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| Posted: Tue Aug 18th, 2020 05:22 |
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Graham Whistler
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I agree with all that but it took two years hard savings to purchase that Rolleiflex and I took many of my early professional pixs with it until I could afford a Hasselblad. It is just a bit of fun to put the odd film through my old friend but agree it is not good for serious photography compared with D500 and D850 there is no contest. I was glad to sell the Hasslblads (at that time when other photographers were very cautious about digital I got serious money for all my Hasselblad kit) as soon as I knew that D1X was good enough for 90% of my work. For a time for studio photography and big blow-ups I kept using my 4x5 Sinar with transp film but the D3X saw that go.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18th, 2020 08:21 |
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Eric
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Graham Whistler wrote:I agree with all that but it took two years hard savings to purchase that Rolleiflex and I took many of my early professional pixs with it until I could afford a Hasselblad. It is just a bit of fun to put the odd film through my old friend but agree it is not good for serious photography compared with D500 and D850 there is no contest. I was glad to sell the Hasslblads (at that time when other photographers were very cautious about digital I got serious money for all my Hasselblad kit) as soon as I knew that D1X was good enough for 90% of my work. For a time for studio photography and big blow-ups I kept using my 4x5 Sinar with transp film but the D3X saw that go. Yes I can understand that. When you look back at the equipment we bought, that was needed to be self sufficient in business, it's quite scarey. Professional film and flatbed scanners 🤯 I think my first serious flatbed scanner cost £8000. 3 years later they were £800. But the alternative at the time was a £100,000 drum scanner. 😱😱😱😱. I I bought a Freestanding CD writer, one of the first of its kind, back in 1995 to transfer artwork to repro houses and later printers. It was a monster more like an old VHS video player 😆 . It cost £1500 and within 3 years they were selling them integral with PCs for £350. Fortunately mine had coffee spilt in it and faced with sending back to Germany to try to repair it (it went for a trip round UK electrical repairers first) the insurers gave me £1300 back ....went and bought a £350 version for my PC . 😎 I also remember writable CDs were £11 each when they came out ...of course that went on every job. 😆 There I go reminiscing .....maybe my nostalgia gene is awakening.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18th, 2020 08:48 |
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chrisbet
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That is exactly why I never go for leading edge equipment, buy it when it has started to flatten out in value and then use it till it dies....
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18th, 2020 09:47 |
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Iain
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The cost of kit in that in-between period of film/digital was crazy. If i remember right my Nikon neg scanner was £3000.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 18th, 2020 11:03 |
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Eric
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I take it back....it seems prepress flatbeds are still mega bucks. Still half what I had to pay in 1996.  http://www.microtek-scanners.co.uk/shop/artixscan-3200xl/
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2020 09:10 |
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Graham Whistler
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For a bit of fun this is a 1960 of myself then a 20 yr old photo student with the same camera new that year! Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2020 09:14 |
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Graham Whistler
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And here is a studio portrait of one of my then Kodak bosses using the camera with Mole Richard studio spotlights, no electronic studio flash then. I have just scanned the neg and it would have been 120 PluX 100 ISO dev D76 very little grain! Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2020 12:19 |
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Graham Whistler
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Ian one for you showing how good grain was even in 1960 this was Kodak Vericrome Pan 100 ISO dev Kodak D76 My Rollieflex again. Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2020 12:22 |
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Graham Whistler
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London in 1960 Rollieflex 3.5F Zeiss Planar Lens and Vericome Pan 100 ISA or should say ASA!  Click here to comment on this image.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21st, 2020 12:42 |
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Graham Whistler
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Just to compare quality in 1960 this is a portrait of my uncle Mr FWM Pratt MS FRCS taken by me for The Royal College Surgeons in the Kodak studio again with a 8x10 inch Kodak studio camera with a 14 inch lens and P1600 Glass Plate!!!  Click here to comment on this image.
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