Photos for book

jps · Post by **jps** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:51 pm

I can shoot basses with my 4x5! That should give you the quality you need foor the double trucks for sure.

My camera:

Maccasar ebony and solid titanium!

jps · Post by **jps** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:55 pm

www.ebonycamera.com

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:01 pm

whoa...

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:16 pm

Jps, I wish I was able to attend the confluence. I would love you to photograph my 5Cii basses and maybe at least one of them would make it into Paul Boyer's book. You and Paul Yan take some great photos.

marc61 · Post by **marc61** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:39 am

I don't understand one thing. If you use that camera to take pictures, how did you take a picture of the camera? Mirrors?

scoobster28 · Post by **scoobster28** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:23 am

If you use that camera, won't it roll around on those little wheels? Or are those for zooming in and out?

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:45 am

Marc,
I, um, lifted that from the Ebony website, I was too lazy to get my digital camera out!

Benjamin,
Those little wheels are the front and back standard focusing knobs. Ebony designed a very unique design variation on the standard folding field camera with this non-folding design that makes quick work of setting the camera up. There is a good article on the design at:

www.ebonycamera.com/articles/fold.exp.html

Another unique feature to this wooden field camera is asymmetrical swings and tilts on the back standard. You can learn about it here:

www.ebonycamera.com/articles/assym.exp.html

This feature has been used on monorail designs for decades, first developed by SINAR, the Swiss camera manufacturer.

For those of you fully entrenched in the digital age, this camera may seem daunting to figure out, but I know that John Hall would instantly find this camera easy to use. So, Rickenbackers and view cameras are a must for all of us to learn about!

leftyguitars · Post by **leftyguitars** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:46 am

I've got a museum quality, lefty, 1971, 21 fret, checkered binding, full width MOP, mapleglo 4001 that would look nice in the lefty section. (You are having a lefty section, aren't you?).

rickcrazy · Post by **rickcrazy** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:57 am

Hey, my righty August 1970 21 fret Mapleglo 4001 looks exactly like that. But I'd rather contribute a photo of my 1979 Azureglo 4080.

marty · Post by **marty** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 5:42 am

Peter,
That's as fine an example of a left handed 4001 that we're ever likely to see...21 frets with all the vintage features and in such great shape....must be a candidate for the book.

That 4080 of yours must be another prime candidate too Sergio....a gorgeous example from the pics you've previously posted.

ken_swearingen · Post by **ken_swearingen** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:03 am

actually the more pic's of old and new Ric's and different colors...the more interesting the book.Smith did not have the luxury of having such a wide variety of Ric basses to put in his book.Nor anyone else for that matter

jeff_ulmer · Post by **jeff_ulmer** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 6:12 pm

Regarding the quality required for print publication, this is usually 300-400dpi at 100%. The conversion from RGB to CMYK does not shrink the quality, it just increases the file size. What you want to avoid is lossy compression, ie. what JPG does as the quality goes down, since this adds artifacts that can't be removed.

The big problem with smaller digital cameras, aside form a lack of resolution, is that there is no dynamic range available for compensating, and they tend to be noisy.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:52 am

I'm still looking for the compression button on my camera, the only thing I can find that compresses is the bellows.

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:37 am

Peter - very nice! I WANT one of those - in MG as a righty of course to go with my MG V63

leftyguitars · Post by **leftyguitars** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:00 am

Andy you need a pair like this

But the other way round of course!!!