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Gilgamesh

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What camera is Alec Soth using here in the Youtube clip?
« on: June 24, 2015, 07:45:06 am »
Alec is famed for his use of the 10x8 format

So, what's this gear he's using is his excellent new book, "Songbook"?

Is that a 'Blad? Not sure about the flash.
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Re: What camera is Alec Soth using here in the Youtube clip?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2015, 09:05:31 am »
in that shot in his studio? It looks like a Hasselblad H model. I didn't see a flash but it look s like he's got a simple swing arm flash bracket attached to it.
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Re: What camera is Alec Soth using here in the Youtube clip?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2015, 11:56:48 am »
HERE
Flash is at 1:49

The studio is almost at the very beginning. Several Youtube interviews are carried out here, so I think it maybe is his studio.
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Re: What camera is Alec Soth using here in the Youtube clip?
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2015, 04:43:59 pm »
Looks like an old Minicam flash head - nothing fancy at any rate, just a a simple manual flash with an external battery/capacitor pack. You could get the same results with a Lumadyne, Norman 200/400B, etc.
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Re: What camera is Alec Soth using here in the Youtube clip?
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2015, 12:33:18 pm »
In a recent reddit he did, he said he used an H4D-40 and an elinchrom flash.
see here, quite a nice read:
http://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/391u7u/im_alec_soth_magnum_photographer_and_founder_of/

cheers
« Last Edit: June 28, 2015, 12:38:44 pm by flashfredrikson »
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