[LargeFormat] Rodenstock Web Site?

[Clive Warren]

At 11:48 17/07/01 -0500, Pam Niedermayer wrote:
>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

The Dallmeyer sounds a clever device - vaguely remember seeing one of these 
on Ebay a while back.  Would be very interested to hear how it performs - 
how about a digital snap of the beast for the "Equipment" topic in the f32 
Forum?  Thanks for the kind offer to let me play with one of your new toys 
;-)   What is the range of focal lengths?

Big Bend looks like a great place for some LF shooting.  Must have been 
challenging riding a 'cycle through the heat at the lower altitudes - or 
did you throw caution to the wind and only wear the leathers at night? :-)

The names of Rio Grande, Chihuahua and Mexicali are all in our culture here 
in the UK through the pervasive Western films watched avidly by at least a 
couple of generations..... Have only vague plans at the moment but it may 
be the case that the next trip will start further West and take a route 
through Death Valley then over to Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, 
Texas.  The only drawback with this route is that the car would have to be 
dumped in Texas and a flight back to (probably) Vegas or SF - suppose that 
Austin might be an option though for a return flight to the UK.....

Anyway, thanks for the URL.  Will there be wild flowers on October?

Cheers,

All the best,
                 Clive   http://www.cocam.co.uk
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