greg jansen Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I'm new to 4x5. I will be travelling to China next month with a wide, fixed- focus 4x5 (65mm Rodenstock). I will be using Portra 160VC Readyloads. Reason is A guy at my lab can print directly from negative film in his home darkroom. He has been printing for years and is very good. I plan on making some large prints that a Frontier can't make. I haven't used color-correcting filters in a long time. My lab uses a Fuji Frontier that corrects for most slight color differences. Question is, what filters, if any would you find useful? Plan to do some landscape, some cityscape type stuff. Thanks! Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 The modern big cities are smoggy as hell. Much of the country that is scenic is hazy at times. Both would benefit from a warming filter. Get three of various grades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis_vener_photography Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 A polarizer. And that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbg90455 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I don't use it all that often, but I always also have a polarizer in my pack, which can be pretty useful for (some) haze, but I guess with a 65mm lens that would probably be a bad idea (unless you do stuff that's fairly close-up)... Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Okay, a warming polarizer! (on a large step-up ring). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbg90455 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 It's not about physical vignetting I'd be concerned about, but the angle of view. Since the polarizer will have a very different effect depending on the angle relative to the sun, you're going to get uneven sky illumination with the kind of angle you're getting from a 65mm lens in 4x5... So no large step-up ring needed ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_andrews10 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Minor colour corrections can be made in the printing stage when using negative film. However, you can't properly correct for using daylight film in tungsten lighting at the prinitng stage. If this is the sort of thing you plan on doing, then you should take at least a 3200K A to D filter. This'll get you close enough with most artificial light sources for your printer to make any fine correction. It's also impossible to simulate a polasiser, and extremely difficult to emulate a wide-angle centre grad. So you should probably pack both of those as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_redford2 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Having just come back from NZ and Australia a few months ago, I was surprised at how often a graduated ND filter was necessary. I took both a 2 and 3 stop soft filter. It made the difference on a great number of shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 <i>Having just come back from NZ and Australia a few months ago,</i><p> Which has nothing to do with China where the cities are so choked with smog that it's a major issue there. The Chinese government has a mandate to "fix it all when they are done building". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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