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Originally Posted by Howard Barlow  Stephen,
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far away...
I started with Mamiya 645's for weddings and an RB67 for portraits. I used the Lindahl bellows lens shade, with the extension bellows, and I think it may have been Leon Kennamer's saw tooth inserts, maybe Lindahl's, not sure. Cricchio made clear ones from that bubble plastic car seat cover material for a clear soft edge.
I attended a seminar with Tibor. That began my love affair with the Imagon lens. I bought the one you could replace the Mamiya 180 element with. Loved that lens. Also bought one made for a view camera and used it on my Wista 4x5 cherry wood field camera. I ended up selling both when I went with Hassy, as I was not going to buy the bellows to use it on the Hassy. |
I was young and stronger then, I used the rb67 for effects shots, an elm for portraits and a 500 cm for action(lol) and group shots. Would set the elm up on a tripod and had this 10ft remote trigger that I could walk around with to pose my subject, somehow they always stayed in the frame. Used a Norman 200 flash on a bracket with the cm, think I would kill myself picking that up today !
Now thatyou remind me I think we made or sawtooth vignette devices from old sheet film and bounce reflectors from plastic bleach bottles.
Tibor was an amazing guy to work for, I learned so much from him. Stayed with his studio for about 4 years, burned out after that. I was still in college and I would shot 4-5 weddings a week. 2-3 on a Saturday but we only shot formals, ceremony and staged reception. Very different from todays expectation
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