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Att:[span style=\'font-size:11pt;line-height:100%\'] Yaya[/span]
I appreciate your reply but as you may be aware from the previous posts, I
was originally looking for the 4x5 system with quad-stitch Sliding Adapter
particularly when working on the Perspective of different viewpoints including the Scheimpflug
effect which you can't actually guess without the Ground Glass, at least I know I can't.
Now I see, I will probably end up with two ALPAS XY, ALPA 12SWA.
I need one for its modest size, mobility, so that I can walk if need be and use it like
a Leica only MF, etc. and the other for movement and precision.
Well, anybody here using ALPA XY? Probably, better chance in future.
Regards
Danijela
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Hello Danijela,
I am using a 12SWA and will be buying the XY as soon as funds allow.
About framing... I compose in my mind the image I want, place the camera and tripod without the use of a viewfinder or groundglass, choose a lens that will properly "crop" the image I have imagined, and then take several test captures looking at the P45 screen to fine tune the composition. During those captures I also a fine tuning focus and exposure.
I have given up Scheimpflug, but I only miss it occasionally. It has taken a long time to get used to the lenses and digital back. I can more effectively visualize the final image better when I am more familiar with the lenses I am using.
The 12SWA is a great camera. I think the lack of side to side shifting is more of a loss than the loss of Swings and Tilts. This is why I will buy the XY.
The XY is only about 8.5" x 11". It will slide into a sleeve that holds a laptop computer. Many camera bags now accommodate laptops. In some sense then, it is smaller than other cameras with the lens and DB removed because it is flat. I have the 24, 35, 47, 60, 100, 12SWA, P45, Carbon tripod, and accessories in one airline carry-on bag. If I open the lid, the XY could lay right on top.
I do not envy you making this choice. Each camera and DB has it's drawbacks and advantages.
I would prefer to have a system where the lenses could be attached to something like the Alpa or Cambo, and then also to the Rollie X-ACT 2 with simple lens board adapters. I loved that my 4x5 lenses would fit on any 4x5 ever made. Now I have a proprietary lens system which would be expensive to adapt to another camera, and equally so to sell and re-buy the lenses under another brand of camera.
As for the Quad-Stitch, I think it is too time comsuming. These cameras offer speed and quality. Rather than shooting a quad on a 4x5, put the smaller digitar on the Alpa and get the shot in one picture. You will spend less time in capture, and less time in post (Post will kill you if you are not carefull in your shooting). Time is money of course Quad stitching is also not forgiving to moving clouds, cars, people, light, and trees blowing in the wind. It will therefore limit your creative choices in making images to a much larger degree than not have swings and tilts.
Good Luck.
