[PRCo] Re: going digital

[Fred Schneider]

Ah yes.  Press 40 and No 11 Bulbs.   Those huge screw base flash  
bulbs.   The kind where you took group pictures with one bulb and  
stopped the lens down to f 16 or f 22.

I used those Press 40 bulbs on the old high school 3 1/4 x 4 1/4   
Speed Graphic.   One of those suckers would light up the side of a  
house.   A few hundred would light up the Horseshoe Curve.

I still have a small inventory of 5B or 25B blubs for night flash.    
None of those are made any longer.   You have to scavenge the second  
hand stores.   The last few dozen I bought came out of a used  
clothing / used furniture store and a few cents a piece.

On May 29, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
>> The lenses that you use in 35mm are not the same as you will use in
>> digital because the area you are covering is not the same.   You are
>> covering an area approximately 1 x 1 1/2 inches in film.   In
>> digital, you are covering a receptor that is much smaller.
>
> Depends on the camera. But you don't want to spend the kind of  
> money to
> get one where the sensor is film-sized.
>
> You can reuse canon lenses but on my camera the "film" lenses have a
> different effective range.
>
>> I cannot help but revere people like O. Winston Like who spent days
>> string wires and and testing them and planting flash bulbs all over
>> the place in order to take one picture.   And once he took that one
>
> I've done that, but with digital. Once, it backfired. I will tell you
> about West Newton before christmas sometime if you put a beer in me.
>
> It's a good story.
>
> You can use flash with digital. Press 11 and press 40 bulbs are like a
> dollar a pop (literally) tho.
>
>