Users of MF stitching backs for 4x5 ....

[leo_grillo]

I've read SOME posts on the Phase One Flex Adapter and the Kapture Group's Quad Stitch, but nothing

from real users. Putting a Hasse back on a Sinar F2. Anyone using either of these? thx

[ellis_vener_photography]

Brooks Short, formerly moderator of the photo.net lighting forum. has a lot of experience with that set up.

[michael_notar1]

i have a flex adaptor and a P25. send me an email with your questions.

[leo_grillo]

Thanks for the lead Ellis, I emailed Brooks.

[andy_shand1]

would be good to see some of this on the forum ...interested in this myself.

[kelly_flanigan1]

A method we used a decade ago with Phase One 35 Megapixel 4x5 back on makeshift adapted old process cameras was to keep the giant artwork and scan back fixed and shift the taking lens left and right; up and down and stitch the giant 4 or more images together for one giant image.<BR><BR>You use a lens with more coverage than say the four 7x10cm scan areas when overlapped. <BR><BR>Its interesting to see this decade old technique being used again. It was covered at at repro-printing conference in Reno back in the early 1990's; IRGA Reno 1993; folks then stitched together several pro <b>VGA</b> images together to make a megapixel giant image.<BR><BR>With our old Phase one rig a decade ago we would manually stich togther say four 35 megapixel images using photoshop on a server that was 200Mhz with 1 gig of ram running NT; to make one giant image. You have to watch for illumination falloff with your lenses and lighted subject/artwork; and any weird barrel/pincushion problems with lenses too so the stitch is easier.