Technical Camera Images

[Steve Hendrix]

Here is a good comparative example of the Fine Focus Knob illustrating a 4x - 5x increase in precision. Video clip if you click the download link. And screenshots showing the amount of travel from the 25mm mark headed toward the 20mm mark with a quarter turn.

Cambo Actus Fine Focus Travel


Steve Hendrix/CI

 

[Paul Spinnler]

That's cool - I find there's not enough product videos of such products, to be honest. I like that you can quickly switch between the precisions.

Also the Cambo film scanning stage is an absolute price breaker - it costs significantly less than P1 and DT solutions and looks super solid ...

 

[Steve Hendrix]

That's cool - I find there's not enough product videos of such products, to be honest. I like that you can quickly switch between the precisions.

Also the Cambo film scanning stage is an absolute price breaker - it costs significantly less than P1 and DT solutions and looks super solid ...

Indeed.

Steve Hendrix/CI

 

[Paul Spinnler]

Steve, it seems to me that there's one difference between the Cambo stage and the P1 stage, namely that the Cambo version opted for a central knob in the middle to both move the left and right masks at the same time, while the other stages in the market allow one to move both mask slides more to the left or right in any asymmetrical fashion meaning one can move a negative holder around on the stage for say stitching - is my analysis correct?

I think they didn't think about the need to stitching in the Y dimension, but only about stitching in the X dimension, or sliding of a 120mm film holder with a strip of captures; one might want to do a quad stitch on an 8x10 for example so the Y dimension would also be useful, IMHO.

But I confess this is a niche use case as most will prefer to scan in one shot and the IQ5 240 will essentially be a Tango Drum scan res shot in one 1/15 of a second so nothing to complain really.

One other difference seems to me that you cannot fully mask out the top and bottom parts of the 8x10 glass negative holder on a 8x10 neg as it has a tiny bit of space at the bottom and top and the top and bottom masks are also the "rails" for the neg holder ... ?

This said, the Cambo film capture stage probably is by far the best deal out there and arguably a solid setup beats any Imacon or Flextight kit any day of the week in terms of speed and DR.

This comparison shows that an IQ4 smokes an X5.

 

[andrearch]

Casa del mercante or casa di Boniforte da Concorrezzo 1455 (Mantova - Italy)
Silvestricamera BicamIII + SK 35XL apo-digitar + IQ3 100mp

 

[Rod S.]

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Casa del mercante or casa di Boniforte da Concorrezzo 1455 (Mantova - Italy)
Silvestricamera BicamIII + SK 35XL apo-digitar + IQ3 100mp

It is for sale!

La Casa più ammirata di Mantova

La Domus immobiliare è lieta di proporre in vendita la Casa del Mercante. Edificata nel 1455, per volere del mercante brianzolo Giovanni Boniforte da Concorezzo

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See also:

Casa del Mercante - Wikipedia

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Casa del Mercante a Mantova: Foto, Storia

Descrizione, foto e informazioni sulla Casa del Mercante di Mantova, commissionata da Boniforte da Concorezzo ed eretta nel 1455.

www.mantovanotizie.com

Provincia di Mantova - Portale sul Turismo a Mantova

CMS Turismo Mantova

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[Adammork]

Indeed.

Steve Hendrix/CI

Been on the toes for this one - but the Cambo dealer here in Denmark is not able to arrange a demo - I have to buy it for testing it - even not super expensive - and looks right in so many ways - but would love your opinion on the following if possible.

How is the film flattens on 4x5 without glass only the "clips" on the sides? as good as using glass holder?

Is the clips going in to the image area on the film or just on the black film boarder?

Do you know there plans to produce a 4x5 holder with glass as the 8x10? so you can scan the whole sheet.

Thank you very much in advance!
/adam

 

[Paul Spinnler]

Been on the toes for this one - but the Cambo dealer here in Denmark is not able to arrange a demo - I have to buy it for testing it - even not super expensive - and looks right in so many ways - but would love your opinion on the following if possible.

How is the film flattens on 4x5 without glass only the "clips" on the sides? as good as using glass holder?

Is the clips going in to the image area on the film or just on the black film boarder?

Do you know there plans to produce a 4x5 holder with glass as the 8x10? so you can scan the whole sheet.

Thank you very much in advance!
/adam

Or you could just get a 8x10 film holder and and put the neg in there if you want the "border look" or if it helps for negative inversion!

 

[Adammork]

Or you could just get a 8x10 film holder and and put the neg in there if you want the "border look" or if it helps for negative inversion!

But wouldn't that give a lot of spill light? from what I can see on Cambo's site the masks goes up till the 8x10 holder, not under it - but I could be wrong!

 

[Paul Spinnler]

But wouldn't that give a lot of spill light? from what I can see on Cambo's site the masks goes up till the 8x10 holder, not under it - but I could be wrong!

Yes, you will have light spill. You need to mask yourself.

 

[SrMphoto]

IQ4 150, Alpa 12 STC, Hasselblad CFE 4/120 Makro-Planar.

 

[mristuccia]

Adlershof, Berlin.


Cambo Wide DS Digital | CFV-100c | SK 35XL | 6mm lens rise

 

[diggles]

Love the shadow of the tree in the foreground, very nice!

 

[mristuccia]

Love the shadow of the tree in the foreground, very nice!

Thanks Warren, any excuse is good to shift less.

 

[Whisp3r]

This is Abby Kortrijk, a former -you guessed it- abby converted into a museum of visual arts. Located in -you guessed it- the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. Designed by Tab Architects and Barozzi Veiga Architects, and shot for fun by yours truly using an Arca-Swiss RM3di, an IQ4, and two lenses: SK 60XL for the first image and Sinaron 5.6/90 for the other two.

 

[baudolino]

The abandoned brickworks in Schleinbach, Lower Austria. XT, IQ4150, 32mm

 

[vjbelle]

From a recent photo excursion to Greece. The Agios Nikolaos Chapel is on a rock bed about 300 feet from land and the only access is a rock walk way that can be very difficult to maneuver. A fall would almost certainly cause injury along with damaged camera equipment.

Taken with AS Pico, Rody 90mm, CFV-100C, about 5mm rise and 3mm tilt.

Victor B.

 

[vjbelle]

The Holy Trinity Monastery is located in Meteora Greece and was one of my destinations. Fascinating to see and photograph. This is a popular destination and the high season had just started so there were lots of people during the day but not in the early morning when I wanted to photograph. I never went inside any of the Monasteries because of all of the people but photographing from a distance - which is what I had intended to do - was very easy.

AS Pico, Rody 138 float, CFV-100C, about 15mm of rise from where I shot this image. Taken just after sunrise.

Victor B.

 

[OlliL]

Hey, I've seen that place in a James Bond movie!

 

[vjbelle]

An additional image from Meteora - St. Nicholas Anapafsas the smallest of the six Monasteries but no less fascinating. Shot on the same morning as the image above.

AS Pico, Rody 138 float, CFV-100C, around 5mm of fall.

Victor B.