[LargeFormat] Shooting Landscapes with 305mm

Huib Smeets largeformat@f32.net
Mon Apr 21 05:54:56 2003


Clive,

have the same experience, have a 90mm but hardly use it, I rather use lenses
with a longer focallength on 4x5. However in medium format I tend to use the
50mm much more then the 80 and 150mm I own.

Who can explain the rationale behind this :-) ?

Huib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Clive Warren
> Sent: maandag 21 april 2003 3:10
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Shooting Landscapes with 305mm
>
>
> The skies have been blue over the holiday period until yesterday when the
> cloud rolled in and temperatures dropped by ten degrees!  The
> cloud looked
> good and there were promises for glimpses of the sun so took some
> time out
> with the 4x5 and managed to get a few good shots.
>
> Ironically, all of the photos taken were with the 305mm G-Claron.
> I seem to
> find more and more that it is longer lenses that end up on the camera for
> landscape shots.
>
> Anyway, thought I'd touch base as it has been so quiet over the weekend.
>
> Cheers,
>             Clive
>
>
>
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