nplus opened this issue on Jan 10, 2003 ยท 4 posts
nplus posted Fri, 10 January 2003 at 2:11 PM
I am by no means an expert, but if I can help, I will.
Large format is great.
Right now I'm just using a wooden 4x5 field camera, Minolta spot meter, and mostly t-max 100/400 black and white films.
If you try the tungsten trick make sure it is PRINT film and not transparency. I made that mistake the first time. Man! those were some BLUE transparencies!
Also you are going to want to be able to either pring them yourself, or have a great deal of interaction with your lab. A straight print from Tungsten film shot in daylight will be nicely tinted with blue. The nice lattitude of color print film allows you to color correct for this and achieve a "normal" print..
There is a lot of room for experimentation....as always. You might also be able to use T transparency and scan them then correct them in photoshop....I've never actually tried this, but I will now......
You could also just buy a haze filter, but as the Large format geeks say...."the more glass on the front of your lens, the less sharp your image will be......"
(when viewed under an electron microscope)
; )