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Cham Temple IVth cent.

 

 

Fuji Velvia 50-R4S-50 Summicron

The color of stone is natural not corrected.

You notice that there is no face.

 

 

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Nice Suede ,  I don't know this place in Drome

Now I'll be interested in watching this photo :)

Thanks for posting

Rg H

 

 

Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert and Pradelle lie between Die and Nyons in the Drôme. The area is very quiet and picturesque, especially when the lavender fields are in bloom. There's a quite elaborate camping outfit there with rooms and facilities.

 

Farm in Pradelle.

 

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Field in Pradelle

 

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Penta ME Super, Pentax 3.5/135, Slide Film (I think it was Kodak...)

 

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Frozen  "Ammersee" Lake, Bavaria

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Rolleicord Vb, with Gearset for 24 Pictures. It was built for 28x40mm- Negatives, but there is also the possibility to use the full frame- width. NIce Gimmick!

 

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Although I've never even handled an Xpan, the above reasoning about "ultimate image quality" leaves me puzzled. Why even consider 6x12cm & 6x17cm formats when you could use large format (4x5 and 8x10 inch) and then crop for your ultimate image quality? My argument here is the implicit definition of "ultimate image quality" — but, frankly, I'm looking at this from the perspective of someone who usually prefers what people often call the "35mm aesthetic" — and from this point of view the Xpan looks wonderful indeed.

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Adam specifically asked about the resolution characteristic of the XPan and I answered him based on my experience of using it and many other cameras and film formats. The Xpan answered the issues of portability, ergonomics and economics with regard to  making 'panoramic' format images. Actually, the format is not, by any definition, 'panoramic'.  Neither is 6x17cm, both are better described as 'wide format'.   If you have ever used either a 5x7" or 6x17cm camera, you would understand the practicality of 6x17cm as a stand-alone format and the concept behind the cameras that grew up around it, including the amazing but outrageously expensive Seitz digital 617 camera.  I supplied images I made with my Fuji GX617 for calendars for many years, not something I would contemplate doing with a cropped 5x7" sheet of Velvia or even a 6x17cm rfh on a field camera!

 

Six years ago I was giving a series of talks at the UK's largest trade show, Focus on Imaging (now 'The Photography Show') about my landscape work.  Epson UK were printing several of my 6x17cm landscape images during my talks to demonstrate their new large format printers and the prints were sized at 9x3' and 12x4'.  I mention this in answer to your comments about 'ultimate quality'.  The output quality was a testament to not only the Epson printers, but the astonishing resolution of the 6x17cm Velvia originals, the Fuji lenses and the Imacon scanner I still use.  Scans from Xpan frames would have run out of steam at a little over a couple of feet.

 

 '35mm aesthetic' and commercial advantage, strategy and application are not necessarily complimentary.

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Very effective use of negative space in this one.  Love it.

Field in Pradelle

 

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Really lovely.  Love that Tri-X.

Mothers abandoned garden

Kodak Tri-X 400 R135 1/250 5,6

 

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Steve - I was going to answer for you last night but thought I would just patiently wait for you do it.  And I am glad that I did!

Adam specifically asked about the resolution characteristic of the XPan and I answered him based on my experience of using it and many other cameras and film formats. The Xpan answered the issues of portability, ergonomics and economics with regard to  making 'panoramic' format images. Actually, the format is not, by any definition, 'panoramic'.  Neither is 6x17cm, both are better described as 'wide format'.   If you have ever used either a 5x7" or 6x17cm camera, you would understand the practicality of 6x17cm as a stand-alone format and the concept behind the cameras that grew up around it, including the amazing but outrageously expensive Seitz digital 617 camera.  I supplied images I made with my Fuji GX617 for calendars for many years, not something I would contemplate doing with a cropped 5x7" sheet of Velvia or even a 6x17cm rfh on a field camera!

 

Six years ago I was giving a series of talks at the UK's largest trade show, Focus on Imaging (now 'The Photography Show') about my landscape work.  Epson UK were printing several of my 6x17cm landscape images during my talks to demonstrate their new large format printers and the prints were sized at 9x3' and 12x4'.  I mention this in answer to your comments about 'ultimate quality'.  The output quality was a testament to not only the Epson printers, but the astonishing resolution of the 6x17cm Velvia original, the Fuji lenses and the Imacon scanner I still use.  Scans from Xpan frames would have run out of steam at a little over a couple of feet.

 

 '35mm aesthetic' and commercial advantage, strategy and application are not necessarily complimentary.

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I find that composition with panorama cameras with a rotating lens (such as the Horizon, Widelux or Noblex) is a thing of its own. 

In the horizontal axis they exhibit fisheye-like distortion, whereas they have a "normal" lens behaviour vertically. 

So either one has to chose one's vintage point carefully to avoid unwanted distortion effects, or one can conscientiously use the

effects to one's advantage. 

 

Here a recent example from the Monopteros in Munich. It is one of those photos that work equally well horizontally or vertically  ;) .

 

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Horizon, Polypan, ns

 

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I find that composition with panorama cameras with a rotating lens (such as the Horizon, Widelux or Noblex) is a thing of its own. 

In the horizontal axis they exhibit fisheye-like distortion, whereas they have a "normal" lens behaviour vertically. 

So either one has to chose one's vintage point carefully to avoid unwanted distortion effects, or one can conscientiously use the

effects to one's advantage. 

 

Here a recent example from the Monopteros in Munich. It is one of those photos that work equally well horizontally or vertically  ;) .

 

attachicon.gif161222_1_Horizon_0016.jpg

Horizon, Polypan, ns

 

Rgds

 

C. 

 

Thanks for the neck sprain, Christoph - just what I needed on a Sunday morning :)

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Thanks for the neck sprain, Christoph - just what I needed on a Sunday morning :)

 

Yes Christoph like Adam, for my poor cervical vertebrae and for the pratician that I am , pity for this kind of photos :D

... but it is beautiful :)

Thanks for posting

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Henry

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Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert and Pradelle lie between Die and Nyons in the Drôme. The area is very quiet and picturesque, especially when the lavender fields are in bloom. There's a quite elaborate camping outfit there with rooms and facilities.

 

Farm in Pradelle.

 

attachicon.gifFarm.jpg

 

Field in Pradelle

 

attachicon.gifField.jpg

 

Suede superb pictures in b&w . The black is so deep , very nice

Thanks. I'll pass there for my next trip to the South

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Henry

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Thanks for the neck sprain, Christoph - just what I needed on a Sunday morning :)

 

Adam, 

 

It looks worse than it is, 120 degree viewing angle covers quit a lot ...

 

Yes Christoph like Adam, for my poor cervical vertebrae and for the pratician that I am , pity for this kind of photos :D

... but it is beautiful :)

Thanks for posting

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Henry

 

 

Henry,

 

Thx, need to keep your profession busy...  :o

 

Rgds

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Henry - Don't feel so bad, here's what physicians look like in NYC after a long day at work.  :D

M7, 28mm elmarit pre-asph, Cinestill 800T

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