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Any Landscape photogs shooting Hasselblad digital

Thanks Carl .

My combination is the GITZO G1349 (carbon) and the MANFROTTO 405 geared head .
As the ARCA has a long rail , on which you can move the camera forth and back , it should not be difficult to find the precise nodal point . I will have to check if the middle of the rail matches the center of the panorama turning point .
 
"People , who have to earn their money with photography in sports , journalism , event , studio , fashion , wedding and other branches , which require a fast result in our modern times , shoot digital .
And there is a high demand for extreme quality (for low prices) . If you are a photographer for any of the mentioned branches , you have to go digital . Otherwise you are lost ."

Jurgen, I'm not sure digital has turned out to be all that great for wedding photography. Far from being "lost", there are a good number of wedding shooters still using film BTW.

Based on what I now know, I am pretty sure that if I didn't need digital gear for other more lucrative commercial photographic work, it would have been better to stick with film for weddings. Really, the only cost difference is film and processing. The prints cost the same. However, the digital post processing is a crushing load at times, no matter how fast I get at it.

Plus, in a frank and honest evaluation of the past 4 years worth of weddings (about 50,000. images), a vast % of the very best shots were on film. A revealing number considering that film made up less than 20% of the total shots. May have something to do with the shooting ethic of film ... as well as the greater latitude that lessens post work.

Back on Panoramic subject: it seems there should be a device that would allow lateral movement of a bubble leveled camera. Something like a 16" rail with a geared transport ... which combined with a 100/3.5 could be cranked from one end to the other.
 
<May have something to do with the shooting
ethic of film ... >

Marc:

My thoughts exactly! :)

I think that pretty much the same thing happened when the 'masses' got motor-wind and auto-focus. Techno-rush, I call it. Until 'they' realised "there ain't no substitute for horsepower" - in this case basic skills and knowledge, and thoughtful shooting.

Cheers,

Colin
 
Colin, unfortunately so many people have gulped the Cool-Aid that labs are closing down like the Plague was in town.
 
Marc

No , digital has not turned out to be that great for wedding photography . True enough .
I have a very good friend . She is a wedding photographer , and most of her clients insist that she will shoot the whole session on digital . And they expect to see all taken shots next morning . Here is what I mentioned . If time is an important factor , you are damned to shot digital .
So she got a digital NIKON (don't know which model) , and since then , her HASSELBLAD 503CW is banned to sit in cupboard .
 
"Back on Panoramic subject: it seems there should be a device that would allow lateral movement of a bubble leveled camera. Something like a 16" rail with a geared transport ... which combined with a 100/3.5 could be cranked from one end to the other."
FYI -
Really Right Stuff offers a variety of rails. Although none are gear-cranked to my knowledge, the mounted camera can be manually shifted left & right. I believe I remember there being rails up to 28" in length. Here's a link -
http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/mpr/index.html

I've thought about RRS rails like these myself for lateral panos, as the physical stitching would be a breeze, since the camera/lens combo simply moves laterally, or even vertically, with no nodal panning involved. One can also achieve the same affect if you own any kind of shift lens, or have a LF camera with Shift and Rise/Fall capabilities. Of course, with shift lenses, I suspect you would be more limited in your "pano" range.
Michael H. Cothran
 
unfortunately so many people have gulped the Cool-Aid that labs are closing down like the Plague was in town.>

Ironic. Last week Kodak laid off another 3,000 employees, after losing $346 million on sales of $7.7 billion on digital and $5.6 billion on film. Hollywood accounting for most of the film sales, which has been the historical norm.

And they expect to see all taken shots next morning .>

If pictures are on their minds: I expect their marriage will fail.

Regards:

Gilbert
 
Carl

>> wide angle is not a problem on the CFV digital back , we will do a panoramic and stitch it together <<

That sentence made me think over and over again .
Many of us have been dreaming of a bigger sensor , like 49x49 up to 56x56 . Me too .
Thinking over your sentence again , we all could come to the conclusion , we could also dream of better stitching mechanics and better stitching software .
That would not require extremely expensive WA lenses nor extremely expensive new backs .
Just precise sliding adapters and the required software and better panoramic hardware .
And in addition to that , it would be much cheaper .

The HASSELBLAD H-SYSTEM is not open to a bigger sensor . The HY6 will be . So , what will the future bring ? Bigger sensors or better stitching techniques ?
 
Jurgen, not sure that bigger sensors are needed, the 16MP gives a huge file and having a computer background it may be that some photographers think they need it but they do not.

Unless photographers are progressing huge poster c&aigns it is not seen why they need to go any further than the general magazine format. Then there is the quality of information within that format given with a medium format camera. The techniques are already here for stiching photographs together.

cheers, Carl
 
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