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jimh

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  1. The 352 is one of Manfrottos smallest heads. The ball is hardly even 20 mm in diameter. I own one and would not put my F4s on it, not mentioning heavy MF rigs. If you look in the finder with a short tele on the camera you can se the image moving all around the place.

     

    If I had to choose between a sturdy head and sturdy legs, I'd definitively go for the head.

     

    In the Manfrotto line I'd say the 308 is the smallest I'd use with that camera but I'd rather have something sturdier than that. The 308 is rated about at about the same camera weights in Manfrottos lists but I think they must have smoked something when they wrote it. Those two heads can't be compared at all, the 308 is MUCH sturdier.

  2. I dry all my film on reels in a small plastic can with a computer fan on top. The air inlet is filtered with both filter cloth and a carburator filter. The film dries in 45 minutes with not much more curl than it got when I used to hang dry it. But I do leave it sleeved in a coffee table book over the night to flatten it afterwards.
  3. You won't be able to use other exposure modes than S or P with a G lens. In other words, no manual mode, no aperture priority. Are you really prepared to pay that price?
  4. Auto Fx Photographic Edges is a product that comes to my mind. There is a demo somewhere on the net so you can try it. The demo doesn't contain any 'real' edges though, just a bunch of ugly borders.

     

    Personally I have simply printed a black negative with a filed out carrier, scanned the result into Photoshop and erased the inner area to make it transparent to get a border I can layer with my images in Photoshop.

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