Monday, March 10, 2025

Ansel Adams had the best gear




 

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  1. ----saw his list of "stuff-to-take": duct tape.

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  2. Just wondering what Adams could do with today's equipment....

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    1. Camera position is everything

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    2. Nothing.
      If he were doing this today, he couldn't even get into the park, unless he was afoot.

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  3. I guess you could say his work literally gave him a woody. Or paid for one, whatever.

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  4. Looks like a Packard or a Buick..,

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  5. I have three of his books. The Camera, The Negative , and The Print.

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  6. more images of his Woodys https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/12/one-more-woody-that-was-tourist-station.html

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  7. Pontiac Streamliner from '47?
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  8. He use Hasselblad cameras, anyone know? Surely produced awesome photos.

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  9. That camera looks like a view camera with an 8x10 inch film plate. I've got a book about Adams somewhere, IIRC he did use a Hasselblad in the '60s. He got his start with a Kodak Brownie.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  10. I saw a print of Adams's Moonrise: Hernandez New Mexico at the Art Institute of Chicago once. Since it was shot on an 8x10 negative I could damn near put my nose to the glass and not see any grain in the print.

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