Schneider Super Angulon
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 Linhof 6x12 Technorama w 65mm 56 Schneider Super Angulon Finder $2,499.00 Time Remaining: 25d 15h 4m Buy It Now for only: $2,499.00 |
 Linhof Technika 70 Schneider Kreuznach Super Angulon 4 53 6X9 $75.69 (8 Bids) Time Remaining: 7d 19h 32m |
 Schneider Linhof 156 58 mm Super Angulon XL 120 MC $1,171.00 Time Remaining: 6d 19h 58m Buy It Now for only: $1,171.00 |
 Schneider Linhof 156 47 mm Super Angulon XL 120 MC $1,301.00 Time Remaining: 6d 19h 58m Buy It Now for only: $1,301.00 |
 Schneider Linhof 156 58 mm Super Angulon XL 110 MC $1,431.00 Time Remaining: 6d 19h 59m Buy It Now for only: $1,431.00 |
 Linhof TECHNORAMA 617 S Schneider 90 56 Super Angulon $4,995.00 Time Remaining: 26d 7h 16m Buy It Now for only: $4,995.00 |
 Schneider AF Super Angulon 35 40 14933553 Rollei 6000 Rollei $4,500.00 Time Remaining: 22d 2h Buy It Now for only: $4,500.00 |
 Schneider AFD Super Angulon 28 50 PQS 9203257 rollei $4,000.00 Time Remaining: 22d 1h 40m Buy It Now for only: $4,000.00 |
 Tomiyama Art Panorama 617 612 w Schneider Super Angulon 90m f 56 MC EX+ 6x17 $2,730.00 Time Remaining: 21d 4h 27m Buy It Now for only: $2,730.00 |
 Ex++ Linhof 617S TECHNORAMA w Schneider super angulon 90mm 56 MC 617 s $4,555.00 Time Remaining: 22d 2h 5m Buy It Now for only: $4,555.00 |
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Nikon 24mm f/3.5D ED PC-E Nikkor Ultra-Wide Angle Lens for Nikon DSLR Cameras
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DescriptionThe Nikon PC-E 24mm f/3.5 D lens is an ideal lens for architectural and nature photography, providing an ultra-wide field of view and Perspective Control (PC) with tilt, shift and rotation capability. The three Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass elements minimize chromatic aberration, resulting in superior sharpness and color-correction... |
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Schneider Center Filter #4 for Super Angulon 90/5.6 #4 and 120/8 (#08010599)
Sale Price: $514.95 |
DescriptionWhen working with ultra-wide-angle lenses, the fall off of illumination towards the corners is sometimes disturbing. For this reason, concentrically graduated Center Filters have been designed to compensate for this vignetting... |
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Schneider 06-019104 PC Super Angulon Mount for Nikon
Sale Price: $199.95 |
DescriptionThe Schneider 06-019104 PC Super Angulon Mount for Nikon will allow the 28 mm PC Super-Angulon lens to be mounted onto a Nikon SLR camera. |
Historically, saying something artistically significant with photography has always been a tough proposition. Years of technical work perfecting a craft, a compulsion to photograph, raw talent and a burning need to make a statement were always the baseline requirements. Few attained the goal of Jedi Master.
In the age of digital, it's equally difficult to reach the heights. Excellent craft, compulsion to work, talent and having something significant to say are still in the mix. But now I believe a new factor has been added; the requirement for novel subject matter.
I'm in the process of putting together a business plan for a photographic rep firm. Part of what I'm doing is looking at the work of photographers who are not well known, but who have nevertheless developed a good craft and make lovely images.
After looking at thousands of images, what I'm absolutely struck with and never expected to encounter is the banality of the imagery being produced. And I use the word banal in the exact dictionary sense: "dull or stale because of overuse, trite, hackneyed, commonplace". Not that these aren't technically well done wonderful shots of beautiful landscapes, buildings, social man and female bodies. But damn, if I see one more print of a mountain stream done with a time exposure and a 90mm Schneider Super-Angulon lens, I think I'm gonna puke.
Twentieth century photography was absolutely ablaze with a galaxy of talent including the likes of Edward and Brett Weston, Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, Imogen Cunningham, Bernice Abbott, Gene Smith, Ralph Gibson, Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Eliot Porter, the list goes on and on. Each one of these artists and many more not here listed produced or are producing a unique corpus of work.
Unfortunately some of the newer folks seem to be producing work that is entirely derivative in nature and this is particularly prevalent in landscape work. I can literally group many of these shots into individual categories and trace their direct lineage back to the original work by another artist. Sun bleached tree backlit against dark polarized lake. Dark prairie field with dramatic thunderhead. Twisted nude with side lighting against black velvet. It's as though the camera is being placed at an identical GPS coordinate, same film, same time of day, same print treatment as the 'original'. Oy....
I think part of the reason for this is that there are far more shooters per unit of subject matter than When A. Adams and E. Weston were running around the countryside with 8x10 view cameras. It may simply be that photography and image making have become an identifiable lifestyle inhabited by lots of people versus the relative few who came before. Ansel is famously quoted as saying that craft must be mastered to produce art. Now that we have a lot of people who have mastered the craft, is it still art?
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