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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: Neil Williams on March 20, 2019, 08:50:32 pm

Title: Picked it from my garden
Post by: Neil Williams on March 20, 2019, 08:50:32 pm

Okay so my new Rodenstock Macro 210 arrived and yesterday I picked this flower to try my hand an a close up. I must admit I really struggled in getting the focus, what I did in the end was set the bellows extension on my Chamonix 8x10 to 420mm and then pretty much had the lens nearly touching the flower, from there I just moved the camera back slowly while looking at the ground glass and bobs your uncle the flower came into focus.............i fine tuned it but to be honest I would move the bellows out 1 inch and back 2 inches and nothing really changed so took the picture and here it is.

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ostkh3kolkipxu/Neil%27s-Photography042.jpg?raw=1)

Neil

Title: Re: Picked it from my garden
Post by: ErikKaffehr on March 24, 2019, 10:08:45 am

Quote from: Neil Williams on March 20, 2019, 08:50:32 pm

Okay so my new Rodenstock Macro 210 arrived and yesterday I picked this flower to try my hand an a close up. I must admit I really struggled in getting the focus, what I did in the end was set the bellows extension on my Chamonix 8x10 to 420mm and then pretty much had the lens nearly touching the flower, from there I just moved the camera back slowly while looking at the ground glass and bobs your uncle the flower came into focus.............i fine tuned it but to be honest I would move the bellows out 1 inch and back 2 inches and nothing really changed so took the picture and here it is.

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/3ostkh3kolkipxu/Neil%27s-Photography042.jpg?raw=1)

Neil

Beautiful image! Thanks for sharing!

Best regards
Erik