Shoshone Falls Canyon, Early June

Well done Ken. What a crazy looking place! So much going on and to see. I too share your need for tripods with MF cameras these days. However I discontinued a medication recently and with that I lost a tremor in my right hand. Things are looking up!

@Eric Rose Thanks, Eric. Everyone who sees it comments on the sense of activity in the pic. Good deal with the discontinued med. The Mamiya 645 weighs a freaking ton, as those who have hefted it will attest. It's all metal and real glass. My Nikon DSLR is a toy by comparison. Anyway, I'm afraid I suffer from a bit of representational bias with my film work, and so sharpness is important (I know, I know -- spare me the lectures about abstraction from reality in art. I used to teach the damn subject). So I'd probably opt for the tripod anyway. BTW, I enlarged this image to 16 by 20 without any loss of sharpness (not sure this version does it justice) and I have to admit it's one of my favorites. Got it framed to give to a neighbor who did me a favor recently -- he had seen a smaller version and expressed his admiration. He'll like the big version, too.

I like it very much there is much to see very interesting scene!

@JohnArs Thanks!

Sharpness to spare!! What developer did you use with the film?

I'm with you on the tripod thing. I use one as much as I can. If it's worth taking, it's worth the extra time and effort to get it ALL right.

People often ask me what is the quickest way to improve their images. I tell them to buy a tripod and USE it!

@jerrybro Oops. Forgot to list it: ID-11 1:1.

@Eric Rose Yep. I recently told a (much younger) colleague who lets me use her barn studio that if I'm in the studio I use a tripod, for both the Mamiya and my DSLR. If I'm outdoors, I use a tripod for the Mamiya, as I noted above (except for the odd unexpected situation, also noted above). Sometimes I'll shoot 35mm film in an old Nikon Em but I use that outside exclusively and hand hold it. I should also say here that I had to buy a pair of reading glasses to focus the Mamiya. I wear glasses anyway, mostly for close-up and reading, but somehow I couldn't see well enough through the viewfinder to focus, glasses or not. I bought a dollar-store pair (mag 1.5) and now all is well, even if I look a little nerdy when I wear them. OK, a lot nerdy. But my shots are in focus.

OK if I was a builder needing to quote for re-making the chimney stack on the house with the balcony I'd be a bit disappointed that with the naked eye I can't quite count the bricks. On the other hand if I am a road builder I can get pretty close to estimating how many rocks on the lower embankment on the U shaped road.

I don't think I have seen a handheld shot with any more distinguishable detail than this . It's amazing

PS I suspect that with a magnifying glass I would be able to count the bricks anyway

Oh, and it's a great scene as well

@pentaxuser Every once in a while, I get lucky. Thanks for the kind words.