Personal website and more information available on www.alexiacob.com

For me photography is the only objective way of depicting what life is and not what we think, feel, hear, read or believe it is and to detach a moment from the lapse of time. The more of these immortalized precious moments called pictures we can add to our album before we close it, the more we made of it.

This stream should be viewed with Safari browser (Mac) and not with Mozilla Firefox. As much as I like that browser, their colour profiles are crap!

Constructive criticism is more than welcome :-)

For those, like me, sometimes wondering, what a certain picture could have been taken with, here the weapons of choice:

ANALOG LARGE FORMAT

Graflex Crown Graphic

Optar 135mm f/4.7

ANALOG-MEDIUM FORMAT

Hasselblad 503CW

Carl Zeiss Distagon CF 4/50mm T* FLE

Carl Zeiss Planar CF 2,8/80mm T*

Carl Zeiss Sonnar CF 4/180mm T*

Extension Tubes:

16mm, 32mm and 56mm

Rolleilflex 2.8F (Franke&Heidecke) TLR Carl Zeiss Planar 2,8/80

EXPOSURE METERS:

Gossen Starlite2

Gossen Variosix F2

SCANNING

Epson Perfection v750 Pro

Silverfast Ai (lots of options, but quite annoying, especially for slides) /VueScan (not very helpful) / Epson Scan (easy to use and gets the job done)

+MF holders with ANR glass from betterscanning.com

DIGITAL:

Nikon D80 (DX- 23.6 x 15.8 mm CCD, [1.5 × FOV crop] sensor)

Nikkor AF 50 f1.4D

Sigma 10-20mm, f4.0-5.6

Tamron 17-50mm, f2.8

It does make a difference to use at least a monopod, like this:

Benro Monopod MC-66 Carbon

-or if you have the time and patience, do it properly with a tripod like this:

Benro Travel Angel Tripod C-068

Benro KS- 0 Ball Head (both very light and not bulky)

Filters I sometimes use:

Hoya Circ-Pol 67 Pro1Digital

Hoya Circ-Pol 67 Slim wide angle

Hoya ND 8 HMC filter

Briefing Room: Photoshop CS6

Whomever wants to use a photo of mine, please contact me first. (alexiphotography(at)gmail.com)