2008.01.28: Large Format Digital Scanning Back - first photo

They are coming. I have a Horseman LE in transit along with two Calumet branded lenses made by respected lens makers. One is a Schneider 210/5.6 Symmar-S and the other is a 75/4.5 Rodenstock Grandagon (I think). Kwok's camera is far from an ideal body for this digital insert and I don't think that the people making the Speedgraphic of Kodak Ektar lenses of the time EVER planned for their camera system to be used for digital capture half a century later. Unfortunately, those are the two systems that I have on hand. Aaron "job shadowed" me today and he brought around a Linhof Kardan w/ an early Schneider 210/5.6 Symmar (no suffix). We tried shooting a pic of the Speedgraphic at F/5.6 with daylight through the studio window (during the day) and there's like this soft focus glow around everything in the image. Probably had something to do with the focusing distance and using it at F/5.6 and shooting without any IR filtration so IR and visible light are mixed in together. But in spit of this soft focus glow, zooming closer you can see stuff like texture in the metal on small parts of the camera and stuff like that. Should be plenty for fine art repro needs and there may be architectural applications as well. Definitely too slow for most human photography.