Re: Lifesize closeups

[T3D Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I use an SLR on a slide bar and mount in 5P mounts.
>Just hold your depth of scene down so you don't have
>too much on-film deviation.  The wide SLR film gives
>you lots of excess film to trim away when you mount
>in 5P.

  Nice.

  I didn't mention it in my post but I'm interested
in doing it in MF (using one of my 6x6 TLRs).

  So I guess the solution there is to buy a Fuji
6x8 or 6x9 camera to have extra film to throw away :)

Greg

(Nice job on those P3D diffraction posts John.)

On John's PS

>Your worst problem is going to be depth of field.
>You can only stop the lens down so far before the
>loss of resolution gets pretty horrible.

  I don't know about that. I have a very nice
shot of some flower stamens taken at f32 with
my Ricohflex and the Pentax +11 diopter CU lens.

  There ain't much DOF but the stamens look nice
and sharp to me.

  Speaking of P3D posts. Didn't you say we 80mm
MFers can shoot at f/42 before diffraction becomes
the big problem?

Greg


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