Great Falls
Barry S

Great Falls

I hauled my Deardorff and new Vitax #4 petzval out to Great Falls, MD for a few landscape shots. I like the way the Vitax renders the landscape, but the lens is huge and tough to cart around. It was meant as a whole plate portrait lens and likely never left the studio, but it's interesting shooting landscapes with a 13.5" f/3.8 petzval. Also my first time shooting APHS ortho film and although I like the film, I still have to figure out how to develop for even tonality. You can see some uneven areas in the sky.
Location
Great Falls, MD
Equipment Used
Deardorff V8, Vitax #4
Exposure
2 sec @ f/5.6
Film & Developer
APHS ortho, 1:200 HC-110 replenisher
Thanks Mark. Andrew-- I've still got some work to do to figure out the diffusion control. The quality of the lens is really great, but the benefits of the diffusion control aren't entirely clear. The control moves the front air spaced element of the rear group forward and can be used two ways--1) focus and then add diffusion or 2)add diffusion and then focus. Looking at the ground glass if I focus first and then dial in diffusion, it looks a lot like defocusing with the bokeh quality of objects in front of the plane of focus. It looks like moving the plane of focus behind the subjects. If I use the diffusion control first and then focus--it looks like everything is focused normally. But that's just on the ground glass, so I need to run some film tests--more than the small number of sheets I've managed to shoot.
 

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