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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Don Libby on December 17, 2013, 04:53:22 pm

Title: Testing the LS240 and 2X
Post by: Don Libby on December 17, 2013, 04:53:22 pm

Just got news, thanks to Dave Gallagher, Capture Integration, that I'll be getting a Phase One Leaf Shutter 240 mm f/4.5 and the Schneider 2x teleconverter which was announced by Phase One on September 4, 2013.

I'm currently in Jackson Hole WY shooting winter landscape and with the addition of the 240 and 2x I'll be testing that combo on the elk herd in the National Elk Refuge as well as the winter herds of buffalo, moose and rams.

Stay tuned.

Don

Title: Re: Testing the LS240 and 2X
Post by: HarperPhotos on December 17, 2013, 11:41:35 pm

Hi Don,

That is great news.

Hopefully you will post some images.

Cheers

Simon

Title: Re: Testing the LS240 and 2X
Post by: Don Libby on December 18, 2013, 08:55:01 am

Quote from: HarperPhotos on December 17, 2013, 11:41:35 pm

Hi Don,

That is great news.

Hopefully you will post some images.

Cheers

Simon

Thanks Simon, that's the plan; I also plan on doing at least one writeup on our blog.  Looking forward to getting it tomorrow which means I'll start playing with it Friday.

Title: Re: Testing the LS240 and 2X
Post by: Christopher Arnoldi on December 18, 2013, 03:29:17 pm

I have tested my LS 150 with the new 2x teleconverter and found out that it is the same quality as my very sharp Mamiya 4,5/300 at infinity.

Title: Re: Testing the LS240 and 2X
Post by: angolden on December 21, 2013, 09:47:59 am

I'm curious about the weight aspect of this setup. On your blog you mentioned that it's heavy but didn't give a number. Have you had an opportunity to put it on a scale yet?