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[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by dasviper

It seems funny to me that you would go to the considerable trouble of using a large format view camera and then stitch together two photos that don't really match. What else have you got from the Wista that's straight?

Rob

Rob,
Not considerable trouble at all, about 15 minutes. It was done as a joke for a friend who is also a photographer. I kept the jpeg and figured I'd post it. It probably took longer to upload than to stitch.

These were from about fifteen years ago. Since then I've run at least 10,000 sheets of film through the camera. BTW, the camera is built like a tank. It still looks brand new.

Not all of the 10,000 sheets are personal work. more than half are probably work work.

What would you like to see? how about:

[dasviper]

Cool! Well, 15 minutes is more considerable than a lot of people would put into a landscape. I'd like to try large format some time, but haven't gotten my hands on a camera yet. (The closest I own is a YashicaMat 124G TLR). I'm headed into photojournalism, so I've been really pleased to see the work that David Burnett has been doing with a Speed Graphic and other "obsolete" tools. It breaks my heart that I'll soon spend $5000 on a digital camera that will be as good as a paperweight in 50 years, while a wood-and-brass beauty like yours is still going strong.

Rob

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Rob,
Not considerable trouble at all, about 15 minutes. It was done as a joke for a friend who is also a photographer. I kept the jpeg and figured I'd post it. It probably took longer to upload than to stitch.

These were from about fifteen years ago. Since then I've run at least 10,000 sheets of film through the camera. BTW, the camera is built like a tank. It still looks brand new.

Not all of the 10,000 sheets are personal work. more than half are probably work work.

What would you like to see? how about:

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by dasviper

Cool! Well, 15 minutes is more considerable than a lot of people would put into a landscape. I'd like to try large format some time, but haven't gotten my hands on a camera yet. (The closest I own is a YashicaMat 124G TLR). I'm headed into photojournalism, so I've been really pleased to see the work that David Burnett has been doing with a Speed Graphic and other "obsolete" tools. It breaks my heart that I'll soon spend $5000 on a digital camera that will be as good as a paperweight in 50 years, while a wood-and-brass beauty like yours is still going strong.

Rob

Das,
MAT124G is an awesome camera. I once worked at a camera shop and did a side by side comparison with a hasselblad and the images were indistinguishable from one another. I bought the Yashica Mat.

Digital paperweight in 50 years? Nahh, try 50 weeks!

I just bought my first digital camera: a C.Pix for the princely sum of $19.95. It wouldn't weigh down a sheet of rice paper! Twenty bucks is all I'm ready to part with at this point. It does have a cmos sensor...

I've been crazy busy, but will post some $20. digi images soon and I promised to p'shop a mullet on some other pic.

Gotta go now.