Well Mr. Blakely, you definitely have the bigger virtual penis.
Your self serving factoids are as valid as self serving factoids
can be.
Regards
William Robb
, or if they did, they
couldn't be bothered with answering.
To me, that makes up for a hell of a lot of abrasiveness,
especially when we, as a group, have asked for it.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Lon Williamson
Subject: Does Kodak have a film like Reala?
Subject says it all.
Which begs a question:
Why would they want to make one? About the only thing I have
found it good for is quick and dirty internegs.
William Robb
education
programs to stay abreast of medical developments, or they don't
get to be doctors anymore.
To be a professional photographer, you need to buy a camera and
a business licence.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Lon Williamson
Subject: Re: OT: Finally back!
I'm by Gawd gonna name the next cat I find on my doorstep
Wheatfield. I like the sound of it grin.
No offense, Mr. Robb, you are a favorite of mine here.
Aw shucks.
Bill
- Original Message -
From: Lon Williamson
Subject: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would you
invite into your life?
Probably a Wisner 8x10. I'd sell my enlarger too.
William Robb
at it.
A pro must have a finely tuned sense of good enough else
he'll soon starve.
Well, that was succinct, and 100% correct.
William Robb
, if you have a scalpel, are you
automatically a surgeon?
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the picture is an
employee of the photographer. In all cases of an employee
employer relationship, the employer owns the work of the
employee, whether the employee supplies the tools or not.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Dan Scott
Subject: Re: PROS-was:ABORTION-was: Way OT: GUNS, GUNS, AND MORE
GUNS.
I have a camera, but I'm all too frequently not a
photographer.
But, do you have a scalpel?
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Paul Stenquist
Subject: Re: If you left Pentax, what Scurvy Dawg system would
you inviteintoyour life?
Autofocus is for girls :-)
My wife resembles that remark.
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lengths, use my 35mm
f/2 as a standard, my 50mm f/1.4 as a portrait, etc.
Perhaps this is my pro background showing, perhaps just
pragmatism.
William Robb
camera down
into the $1000 range in two years. But there is always the
WTMWB factor to
consider.
How does this law apply when the first 6MP camera came on the
market close to 8 years ago, didn't ever go down in price or
improve in performance until this year?
Just wondering
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Bob Blakely
Subject: Re: PROS
Dr E D F Williams,
Having been certified by Mr. Bruce Rubenstein as Piss Face,
May I
recommend, should I not already be there, that you put me in
one of your
filters. Yup, I volunteer.
You got Piss Face?
in making a quality job will be using
medium format whenever possible.
William Robb
, as I work and live in Canada. I do think that
photographers and their customers owe it to themselves to be
aware of how copyright can affect them in the jurisdiction in
which they live.
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ago, and don't try to kid myself that some silly
clause in a contract is going to deter anyone from copying my
work.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Dayton
Bill,
You have a way with words. After having experienced 67
compared to
35mm, I can clearly vouch for the quality difference that you
talk
about. My 35mm gear is almost never being used anymore.
I would like to make a few addendums.
I was
is
still junk. if sharpness or resolution were uppermost on the
minds of
purchasers of photographs that pros sell, why stop at medium
format? why
isn't everyone shooting 20x24 inch glass plates?
Now it's my turn to say HUH???
Yer not makin sense to me Herb.
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formats.
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/ that 8x10 Wisner?
I don't want to go there. I'd have to sell my 35mm gear to
finance it, and more and more am tempted
William Robb
contribution to
a newspaper, magazine or similar periodical, there shall, in the
absence of any agreement to the contrary, be deemed to be
reserved to the author a right to restrain the publication of
the work, otherwise than as part of a newspaper, magazine or
similar periodical.
William Robb
, and the
pictures were not being used for news distribution purposes. you
should have had a signed model release. Verbal permission isn't
worth the paper it is written on.
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picture.
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can see, and have no detail obscured by
film grain, I am happy that I didn't compromise my picture for
mere money.
