A site I found - quality pics

[zaktoo]

http://www.kennethparker.com/

Had to share. Thought they were really good.

[V6GTO]

Excellent

Martin.

[beano500]

Nice quality work. Velvia used to its best effect!

I'd be happy with one shot like that in my lifetime - this guy's got galleries of 'em!

[simpo two]

Very nice stuff.

But I'm sure if a few of us set off to travel the world for a few years (sponsored by Ted of course) we could come back with equally good shots.

So who's up for the PH Photo Tour 2006-2008 and who'd going to break it to Ted?

[_dobbo_]

Commitment is everything:

article on kenneth parker said:

Parker gets most of his large-format, color landscape shots while backpacking in the wilderness. "That is 99 percent of what I shoot," he explained by phone from his home in Carmel. "So I'm lugging about 80 pounds in large-format-view camera equipment and then all the essentials for backpacking on top of that - you know, tents and food and clothing and equipment and everything.

And here was me thinking my D70 felt heavy after a while!

AS someone else said - I'd be ecstatic to have taken one shot like that!

[beano500]

So can you get digital backs for medium and large format cameras?

You must be able to

Meanwhile.....

Packing list:

large format camera
three lenses
big F off tripod
lapdog loaded up with RSE and PS and 'phone for logging on to PH
tent
beer tokens for two-three years
new walking boots

That's not a tall order, for Ted's sponsorship is it?

[te51cle]

I'm with Simpo ! I'd happily wear the PH-sponsored T-shirt.

[simpo two]

beano500 said:

So can you get digital backs for medium and large format cameras?

Yep, but you'll need at least £17K+ I believe - that's Bacardi's territory. Suddenly DSLRs look cheap!

[beano500]

simpo two said:

at least £17K+

Ok - I'll settle for a couple of D2Xs after all

[simpo two]

beano500 said:

large format camera three lenses big F off tripod lapdog loaded up with RSE and PS and 'phone for logging on to PH tent beer tokens for two-three years new walking boots

And at least two young ladies in PH bikinis to carry it all and giggle.

NB Lapdog? A Papillon 3GHz perhaps?

[Bacardi]

simpo two said:

beano500 said: So can you get digital backs for medium and large format cameras? Yep, but you'll need at least £17K+ I believe - that's Bacardi's territory. Suddenly DSLRs look cheap!

You can get scanning backs which offer the largest area sensors but still not 5x4, 72mmx96mm in fact, so wide angles are a problem. Also a problem for moving things but quite good value if you want high res. $18,000 for a 594mb file.......... might slow your PC down a bit though.

www.betterlight.com/products4X5.asp

Another solution is to use a sliding stitch adaptor. Three shots on a sliding back across the the camera back, still not full frame 5x4 though.

www.phaseone.com/upload/flexadaptorus.pdf

Using a P25 back would give you a finished file size of about 190mb. A P25 will cost you £20,000, but they will throw in a Hasselblad H1 camera in for that price.

Another snapper who also only shoots 5x4 film, because digital is still not quite good enough, is Joseph Holmes

www.josephholmes.com/index.html

After shooting on film it's digital all the way, scanned in and inkjet prints... large ones. Click the 'Processes' link for more technical info.

beano500 said:

big F off tripod

Can't make out the camera but the tripod looks like a carbon fibre Gitzo so you wouldn't need a lady Russian shot putter to carry it. The young ladies in PH bikinis would manage just fine .

[V6GTO]

www.josephholmes.com/index.html

WOW!

Martin.