The Hasslblad H4X upgrade for H1/H2/H2F owners
I am currently drooling over the body available under the upgrade plan and trying to think where I can get my sticky little paws on the odd $5,000 (HA HA).
It looks absolutly wonderful piece of kit and I do hope I can get one.
Who Says Black & White is dead?
PhaseOne has just brought out . . . drrrum rrrolll . . .
The Achromatic+ – a 39 megapixel medium format digital camera back that provides wide spectrum black and white images. With it the photographic opportunities are virtually endless. This came about as the growing demise of traditional photographic film has even affected the scientific community, with many specialty scientific films are no longer available or are becoming increasingly difficult to acquire (sound familiar, film users?). This includes infrared and other scientific films that are sensitive to specific nanometer ranges in both the visible and invisible spectrums. And dealing with the chemical processes that film requires was becoming increasingly difficult in the workplace.
Jim Taskett and Karla Johnson of Bear Images Photographic Inc., in San Francisco put together a research consortium including both US Government and private companies and not-for -profits, focused on finding a digital capture solution to replace scientific film and traditional processes. The result is the Achromatic. See the announcement here and click the More Info button for a full run down and some other links.
I’d love a back dedicated to B&W but don’t think I’ll be indulging anytime soon. I’d have to sell and awful lot of calendars to cover that one . . .
Selling my Canon gear
Well, I have decided to bite the bullet and sell all my Canon gear to fund more lenses for the H system (big gulp there!). This has been a really hard decision but the quality of the images is just so much better.
Close offers considered and if anyone wants the whole lot and the Billingham bag that I also have for sale email me and we can talk turkey on a combined price.
Note all lens shades, while in good order, do have a few scratches on the outside. Otherwise all enses in excellent oder.
So, I will have (or not have once they go) the following (blurbs from the Canon webpages):
1DsMkII body $AUD 2,250 – PRICE DROP TO $2,100.00 – SOLD
in good order, charger, 2 batteries, 1Gb San Disk ExtremeIII CF card. A few wear marks round the shutter button area.
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM $AUD 1,250.00 SOLD
In excellent condition, caps, pouch etc (S/N 959187; lens code: UV1003 so manuf Oct 2006) Sorry, no box for this, I was mistaken)
EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM $AUD 1,100.00 – PRICE DROP TO $1,050.00 (offers accepted)
In excellent condition, caps, box etc (S/N 1196848; lens code: UW0512 so manuf May 2006)
This easy-to-use standard zoom lens can cover a large zoom area ranging from 24mm wide-angle to 105mm portrait-length telephoto, and its Image Stabiliser Technology steadies camera shake up to three stops. Constructed with one Super-UD glass element and three aspherical lenses, this lens minimizes chromatic aberration and distortion. The result is excellent picture quality, even at wide apertures. Canon’s ring-type USM gives silent but quick AF, along with full-time manual focus. Moreover, with dust- and moisture-resistant construction, this is a durable yet sophisticated lens that meets the demands of advanced amateur photographers and professional photographers alike.
EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM $AUD1,250.00 SOLD
In excellent condition, tripod ring, caps, box etc. (S/N 439444; lens code: UX0618 so manuf Jun 2006)
There are probably other odds and sods of kit too, but I’ll post them up as I think of them.
NEW – Australian Camera Classifieds website
Well this seems like a good thing to me, so I will add them as a link in my list. Why not go over and have a look.
I saw it via the Australian Photography forum. Below from their home page.
Camera Market is a newly-established classifieds website for buying and selling second-hand or new camera gear within Australia.
Selling on Camera Market directly targets those looking to buy photographic equipment, so you know your ad is getting seen by the right people.
Best of all, listing on Camera Market is completely free!
http://www.cameramarket.com.au
553elx kit small P1030975
553elx kit small P1030975, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.For sale at $AUD650.00. View it at http://www.adpost.com/au/cameras_optics/4141/?session_key=3df0ab1e878b93dd52c797d7f285f39a
I purchased this body and the various items to make a kit in 2008, hoping to purchase a digital back for it. As it turned out, I ended up buying an H2 and back, so this is now surplus to requirements. If you want a good motor driven body with everything you need to get started in medium format then this will do it. Selling to fund a lens purchase.
Kit consists of:
* 553elx body + strap – uses AA batts – incl. front & back body caps (G)
* viewfinder – non-metered (F/G, some marks)
* film magazine 16S – 4x4cm ‘super slide’ (VG)
* Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f 4.5 150mm lens + front / back caps (G)
* two handed bracket with shutter trigger * hot shoe (VG)
* 5 rolls Fujichrome Provia – exp date 12/2010
* remote release cord (VG in bag)
Also 1 Zeiss Makro-Planar CFi 120 f4 lens (as new). Selling for $1500, camera kit and the lens avail for $2000.00 (no offers).
Photos of the lens are on my Flickr set Equipment, or there is an older post here on the blog, click on the For Sale category.
Turn your DSLR into a view camera!
Have a look at this fantastic bit of kit for DSLR users – well, Canon & Nikon at the moment. http://www.komamura.co.jp/e/VCCpro/index.html
And you can use a combination of Rodenstock Rodagon lenses, as well as some standard medium format camera lenses including those for Hasselblad V, Mamiya and Pentax 645, newly designed digital lenses by Rodenstock and Schneider and most large format lenses.
What a marveloous idea, especially for those who do a lot of macro/architectural work.
Lunar Eclipse tomorrow morning (16/06/2011)
I am going to try a time lapse shoot of the eclipse in the morning to see if I can do one of those Time lapse videos.
I will go just up the road where there are nice mountain silhouettes for a backdrop. I can take the van and sit in comfort with thermos of hot coffee and laptop. If anyone wants to join me email me BEFORE 6pm tonight – it will be early dinner and bed.
And another total lunar eclipse – visible from all of Australia – happens on 10-11 Sept – article on IceinSpace forum @ http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-619-0-0-1-0.html will give you all the info you need.
The H2 lets you set it up for interval timing with up to 255 exposures. I’m going to do a ‘test run’ at moonrise tonight (I can set it up on my verandah facing east). I thought I would make it Aperture priority on f8, ISO will be 100 or 200 (it’s a noisy bugger), and manual focus of course. I can choose Number of exposures, from 2 – 255; and Interval duration, from 1 second – 24 hours. 30 secs was suggested on IceinSpace which probably sounds about right.
Hopefully I will have beautiful results to display for you tomorrow – my fingers and toes are firmly crossed!
The shot below is from the 26 June 2010 partial eclipse shot with the Lumix FZ35
15 June 2011 | Categories: After dark, Commentary, Equipment (including for sale) | 1 Comment »