roberto_manderioli

<p>I also preferred the old version. I have tried several rolls of RVP50 now, I don't know if I run across an altered batch or what but the color palette seems to be a little different especially in the blues.<br>

All in all I am not very satisfied by the new version maybe I am too spoiled by old RVP. Considering this and the scanning difficulty I may eventually switch to RDPIII ..</p>

<p>Hello,<br /> I have made a modification on a 55mm to get a fixed tilt. You can see the details <a href="http://www.fotoavventure.it/htdocs/freecontent/RM001_tilt55/index.php">here</a> on my website.<br /> It works well but the 55 perspective is not the same as that of a 45mm .<br>

What I have been willing to do for a long time is to make the same thing on a 45mm as 0.5 degrees of fixed tilt would bring plenty of DOF.<br /> One could get an old 45 takumar to be modified and a new 45 SMC untilted for the normal shots. It would turn the P67 system into a small view camera ...</p>

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Thank you all for the info.

I think I will go ahead and do the thing!

Ciao

Roberto

To my great surprise I am seeing a dealer here in Italy carrying ilfochrome

paper again. It seems the whole thing is not dead.<p>

I still would like to take advantage of this wonderful material but I know

nothing about who is actually producing it and what modification have been made

to the process (it seems the chemicals are less dangerous to handle), in

addition I am still rather skeptical about availability in the future (though I

might buy in bulk quantities and freeze).<p>

Does anybody have any fresh information about Ilfochrome?<br>

Thanks in advance

Thanks Michael,

taht was useful indeed.

Mine has exactly yours measurements , except it is in black.

I also spotted those two screws and wondered what they were for.

They could have placed them futher backward, if indeed their function was meant to stop the slide.

Thanks also to the other people.

Regards

Roberto

Yes, indeed it is really straightforward.

Reason I was asking I am trying to understand the various version of this camera and maybe a little bit of clarification can come from an

instruction manual or a brochure.

For example , there seem to be two version of the 810M, one w/ double extension bed and another w/ triple and therefore with different maximum bellows draw. Mine extend for about a little beyond 600mm but from specs it should go all the way to 700 mm . This is strange as I thought that the basic mechanism has always been the same.

It is just out of curiosity, not a real need but unfortunately there is very little information about this camera on the web and in this period the Toyo user forum is down ..

By the way I live in Italy and Toyo support here is almost non existent

Hello everybody,<br>

I am desperately seeking for a copy of the manual of my Toyo 810M , I cannot

find it anywhere!<p>

Toyo 810 MII would be ok also.<p>

If someone can help...<br>

Thanks in advance<br>

Roberto

Yes the camera in the picture indeed is a 45D like the one I had. Mine was black and the one you have might even older, although it does have micro swing in the back like the latter models.<p>

Anyway, I have seen black 45D on ebay go for 500-600$ and gold colored 45D for even less , so in my opinion you should ask for a partial refund (950$ is a fair price for a true 45 SP )<p>

Ciao<br>

Roberto

I use to have a Wista SP . I could use the Nikkor 300/9 strictly focusing at infinity . With an extension on the panel I could focus more closely (not closeup but normal landscape circumstances) .

So for my SP , 300mm was the upper bound.

Cheers

Roberto

I have just gotten a Toyo 810M without the ground glass.

I would like to ask owners of this camera what kind of ground glass

this camera normally comes with : GG , GG+Fresnel?

Is the protective glass included?

The matte surface of the GG goes toward the lens?

The back of my camera have two ridges of different size and don't know

what kind of screen they are for.

Thanks in advance

Roberto

I have had a question for a long time and haven't found a final

answer yet...

Having in mind the aim of printing A3 with an inkjet , would a 4x5

transparency scanned with a state of the art flatbed scanner produce a

better result than a 6x6 slide scanned with a dedicate film scanner

(like the Nikon 8000 for example)?

Thanks in advance!

