Read this month's View Camera -- there is an article on scanning back
exposures of quite a few seconds -- not pin hole, but still the guy is
using the back for some pretty long exposures.
Dean
>>>>>>>I guess I could get a digital back,
>but i assume that's an expensive option.
>
>I don't think any digital camera back would be good for this...although, my
>experience has been limited to using a now obsolete digital camera--a Nikon
>E3--in a studio. I have looked at scanning backs, and both one & three shot
>capture backs for our studio as well, and there were serious limitations to
>these backs in regards to using view cameras, and then there was the price
>too...the ones I looked at were much, much more than the Betterlight
>backs....
>
>But, they simply do not work with low light, or with long exposures...none
>of them do. They all need *alot* of light, the right kind of light, and no
>matter how expensive they are, they still don't do long exposures....usually
>they cut off around 15th or an 8th of a sec as the longest....if you do see
>a long exposure on a cheaper slr type digital camera, usually it gets pretty
>noisy in quality....
>
>KT
>Opinions expressed in this message are mine only.
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Dean Lastoria
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Received on Mon Feb 25 14:15:17 2002
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