PeterA
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Some snaps from the weekend - my first chance to start playing with the RZ and Phase45+. I bought the system and added a few things as an experiment to see how I liked a wist level finder and to see how a big heavy body with big old fashioned 'studio' ?? glass felt like to use.
Some observations - I dont know what you guys think but to my eye the results are very film like ( or what I think is film like). The lenses are very good but lack the sharp bite of the 645 lenses I am used or Leica stuff.
Like most, I have gradually climbed the experience curve starting from SLR and then rangefinder and then on to DSLR and MFD - I think the WLF in this system is FANTASTIC - big and BRIGHT allowing for easy relaxed composition. The rotating back is a real plus - something I thought I wold never have use for. i am looking forward to making people shots with this - as holding the camera whilst casually talking - is very easy. You get a different type of shot using this method - something new for me.
All this stuff was shot with ISO 50 or 100 and hand held - I am still waiting for clamps and Arca Swiss Cube for tripod use. I dont know if the camera's speed settings were accurate as I think that the battery was flat:ROTFL: how is that for knowing nothing about the system yet!
Anyway here are some shots from around the farm - it is Spring here now and I am starting to get some nice light to play with. I used the 75 and 50 for these.
The lenses are sharp enough at plane of focus whilst delivering a lovely film like out of focus in the distance - as you can see from some landscape and close ups of weeds and I post a person to shot to show the nice rendition of the 50.
This is a very nice camera system - of course it would be even better with a chip that allowed full use of the BIG lenses LOL - the viewfinder is addictive.
Some observations - I dont know what you guys think but to my eye the results are very film like ( or what I think is film like). The lenses are very good but lack the sharp bite of the 645 lenses I am used or Leica stuff.
Like most, I have gradually climbed the experience curve starting from SLR and then rangefinder and then on to DSLR and MFD - I think the WLF in this system is FANTASTIC - big and BRIGHT allowing for easy relaxed composition. The rotating back is a real plus - something I thought I wold never have use for. i am looking forward to making people shots with this - as holding the camera whilst casually talking - is very easy. You get a different type of shot using this method - something new for me.
All this stuff was shot with ISO 50 or 100 and hand held - I am still waiting for clamps and Arca Swiss Cube for tripod use. I dont know if the camera's speed settings were accurate as I think that the battery was flat:ROTFL: how is that for knowing nothing about the system yet!
Anyway here are some shots from around the farm - it is Spring here now and I am starting to get some nice light to play with. I used the 75 and 50 for these.
The lenses are sharp enough at plane of focus whilst delivering a lovely film like out of focus in the distance - as you can see from some landscape and close ups of weeds and I post a person to shot to show the nice rendition of the 50.
This is a very nice camera system - of course it would be even better with a chip that allowed full use of the BIG lenses LOL - the viewfinder is addictive.