On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:52 PM, JC O'Connell wrote: > Cool pic. Looks like an old chevy monza funnycar.
Thanks. It's an old Chevy Monza D/Gas coupe. Quick and powerful, but not funny car quick and powerful. It probably ran the quarter mile in about 9 seconds at around 130 mph. > > ----------------- > J.C.O'Connell > [email protected] > ----------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul > Stenquist > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:42 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO: Sky HIgh > > 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. > > > -- > 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.
