Better Light digital turntable rollout system
Ideal for turntable peripheral photographs of the circumference of any round object, especially ethnographic objects such as baskets, headdresses, bracelets, carved stools (anything which is round). Rollout cameras are well known for their ability to record Greek, Maya, and Nazca vases. This same rollout system can also be used to take seamless panoramas.
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Lowel DP tungsten light
Ries wooden tripod
Better Light insert
turntable
Dedolight, this is the model with attached transformer
Dicomed processor in portable case
4x5 camera on Manfrotto tripod head on Ries tripod
NOT yet pictured: Sola transformer
American Power Conversion UPS
Maya vase is a paper rollout because FLAAR owns no Maya pots at all. |
All powered by a Macintosh PowerBook 3400c loaded with maximum RAM. Of course nowadays we use a G3 PowerBook.
The camera pictured here is a Linhof; its L-shaped construction is not appropriate to hold the weight and pull of the SCSI cables. We recommend a Cambo Ultima, Sinar X, or an Arca-Swiss 4x5 for studio work. If you need a smaller more portable 4x5 for remote field work, the Wisner 4x5 has proven itself to be a rugged expedition camera. Almost all the wooden cameras, however, are inadequate for close-up or product photography because of their lack of zero detents. Also their movements tend to be imprecise. You need a sold camera to do close-up work. |
FLAAR studio
polychrome Maya vase rollouts on a new site, www.wide-format-printers.org
If you need tungsten lamps for your studio, we recommend Bulbman, bulbman.com. |
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posted March 16, 1999
Design updated 9/4/2001
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