Suit yourself, just don't demand that everyone comply with your narrow, prescriptivist doctrine.
Lachlan, I you want to pay it, pay it, me I've other interesting things to do with money than wasting it.
6x9cm has an impressive image quality yet and at 1€ per shot I can simply make x7 more shots than if shooting sheets, for portraiture having that posilibility it's important because taking a good face expresion may require several shots.
I would pay $1 instead $5, in the USA, but in the EU a 10 sheets Portra 160 box is 62.5€ which is $70, which is $7 per sheet.
Look, at that $7 per 4x5"shot I won't buy their sheets, 6x9cm at 1€ per shot has total image quality in practice for portraiture... me I prefer taking more shots while still having movements.
Portra LF price in the EU is unbearable, time to drop Portra sheets for me. If kodak pricing policy was like the ilford one I still would shot 4x5 Portra, but in present situation I move to 120 roll film back.
Do we get to fill out the evaluations yet?I'm hoping we all get Continuing Education Certificates at the end of this.
No it doesn't, but feeding the troll only inspires it to further pollute those results. Even more unfortunate....Doing so doesn't remove the nonsense from google's search results. Unfortunately
Yeah, a sliding back would help for sure. But I find that when I shoot 120 film its 95% of the time in a MF camera and I use the 4x5's mostly for B&W work. Maybe if I come across one of those sliding backs one day - who knows? Although I suspect I'd sooner lean towards a texas leica for 6x9cm. More convenient.
Suit yourself, just don't demand that everyone comply...
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your narrow, ..... doctrine.
prescriptivist
I have one of those. It's pretty awesome. Fujica GW690 with a 90mm Fuji lens. the lens alone makes it worth it.
I can second 138S' recommendation here. The "Texas Leica" is an amazing camera. Especially if you still have some of the classic Kodak Panatomic-X film:Yes, it's an excellent camera, the 90mm focal version it's most versatile, I feel, I would like to have one. The drawback is that it's not much suitable for portraiture, as focal and max aperture are not suitable for all portraits, but it's ideal for travelling. Time ago I considered it but as most I do is portraits I ended in the P67II which is another animal.
The great thing of the texan is that it allows near LF quality with slides at 1/4 of the shot cost, while portable, agile, very handheld suitable, I tried one owned by a friend, I used it with a monopod to cancel any shake with Velvia 50, and results were amazing.
My personal view is that monopod is ideal for the texan when wanting optimal quality with slow films, only a very steady shot takes all IQ potential, but a tripod cancels its agility advantage, so a monopod may be a good compromise in many situations for the texan, I feel.
"Texas Leica" is an amazing camera. Especially if you still have some of the fantastic Kodak Panatomic-X film:
Velvia 6x12cm is 1/4 of the cost of 10x12cm (4x5") so I exploit the more pano 6x12cm for similar IQ at 1/4 of the cost.
Regarding BW I adjusted my process to get same yield with ilford sheets that I can afford and I find fairly priced. They are totally excellent and at the end it allows me to shot more 8x10" BW that otherwise I would have to restrict to the half.
Your are wrong, I'm only sharing the way I'm skipping the nasty effects of the high price increase, and sheet film overprice of kodak/fuji, to not have to drop LF.
Perhaps you not shot much, or no LF right now,
My only interest is that sheet colour film remains available
A lot of that is not the fault of the manufacturer, distributor or retailer. Your EU price of $546 vs. $300 at B&H for Provia on your earlier post is caused by high VAT, import duties, and other taxes. Have you written to the PM and other ministers?Drew, of course I got no answer.
If you see fotoimpex web store they don't have 810 velvia 50 or 100 anymore, Fuji killed that market in the EU yet, it will be like Neopan: kaput.
Now fotoimpex may have 810 Porta stock at 275€ 10 sheet, it would be 550€ 20 shots, well more expensive than Velvia. Soon like Fuji: kaput. Not a single color 810 box sold in the entire UE?
Situation in the UE is way worse than in the US.
I this case you may do something like I do, IMO the present Kodak policy is to exterminate CN LF soon, those prices are discouraging, customer base will disapear and at one point it won't be worth to coat a single master roll with LF base.
For this reason best is that they notice ASAP that their policy is to kill that. From my side I've been writting to all manufacturers and to all ditributors about those abusive prices that are to kill customer base.
???. Velvia has such a narrow exposure tolerance it's difficult to reproduce well. Looking at it on a lightbox or using a slide projector is one thing, printing it another. But there are times it's the correctly fitting shoe for the foot. When I printed 8x10 chromes I did sometimes shoot Velvia, but less than 5% of the time. It's quite appropriate for very low contrast fog or rain scenes that actually need a boost. There was nothing particularly neutral about NPS unless you are thinking about skintones. Provia is horrible to print from optically because it's always been on inferior acetate base which isn't dimensionally stable, though I was forced to shoot it for quite awhile until Astia 100F and E100G finally came out on polyester base. But color neg isn't necessarily sharper at all. The finest grain (or dye cloud) LF color film I've ever used is Astia 100F, a chrome film, followed closely by Ektar 100. But that's largely a non-issue when shooting LF.
I shot a lot of Velvia 50 in medium format. I never realized I should limit it to specific conditions except I found portraits needed a lot of editing afterwards to tone down the flesh.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=velvia&user_id=55760757@N05&view_all=1
I bought some in 4x5 but still learning view cameras so I haven't tried it yet.
Why? Because the aesthetics of Velvia aren't seen as particularly attractive by a market much more inclined to the aesthetics of Portra, the better sharpness of colour neg & the option to fairly easily wet print if desired. Velvia is seen as the stuff a particular kind of clichéd landscape photographer uses as part of an inane aesthetic
I bought some in 4x5 but still learning view cameras so I haven't tried it yet.
When someone puts jam and jelly atop sugar cubes, and routinely serves up bowlfuls of that, pretty soon nobody can taste anything.
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