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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!

whoa...

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.

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

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

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!

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?).

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Andy you need a pair like this

But the other way round of course!!!