{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blogposting-js","path":"/blog/search_engine_questions_2","result":{"data":{"mdx":{"body":"function _extends() { _extends = Object.assign || function (target) { for (var i = 1; i < arguments.length; i++) { var source = arguments[i]; for (var key in source) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(source, key)) { target[key] = source[key]; } } } return target; }; return _extends.apply(this, arguments); }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutProperties(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded); var key, i; if (Object.getOwnPropertySymbols) { var sourceSymbolKeys = Object.getOwnPropertySymbols(source); for (i = 0; i < sourceSymbolKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceSymbolKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; if (!Object.prototype.propertyIsEnumerable.call(source, key)) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } } return target; }\n\nfunction _objectWithoutPropertiesLoose(source, excluded) { if (source == null) return {}; var target = {}; var sourceKeys = Object.keys(source); var key, i; for (i = 0; i < sourceKeys.length; i++) { key = sourceKeys[i]; if (excluded.indexOf(key) >= 0) continue; target[key] = source[key]; } return target; }\n\n/* @jsxRuntime classic */\n\n/* @jsx mdx */\nvar _frontmatter = {\n  \"date\": \"2008-10-28T18:32:33.532Z\",\n  \"updated\": \"2008-10-28T18:32:33.532Z\",\n  \"type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"title\": \"More questions from the search engines\",\n  \"entityId\": \"024d6ab0-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionId\": \"024d6ab1-f940-11e6-8d52-ffa6c436feb5\",\n  \"revisionNum\": 1,\n  \"tags\": {\n    \"arts.meta.techniques\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"infrared\",\n      \"objClass\": \"tag\"\n    }, {\n      \"@id\": \"exposure\",\n      \"objClass\": \"tag\"\n    }, {\n      \"@id\": \"film\",\n      \"objClass\": \"tag\"\n    }],\n    \"arts.meta.cameras\": [{\n      \"@id\": \"arts.meta.cameras.rb67\",\n      \"objClass\": \"ontag\"\n    }]\n  },\n  \"sidebar\": \"\",\n  \"description\": \" I like to view what people are hitting my site about so that I can make the content of my site more useful.  Sometimes, I'll notice a search that seems to ask a question but I'm not sure if I've got a great answer for it, so here's some short answers...   \"\n};\nvar layoutProps = {\n  _frontmatter: _frontmatter\n};\nvar MDXLayout = \"wrapper\";\nreturn function MDXContent(_ref) {\n  var components = _ref.components,\n      props = _objectWithoutProperties(_ref, [\"components\"]);\n\n  return mdx(MDXLayout, _extends({}, layoutProps, props, {\n    components: components,\n    mdxType: \"MDXLayout\"\n  }), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I like to view what people are hitting my site about so that I can make the content of my site more useful. Sometimes, I\\u2019ll notice a search that seems to ask a question but I\\u2019m not sure if I\\u2019ve got a great answer for it, so here\\u2019s some short answers\\u2026\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"How to take really good pictures\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Shoot a lot. Figure out what you did wrong when you don\\u2019t like the results. Read. Research. Ignore people\\u2019s advice.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Honestly, if it was a simple process to become really good, everybody would be really good. However, creativity is very much like a muscle. If you don\\u2019t use it, it\\u2019ll atrophy. Not everybody can be in the Olympics, but everybody can get better by working out more often.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Sigma DP1 vs. 645 medium format film\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Winner? Except for the convenience of being able to see what you just shot, medium format film.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Between a DP1 (or any other APS-C digital sensor) and a 35mm compact, the difference may not be so clear cut in real life. And between a DP1 and a full-frame 35mm camera, the difference may not be so clear cut either.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And do remember that even in 11x14 - 13x16 size prints, you probably won\\u2019t notice a difference.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"6x7 digital vs 35mm digital\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The only digital backs that cover the full 6x7 area are scanning backs. These have some huge advantages (largely in that they are cheap and very high resolution) that is probably handy if you know exactly what you are doing. But they are not general purpose.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The biggest digital back otherwise is a 6 x 4.5 back. Which you might as well get a camera more closely intended for. Personally, if I had a bunch of money to throw at camera gear, I\\u2019d get the latest Leaf / Rollei camera because it has a rotating back like my RB67.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Now, you can put a 6x4.5 digital back on an RB67 or RZ67 camera, but I don\\u2019t think this is that good of an idea right now. Same problem with APS-C sensors\\u2026 your wide angle lenses aren\\u2019t so wide anymore. If you want a better way to preview, you might as well get a Canon G9\", \".\", \" Otherwise, you\\u2019ll probably be much happier getting a system more closely designed for a smaller sensor. It\\u2019ll be lighter, the lenses will be faster, and the lenses will have a higher resolution.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Eventually, if for no other reason than a bunch of people with a lot of money will buy them, I expect that there will be some attempts at marketing a full 6x7 digital back, assuming that we haven\\u2019t completely redefined what a camera ought to be in the interim. But we\\u2019re not there yet.