Thanks Mark. I had a good time with 4x5 back in the day and sold a few pics to car mags. I've been thinking I ought to shoot a few more frames of BW 4x5 while the film is sill available. I have the whole kit stashed in the back of my closet. Paul On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Mark C wrote:
> Very cool shot, Paul, and excellent timing to catch the car mid-wheelie. I've > always wanted to do large format, but doubt that I ever will. > > On 3/4/2012 3:31 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. 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 > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
