On Mar 4, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > A curiosity for a slow Sunday. Click to make smaller. > Shot this with my Speed Graphic and Wollensak 127/4.5 Raptor about 35 years > ago.
So that's how motorsports photography is done! > It was one of the few times I was successful shooting drag cars in action > with that camera. I also got my jerry-rigged Honeywell potato masher strobe > to fire here, as evidenced by the illuminated wheelwell. Film was Ektachrome > 64 4x5. Stop was probably f8. DOF is just barely adequate, as the nose and > tail of the car are a bit soft. Of course, that could also be a result of the > panning. Out of focus background elements have halos. That may be a result of > the wackiness of the lens. The transparency is very dirty. Found it in the > basement while trying to deal with my flood problem. I should try washing it > now that I've at least scanned it. The 16-bit scan that I generated on my old > Epson flatbed was over a gigabyte. I cropped it to about 770 meg. The pic > shown here is the largest that photo.net allows. I was an ambitious young > man, who lacked common sense:-). > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=15291993&size=lg Very nice! > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