William Robb
.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Dr E D F Williams
Subject: Re: Blow ups
Some of the best prints I ever produced showed grain the size
of grape nuts.
Different strokes. I don't really like grain all that much.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Herb Chong
Subject: Re: Blow ups
Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
As soon as I can see grain, I figure I have passed the
format's maximum
quality
threshold.
William Robb
i periodically shoot ISO 400 BW pushed specifically
statement
is pretty specious.
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, which is fine.
That's an artistic judgement.
William Robb
.
My friend Carl thinks 8x10 is on the small side--he
platinum-prints 10x17
negs, among other things:
I think I feel some enabling coming on...
Mike, you are going to get me divorced if you keep this up.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Dan Scott
Subject: OT: Re: 35mm vs 8x10 macro
Is it possible to do macro work with a 4x5? What lens and
extension
would be needed?
Short focal length lenses in the 65mm to 90mm range will work
with most any 4x5.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Len Paris
Subject: RE: Slight OT:Flash test for the wedding
I should think the front fill light of the Metz would help
with raccoon
eyes, though. Doesn't it?
Mine is the CT-2. The CT-4 is the one with the second flash
tube.
William Robb
Len
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- Original Message -
From: Mike Johnston
Subject: Tell her it's better than hookers and booze
I think I feel some enabling coming on...
Mike, you are going to get me divorced if you keep this up.
William Robb
What is it that you think you need, Bill?
I don't need
that the bellows is too big to mount underneath that
protrusion. I suspect that you could mount a short extension
tube to the camera, then mount the bellows to it though.
William Robb
don't have the time, nor the inclination (because of
the lack
of time!)
Almost as exasperating as not being able to get in print what
I see in
the negative(s).
WOW!! Your THAT old?
Glad to see most of the inanities you snipped were your own.
William Robb
William Robb wrote:
- Original
- Original Message -
From: Mike Johnston
Subject: Enablers, UNITE!
Enablers,
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Now comes Brother WILLIAM ROBB before us,
who needs
enabling to buy an 8x10 view camera! Brothers, address your
reasonings and
rationalizings to Brother WILLIAM, doing your best
is pretty close to being a full frame representation of the
negative.
The gallery image doesn't do justice to the amount of detail I
captured.]
William Robb
by that
combination?
Not a clue, too many variables.
William Robb
.
Paul
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/j87
/j87.jhtml;jsessionid=ZISRALTEC1A4JQHIO3JXWJA
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lenses for medium
format, if in fact they are better at all.
If grain were not an issue, would 35 mm and MF be equivalent?
No.
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for the bellows to mount.
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on how much better.
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not
worth it unless you are doing strictly portraits or very
static photography...
Some of us look at it from the other way. As long as the
enlargement never goes smaller than 4x5, the compromises aren't
worth going to 35mm.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Bob Blakely
Subject: Re: auto bellows + LX
Just add a small extension tube (to gain clearance) between
the bellows and
the camera?
That should do it. I figure the #1 tube from the Auto Extension
Tube set should do it.
William Robb
claims that small format lenses
are significantly better than 35mm lenses, and agrees with what
I have personally obseved about the Carl Zeiss lens for the
Hasselblad.
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!!
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and 5.
Yer film with a printing speed of 250 should be similar to
Ilford MGIV.
William Robb
is of a size that fits 35
mm there is no
point in using a bigger piece for Heavens sake!
What if we make the image fit a larger piece of film via more
magnification?
William Robb
on occasion. But it
wouldn't be
possible to do it with a whole dime.
I'm interested in the lens you used. What was it?
M 50mm f/2, reversed on the 6x7 bellows.
William Robb
than medium format lenses. The
reason I am not seeking out more information is because you seem
to have closed your mind, and I can't be bothered with trying to
pry it open.
William Robb
D
Dr E D F Williams
http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams
Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery
magnification needed to get to the final
image.
If you use that advantage to your benefit, then your pictures
will be better in some fairly limited respects, such as
granularity, tonality and resolution.
