It’s not a very exciting picture, but it’s the first one I made with the Swebo TC-1. On the front of the tech cam was a Rodenstock 180mm f/5.6 HR Digaron. On the back was a Fujifilm GFX 100S. Some notes: The bellows and the monorail are long enough to allow the lens to focus… [Read More]
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Are you completely satisfied with your gear?
There was a thread on DPR’s Medium Format board (full disclosure: I’m a moderator there) that started out the way a lot of threads there do. An MF-curious poster said that he was using FF gear and wondered what buying an MF camera would do for him. I asked what he didn’t like about his… [Read More]
Arca Swiss C1 head review
Since I’ve been reviewing geared heads, I might as well include what I consider to be the gold standard, the Arca Swiss C1. If you can deal with the weight and the cost, and the fact that it’s a bit fragile, this is an outstanding geared… [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]
Scanning black-and-white negatives with a GFX 100S
I haven’t posted here in a almost three weeks. That’s a long time for me. There’s a reason for that; I’ve been doing some actual photography. This is a post about what I’m doing, concentrating on how I’m doing it. Most of my posts the past few months have been, uh, focused on testing macro… [Read More]