Digital ViewCamera – Sinar F & EOS 5D

Dear all,

Finally it’s done. My Sianr F monorail viewcamera and a custom made moving adapter to attach a Canon DSLR are "officially married"

The i>moving adapter is compatible with the International Graflok Interface and allows camera movements of plus-minus 3 cm around the central position. A closeup view of the adapter comes here …

Using the maximum left-right movements – 5 images in total per row – results in a 96 Mega Pixel image (11884 x 2835 pixel). UP-down movements can be easily done with the rear standard.
Here a side view of the camera: Attached to the front standard is a Schneider Kreuznach Super Angulon 121mm lens. The shortest focal lens possible that still allows focus to infinity settings …

First sample images are coming soon …

Stay tuned …

Rolex Learning Center – status April 16

While waiting for the final machining of the new adapter which is bringing my Sinar monorail view camera together with a Canon EOS 5D, I went up to the roof and took a couple of snapshots of the construction site. Here we see the "auto-stitching" of around 30 single images.

Stay tuned …

Rolex Learning Center – status April 07

Dear Reader,

The progress is astonishing: Two of the “holes” of the cheese, as locals call the EPFL Learning Center are visible in the background and the big arc in the foreground is being prepared.

Stay tuned …

panorama photography – a different approach

Dear Reader,

Organizing my archive I found an old series, taken in 2004 in Frankfurt city, where I tried a different approach on panorama photography. The single images were scanned and then mounted and framed leaving a gap between them. Depending on the subject the sizes of the fragments were chosen to be different on purpose.

Distortions due to the angle of the camera can underline the statement of the image. Against the actual trend of "cleaning" the final image as much as possible, the technical imperfection of the raw-material used for the composition is part of the artistic concept.

So much for tonight.
Stay tuned …

Digital Large Format Camera – Latest Update

I reported about the modification and adaptation of a Sinar F monorail view camera in order to be used with a Canon EOS 5D.

At the moment a modified adapter is in work :

* it will allow left right movements without changing the setup of the rear standard, which improves the workflow in terms of “shooting speed”

* The risk to move parts of the camera while shooting one series is minimized

* It will be possible to attach the camera also in portrait-orientation

A next project I am working on is a ground-glass adapter which will allow the easy control of sharpness and composition of the final image. So stay tuned …