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    Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back

    Asher, I have a Beseler dual mode slide duplicator, the Sony A7r2 has more than enough resolution for my 35, 6x6 and 6x7 negatives. erie
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    Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back

    Asher, now that my living situation is somewhat settled, I'll be scanning a lot of my negatives, I'll post as time permits. erie
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    Holy Crap!

    I’ve slowly been recelling the batteries with lithium batteries as they fail. I have two large batteries that have gel cell and they generally get used the most
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    Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back

    daughter and grandkids, yes. here's another from a recent work trip to Hong Kong, pretty heavy crop from the P30, still holds up well...
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    Holy Crap!

    "Lumedyne? I must have the largest Lumedyne collection in the USA" I don't know, I have maybe 18-20 heads, at least a dozen packs, tons of batteries, all told, about 3 copier paper boxes full.
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    Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back

    Here is a quick one that I have on my phone, what amazes me is this is straight conversion to jpg with no editing, the colors from the Phase One back are incredible.
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    Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back

    Sid's blog post pretty much made my mind up for me, though I struggle with focus for the exact same reason he does, eyes just aren't getting any younger. I have a few focus levers, they just never really jived with me, I generally shoot on a tripod and subjects aren't moving, so I have time and...
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    Holy Crap!

    No more children for me, two thirty somethings are enough. Rail systems are really nice, I miss having a studio space to work in, but life being what it is... I took a multi year hiatus from any serious shooting, but not acquisitions when deals too good to pass up came by, I presently don't...
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    Holy Crap!

    Just jumped on to check whats new, has it really been 17 years since Asher's experiment started? Asher, tell me it isn't so! erie patsellis
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    Hasselblad CFV 100C digital back

    As a datapoint, for my use, with the cost of 120 film reaching ridiculous levels, justifying a Phase One P30 back for $1500 made sense. I enjoy the ergonomics, familiarity after 30 years of using a Hassy off and on, and at nearly $20 a roll, plus processing, a year or so worth of film and...
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    I'm Baaaack!

    Hey!!!! Me too!!!! The last few years have left me somewhat artistically dead, but I've got to remedy that somehow, I sure can't use the equipment excuse either... Erie
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    "Frame close and crop closer": the sin of the enthusiast!

    wow, a blast from the past... sometimes tight works really, really well, for example: This is a perfect example of a metagraphic, as discussed (very, very) earlier: The brain sees a round french horn, despite what the image shows. and sometimes in retrospect, a little looser would have...
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    Review of New Canon X300 Printers

    Asher, Just to update this thread, with the current trend towards rebates and "trade in" credits, the net cost of an 8300 is under $2600, too low for even me to ignore. I am patiently awaiting mine to arrive (not terribly patient, but as much as I can be...) and already have 2 local studios...
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    Which Mouse?

    Google X-mouse, if the mouse driver supports those buttons, as one would imagine they would, then you can use X-mouse to remap them to anything you want. See their website here It's actions are also configurable by what program you are in as well. It's a very, very handy tool.
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    A couple of the grandson

    Asher, I shoot everything in RAW with both cameras, I had first tried a fairly "straight"recovery and even after noise ninja, it just wasn't cutting it. While I generally get exposure nailed consistently, when a strobe fails to fire, there's only so much I can do. ambient lighting was extremely...
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    A couple of the grandson

    Clayton, it was a grab shot, he was getting restless and we were trying to entertain him. Funny how those things work, isn't it? Asher, I bought a five foot and seven foot from amvona on ebay a few years back, the seven was set up in my friends studio a couple of years ago and just never...
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    A couple of the grandson

    We spent the other night shooting our annual family pictures of my stepdaughter and her family at the studio, here's a couple of my 11 month old grandson Avery, his personality is starting to show more and more, these pictures certainly captured it: Shot with an S5, Tamron 28-75 2.8...
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    Kodak SLR/n and Siggy 14

    Asher, Had I the funds at the time, I would have bought the 2.8 (the one Reichman compared), as other reviewers have said it's a bit better on illumination and sharpness. But the ever amusing Thom Hogan didn't feel it was worth the difference in cost, and I agree. For what little I paid for it...
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    Kodak SLR/n and Siggy 14

    Believe me, if I thought for one second that everyone would be absolutely still for at least two and a half minutes, I'd of taken the Sinar and the scanback, I just love those 6,000 x 7200 images. But as a full time student at a school I couldn't afford (thank god for scholarships and grants)...
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    Kodak SLR/n and Siggy 14

    Andy, it's just a first pass, I have a proof from the Frontier sitting here with a bunch of red sharpie marks all over it for corrections, one of them is the blur issue, like I had said, I'm more of a "straight" shooter and it may take me a few passes to get it where I stop tweaking the image.
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