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Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 02:45:51 No.4315182 View View Reply Original Report

Birding on a film camera.

I am thinking of getting into this. Anyone on /p doing it?
Surely I can pick up some cheap film camera with a zoom in the 400-600mm range.
Any recommendations?

I cant even find any videos on youtube, thats how rare it seems birding on film cameras is.

Also I am fine with fully manual focus, I am backing my skills.

I want everybody in the birding thread to have to admit I am the greatest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 02:49:03 No.4315184 Report

Quoted By: >>4315186

>>4315182
I will be using my 1090mm 4x5 lens for birding in the near future. Game on, bitch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 02:52:19 No.4315186 Report

Quoted By: >>4315187 >>4315369

>>4315184

please do

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 02:56:01 No.4315187 Report

Quoted By: >>4315214 >>4315266

>>4315186
Okay! It is only going to be black and white, and I may have trouble because my shutter only goes to 1/60, lol. I will figure it out.

1090mm is only 287mm equivalent, but you can obviously crop the hell out of a 4x5 negative and retain good IQ.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 07:20:02 No.4315214 Report

Quoted By: >>4315326

>>4315187
You can’t though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 11:32:57 No.4315266 Report

Quoted By: >>4315326

>>4315187
LF is softer cropped because the lens is optimized for LF field of view. I would not be surprised if $30 potato masher from 50s on 135 frame would be sharper than cropped LF on best same focal length LF lens ever made.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 16:08:32 No.4315326 Report

Quoted By: >>4315332 >>4315334

>>4315266
>>4315214
Yeah, but no, 4x5lets. My lens is extra very very sharp, and my setup will be rigid AF. Just you wait. APO ronar process lens.

Here is a >35mm crop off some tmax100 with my nikkor 720mm. This lens is not as sharp as the one I will be birding with.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 16:43:17 No.4315332 Report

Quoted By: >>4315352 >>4315354 >>4315369

>>4315326
By all means, bird with LF and post teh results. Nevermind if sharp or with "character" I'd like to see how it turns out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 16:45:43 No.4315334 Report

Quoted By: >>4315352

>>4315326
This looks like super hazy shit.

These old lenses literally have no room to correct aberrations. All the sharpness measurements assume you use the whole photo. It is not like digital where 24mp ff and even 62mp ff cant be compared to 24mp micro four thirds because of the different pixel pitch and noise per pixel and demosaic bla bla bla

Film is film however big it gets and a lens that is sharp for LF is measured so assuming you use the WHOLE frame. You shoot LF for grain free enlargements, not resolution/“reach” like you would with DX mode on FF digital. cANON has poisoned your mind.

Also
Practically 35mm is 10-12mp
4x5 is 40-48mp
>inb4 BUT T U RESOOLVIMG LE GRAIEN?
That is for making a 1:1 digital copy of a negative and reprinting it later, not worthwhile, recognizable detail. Visible grain = image ripped apart. You cant do that to digital because the grains are always joined in a grid but imagine if you did and called it higher resolution.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 17:46:24 No.4315352 Report

Quoted By: >>4315357

>>4315334
>>4315332
Wrong and clearly not in the know. It's a crop of jpeg of a shitty scan. You WILL be proven wrong, and I WILL be lauging at you. Actually, I already am laughing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 17:50:10 No.4315354 Report

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>>4315332
Im not laughing at you actually, sorry.

And he molest dogs

And he molest dogs Sun 19 May 2024 17:56:55 No.4315355 Report

Quoted By: >>4315357

Never engage with the 4x5 tard he is delusional

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:11:15 No.4315357 Report

Quoted By: >>4315362

>>4315355
The dog molests him

>>4315352
The dog hair on your scan is sharper than the large details. 4x5 lenses are sharp for 4x5. Don’t crop film unless you like the “magnum look” (really low quality snapshits)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:12:49 No.4315358 Report

Quoted By: >>4315359

Ignore the nophoto anklebiter. She can't help herself. She's obsessed. I apologize for her and her incredibly embarrassing behavior.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:14:53 No.4315359 Report

Quoted By: >>4315362

>>4315358
Nigga u bought a camera just to argue on 4chan. Sorry your boyfriend only says bark. Maybe someday you will train him to tell you he loves you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:19:06 No.4315362 Report

Quoted By: >>4315363

>>4315359
Proof positive of your extreme stupidity. Thanks for confirming that, yet again.

>>4315357
Maybe cropping the hell out of a 4x5 was a bit of an exaggeration, but turning a 4x5 into something like 2x3 is still a large reduction in area, and it would still look totally fine.

Also you are a liar. There are no dog hairs on that crop.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:23:55 No.4315363 Report

Quoted By: >>4315366

>>4315362
>totally fine
Looks like you smeared vaseline on it

4x5 is not high resolution 35mm, it’s high tonality 35mm. Don’t crop it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:31:39 No.4315366 Report

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>>4315363
No no. Please listen. That cropped bird image is smaller than a 35mm negative. A 2x3 negative is over 4x larger than my example.

I actually agree that 4x5 should not be cropped, and always tell people that the larger format is for tonality, and not necessarily sharpness, or resolution. My final form goal is 8x10 contact prints, and 8x10 wetplate colloidions

CAN I HAVE SOME FUN WITHOUT BEING YELLED AT AND TOLD WHAT TO DO, PLEASE?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 19 May 2024 18:53:52 No.4315369 Report

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>>4315186
>>4315182
>>4315332

I actually did do some bird photography with my 4x5 already, hah. Just remembered.

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