On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 05:23:29 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:16:08 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:11:36 -0500, Joe Gwinn
wrote:
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Agree. It's still hard to beat an 8x10 Ektachrome.

Sorry, Joe. I missed that the first time around.

Have you ever shot with an 8x10 camera? I've done it once, when I had
my agency and my art director brought in his Calumet 8x10 to shoot a
job for Casio. They wanted some Duratrans transparencies for a trade
show exhibit, printed 24 feet wide.

Anyway, my AD was called out of town and I had to shoot the 'chromes.
The lens was a very wide 360 mm. Even with that, the depth of field
was nightmarishly shallow. To get an acceptable aperture without
running into color shifts from reciprocity effect (the result of long
exposures), I had to use 6, 5 kW incandescent movie scoops. In July,
IIRC. g

I hate those cameras. I donb't know how Ansel Adams put up with them,
except that he was shooting b&w, and the reciprocity at least doesn't
screw up your color. If I had to do it again I'd rent the biggest mofo
flash units they make.

--
Ed Huntress