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Mine’s bigger than yours!!
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Not so much for critique as curiosity. I took this about a year ago..at the Leinster Footballs Finals in Croker actually, on my old Olympus. I know the angle looks all askew…I straightened it to take out some extraneous stuff in front of the photographers…but I was wondering would anyone know what the two cameras and lenses are just from looking at them. Kind of assumed the one on th left is a Canon, but apart from that ..haven’t a clue?
Robbie
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Thats Dave Maher on the right i think. Works for Sportsfile, he is there soccer specialist. I believe they use Nikon’s. He started his photograph in Palmerstown PS. He is a very fine photographer.
The one on the left is definately a Canon… A 500 F4 I think and maybe a teleconverter… I’d say its either a 1D MKII or a 20D….. Looks like a Nikon something or other on the right.
Richie
Thanks for that lads…the things you can learn on this site amaze me… :D
Robbie
8)Is that a laptop or an accordion* between them, sitting on the rucksack?!
Take it easy,
David.*was thinking for the half-time entertainment, maybe ;-)
davenewt wrote:
Is that a laptop or an accordion* between them, sitting on the rucksack?!
Take it easy,
David.*was thinking for the half-time entertainment, maybe ;-)
It’s the bellows of his 5×4 field camera.
Hmmm, interesting! Why a ‘field camera’? What does it do? What exactly is the benefit of having a larger negative? Does that mean higher resolution? Larger prints?
positron wrote:
Hmmm, interesting! Why a ‘field camera’? What does it do? What exactly is the benefit of having a larger negative? Does that mean higher resolution? Larger prints?
Not sure why they are called field cameras, but the best designs seem to fold up beautifully into a little carrycase with a handle on top.
The big neg certainly gives opportunity for huge prints. The bellows also allow the elimination of all perspectival errors (if that’s what they are called) so they are used for architecture photos aswell as landscapes and portraits.
I’m no expert but using settings like f/45 can lead to probs with diffraction and that’s where they fall down.
I understand Joe Cornish still swears by his, though.
Thanks Pete! For some reason I couldn’t find much about them (or the reasoning behind using them) on the net. Even wikipedia has very little about them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_camera
Well, th best thing I like about those massive L lenses (apart from the quality of pics they produce) is how neatly they fold up into a comfortable pouch!
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