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The look of this portrait is the kind I want from medium format portraiture.
http://www.nobuyukitaguchi.com/photography_gallery/portraiture_337.aspx

There are two possible 80mm lenses, and here are their sync speeds

F2.8 (1/30th) and F4.0 (1/500th)

The image has a small depth of field, and likely (though no obviously) made use of the tilt-shift bellows (like other images), but whether that is 2.8 or 4 - I'm not sure.

So studio settings would be 2.8, 1/30th, ISO 100 film.

I recently took this photo at f2.8, 1/250th, ISO 400 - with the flash at lowest power, in a 22inch beauty dish with a grid.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62198876@N02/21844539294/
At ISO 100, that would have been 1/60th, not far off 1/30th

So to use the 80mm 2.8 lens I'd need to keep the flash reduced (but i won't necessarily want to use a grid) or possibly use an ND filter? whereas I'd have a lot more room to play with shutter speed on the f4.0 version.

Any thoughts?
 
dancook said:
The look of this portrait is the kind I want from medium format portraiture.
http://www.nobuyukitaguchi.com/photography_gallery/portraiture_337.aspx

There are two possible 80mm lenses, and here are their sync speeds

F2.8 (1/30th) and F4.0 (1/500th)

The image has a small depth of field, and likely (though no obviously) made use of the tilt-shift bellows (like other images), but whether that is 2.8 or 4 - I'm not sure.
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I can't give you much advice regarding flash, but that image definitely uses tilt. The SL66 doesn't offer shift capabilities though.

If you bought the camera, it's likely that it'd come with the f/2.8 lens, which is far more common, so maybe just try that first?
 
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skysh4rk said:
I can't give you much advice regarding flash, but that image definitely uses tilt. The SL66 doesn't offer shift capabilities though.

If you bought the camera, it's likely that it'd come with the f/2.8 lens, which is far more common, so maybe just try that first?
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Yes sorry, calling it tilt-shift out of habit.
 
very plastic lighting and a lens tilt
But I suspect a longer focal length than 80mm
 
dancook said:
The look of this portrait is the kind I want from medium format portraiture.
http://www.nobuyukitaguchi.com/photography_gallery/portraiture_337.aspx

There are two possible 80mm lenses, and here are their sync speeds

F2.8 (1/30th) and F4.0 (1/500th)

The image has a small depth of field, and likely (though no obviously) made use of the tilt-shift bellows (like other images), but whether that is 2.8 or 4 - I'm not sure.

So studio settings would be 2.8, 1/30th, ISO 100 film.

I recently took this photo at f2.8, 1/250th, ISO 400 - with the flash at lowest power, in a 22inch beauty dish with a grid.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62198876@N02/21844539294/
At ISO 100, that would have been 1/60th, not far off 1/30th

So to use the 80mm 2.8 lens I'd need to keep the flash reduced (but i won't necessarily want to use a grid) or possibly use an ND filter? whereas I'd have a lot more room to play with shutter speed on the f4.0 version.

Any thoughts?
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Have you considered the 150mm f/4 leaf shutter? There's no light loss compared to the shutterless variant and it's a better focal length for portraits in the traditional sense. Ffordes have a couple of the 150mm leaf shutter lenses in stock at the moment.

Personally, I always find that the 80mm focal length in 6x6cm feels fairly wide because of the extra vertical space.

Have you consulted an equivalence chart? The 6x6 focal lengths don't really translate very well to 135 format because of the very different aspect ratios, but this information might be handy: http://www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HW/HWequifoc.aspx
 
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The two Rollei 80mm lens you referred to above, the reason one is f4 sync 500th is because it is a leaf shutter lens, Rollei 66 are reflex camera so using the 80 f2.8 will restrict you to 30th flash sync :)

The photo graph you referred to could have been taken on the 80 f4 wide open with the use if the shift the camera has as shown in this link http://www.sl66.com/pg/sl66.shtml

Be interested to see how you get on with the Kiev
 
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