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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Quentin on February 16, 2013, 04:00:46 pm

Title: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 16, 2013, 04:00:46 pm
Are we taking ourselves too seriously on this forum?

Time (in my view) for a new "fun With..." thread  ;D

A focus stacking exercise from today (H4D-50, 120mm macro Mk 1)
(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9806585/Focus_stacked.jpg)



Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: eronald on February 16, 2013, 05:09:34 pm
nice "marriage".

Edmund
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: gerald.d on February 16, 2013, 05:35:25 pm
Are we taking ourselves too seriously on this forum?

Time (in my view) for a new "fun With..." thread  ;D

A focus stacking exercise from today (H4D-50, 120mm macro Mk 1)

Beautiful, but you might want to get that Swan's Neck checked out :)

Here's my contribution.

70 stitched shots from an Alpa FPS/Rodie HR50/IQ180 from the pinnacle of the tallest man made structure on Earth:

(http://08.ae/imgs/Buj%20Khalifa%20Panorama.jpg)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: eronald on February 16, 2013, 05:39:25 pm
Urk!
Some people deserve to own this equipment!

Edmund

Beautiful, but you might want to get that Swan's Neck checked out :)

Here's my contribution.

70 stitched shots from an Alpa FPS/Rodie HR50/IQ180 from the pinnacle of the tallest man made structure on Earth:

(http://08.ae/imgs/Buj%20Khalifa%20Panorama.jpg)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 16, 2013, 05:44:59 pm
nice "marriage".

Edmund


 ;)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 16, 2013, 05:49:28 pm
Beautiful, but you might want to get that Swan's Neck checked out :)

Here's my contribution.

70 stitched shots from an Alpa FPS/Rodie HR50/IQ180 from the pinnacle of the tallest man made structure on Earth:

(http://08.ae/imgs/Buj%20Khalifa%20Panorama.jpg)

Strewth!  ???  Impressive.
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: menandar on February 16, 2013, 06:40:55 pm
Guys you are using the heavy artillery ;) ...stunning results tough ;)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Ed Foster, Jr. on February 16, 2013, 06:52:53 pm
Are we taking ourselves too seriously on this forum?


Quentin, you are right! Excellent idea.


Hasselblad H4D-31 with 100mm f/2.2
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: gerald.d on February 16, 2013, 06:55:19 pm
Here's the full interactive pano -

http://dubaimap.hipa.ae/index.html
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: eronald on February 16, 2013, 08:03:08 pm
;)
(5960)  :P

Edmund
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: eronald on February 16, 2013, 08:06:47 pm
Here's the full interactive pano -

http://dubaimap.hipa.ae/index.html

omg! Everybody on this forum should look at this.
incredibly fluid. web panos have come a long way.

Edmund
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: FredBGG on February 16, 2013, 08:53:25 pm
Here's the full interactive pano -

http://dubaimap.hipa.ae/index.html

That is brilliant. Very interesting subject too. what a fascinating city. So intricate and elaborate on a flat piece of sand....
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 17, 2013, 05:15:41 am
Great shot.  I last visited Dubai a couple of years ago.   I took only a few shots, nothing as good as this though!
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Hulyss on February 17, 2013, 05:32:56 am
Here's the full interactive pano -

http://dubaimap.hipa.ae/index.html

Hello gerald.d

I think we meet together on a show case about Hamdan Bin Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award. Are you one of the representative of hipa.ae ?
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: gerald.d on February 17, 2013, 07:16:45 am
Hello gerald.d

I think we meet together on a show case about Hamdan Bin Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award. Are you one of the representative of hipa.ae ?

Hi - I don't think we met. I'm not a HIPA representative :)

Kind regards,

Gerald.
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Gel on February 17, 2013, 07:19:48 am
Beautiful, but you might want to get that Swan's Neck checked out :)

Here's my contribution.