Of course I have both a incident and spot handheld meters.

The reason I was asking is I want carry a D70 and a FM3A in the same small bag and my aim is to save weight/space as much as possible. Since the FM3A meter is center-weighted I wanted to take advantage of the D70 colour matrix ....

I would like to use my D70 color matrix as a meter for a mechanic SRL

. I was wondering if the matrix reading of a DSRL behaves exactly like

the one in a film SRL (F100 for example) apart from some offset that

always occurs among different cameras, and maybe a little difference

due to the color matrix on the D70.

I have done a quick comparison with an F100 and seems like the two

meters agree but further confirmations would make my life easier.

In fact I suspect that a DSRL might have been adjusted in a different

manner in order to better fit the CCD curve.

Thanks

I have put up a web page describing the modification. Hopefully it

can be of help or fun for somebody.

What you will get with this modification is a Pentax 67 55/4 lens

modified in order to have a fixed 0.5-0.8 degress downward tilt. This

way when doing near-far shots at maximum DOF you will get accetable

CoC from about 1 meter onward (instead of the normal 3 meters).

Of course this lens won't be able to take "normal" shots. You must

dedicate it to vertical landscape use only. If you remove the

modification afterwards you will recover full functionality.

I want to thank Mr.Lephing Zha for the precious indications , help

and faith given.

He's made the same modification and his work can be seen on photo.net

(including stunning photos made with this modified lens)

The link for the modification:

http://www.fotoavventure.it/tilt55.htm

Regards

Roberto

Hi,

I haven't compared all these optic directly but I have seen results from several of them:

<br>

Pentax 67 45mm = sharp in the center but not super sharp at the edges

<br>

Pentax 67 55mm = Very , very sharp all over. very good lense.

<br>

Hasselblad 50/4 CF T* = Very very sharp, probably a bit more than the

pentax although difficult to say. I would guess the leaf shutter would make this lense unecessarily expensive and heavy though.

<br>

I would go for the pentax 55 then.

<br>

Just my 0.02

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regards

<br>

Roberto

Because of problems of weight and bulk, shallow DOF, lack of movements and large mirror vibrations I'd recommend to go straight to LF otherwise go for a lighter medium format (6x6, 6x4.5 SLR/RF).

Just my .02

Regards

Roberto

..here the phone number...if it still works...

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003CjP

I dealt with them a few years ago. Very difficult to communicate with these people. I did not manage to get a screen for my Wista in spite of several phone calls.

Finally I got the screen through Taos photografic in France. Through them I got the screen in a few weeks time (I am in Italy).Of course price was higher then a direct buy.

I advise you try and phone them, and in case of no success, try and find a dealer instead.

Hope this helps

Mmhh..sounds not easy. The reason I was asking is if still make sense to acquire T&S lenses (as the Canons) or lugging around view cameras.

What I was really interested in are two cases, the firts the one kindly comment by Curt. Sounds a lot of work but maybe feasible.

The second case is the classical "4x5 look" with the foreground that leads your eye and merge seamlessly into the background. An example would be a classical shot like "the Wave" in the Coyote Buttes.

Sounds like I have to try this second case.

Thanks for your help.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried the following:

put a DSRL on a tripod and take two shots, the first focused at

inifinity and the second on the foreground or somewhere closer than

the background.

Then stitched the two shots.

This would be great and would eliminate the need of tilt lenses.

Is this doable?

Thanks

Roberto

I got the news on the net after PMA 03 . Never saw photos larger than a small icon. One local mail seller here in Italy has it in the list for about 3300 euro. It must be titanium and silver for that price!

I wonder if it is any lighter than the standard one.

I am also guessing that might be a version available only in Japan (and probably anywhere upon request)

Just wondering if this limited edition version is bringing any real

improvement other than pure cosmetic . I did not find any detailed

info on the net, except the price that sounds over twice that of the

normal one.

Could anyone shed any light on the matter?