William Robb
to a 35mm lens.
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reading off a
gray card using the cameras built in meter with the lens alone
set to infinity, then make the same reading with the bellows
mounted at the picture taking extension and see how many stops
difference there is.
Apply that factor to your flash reading and life should be good.
William Robb
macro
lenses, no one uses bellows anymore.
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still use that lens for
other
photography?
Well, yes. Bellows are nice when you want to go larger than life
size on the film though.
William Robb
medium format
or large format camera in the world but it doesn't mean your
pictures are any
better
Define better.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: T Rittenhouse
Subject: Re: How I spend my Sunday afternoons
I like the last one. The lady looks more scared than the dog
does. You
bully, you.
I've got 3 holes in my left hand from that little bitch (the
dog, not the lady).
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Brad Dobo
Subject: Re: Rumour mill again...
True, but those glory days are gone.
Not sure if they were so much glory days as being the only game
in town.
William Robb
the homeless they go after with such vengeance
either.
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of the bellows unhandy, but would not
prevent it's use. My understanding is that Pentax says the
bellows cannot be used at all, which is why I think it must be
an inability to mount it..
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: John Whicker
Subject: Re: Rumour mill again...
If Asahi had offered the K bayonet mount at least
10 years earlier, Pentax would still be a brand of
choice for the professional user. Staying with the
M42 mount was the main cause of the decline of
Pentax
) ***OR*** the
polycarbonate-bodied, AF Pentax family (P series, ZX series,
up to
MZ-S)--and you couldn't mix and match and you couldn't use
both--which would
it be?
For me, the question isn't hypothetical.
We have an MZ-5 in the house. I have used it once, and found I
didn't like the cheapness of it.
William
- Original Message -
From: Gleb Baida
Subject: Re: Party pics, Russian-style,
I personally thought that we lost that war because of wrong
ideology and economy and also because of huge losses in the
WWII.
Wasn't the cold war caused by wrong ideology?
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Dr E D F Williams
Subject: Re: Advice for a microscope for photog. purpose?
The ocular tubes of stereo
microscopes are 33 mm in diameter so the K adaptor would be
useless.
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/LX_K_Bino.jpg
Seems to work.
William Robb
with cameras, it's true that size is important after
all...
Size is merely impressive.
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.
And that my friends, was the best beer I have ever had.
William Robb
.
Take pictures.
William Robb
David,
I've watched the lab try to do so. Most of the people they
are trying
to explain things to have no clue. They don't know what a
file is or
what file size means. All they know is when they used film,
they
could get any size prints they wanted. I think
light instrument and a stereo instrument.
I was under the impression that because the instrument has 2
eyepieces, it would be considered a binocular.
William Robb
be the ideal camera for the job.
That it is.
William Robb
What about talking politics instead?
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Peter Alling
Subject: RE: American Beer
What about that mass produced Craft Brewed beer Samuel Adams a
bit hoppy for
some tastes but you can't say it lacks character or flavor.
At 12:16 PM 12/19/2002 -0600
equivalent she was spending closer to $50.00 per roll.
Bruce,
If this story had come from anyone other than you, I would be
questioning the veracity of it.
All I can say is
BUUWAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!!!
William Robb
), is
that in this case, you only needed to type the first three words
of your reply to be equally accurate.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Ronald Arvidsson
Subject: Film vs. Digital (WAS: Re: RE: HypotheticalQuestion)
Improvement of the medium follows roughly computers, i.e., a
doubling
of capacity roughly every 18 months or so (take with a grain
of
salt).
HUH??? Prove it
William Robb
you say.
It is a rather sad story though.
William Robb
usage, and a 50% failure rate:
keepers/taken
vs 100% success with digital.
Am I starting to sound like Mafud on the subject?
William Robb
That some of that new math.
The real numbers would be $4.55 for the 8 keepers from film, for
a saving to the digital user of $1.19.
Still, not a big savings for a blatant waste of film.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: William Robb
Subject: Re: Behind the counter with digital
not for researched stuff.
