If you still have your P25, would you put up photos of the P25 angainst the GFX? They’re both fantastic cameras. Wondering how they look taking the same scene. I know cameras, lenses and even software are different .
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fat pixel digital backs
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tomjenkinson
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Hi everyone. Long time listener, first time caller. Thought I would throw in some P25 images.
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alistairsimmons
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Bravo Tom, thanks for sharing.
Sorry I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm currently using a fat pixel back (Sinarback 54M, 2004 vintage, I believe) with the Kodak 22-megapixel sensor in my portrait studio in West Orlando. It's hitched to a Hasselblad 553ELX, mostly shooting the 80mm/F2.8 CF Planar, the 120mm/F4.0 CFi Makro-Planar, and the 150mm/F4.0 CF Sonnar. And if I'm shooting tight head shots of someone interesting, I use the 180mm/F4.0 CFi Sonnar (a truly stunning lens). I'm very happy with the resolution, and the skin tones--most of my clients are black, because of my location, and it does a far, far better job of getting the skin tones right than my Nikon D810, which tends to make black people very orange-y without some rather strenuous correction.
If you'd like to see what it can do, here are a few full-resolution samples I've got stashed on my website. These have had a bit of Nik Sharpener applied to them, but it's just building on what's there.
http://www.presquevu.com/x8505.jpg (I *think* this was shot with the 180 Sonnar and an extension tube.)
http://www.presquevu.com/x2783.jpg (Shot with the 120 Makro-Planar--the same lens Platon uses, with his style of lighting.)
http://www.presquevu.com/jeremiah.jpg (Shot with the 150mm Sonnar, wide open, with extension tube.)
http://www.presquevu.com/macro.jpg (Shot with the 120mm Makro-Planar and the Auto Bellows; this was a test shooting a coffee sack I have hung up on my wall. The area of the image is approximately 1.5 x 1.2 inches.)
http://www.presquevu.com/apa071.jpg (This was actually shot with my first Sinarback 54M and the Mamiya RZ67 plus 180mm W-N lens; I had to sell the camera and the back to help fund my move back to the US. As soon as I could find--and afford--another Sinarback on my return, I snapped it up, but I use it on a Hasselblad here.)
Hope this conveys just what this old fat-pixel back can do in terms of portraiture. It's "only" 22 megapixels--but it's 22 *glorious* megapixels!
If you'd like to see what it can do, here are a few full-resolution samples I've got stashed on my website. These have had a bit of Nik Sharpener applied to them, but it's just building on what's there.
http://www.presquevu.com/x8505.jpg (I *think* this was shot with the 180 Sonnar and an extension tube.)
http://www.presquevu.com/x2783.jpg (Shot with the 120 Makro-Planar--the same lens Platon uses, with his style of lighting.)
http://www.presquevu.com/jeremiah.jpg (Shot with the 150mm Sonnar, wide open, with extension tube.)
http://www.presquevu.com/macro.jpg (Shot with the 120mm Makro-Planar and the Auto Bellows; this was a test shooting a coffee sack I have hung up on my wall. The area of the image is approximately 1.5 x 1.2 inches.)
http://www.presquevu.com/apa071.jpg (This was actually shot with my first Sinarback 54M and the Mamiya RZ67 plus 180mm W-N lens; I had to sell the camera and the back to help fund my move back to the US. As soon as I could find--and afford--another Sinarback on my return, I snapped it up, but I use it on a Hasselblad here.)
Hope this conveys just what this old fat-pixel back can do in terms of portraiture. It's "only" 22 megapixels--but it's 22 *glorious* megapixels!
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KC_2020
Active member
Glorious pixels indeed !
Very nice work. The color and rendering of those lenses V lenses is still wonderful as well.
You're a brave man to rely on Firewire and software that can't be updated, much less replaced should you need to.
weter
Member
Hola, buenas noches desde Girona.
Llevo ya unos 8 años utilizando CFV-16
Dejo algunas fotos sencillas, hechas con el CFV-16 edición firmado por Victor Hasselblad. Me averguenzo cuando veo "fotones" que han subido a otros compañeros. Pero ahi las dejo
Saludos
Besalú
Basalú
Beget
Gorrión
Llevo ya unos 8 años utilizando CFV-16
Dejo algunas fotos sencillas, hechas con el CFV-16 edición firmado por Victor Hasselblad. Me averguenzo cuando veo "fotones" que han subido a otros compañeros. Pero ahi las dejo
Saludos
Besalú
Basalú
Beget
Gorrión
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