[Leica] Macro - now LF Macro

[chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)]

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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