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Subject: [Leica] Macro - now LF Macro
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:23:45 -0500
References: <C8641C55.6470E%mark@rabinergroup.com> <4C3F0FBF.7060008@whitedogs.co.uk> <B40AF13F-3E33-4409-8EBC-8EE09EAF6B53@mac.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20100715105742.03645990@med.cornell.edu>

Thanks Chris.
Here's another view
which shows a bit more of the 
"decor concept"

<http://imagist.com/art/jellich/interior_01.html>

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist





On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Chris Saganich wrote:

> I like the presentation against the wallpaper.
> 
> 
> At 10:33 AM 7/15/2010, you wrote:
>> I printed these four 30x40 inch prints for a barber shop
>> to represent the barber's main tools:
>> comb, razor, shears, clipper.
>> <http://imagist.com/art/jellich/interior_02.html>
>> 
>> from 8x10 negatives
>> using the Durst Lab 184;
>> and 30x40 trays.
>> 
>> Camera: Deardorf
>> Lens: 35mm Rodenstock Eurygon
>> 
>> The hair on the 8x10 negative
>> is probably between 5 - 10 times life size.
>> 
>> Each set up took 3 to 4 hours
>> and 6 - 10 sheets of film.
>> 
>> I spent most of that set up time before the model arrived;
>> working out lighting on a basket ball,
>> locking the barber tools in clamps
>> and figuring out how to make the model semi comfortable.
>> The actual photography, with model and barber consultant present,
>> took on average
>> a grueling (for model, photographer and barber) hour.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Mark Pope wrote:
>> 
>> > This is large format macro(ish): roughly between 1/3 and 1/2 life 
>> > size....
>> >
>> > http://www.monomagic.co.uk/gallery.php?gallery=paw/2008&image=2008-week51-1.jpg
>> >
>> > Taken with a Shen-Hao 5x4 camera on Ilford HP5 plus rated at ISO 200. 
>> > IIRC I used a 150mm lens.
>> >
>> > I remember that setting the shot up was um character-building...:-)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Mark Pope,
>> > Swindon, Wilts
>> > UK
>> >
>> > Homepage               http://www.monomagic.co.uk
>> > Blog                   http://www.monomagic.co.uk/blog
>> > Picture a week (2010)  
>> > http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2010
>> > Picture a week (2009)  
>> > http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2009
>> >               (2008) 
>> > http://www.monomagic.co.uk/index.php?gallery=paw/2008
>> >
>> >
>> > Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> >>> I would endorse this. I love my 90mm f4 macro. I bought it used, with 
>> >>> adapter
>> >>> but not the little angle finder. It is a superb lens for general use 
>> >>> too, as
>> >>> long as the light is good, and weighs very little. Mine is always in 
>> >>> my bag.
>> >>> OTOH smaller sensors have so much more depth of field that you can 
>> >>> get macro
>> >>> pictures which would be all but impossible with the bigger format. 
>> >>> With flash
>> >>> at low iso can be results are excellent too.
>> >>> Frank D.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 15 Jul, 2010, at 00:28, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>> >> Macro can be so unexpectedly difficult that a bit smaller sensor can 
>> >> help.
>> >> Anyone who's tried to do medium format macro knows it takes some real 
>> >> effort
>> >> and in the old days lots of testing.
>> >> High speed flash helps. Many find it virtually a necessity. People 
>> >> who'd not
>> >> dream of using flash otherwise.
>> >> Large format macro, 4x5 if you can do it you win a prize.
>> >> To me the most ideal format for macro might really be half frame. In 
>> >> the old
>> >> days 18x24. But now its called cropped 1.5 or 1.6 format.
>> >> In other words an M8.
>> >> I bet with even a 50 Summicron you can do real well doing macro with 
>> >> an M8.
>> >> The best part is the instant gratification.
>> >> You don't stop shooting till you know you've really gotten the shot.
>> >> [Rabs]
>> >> Mark William Rabiner
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Macro)
Message from mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope) ([Leica] Macro - now LF Macro)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Macro - now LF Macro)
Message from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] Macro - now LF Macro)