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"In terms of image quality, most of these modern 6x4.5 backs will out-resolve any 35mm digital cameras, even when you aren\\u2019t using the latest and greatest 6x4.5 lenses, although a 6x4.5 film camera can sometimes be bested by a 35mm full-frame digital camera.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Actually, a lot of the hardcore shooters who went through thousands of dollars worth of 4x5 film each year have found that a 6x4.5 digital back and the right lenses will do just as well as their old 4x5\", \".\", \" The problem, of course, is that it doesn\\u2019t make fiscal sense unless you spend enough on film and developing to make an expensive digital back sound reasonable.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Digital camera versus Mamiya rb67 film\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Unless you have a medium format digital back, the RB67 will be at least equal, if not better than your digital, with a few caveats.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The RB67 will be much slower in terms of shooting rate. You need to be much more careful while exposing and stuff. Nor can you fire through 200 shots in a row to get it right.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"There are better long telephoto lenses for digital SLR cameras than the RB67\", \".\", \" There are also wider wide angle lenses. If you want to go wide, you want a view camera\\u2026 and then it\\u2019ll kick your full-frame dSLR\\u2019s butt.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The digital camera will give you more options for handheld low-light shooting, with IS lenses and high ISOs.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"But if you have both cameras on a tripod with lenses that have the same field of view and scan the RB67\\u2019s film with a good scanner and take a shot of a landscape or a person, the RB67 will impress you compared to the 5D.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"film speed which is better\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"You want a film speed that gives you a fast enough shutter speed (so don\\u2019t shoot a concert with 100 speed film) but minimal grain (so don\\u2019t shoot landscapes on 1600 speed film).\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Below 200 or so, you might not be able to tell the difference most of the time.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"how durable are rb67 lenses and shutters?\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I tend to think that it\\u2019s the same as any other camera. Drop it from a good enough height and the lens will be broken. Except that you\\u2019ll have a helical that doesn\\u2019t move anymore or a broken LCD on a newer camera\\u2026 and on the RB67 you will need to get the shutter fixed.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The thing is, because the lens is otherwise embedded in a sturdy hunk of metal, you\\u2019ll have the lens looking perfectly good but it just won\\u2019t work right, so it\\u2019s probably more frustrating than dropping a plastic lens and having it shatter into pieces!\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"How do I make my own polaroid film?\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"You really can\\u2019t. The paper part on either side is just made with standard film emulsion techniques. The problem is the packets of reagent. That requires a lot of special manufacturing gear.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The closest you can do is figure out some way to get a piece of sheet film in the camera without getting the film exposed to light, take your shot, and then figure out how to get it out. This is possible on many roll film and peel-apart cameras and not so possible for the integral (600 and SX-70) cameras.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"If it were easy to make, somebody would be stepping up into the market.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"can you change iso speed half way through a film\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"In theory yes.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"In practice, don\\u2019t bother.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"How it would work is that you would take a roll and shoot a few shots less than half (so, 9 shots on a 24 roll or 13 shots on a 36 roll). Then you\\u2019d shoot six blank shots. Then you\\u2019d shoot the other half. And then you could try and figure out where the \\u201Chalf\\u201D point is on the film while in the darkroom, cut it, and develop each roll separately. And maybe you can see about getting a better handle as to where the transition point is on your film. Or maybe you can develop by inspection\\u2026 which is almost impossible with modern films.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"It\\u2019s just not worth it. Any lab will probably charge you more than the cost of shooting half a roll. 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The damage has already been done, so you might as well leave it set at the highest setting\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"lee polyester based #89 infrared filter\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I wish there was one, too, but there isn\\u2019t..\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"A #87 will work on a digital, but you won\\u2019t get the split colors that everybody loves.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And a #87 will work with Efke IR820c but not Ilford SFX nor Rollei IR.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"the camera lies\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"you bet it does!\"));\n}\n;\nMDXContent.isMDXComponent = true;","id":"e1ce188b-fd03-50fd-8543-f24838841c74","fields":{"sidebar":null},"frontmatter":{"date":"October 28, 2008","title":"More questions from the search engines","type":"BlogPosting","description":" I like to view what people are hitting my site about so that I can make the content of my site more useful.  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