[LargeFormat] Rodenstock Web Site?

[Pam Niedermayer]

If we meet up, I'll let you play with a Dallmeyer Adon Variable
Telephoto Lens. Steve Grimes just made adapter rings for both of mine
(OK, got a little carried away here), mounted one in a Polaroid Copal
1 (they'll both work in this now), now have to make a new lens board.
If the optical quality is there, certainly solves all telephoto
problems for 4x5 and 8x10, including short bellows.

I don't know a lot about Big Bend itself, our planned trip there this
past spring was cancelled due to a client emergency; but the web site
is at http://www.nps.gov/bibe/home.htm. The surrounding area north and
south of the border (Rio Grande) is sparsely populated, will give us
an excuse to revisit Mexico. We travelled through there 23 years ago
on motorcycle, but I was only beginning to learn landscape photography
then with a 35mm system, should be quite a large format challenge for
me. In some ways the Chihuahua desert is very different from the
Sonora, more wild flowers, somewhat more scrub, lots fewer visitors.

Pam

Clive Warren wrote:
> ...
> It will probably be October before the first opportunity to take a break
> this year.  I have to do a bit of clever financial management to sort the
> trip but it is still a possibility.  This is the real driver to finding a
> lightweight 300mm lens as I found that a longer lens was needed on several
> occasions during the last trip.  The longest I had was a 203mm and in some
> cases, walking closer would have had me over the precipice and in freefall
> for a while :-)
> 
> Would be great to meet up if I can get over that far East. Please tell me
> more about the Big Bend NP!
> 
> Cheers,
>              Clive


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