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The Hansa sold within the day but I shall keep the link advice in mind for future reference. |
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Thankyou, FADUers. What a mine of information!
The project was, and is, to record for posterity the rotting doors of some 15th and 16th century tenements in the southwest of France. The alleys are rather narrow and I sometimes have to have the back of my Hasselblad with 50mm Distagon against the opposite wall, rotated axially 90 degrees so that I can see into the waist-level finder sideways. On one occasion I used a borrowed laser distance meter to set the focus manually. Light levels in the alleys are rather low, even on sunny days, so shutter speeds of 1/2 sec at f/11 are normal. A camera with movements would be magic. At present I often have to tilt my masking frame by packing with film cartons to correct converging verticals. 6x6cm negatives on Delta 100, generously exposed and processed in Rodinal 1+50, give essentially grain-free images enlarged to A3 (16 x 12"), so there is no incentive to go to a larger format. I already have an uncoated 2 1/2" Cooke f/6.3 wide-angle lens without a shutter - camera long since gone elsewhere but I was told it had a Thornton-Pickard roller-blind shutter. It was my father's and I think it predates the last war. It may be past it - we shall see. The proposed 100mm lens I mentioned, in a shutter, would be used for less specialised work. |
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An SWC would seem to be the solution to your problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Yes, but at what cost! The cheapest I have seen is/was £1500, including the viewfinder but excluding the groundglass adapter, plus shipping from the US.
There is another project for which a camera with movements would be ideal is photographing individual flowers in the context of the garden or woodland in which they grow. Stopping right down does not render a sharp foreground image while retaining crisp detail in the trees. I have a tilt adapter for fitting a Hasselblad 50mm Distagon onto a Canon EOS 5D2. It was purchased to illustrate the town hall's campaign to keep the streets free of dog mess - the offending object in every detail in the foreground, with a (recognisable) view of the town behind. But it created a d.... file, for which the client was grateful, but didn't qualify for traditional presentation. |
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I looked up an Arcbody and Hasselblad Flex but they are at similar prices, all over £1000 plus lens.
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