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Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 6:37 am
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stevemark wrote:
Currently ...

* Sony A900, A7RII (publications)
* Sony A7II, A7RII (testing vintage lenses)
* Sony A100 (IR images / filter stack removed and replaced by 720nm IR filter); a Sony A7 is waiting for IR conversation ...

* Fuji GFX (occasionally if required by clients)

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you have 200 greatest film cameras and you dont use them Shocked Wink Smile


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Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 2:32 pm
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kansalliskala wrote:

you have 200 greatest film cameras and you dont use them Shocked Wink Smile


Absolutely true. Why?

Concerning photography, I do basically two things:

1) "serious stuff" for publication in books, booklet or large format calendars (architecture & townscapes)
2) vintage lens testing / comparison

Both of these are not my main focus, and devoting even more time to do serious film photography would not be sustainable.
That said - I did lots and lost of b/w images until about 1995, both landscape (using hifg res Kodak Technical Pan 2415) and portraits (mainly Ilford HP5). My last real b/w image was a very straigh and direct portrait of H. H. the XIV. Dalai Lama, taken 2007 at his residence in Dharamsala with the Minolta Dynax 9 and the trusty old Minolta AF 1.4/85mm. I probably cannot top that image, and so I decided to leave it at that ...

Doing serious b/w photography has become expensive, and apart from b/w portraits and b/w large format landscape photography I don't see a point using film, to be honest ... Nobody has the skills AND the machines to produce high quality color slide scans any more ... and I would need 4x5 inch to narrowly get the quality of even the Sony A900!!

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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:06 am
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stevemark wrote:

Concerning photography, I do basically two things:

1) "serious stuff" for publication in books, booklet or large format calendars (architecture & townscapes)
2) vintage lens testing / comparison



you dont take pictures of house plants, garden, dogs, cars and bicycles, wife making coffee? that is where film is now at its best for me. digital for work obviously.
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