Found your channel looking for still life advice and tips (as I'm starting out), but stayed for everything else. Your level of craft and precision is really inspiring and something anybody can take away for any sort of photography. Thanks man, hope to see more of these in 2024! Merry XMas and Happy New Year!
With all of today's technology, I always get a good laugh when I see you working the bellows! It reminds me of an old time photographer, or a mad scientist with his latest invention. Merry Christmas!
I agree, you only need a couple of lenses. I have a whole bag full, but all I use is a 105mm macro for the product photography I do, mostly jewellery. And a 65mm for fashion photography and other portraits, and a 24mm I use on an FX3 for video. 99.9% of my work is done on those 3 lenses. I just take the other lenses because a big bag of lenses impresses clients, and occasionally you can be on a job and they ask you to do something you need an ultra wide or long zoom for.
at what point do you ever show your lenses or any gear at all to the client ? Im curious because I've never had this happen to me. I do commercial food photography. I've never even been asked if I own a camera.
Aahhh. Beautiful breach-lock. No matter how much it wears, it will always mount in the same place. As a former RB67 Pro S owner in the early 1980's, I can say that the 90mm lens is the dog's bo77ocks.
You could use (try) the 50 mm with a reversing ring for macro shots. It might not work well for macro because it is mostly likely a retro-focus lens, and that won't work well for very short distances (but should do fairly well when reversed). The 90 mm is most likely a (modified) Double Gauss lens, and those do better at close range (not perfect, still optimized for maybe 2 meter distance, but it would not matter as much). But your reasoning is good anyways - but it will work only in the studio, and for what you are doing. Should work for most specialized photographers, maybe not for those doing architecture (interior and exterior), but even there maybe 3 lenses could suffice with cropping.
Hello Scott, I am a follower of your excellent videos in which you "support" the community of less experienced photographers - really thanks. I would like to ask what do you use to control the opening and closing of the aperture on the Mamiya lens (yellow ring). Could you please provide me with a source where it can be ordered? Thanks. Dusan
I have a question as I can't wrap my head around it. If I was to use The same Cambo rig but with crop sensor not FF, what implications in terms of Mamiya lenses would it have? Should I assume that my field of view, focusing distance, focal length equivalent change (e.g. to have the same setup but for crop sensor I should use even shorter focal lenght Mamiya lens, like. 37 mm)? or it doesn't matter?
Yeah same as full frame lenses on crop sensors. So a 50mm Mamiya which I think is the widest would be about 75mm on your camera. Benefist are you get HUGE coverage with the centre of the frame, negatives are you will struggle to find a wide enough lens
@@TinHouseStudioUK There is still 37mm RB 67 Sekor lens so it looks like 55 mm for FF, don't know if there will be distortions as in such setup I would use only a center (more or less) of the lens coverage where distortions are less pronounced.
I know I don't NEED many lenses, just like no one NEEDS a Ferrari, but it sure feels good to own them! :) Great content, congratulations. keep them coming.
@@TinHouseStudioUK Sure. It might obviate the need to recompose for your background though since you AOV remains the same. Keep the videos going Scott. I've become "addicted" to them in my off time, even though I'm not a stills photographer.
@@TinHouseStudioUK Sure. It might obviate the need to recompose for your background though since you AOV remains the same. Keep the videos going Scott. I've become "addicted" to them in my off time, even though I'm not a stills photographer.
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Found your channel looking for still life advice and tips (as I'm starting out), but stayed for everything else. Your level of craft and precision is really inspiring and something anybody can take away for any sort of photography. Thanks man, hope to see more of these in 2024! Merry XMas and Happy New Year!
With all of today's technology, I always get a good laugh when I see you working the bellows! It reminds me of an old time photographer, or a mad scientist with his latest invention. Merry Christmas!
you'de be surprised to know just how much these bellows cost.
