Whilst not quite gigapixel (or maybe he does now???), there's a West Aussie photographer by the name of Christian Fletcher that does some huge panos and he now shoots with a H4D Hasselblad with a 60 Mpixel back.
Curious to know if Patrick ever thought of hiring or acquiring a Medium Format digital to produce large images like that? Would have to have made his job easier I'd have thought.
I recently grabbed a Pentax 645D that chews up 40 to 50 Mb of the memory card each press of the shutter, but have yet to try landscapes as I'm primarlity a people/portrait shooter - but would love to see what someone like Patrick could do with a 40+ Mpixel MF camera at his disposal.
Whilst not quite gigapixel (or maybe he does now???), there's a West Aussie photographer by the name of Christian Fletcher that does some huge panos and he now shoots with a H4D Hasselblad with a 60 Mpixel back.
Curious to know if Patrick ever thought of hiring or acquiring a Medium Format digital to produce large images like that? Would have to have made his job easier I'd have thought.
I recently grabbed a Pentax 645D that chews up 40 to 50 Mb of the memory card each press of the shutter, but have yet to try landscapes as I'm primarlity a people/portrait shooter - but would love to see what someone like Patrick could do with a 40+ Mpixel MF camera at his disposal.
I commissioned Patrick for this shot and rented the 800mm lens for him. I've shot and commissioned other shots with medium format, like this one of the space Shuttle from Peter Lorber, which we plan to print big on our walls:
One problem is you can't get the really long lenses for them that bring the perspective that you see in Patrick's shot. Long lenses compress the distance so the city rises up right behind the bridge. It's the long lense that often makes the shot really dramatic.
I am going to shoot a few action shots with the new Phase 1 80 megapixel camera, because we don't really have a way to make a really large print of action other than to gang together several cameras into a Frankencam.
Interesting to read about the background of how the shot was taken, as well as view the final result.
Over the last yr or so, I've made a couple of simple rigs based around Lazy Susan turntables (9in dia ones) for low level stuff - also using a 500mm +/- 1.4x, btw.
I just wondered if such kit had been considered for this project as they're simple to use - and cheap ...
I commissioned Patrick for this shot and rented the 800mm lens for him. I've shot and commissioned other shots with medium format, like this one of the space Shuttle from Peter Lorber, which we plan to print big on our walls:
One problem is you can't get the really long lenses for them that bring the perspective that you see in Patrick's shot. Long lenses compress the distance so the city rises up right behind the bridge. It's the long lense that often makes the shot really dramatic.
I am going to shoot a few action shots with the new Phase 1 80 megapixel camera, because we don't really have a way to make a really large print of action other than to gang together several cameras into a Frankencam.
Pentax make/made a 600mm lens for the 67 MF film camera that will work on the 645D using an adapter- that could be interesting
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Curious to know if Patrick ever thought of hiring or acquiring a Medium Format digital to produce large images like that? Would have to have made his job easier I'd have thought.
I recently grabbed a Pentax 645D that chews up 40 to 50 Mb of the memory card each press of the shutter, but have yet to try landscapes as I'm primarlity a people/portrait shooter - but would love to see what someone like Patrick could do with a 40+ Mpixel MF camera at his disposal.
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One problem is you can't get the really long lenses for them that bring the perspective that you see in Patrick's shot. Long lenses compress the distance so the city rises up right behind the bridge. It's the long lense that often makes the shot really dramatic.
I am going to shoot a few action shots with the new Phase 1 80 megapixel camera, because we don't really have a way to make a really large print of action other than to gang together several cameras into a Frankencam.
Over the last yr or so, I've made a couple of simple rigs based around Lazy Susan turntables (9in dia ones) for low level stuff - also using a 500mm +/- 1.4x, btw.
I just wondered if such kit had been considered for this project as they're simple to use - and cheap ...
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Pentax make/made a 600mm lens for the 67 MF film camera that will work on the 645D using an adapter- that could be interesting
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/lenses/600mm.shtml
www.warped-photography.com