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Paul:Jürgen,
I can't say it's easy, but at the same time it is true it does not have the emotion for me that my Toyo 45AII, my Noctilux or my Mamiya 7II would have.
I am a Brit too Graham, and also for me Joe is a hero (I also subscribe to Tim's and Joe's landscape website). I knew was using an IQ but didn't know he was using the techno! Many thanks for the video link!Paul,
Take a look at Joe Cornish and his Techno.
Landscape photography with Joe Cornish - part 1 of 3 - YouTube
Joe is a landscape hero of mine. (since I am a Brit after all).
Yes film seems to have hit a firm floor for now anyways and portra scans very well. If you don't need to push out a lot of frames the workflow of scanning is not arduous, in fact it is the smallest part of getting to a good print which is the bulk of the time spent; ie; physically printing till it looks right. For myself I've really started to question the labour saving of digital capture and whether or not the convenience is real or imagined or at the end of the day useful. For work of course, digital likely rules, but personal work can be whatever works, and I see that for me film is holding its own.Hehe, robert I've even toyed with the idea of getting a colour processor from a lab shutting down and exclusively shooting C41 with scanning in mind. Kodak are fully geared up for it and the few good labs in HK seem to be overrun.
The Techno uses just regular Linhof lensboards and so you can mount your own lenses, which is really simple. I use a Linhof C679 and mounted my own lenses. I have, regardless of how a company rebadges their optics, film era lenses and they are very nice, not to mention cheaper, at least from 55mm and up.So cambo seems interesting indeed, but I need to make the transition to Cambo or Linhof without this costing me another penny. I've been checking new lens prices, they've jumped a lot! So this means I remount my lenses. Selling the Alpa bodies would need to fund a new body and the lens remounts.
I'm updating the available list with lowered prices on the Alpa bodies