I agree, you only need a couple of lenses. I have a whole bag full, but all I use is a 105mm macro for the product photography I do, mostly jewellery. And a 65mm for fashion photography and other portraits, and a 24mm I use on an FX3 for video. 99.9% of my work is done on those 3 lenses. I just take the other lenses because a big bag of lenses impresses clients, and occasionally you can be on a job and they ask you to do something you need an ultra wide or long zoom for.
at what point do you ever show your lenses or any gear at all to the client ? Im curious because I've never had this happen to me. I do commercial food photography. I've never even been asked if I own a camera.
Aahhh. Beautiful breach-lock. No matter how much it wears, it will always mount in the same place. As a former RB67 Pro S owner in the early 1980's, I can say that the 90mm lens is the dog's bo77ocks.
You could use (try) the 50 mm with a reversing ring for macro shots. It might not work well for macro because it is mostly likely a retro-focus lens, and that won't work well for very short distances (but should do fairly well when reversed). The 90 mm is most likely a (modified) Double Gauss lens, and those do better at close range (not perfect, still optimized for maybe 2 meter distance, but it would not matter as much). But your reasoning is good anyways - but it will work only in the studio, and for what you are doing. Should work for most specialized photographers, maybe not for those doing architecture (interior and exterior), but even there maybe 3 lenses could suffice with cropping.
Why don’t you use the zoom in feature on the GFX for critical focus. I use it all the time.
I have an RB140 macro with floating element.
Hello Scott, I am a follower of your excellent videos in which you "support" the community of less experienced photographers - really thanks. I would like to ask what do you use to control the opening and closing of the aperture on the Mamiya lens (yellow ring). Could you please provide me with a source where it can be ordered?
Thanks.
Dusan
Those backgrounds, whatnare those? Where do you get them? Are theybjuat foam boards?
Nice video, As I use Canon I would highly recommend the 100 mm macro it’s an amazing lens!
Just love watching you working ❤
Hi Scott, I am also an Mamiya/Cambo user. How and why are you using the yellow ring?
I've a couple of rolls and looking forward to trying it out.
Thanks for your lessons :)
love those type of videos ...no idea why, even i do mostly video those things seem to me really interesting :)
I have a question as I can't wrap my head around it. If I was to use The same Cambo rig but with crop sensor not FF, what implications in terms of Mamiya lenses would it have? Should I assume that my field of view, focusing distance, focal length equivalent change (e.g. to have the same setup but for crop sensor I should use even shorter focal lenght Mamiya lens, like. 37 mm)? or it doesn't matter?
Yeah same as full frame lenses on crop sensors. So a 50mm Mamiya which I think is the widest would be about 75mm on your camera.
Benefist are you get HUGE coverage with the centre of the frame, negatives are you will struggle to find a wide enough lens
@@TinHouseStudioUK There is still 37mm RB 67 Sekor lens so it looks like 55 mm for FF, don't know if there will be distortions as in such setup I would use only a center (more or less) of the lens coverage where distortions are less pronounced.
I know I don't NEED many lenses, just like no one NEEDS a Ferrari, but it sure feels good to own them! :) Great content, congratulations. keep them coming.
btw because of the macro belly distance it's not f16 anymore if more something like f 20 probably
Does your Mamiya 50 have a floating element?
Sounds silly, but what is the wire you're using for holding the pill?
Modelling wire
Interesting, thanks!!
Great video - Thank you for sharing
Thanks
Heya Scott, do you have the old W 50mm RZ lens? You need to get the newer ULD
I don't know your lenses, but try an experiment where you turn the lens around & shoot through the "back".
im not sure it would add much with these lenses, but I remember doing it with my canon when I was starting out for Macro stuffs
@@TinHouseStudioUK Sure. It might obviate the need to recompose for your background though since you AOV remains the same.
Keep the videos going Scott. I've become "addicted" to them in my off time, even though I'm not a stills photographer.
@@TinHouseStudioUK Sure. It might obviate the need to recompose for your background though since you AOV remains the same.
Keep the videos going Scott. I've become "addicted" to them in my off time, even though I'm not a stills photographer.