70 stitched shots from an Alpa FPS/Rodie HR50/IQ180 from the pinnacle of the tallest man made structure on Earth:

(http://08.ae/imgs/Buj%20Khalifa%20Panorama.jpg)

Winner, I may as well never visit this thread again.
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: JoeKitchen on February 17, 2013, 08:05:51 am
Beautiful, but you might want to get that Swan's Neck checked out :)

Here's my contribution.

70 stitched shots from an Alpa FPS/Rodie HR50/IQ180 from the pinnacle of the tallest man made structure on Earth:

(http://08.ae/imgs/Buj%20Khalifa%20Panorama.jpg)
Great image. 

I want to know how long it took your computer to stitch 70 IQ180 files together.  Did you hit the go button right before heading off to vacation?
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: gerald.d on February 17, 2013, 10:40:08 am
Great image. 

I want to know how long it took your computer to stitch 70 IQ180 files together.  Did you hit the go button right before heading off to vacation?

I stitched it many, many times as I had to make loads of manual adjustments, but sadly no vacation between each go :)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Gel on February 17, 2013, 12:39:52 pm
H4D-50, 4 images stitched

(http://www.chrisgilesphotography.co.uk/landscapes/mountteide.jpg)
Title: Gerald ...
Post by: hsteeves on February 17, 2013, 01:21:52 pm
that is one amazing image.  After looking at the full-size, I have to sit somewhere as the vertigo is still affecting me. But wow... what a photo.
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 17, 2013, 05:08:48 pm
H4D-50, 4 images stitched

(http://www.chrisgilesphotography.co.uk/landscapes/mountteide.jpg)

Impressive shot.  What lens and stitching software did you use?
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: DHW-JHartje on February 17, 2013, 05:52:52 pm
Beautiful, but you might want to get that Swan's Neck checked out :)

Here's my contribution.

70 stitched shots from an Alpa FPS/Rodie HR50/IQ180 from the pinnacle of the tallest man made structure on Earth:

(http://08.ae/imgs/Buj%20Khalifa%20Panorama.jpg)

Hi,

I guess this: (http://wap.bild.de/bild/json.bild.de/servlet/json/wap/28561512.html (http://wap.bild.de/bild/json.bild.de/servlet/json/wap/28561512.html) is you as well? Just saw it. I think it is the biggest German newspaper😃
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Gel on February 17, 2013, 06:41:29 pm
Impressive shot.  What lens and stitching software did you use?

This was the 35mm and I used CS6's built in stitching.

Used a Lee filter polarizer and a couple of Grad ND's. I know it looks a little HDR but it isnt.

Took several whilst I was on holiday last week:

(http://www.chrisgilesphotography.co.uk/landscapes/teidecloudsandsunset.jpg)

(http://www.chrisgilesphotography.co.uk/landscapes/valley.jpg)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 11:46:37 am
Chris,

I don't have the 35mm.  I use the 50mm HC Mk.II which I think is my sharpest Hassy lens ( much better than the old design) and the 28mm but for stitching, I now use an entirely different solution, a Sigma DP2 Merril, which is very compact and gives superb quality.  I won't post examples here as its the wrong thread for that.  I have stitched using the H4D-50 in the past.  I will post one I did a while back shortly.

Nice work though ;D

Quentin
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Gel on February 18, 2013, 11:58:13 am
Thanks Quentin. As a travel lens I like the 35 as on a 35mm it's around 24mm equiv and I never like to go wider than that, I have the 50mm MK1 which tbh I haven't used enough to be bothered with, for some reason I never shoot at 35mm equiv. Weird.

How is the Merril, it seems a nice price for such a high resolution compact.
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 12:07:26 pm
Thanks Quentin. As a travel lens I like the 35 as on a 35mm it's around 24mm equiv and I never like to go wider than that, I have the 50mm MK1 which tbh I haven't used enough to be bothered with, for some reason I never shoot at 35mm equiv. Weird.

How is the Merril, it seems a nice price for such a high resolution compact.

