Re: fisheye on steroids for 45

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

One of those that should have gone to the list, instead of private:

On 11 Mar 00 at 21:01, ralph fuerbringer wrote:

> willem-jan markerink wrote he put mamiya 37mm fisheye on a 45 graphic. 
> beside photographing the bed as he mentioned there are other drawbacks. if
> the 35mmpentax fisheye makes it w/o a hair to spare how can 37? without a
> perfect circle theres no point to the whole thing. 

As I said, the included bed does have it's historic/nostalgic 
charme....not perfect (yet), but not a disaster either (yet).

> the mamiiya has no focus
> by itself the pentax a helical down to  inches,no ground glass needed.
> shutter cocking the mamiya is  complex and slow. 

That's why I use a Speed Graphic....focal plane shutter, up to 
1/1000s and down to bulb....;-))

> inserted in an ilex 5 you
> dont even have to cock, mount on a view standard. have  ilex 5 for $350.
> some guy shoots
> the west with this setup  the galleries the effect.. in new
> york it wraps the street lights around the top like a canopy.the front is
> 1/2 pam anderson w/no shade.
> personally im an old rectilinearwreck:the  vistashift 612 cameras i make &
> use have 35to55 apo-grandagons, get the max shift each lens allows by simply
> reversing the back. lens and back are offset 1/2 the max shift. the 35 apo
> is easily the greatest wideangle of all time, more than twice a superwide
> hasselblad plus a shift .  equivalent to an 11.5 mm shift lens on 35 where
> the widest is 24. though the 47xl super angulon is way below the optical
> pinacle of the 35apo grandagon at 22,32 it covers a hair more. to the wa nut
> a hair is a mile. i have a 6l7 with it, interchangeable with a
> 90 and a gg at any time, no film loss. 9 on 220! can you beat that? 

I believe there are/were 6x24 backs around....:-))

> main
> use w/47xl:skyscrappers, just throwaway the sidewalk, for a great 612. love
> your site that
> expands indefiitely.

Thank you for your kind words Sir....;-)) 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


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is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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