Next up in my review of geared tripod heads is the Arca-Swiss Core 60 Leveler Classic. This head has a load capacity of 20 kg, plus and minus ten degrees of geared pitch and geared roll, and has non-geared yaw at both the top and the base. It’s the little brother of the Arca-Swiss Core… [Read More]
LuLand D geared tripod head
I’m going to be reporting on a bunch of geared tripod heads from China, mostly, and two from Switzerland. First up — and by far the worst — is this LuLan D head. It has non-geared base yaw, and geared pitch and roll. There are locks for all three. You can see the base yaw… [Read More]
Fuji 35-70 GF Siemens star visuals, corner
Here is a continuation of a visual test of the Fujifilm GF 35-70 using a low-contrast Siemens star target. In the previous post I showed you center crops. In this one we’ll look at corner crops. Test conditions: Target distance 20 meters ISO 100 Manual exposure, varying the f-stops Arca Swiss CA on RRS legs… [Read More]
What pitch do you need to scan 4×5 TMax 100?
In my last post, I showed you results obtained by scanning TMax 100 6×6 (cm) negatives with the GFX 100S both with and without pixel shifting. Today, I’ll do the same with 4×5 (inch) negatives. Here’s the “scanner”. From left to right: light source, negative carrier on Cognisys rail, lens shade, Rodenstock HR Digarono 105… [Read More]
Poor man’s C1 Cube?
I saw an ad for a 500 buck small geared tripod head that looked a lot like an Arca Swiss C1 Cube. I bit. Here’s what it looks like next to the C1: It appears to be reasonably well built, but there’s no yaw possible below the pitch and roll axes. It needs to be… [Read More]
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