[MF3D.FORUM:1146] I'm back

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi gang,

  Did you miss me?  :)  :)

  I got back to work yesterday
after my 2 week+ vacation.

  We had a great time in Alberta.
Sam and I went to Silverton Falls
and a few other places on our day
trip.

  The family (Dawn, Emily, Beth and
I) went to Kananaskis where we did
some touristy things as well as
taking more MF stereo slides.

  On the way home we stayed at my
dad's place overnight and the next
day I went out and shot some MF
stereos of the old granary (on my
one quarter section of farm land)
that a tornado had recently destroyed
as well as some shots of an old
house.

  In all I shot 4 rolls of Provia F,
4 of Velvia, 2 of Scala, plus finished
the E100SW roll in my Fisheye66 camera.
And almost shot a whole 36 of Provia
in the Realist (snapshots).

  I'm almost shooting as much as Dr T!  :)

  The developed rolls mostly look great
(not yet mounted) except for ruining 1/2
of my Silverton Falls shots by opening
the SR225 back after shot 12 but before
winding to the end of the rolls. Doh!

  My big news isn't in writing yet so
I won't say anything more until next
week.

  BTW I'm glad Abram is here to clarify
all the deviation issues. I think I
understood them but not necessarily well
enough to explain it to others. Welcome
aboard.

  As I've been saying to Bill G. privately
I don't worry to much about OFD when I
shoot. If it turns out somewhere between
1 and 3mm (MF viewed w/ 80mm lenses) then
that's usually good enough for me. Trying
to get the max OFD and then accidentally
getting 4mm due to a branch you didn't notice
will ruin a shot more than a 2mm OFD shot.

  I started out in MF hypering everything
(twin TLRs) to show lots of depth across
distance but seeing Sam's subtle depth
and Don's low OFD shots in the folio have
convinced me that lots of OFD doesn't make
the photo. Often, less is more.

Dismount from soapbox - Greg E.