Critique Welcomed My tube is bigger than your tube...

[John Allen]

Wanted a picture showing the Mamiya with both extension tubes and the bellows at full extension. I added the OM-1 for scale. Just playing around.


Full extension by John Allen, on Flickr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Very nice. They do a bracket to hold up the extended lenses, to save it toppling over when on a tripod. Still looking forward to your shots with it. Fine camera and lenses.

 

[John Allen]

Very nice. They do a bracket to hold up the extended lenses, to save it toppling over when on a tripod. Still looking forward to your shots with it. Fine camera and lenses.

Thanks, Rob. The negs from 2 rolls are supposed to be here tomorrow. I'm anxiously awaiting them. Hope some came out.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I know that feeling well. Good luck, John!

 

[Pete Askew]

You call that extension?!

http://www.realphotographersforum.c...ng-macro-photography-using-a-copy-stand.4287/


A fine looking setup though.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Boys...

 

[Ian Grant]

Small fry

36" of extension . . . . . . . . .

Ian

 

[Pete Askew]

 

[John Allen]

Now, now, boys... I did say "tube". I don't see any tubes bigger than mine. Ian posted a photo of a bellows and that copy stand setup with the hazel leaf has little bitty tubes on it compared to the Mamiya.

 

[Douglas McMann]

Nice looking camera John...is it expensive to have film developed from it...?

 

[John Allen]

Nice looking camera John...is it expensive to have film developed from it...?

Thanks, Douglas. Fairly expensive if you get it developed and scanned. It shoots 120 @ 6x7 which gives 10 frames per roll. The first few rolls I've shot are running about $1.50 (£1) per photo, including cost of the film. That cost will come down when I switch to shooting all B&W and doing my own development. That should bring it down to about 50-60 cents per shot. Right now, I'm doing my best to limit the number of photos I take of the same scene, so at least I'm not paying for duplicate shots.