I rarely do in depth product tests as I feel there are so many great resources already online, I could not add to it in any way. But I do occasionally write about the gear I have a chance to use. Here is an overview of these posts:
hi Flemming, i know this is an old post, but i was just having a wander through your blog and came across it. I got to borrow a Hasselblad H3 50mp last year, with a 28mm lens and the tilt shift adaptor. i only had it for a few hours, but it was during a lovely dawn shoot at Margaret River, so i got some good value from it. The 28mm lens is awesome, especially with the tilt shift, the depth is brilliant, and shooting at about f11 can give you almost infinite DOF. The other nice thing about that tilt shift is the 3 shot pano you can create without moving the camera, but just shifting the lens far right, middle, then far left, fully tilted down for maximum DOF of course. The three images stitch perfectly, the camera doesn't move remember, and any vignetting is in just the right places for some nice edge falloff. The finished image is the first one on the scroll bar of the South West set on my site, if you want to check it out. I'll show you the 2.2m print of it when you come over in November.
Hi Adam, thanks for the comment. A tilt shift adapter would be very cool on a medium format camera as the DOF is much smaller than a 35mm camera and for stitching as well I can see how handy it would be. Three verticals and you're done Look forward to seeing that print mate.
Good point about the reduced DOF, its something that catches a lot of people out when they first try medium format. The tilt shift adaptor fixes that very well, and the great thing about it is that you can use it with a variety of lenses instead of just one, though it does have some glass in it, so it changes the effective length of your lens by a factor of about 1.2 i think… cant remember exactly. very good idea though. the three i stitched were not shot in vertical format, i did them horizontally, and they make up a ratio of about 2:1 which is lovely. Shooting vertically would make something like a 3:2, more like a 35mm format… but with a massive file! the image i have printed to 2.2m, but i reckon it could easily go to twice that with clarity and sharpness intact. one day…
I rarely do in depth product tests as I feel there are so many great resources already online, I could not add to it in any way. But I do occasionally write about the gear I have a chance to use. Here is an overview of these posts:
4 Comments
Post a commenthi Flemming, i know this is an old post, but i was just having a wander through your blog and came across it. I got to borrow a Hasselblad H3 50mp last year, with a 28mm lens and the tilt shift adaptor. i only had it for a few hours, but it was during a lovely dawn shoot at Margaret River, so i got some good value from it. The 28mm lens is awesome, especially with the tilt shift, the depth is brilliant, and shooting at about f11 can give you almost infinite DOF. The other nice thing about that tilt shift is the 3 shot pano you can create without moving the camera, but just shifting the lens far right, middle, then far left, fully tilted down for maximum DOF of course. The three images stitch perfectly, the camera doesn't move remember, and any vignetting is in just the right places for some nice edge falloff. The finished image is the first one on the scroll bar of the South West set on my site, if you want to check it out. I'll show you the 2.2m print of it when you come over in November.
Cheers!
Hi Adam, thanks for the comment. A tilt shift adapter would be very cool on a medium format camera as the DOF is much smaller than a 35mm camera and for stitching as well I can see how handy it would be. Three verticals and you're done
Look forward to seeing that print mate.
Good point about the reduced DOF, its something that catches a lot of people out when they first try medium format. The tilt shift adaptor fixes that very well, and the great thing about it is that you can use it with a variety of lenses instead of just one, though it does have some glass in it, so it changes the effective length of your lens by a factor of about 1.2 i think… cant remember exactly. very good idea though. the three i stitched were not shot in vertical format, i did them horizontally, and they make up a ratio of about 2:1 which is lovely. Shooting vertically would make something like a 3:2, more like a 35mm format… but with a massive file! the image i have printed to 2.2m, but i reckon it could easily go to twice that with clarity and sharpness intact. one day…
I meant horizontal…I always mix them up