[LargeFormat] Shutterless lens usage
LNphoto
largeformat@f32.net
Mon Oct 20 18:15:43 2003
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 05:55 PM, Vincent Dobson wrote:
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> ::>This is how they make photographs of busy downtown streets look
> :>empty. Make
> :>many many tiny exposures (1/250) over a period of hours onto the
> :>same sheet
> :>of film, accumulating perhaps the equivalent of a few seconds of
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> :>(plus reciprocity.) The buildings and streets that are permanent
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> Jim,
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> How do hey keep from jarring the camera with so many re-cockings of the
> shutter. Is there a special lens?
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heavy camera. Heavy tripod. Lots of sandbags. there are also "press
type" shutters that are self cocking. see skgrimes.com