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    Fun with Medium Format FILM Images!

    Thanks Darr, very helpful. Sterling
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    Fun with Medium Format FILM Images!

    Do you recall how you lit that? It's really effective. Thanks, Sterling
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    Using grad filters - yes or no?

    Aggressive use of graduated ND filters leads to treetops and mountain tops that are unnaturally dark. With digital, they can be re-lightened in post - but easier is to "select sky" in Photoshop, create a Color Burn layer and add a mask (created from the Sky you just selected), then use a 10%...
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    Fun with Medium Format FILM Images!

    I finally got around to digitizing a roll of 120 I took at a vintage car show back in 2022. I set myself a challenge: Pentax 67 with just the 45mm f/4 lens, waist level finder, no tripod, estimating exposure with the "Sunny 16" principle. I knew the 45mm would be hard to keep level so I added a...
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    am i the only one? (technical issues)

    I am annoyed by unhelpful, click-bait subject lines.
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    Laowa 20mm f/4 Zero-D Shift (for GFX)

    With this shot I shifted all the way 45 degrees up and left, to try to get some interesting stretching/distortion in the clouds. Not completely successful, I think. You can see the vignetting in the upper left, and if you look closely at the foliage on the left you'll see that it's not very...
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    As a photographer, would you do this nude photo shoot for a friend?

    In addition to all of the great comments above, here's a trick that, after all the contemplation, can help one decide. Flip a coin! Sometimes you can tell from your instantaneous gut reaction to the outcome, what's the right choice. If you say "heads means do it, tails means don't do it" and the...
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    Folk Art Question - Understanding Its Evolution and Influence

    I'll bet if you went to your local university and bought lunch for a grad student in Art History, you'd learn more about it than you ever wanted to know. :) Best wishes, Sterling
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    Fun with MF images 2025

    Is that the Shift lens? If so, did you have it shifted at all? I wonder what the scene would look like if the lens were shifted 45 degrees to the upper left and then recomposed to this framing? There might be some interesting distortion at the edge of the image circle. Just my idle thoughts...
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    The magnificent Medium Format Projector thread...

    I found these pretty cheap on the auction site. Glassless.
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    The magnificent Medium Format Projector thread...

    My medium format film is usually 6x7 so I wanted the Mamiya Procabin 67-Z as it seemed quite a bit more affordable than the Götschmann 67 and those seemed to be the only two models I could find any availability for. Well I got one for a good price on eBay but when it arrived the condenser was...
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    Fun with MF images 2024

    Viviers, France, with the GFX 100S and 35-70. The walls of this town make lens correction quite unnecessary. :)
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    Lenses for Digital View Camera Outfits with GFX or Other Mirrorless Cameras

    I nominate this for a sticky thread. This will be helpful for years to come!
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    Fun with MF images 2024

    From the Sophie Calle installation in the Cryptoportico of Arles this summer. I used one image on two layers, the background layer was denoised using Adobe's AI. GFX 100S with the 35-70, hand held, 1/[email protected] ISO 12800 (Edit: I'm not sure why this is showing up as an attachment instead of...
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    Image size

    I would like to know as well. I'm surprised there isn't a "sticky" thread about this.
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    Fun with MF images 2024

    Is there somewhere on the site that explains what image sizes can be posted? Thanks.
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    Fun with MF images 2024

    Musée Narbo Via in Narbonne, France. Ancient Roman funerary monuments that were displaced centuries ago so their original locations are unknown, spent some time as just another brick in the city wall, now preserved in a museum. GFX 100s with the GF 35-70 and some geometry adjustment in Photoshop
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    16 bit vs. 14 bit - what's the difference?

    For Fuji, Jim Kasson has. For example, https://blog.kasson.com/gfx-100s/gfx-100s-dark-field-histograms/. For a real-life impact analysis, see https://blog.kasson.com/gfx-100-ii/gfx100ii-deep-shadow-noise-14-16-bit/. There are other related articles on his blog. This topic has also been discussed...
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    16 bit vs. 14 bit - what's the difference?

    My approach was to take two shots as identical as possible, one at 16 and one at 14, process the RAWs identically (I used a Linear profile in ACR), load them into Photoshop layers, and set the top layer to "Difference" blend mode. The differences I could see looked random. I don't think there...
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    Swing aesthetics

    That's inspirational, thanks! I've done the same thing accidentally/incidentally and had good responses, I suppose most of us have at one time or another, but I love the idea of pursuing it mindfully.
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