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Show us your Tech Cam
- Thread starter Guy Mancuso
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It's a CapCam -
CAPcam - CAPcam
Computer controlled shift/tilt/swing. All rather clever!
Kind regards,
Gerald.
Holy crap! Even more impressive would be the story that was told to convince the "Home Office"!
Can't wait to see some images, the whole device looks quite interesting and in a smaller package could be the future of tech cams.
Don Libby
Well-known member
Camera Porn - Original Cambo WRS (with wooden handles) along with a Rodenstock 40mm lens and a Phase One IQ180 digital back tethered to a Surface Pro 3 running C1-Pro 8.2. The Saguaro in the rear is made up of 1000 railroad spikes and is taller than I am. Almost forgot to mention the wide-angle Lee filter hood and filter pouch. (shot in full spectrum just for kicks and gags)
How do you get all that kit into that little bag?
No idea how Don is doing it but here is one way of getting voluminous stuff into small bags:How do you get all that kit into that little bag?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbuak4JJQA8
Chris
rolf.eigenheer
New member
Hi jotloob
The camera and its noticeable size is often discussed. I would like to lead the debate to the application.
When shooting a landscape to be shown with 2000 x1600 pixels, the depth of field (DOF) is huge. Using a 80mm lens @ f8 focussed to 14.7m covers anything from 9.1m up to infinity. Tilt/swing really makes no sense for that.
The perfect camera for this jobs is a spacer which ensures a precise space between a fine lens and digital back. This camera type has already been developed and brought to perfection with wooden hand grips.
CAPcam addresses applications where the DOF is smaller and objects of different distance should be in focus.
When highest resolution output is required (i.e large prints to be viewed from short distance) and objects are closer to the camera, the DOF becomes very small. Focussing the same 80mm lens @ f8 to 1m distance leads to a DOF of 17mm, ranging from 992mm to 1009mm.
Here tilt/swing allows to freely align the focal plane along the target surface.
Using the appropriate lens, CAPcam allows to cover image scales from 1:infinity up to 4:1 while doing tilt/swing and shift using the full image circle offered by the lens. To allow this, a large camera extension is required - this makes the size of the camera.
It is a common practice to use focus bracketting/stacking to extend the DOF. CAPcam perfectly supports this, even in combination with tilt/swing and shift. Using focus stacking with a non tilt/swing camera often requires a huge amount of images to be merged. Also items will come into focus which are not not in the plane of interest. Focus stacking completely fails on moving targets (i.e. water surface, raindrops running down on a window).
Kind regards
Rolf Eigenheer
GFAE switzerland, manufacturer of CAPcam
kdphotography
Well-known member
...and there's plenty of room to fit the Saguaro Cactus on top!The larger camera bag.
This is a great "camera bag" but not sure it's big enough for Graham...
Pemihan
Well-known member
I saw this in person recently when Don and I closed a shady deal in a shopping mall in the outskirts of Phoenix, at least the security guys found it shady.The larger camera bag.
I guess I could live with this "camera bag" if the rental agencies at the airports presented me with it :angel:
danlindberg
Well-known member
This is the coolest shade I have ever used :thumbs: Weighs close to nothing, just slide it on and off in a second (yet snug and safe fit). Excellent result with a little higher contrast even with lightsource behind you, realising that straylight effects the Rodie 32 more than I thought. Flagging really isn't enough for that particular lens. Highly recommended for 32 owners.
danlindberg
Well-known member
It has its slot at 'Accesories Lenses', but no info yet. I think it is completely new. But as always, shoot an email to Alpa, they always reply swiftly.
I have not tried it yet with shifts, but zeroed with the FPS I already feel that this is a totally must have!!