable lens 3) Adjust view camera per instructions above 4) Photograph ground glass screen of view camera with phone camera Doug |
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