{"id":225,"date":"2008-05-16T15:29:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2010-07-24T21:08:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T02:08:13","slug":"225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Leica M8, Visoflex III plus Cambo Ultima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.&#8221; \u2014 Diane Arbus,\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Diane Arbus: A biography by Patricia Bosworth <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">access ability<br \/>\npursuit of happiness<br \/>\nsocial justice. enigmas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the last month I&#8217;ve been moving my office into my home. Remodeling a bathroom and building a custom version of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambo.com\/Html\/products_photo\/set01\/english\/internet\/Item85.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cambo Ultima 35<\/a> from an Ultima 4&#215;5 (seen below with M8 and Visoflex III; also able to mount R8\/DMR, and 5D with a simple Really Right Stuff quick release). Since going digital I&#8217;ve missed the precision of the view camera camera movements to control framing, focus, etc. Now I have achieved the ultimate optical bench. Sweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click images for larger view)\u00a0<a title=\"l1080089.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1080089.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1080089.jpg\" alt=\"l1080089.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Below: three images made with M8 and 180mm Nikkor-W.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1002852.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002852.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002852.jpg\" alt=\"l1002852.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1002855.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002855.jpg\" alt=\"l1002855.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1002855.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002855.jpg\"><\/a><a title=\"l1002857.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/l1002857.jpg\" alt=\"l1002857.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.&#8221; \u2014 Diane Arbus,\u00a0Diane Arbus: A biography by Patricia Bosworth access ability pursuit of happiness social justice. enigmas For the last month I&#8217;ve been moving my office into my home. Remodeling a bathroom and building a custom version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,54,19,33,17,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-fawna","category-hand-made","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}