The Merrill is a life changer.  I have both the DP1m and 2m, and will get the DP3m when it emerges.  The Hassy is superior, obviously, but not by as much as you'd expect.  When I went on a photographic vacation for a week to Morocco last November, I took just the Merrills, a NEX -7 (which I hardly used) and left the Hassy at home.   Used the Merrills for stitched work, including interiors. I know I said I would not post a Merrill shot here, but it is relevant for comparison purposes, and anyway, this is a "fun" thread so here is a link to one of the stiched shots (warning: large file!).

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9806585/Attarine_Madrasa_QDB_Mono.jpg (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9806585/Attarine_Madrasa_QDB_Mono.jpg)

Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 12:29:28 pm
Sandymouth: H4D-50, 28mm HCD lens

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9806585/Sandy_Mouth_beach.jpg)
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Hulyss on February 18, 2013, 01:16:02 pm
Some fun in the studio with MF ;) HP5+ and Fuji645

(http://www.hulyssbowman.com/tempo/forumsall/two.jpg)

(http://www.hulyssbowman.com/tempo/forumsall/one.jpg)

(Edit - My bad I didn't seen correctly the tittle with "digital" ...) Take it as a 6x4.5 cm digital sensor  :-[
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: yaya on February 18, 2013, 02:59:20 pm
Sandymouth: H4D-50, 28mm HCD lens

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9806585/Sandy_Mouth_beach.jpg)

LIKE!
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 04:34:51 pm
Sure, Johannes  ??? ;D
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 04:55:27 pm
It is very very easy to get what you want. Just say: "Fun with sensors which have an orthogonal sensor layout and linear response". This rules film out. AND you could add: "Sensor must be bigger than 24x36 mm." This rules 35 mm out.

Best,
Johannes

Whatever... *sigh*. Or focus on the word "fun" and stop fretting....
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: eronald on February 18, 2013, 05:12:56 pm
Johannes,

 We dub thee Count Infinity :)

Edmund

I will never stop to explain: film is DIGITAL because you can count the individual grains. You can use a microscope to confirm this easily. Everything you can count is digital. The differences between film and sensor are:
- Film grain is randomly distributed and responds in a logarithmic way to light.
- Sensor sensels are regularly distributed and respond in a linear way to light.

Consequently you are under the headline and can continue to post images taken with a HP5+ "sensor".

I wrote it recently in an other thread here: There is no analog in this world we know of. Everything can be counted. Sometimes the numbers a just very big.

Best,
Johannes
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 05:22:34 pm
Forget the word "digital" in the thread title.  Make it "fun with medium format". It makes more sense to be democratic.   
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Ed Foster, Jr. on February 18, 2013, 06:36:14 pm
Sandymouth: H4D-50, 28mm HCD lens

(https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9806585/Sandy_Mouth_beach.jpg)
Quentin,
Excellent depth and fidelity - this is a very nice image. You are making good use of the 28. Mine was returned today after a "checkup", so now I have to catch up.

Ed
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Quentin on February 18, 2013, 06:48:46 pm
Thanks, Ed, but what was the problem with yours?  I purchased mine used in a private sale.   It's a good lens.  And this is actually a two image focus stacked shot. I wanted to kept the sand pin sharp along with shoreline.   I have made the mistake in the past of trying to stop down too far with diffraction issues.....
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Ed Foster, Jr. on February 18, 2013, 08:14:14 pm
Quentin,
The crispness of the lens was not quite what I thought it should be, so while this body and lens were still under warranty, I wanted to have it checked. Sure enough they found that the sensor was a "titch" off. We'll see how it performs tomorrow.

Ed
Title: Re: Fun with Medium Format Digital
Post by: Emilmedia on February 21, 2013, 12:29:15 pm
For my second ever shot with MFD, a cover album for a swedish rock band, i have some things i need to composite in as details in the background. Because its a baby as a dictator - We came up with the idea of having a painting with the babys head in the background.

This is originally a painting of a Swedish king some hundred years ago, the head i just took from one of the shots that didnt get used for the artwork.

All done in about 25 minutes to get everything looking decent.