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I Use Three Photographic Formats----

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Posted on March 23, 2001 at 15:42:37
john c.


 
....So, HELLOOOO!!!!!!! Welcome to ze Camera Forum...Like I said above, I shoot in 35mm, and in medium-format(120 film)--I have a used Pentax ZX-M 35mm camera, and a 1960's vintage
Mamiya Press Camera which uses 120 roll-film,to give me
6 X 6, 6 X 7, or 6 X 4.5cm images.---AND then I take selected
negs or slides
down to the Kinko's here in town, and SCAN the pictures into a computer, and store them DIGITALLY on floppy-disc....Neat!!! so I use three formats: 120 negs/slides;35mm negs/slides; and
digital-format. Isn't 2001 a great
time to be a 'shutterbug'??????

 

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Re: I Use Three Photographic Formats----, posted on March 23, 2001 at 16:18:36
RBP


 
You got it going on!!!

I bet the 6X7 is awesome!

 

6x45? Why? :), posted on March 23, 2001 at 18:49:50
jj
 I'll stick by my 6x7 :)

It will be some time before digital lets me do the same thing at the same price.

Consider, if you will, a print made from a 6x7 Techpan negative. Try to calculate those pixels :)
JJ

 

Re: 6x45? Why? :), posted on March 23, 2001 at 19:22:11
Des
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 Dead right-- 6x6 ,6x7 or 6X8-the 6x45 seems to be a bit in the wilderness, format -wise.
I saw somewhere to emulate the finest resolving emulsion--such as T-Pan the figure of45,000 dpi--go figure!

Good Shooting,
Des

 

uh, I think i'll move back to only 35mm, posted on March 23, 2001 at 22:53:43
Keith
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Posts: 16
Location: Pacific NW
Joined: September 29, 1999
 Dude, I shot my first roll of 120 last month, with a Hassl'500 that I inherited. It was in focus, but then the store gave me back my reprints, IT LOOKED GRAINIER THAN MY 35MM!!!! What gives?!?!?!

Hope it was only the store.

 

Something was wrong., posted on March 24, 2001 at 16:46:05
jj
 I can hardly say what it was, but generally a 6x6 shouldn't be grainy.

How is the negative density?
JJ

 

Re: Something was wrong., posted on March 25, 2001 at 16:08:07
Keith
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Posts: 16
Location: Pacific NW
Joined: September 29, 1999
 Never saw the negative, someone developed it for me and then sent me the prints. (don't ask).


 

Re: uh, I think i'll move back to only 35mm, posted on March 28, 2001 at 15:55:14
john c.


 
...Congrats on inheriting the Hassie!! ---A GREAT durable camera---next time you go out shooting with it, shoot
color slides, then when you get the slides back, you can just hold them
up to look at them, and see how grainy/non-grainy
they are. The lab which developed your negs from the first time may have over-or under-developed them, causing the 'graininess'...BTW, take
your Hassie negs or slides to a photo place which
has EXPERIENCE with doing 120 film!!!...If there's no place like that,look in the ads for film developing in
a couple Photography mags...

 

Re: I Use Three Photographic Formats----, posted on March 28, 2001 at 16:07:54
john c.


 
...Hey,it sure is--the 6 X 7 format is the Mamiya Press
camera's main shooting format, and I have metal 'masks' which
fit over the film's pressure-plate area to
change the format to 6 X 6, OR 6 X 4.5---neat, huh???
I can't change formats in mid-roll, but
my one 1960's Mamiya Press can allow me to
shoot in THREE different-size negs(or slides)...the only drawback is the camera weighs THREE lbs!! oof.--but it
gives me some great landscapes...

 

Re: 6x45? Why? :), posted on March 28, 2001 at 16:18:06
john c.


 
.....To answer an earlier question, a 6 X 7 slide would have an equivalent pixel-count of approx 7-1/2--to--9-MILLION pixels!!!
Now the digital cameras will get to 8-megapixels
in about 4 years--about in 2005. Meanwhile, we 120-film users can shoot our 6 X 4.5,6 X6, and 6 X 7 negs and SCAN them
onto CD's, or Kodak Photo Discs(not the lesser-resolution Kodak Picture Disc) and we can have
those 8-megapixel photos NOW....BTW, has anyone put their photos on a Kodak PhotoDisc???

 

..A 6 X 7 neg Has About 7-1/2 million silver halide grains(pixels)!!, posted on September 29, 2001 at 11:59:55
john c.


 
nt.

 

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