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Like several others here, I'm smitten with the 6x4.5 format. It's like a super-sized 35mm. Lots of quality in a small package. I have two cameras that do the format: a Dolly Supersport, and an Ikonta A. I don't think the Tessar on the Ikonta is really any sharper than the 3-element Trioplan on the Dolly, but it is such a compact and elegant little folder that it nearly always finds a place in my bag regardless of whatever other plans I may have for the day. I took a stoll this morning along the railroad tracks in Las Cruces with the Ikonta. Stopped off at the old rail station and shot one through the window; there's no passenger service in Las Cruces now, so the trains don't stop there any more. The cotton gin a couple blocks north still rates a stop, and it even has its own little spur for loading up the cotton.   Kodak TMY 400 in Tmax dev. |
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Dean Williams
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« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2005, 09:28:09 PM » |
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Nice work, Mike. I really like the ticket counter. Great detail, nice ol' timey feel, and beautiful tones.
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« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2005, 06:53:40 AM » |
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Ah trains. Sacrificed for the "efficiency" of cars & trucks. Perhaps current gas prices will change some minds, but I am afraid it is too late. We are owned.
Nice shots, of course. Las Cruces is a great place to be this time of year, and it gets better with each week into fall. One of my favorite mornings was spent sitting in a cafe on the old square doing nothing except drinking coffee & watching for hummingbirds.
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« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2005, 07:05:05 AM » |
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Wonderful!
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« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2005, 07:20:20 AM » |
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The train used to make about a dozen stops between Las Cruces and my place, 25 miles to the north. Now, you have to go to El Paso to catch a train, and it often doesn't make connections without intervening bus rides. There are a couple antique trains running in NM, and the Copper Canyon trip from Chihuahua to Los Mochis is also on my list of things to get around to one day.
It's true that we are getting to the ideal weather zone this time of year. However, the monsoon has been running a bit late. On Tuesday, Las Cruces got a half inch of rain; doesn't sound like much to most of the country, but in the desert it goes a long ways. Of course, the real problem is that people build and buy houses in arroyos which are the channels for flash floods. Another case of ignoring Nature's obvious warnings.
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« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2005, 07:43:44 AM » |
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That Copper Canyon trip from Chihuahua to Los Mochis is also one I will do, I supose I have to wait until my kids are more grown so they can enjoy a long trip. Thre is another from Guadalajara to Tequila town.
The only train routes still available are touristic ones I remember travelling in trains several times , its a shame ther are not yet available.
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« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2005, 08:05:38 AM » |
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Nice shots  Would any of you happen to know if the Russians ever made a 6x4.5 folder? |
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They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
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« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2005, 08:56:56 AM » |
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Nice shots Would any of you happen to know if the Russians ever made a 6x4.5 folder? No, they never did that format. The first 645 I know of is recently available from modified Kiev MF SLRs. If I wanted to do 645, I'd get pick up my moskva, make a mask and stick to only getting 12 exposures using the current back. While you could add another red window, getting it located just right would be a major pain in the hind quarters... Good thing I prefer the square :lol: William |
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Heck, just give me a Tessar on any camera :cloud9:
"I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies..." Green Day
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« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2005, 10:24:23 AM » |
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as always, Mike makes the ordinary look extraordinary!
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« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2005, 09:32:10 PM » |
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Well, not a folder, but the Etyud (plastic fantastic, Gomz style) is a 6x4.5, with vertical film path to give a landscape "normal" orientation.
Getting the window in the right spot for 6x4.5 isn't all that critical -- there's more than a full frame of extra film on a 120 roll, so as long as the window is within the frame and on the correct track (same distance in as the 6x9, but opposite edge), you'll still get your 16 images. Alternately, put it on the same track as the 6x9, center spaced 45 mm behind (that's 42 mm for the actual image, and 3 mm for the interframe spacing).
I've thought about doing this on my Moskva-5; I'd need to get another 6x6 mask to modify, though, because it's too complex for me to be confident of hand bending (and punching all those little holes) to make one from sheet. That 105 mm coated Tessar copy would sure make nice negatives on 6x4.5, though...
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« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2005, 03:30:58 AM » |
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Mike - from the firing of the shutter onwards your techniques are superb - don't change anything! Nice pictures too....
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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2005, 05:22:08 AM » |
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I love that station picture. Can't wait to try 6x4.5 now...
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