Computers are not cameras. You can't compare computer speed
improvements to digital camera improvements.
Well, you can, but I think if you do a cursory bit of research
you will find the comparison to be invalid.
William Robb
shake looks like.
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possibly amortize in a
reasonable time frame compared to a similarly featured film
camera.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Johan Schoone
Subject: Re: Film vs. Digital (WAS: Re: RE:
HypotheticalQuestion)
This must be Moore's Law. A brief explanation is on
Moores law applies to computers.
Digital cameras don't follow Moores law.
William Robb
get a phototube for the Leitz at a
reasonable cost, I would certainly consider that.
You mentioned a Nightingale's.
I presume this is an online seller?
If so, can you supply a URL to me?
Thanks
William Robb
- Original Message -
From:
Subject: Re: Lens sharpness vs. camera shake
Aha. Thanks. I will look for point light sources.
Look at this:
http://users.accesscomm.ca/wrobb/SuperProgram/
Its a sizable page, I think about 850kb.
William Robb
.
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stupidly
prints
it or attempts to explain that even though it looked good on
the
monitor it won't look good as a big print.
Sadly, I've seen my lab in this situation several times.
Been there. It wasn't pretty.
Neither was the customer.
William Robb
these
days...
They have pills for that now. My mom is taking them, and you
wouldn't believe the differece. She no only knows who my sister
in law is again, but she hates her as much as when they first
met.
William Robb
a
replacement
head/carriage assembly.
A friend of mine says to try cleaning the rail with lighter
fluid. Be careful not to get it on the plastic parts though.
William Robb
tripod.
I have an untested theory that wrapping a bungee cord around all
three legs of the tripod might settle the ringing down.
William Robb
was having sharpness problems.
After ruling out everything else, he pulled the UV filter, and
that seemed to solve the problem.
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to go out and buy it.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Rubenstein
Subject: RE: Lens sharpness vs. camera shake
They are not the same shutters. I still have a pair of Program
Pluses and
one of their strong points is their hand holdability.
There was also the studio flash to factor in.
William Robb
and definitely not in top
physical condition.
Do a search of the Pentax websites for weight specifications,
anf remember, you don't need as many lenses with 6x7, because
you can, if needed, crop the negative to 645 if you need to.
You can't crop 645 to 6x7.
William Robb
, and they don't include older
lenses (the 43mm LTD is no longer listed, for example).
William Robb
exposure.
For the price of running my LX's, I can shoot 6x7 or 4x5
instead.
Pentax Canada also wants hard currency for repairs.
Reindeer poop is not hard, even when frozen.
William Robb
The best thing to do is move to Norway. In Norway Pentax gear
lasts
forever,
performs better than anyone else's
- Original Message -
From: William Robb
Subject: Re: Medium Format-Which one is best?
along with a Moanfrotto 028 tripod and 025 head.
Freudian slip?
It is a very heavy tripod.
William Robb
stupid
over-sight I suppose.
Yer right.
The repair department must have taken over website design.
William Robb
- Original Message -
From: Piss Face
Subject: Re: Lens sharpness vs. camera shake
Is there a possibility that the foam mirror bumper/light
shield needs
replacement in your Super Programs/ Super A's? Has it frayed
away or gotten
hard?
There have been a lot of comments about the
to be.
William Robb
6x7II
body weight with AE Prism1660g
Lenses:
SMC PENTAX 67 45mm f/4 485g
SMC PENTAX 67 75mm f/4.5 560g
SMC PENTAX 67 90mm f/2.8 480g
SMC PENTAX 67 Macro 135mm f4 620g
SMC PENTAX 67 165mm f/2.8 832g
the weight, which isn't really as great as some would have
us believe.
William Robb
, and plugs into the PC socket), and a
longish flash extension cable.
I don't recall if the SP has a PC socket, but I suspect it does.
The Program Plus has one, on the mirror box opposite the DOF
lever..
William Robb
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