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Quote from: Pffffff;3431042
Nice! What's with these lenses? I hear a lot about them on LF forum, but what are the main things that make it a "petzval"? The apperture?


its just the cut and quality of glass and the way the lens is built. Petzval lenses are most notable for their super dreamy swirl bokeh.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richard314159/galleries/72157624453174055/


most antique brass lenses have the swirl mostly because they are just holes for the aperature opening.  but the way the glass is cut and arranged on a petzval creates a more intense swirl and seperation from the back and foreground

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this camera except a zeiss ikon lens

and a Hasselblad 500c  with a 120mm lens

i plan on procuring an old petzval style brass lens that I will use on both camera for wetplate work

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Non-riding Photo/Video/Multimedia Forum / Post Your Photo Setup [V4]
« on: September 30, 2010, 07:49:09 PM »
In a little over a week... ill have all the chemistry and supplies to have my own wetplate darkroom... pissing my pants stoked.

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Non-riding Photo/Video/Multimedia Forum / Post Your Photo Setup [V4]
« on: October 05, 2009, 10:36:32 PM »
It's pretty decent, it gets tough in low light though as most rangefinders I've used do.

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Non-riding Photo/Video/Multimedia Forum / Post Your Photo Setup [V4]
« on: October 05, 2009, 10:01:54 PM »
Quote from: scott;3104846
I love the idea of having a Mamiya 6.  It would be awesome but I don't know if I could deal with the F3.5.
Even with this in mind though, I keep coming back to the idea of getting rid of my 500cm for one.


If you have a hassy I'd stay with it. The mamiya is a great camera but since I got my hassy fixed I haven't touched it.  The 3.5 doesn't bother me since my hassy lens is an f4. I should have got a mamiya 7 (they are still servicable) but I just wanted a square shooter to keep in my bag.

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Non-riding Photo/Video/Multimedia Forum / Post Your Photo Setup [V4]
« on: October 05, 2009, 05:44:26 PM »
Mamiya 6 - 75mm lens
hasselblad 500c- 120mm lens

and a ton of fancy lighting shit I rarely use.

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The Lounge / Post Your Guns
« on: May 12, 2009, 12:04:39 AM »
the kids were young. id say non of the three could have been older than 17/18. in all honesty if i had a weapon, i wouldnt have been able to get it until i walked away anyway. However, as i was walking away i would have been reaching for the gun instead of my phone and when they started running, i would have surely chased them down.  It's probably for the best I didnt.  I would have gotten myself into trouble.  

 a lot of robberies tend to be intimidation. I think once these kids saw i wasnt having it, they knew it would be more work than just scaring me into giving them what they wanted. And decided that it wasnt worth it and that they could get caught or hurt.  Had the kids been older, me walking away might have pissed them off to the point they would shoot me.  

there are always what if's after something like that.  The situation worked out in my favor. The biggest thing that pissed me off is the cops took 20 minutes to show up, only to ask me all the things i told the operator on the phone,( including full descriptions of all 3 and the directions they ran in.)  then they decided to go look for them.  in 20 minutes time there was no chance of those kids being caught. They probably ran right home and continued their day like nothing happened.  Thats the sort of thing that makes me feel the need to defend myself. Apparently, the police have better things to do than take care of that for me.

Even to be able to injure the kid with the gun enough to hold him until the police came would be doing a service.

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The Lounge / Post Your Guns
« on: May 11, 2009, 04:29:15 PM »
the other day while out shooting photos, 3 little ghetto thugs decided to try and rob me at gunpoint.  i was in one of the nicer neighborhoods in the city. I was shooting a photo and they started talking to me, i paid half a mind to them and kept shooting,, when i put my camera down from my eye, it was replaced with a gun. i looked the kid in the eyes, scoffed and walked across the street. Ill be fucked if im going to let some little fuck try and steal a camera i worked my ass off for.  His friends were telling him to shoot me, i knew he didnt have the balls.  had i not had my camera in my hands( had it been around my neck) i would have beaten them with my umbrella.   Ive been thinking about getting a small gun to keep in my camera bag incase of this situation happening again. Im pretty sure that its illegal to carry in philadelphia, but its something i have to check out.  I might still get something to keep in my apartment.  I was looking at getting something compact and powerful, not   too expensive... similiar to the glock that couch was talking about. Can anyone point me in the right direction with what would be a good choice.  Thanks

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Sell and Swap / Trusted/Un-trustworthy sellers
« on: November 26, 2003, 05:52:27 AM »
bnw-  and   spokewrench ,   both good people

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