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VOLUME THREE - THE RED ARROW TROLLEYS
The story of a surviving suburban trolley system from the 1950's to today. Includes Routes 101 - 102 - 103 and 104. As seen through the Super-8 lens of Gary Grahl, a look back at the marvelous Brill, St. Louis and Kawasaki rail cars through Delaware County to West Chester, Ardmore, Sharon Hill and Media. 126 Minutes ONLY $29.95
VOLUME TWO - SUBWAY AND SURFACE LINES
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Philadelphia SEPTA City Transit: Juniper St to 40th St subway lines through Woodland and Chester Ave surface lines and more. 1970’s PCC Cars through 1980’s Kawasaki. Experimental color schemes and one of a kinds. Includes Routes 10 - 11 - 13 - 34 - 36. ONLY $29.95
The Colorfull Years - 1970’s and 1980’s
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From the lens of Gary Grahl. See Philadelphia PCC’s during the colorful 1970’ and 1980’s on Routes 6, 15, 23, 53, 56, and 60.
At times you may simply need to put up with wide angle distortion in order to enable photography in tight confines. Note the slightly “stretched” perspective with the 35mm lens (on a 35mm film Olympus XA) that was necessary in this tight location to include the caboose and box car as a “frame” for a Louisiana & North West brakeman switching cars on a foggy morning in McNeil, Ark.
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format cameras (35mm, medium format, and 4×5), DSLRs with different sized digital sen- sors (“APS-C” or “DX,” full frame or “FX,” and Four Thirds), and compact cameras with very small sensors that also vary in size from one camera model to the next, at times it can be a bit confusing which lens in one format is equivalent to which lens in another format. A typical railfan DSLR camera might have
a zoom lens incorporating both a wide angle and telephoto setting, such as 28-120mm, 18- 105mm, or similar, perfect to cover most any railfan photo situation. But on a typical com- pact camera, lenses that give a similar wide angle to tele range will have much smaller specifications like 7-44mm, 4.5-108mm, or similar. To know what these different desig- nations mean and how they compare between camera formats, you need to understand the term “35mm equivalent.” (Relax, all this was covered in detail in that telephoto column, so I will not go into that lengthy explanation again here. Please see that column if you need more “equivalent” info.) Also complicating the understanding of
what millimeter (mm) designations mean, are the wide variety of lenses made specially to work best on only a DX format DLSR. These lenses, if used on a full frame FX format DSLR, can yield severe vignetting (darkened corners) or even a circular image, especially with a zoom set to its widest angle. For ex- ample, my 17-55 Nikon zoom gives full image coverage to the DX sensor, but when used at the 17mm setting on a 35mm film camera, a small quarter circle of film in each corner of the photo is dark; this would be the same on a full frame FX camera. The lens, designed for the smaller DX sensor, is simply too small physically to completely cover a larger 35mm film plane or “full frame” FX sensor. To simplify matters, for most railfanning situations a 28mm lens gives nice wide angle coverage while giving minimal distortion on a
35mm film camera or a DSLR with FX sensor. A 35mm lens will have less distortion but may not be wide enough in tight spaces. However, on a camera with an APS-C DX size sensor most commonly found in today’s DSLRs, a 28mm wide angle lens is a not-so-wide lens of approximately 40mm (more or less), and a 35mm lens is not a wide angle at all, being approximately equivalent to about a 55mm. You will need an 18mm lens to get an effec- tive 28mm coverage with a DX format DSLR. (Multiply the lens mm by 1.3 to 1.7, depend- ing on the camera make and model, to get the “35mm equivalent” power. There are too many variations to list here, but you can determine your camera’s exact crop factor with a little research on the internet; when in doubt, mul- tiply by 1.5 to get a “ballpark” figure.) For all cameras with even smaller format
sensors, you need to translate their lens’s mm sizes to “35mm equivalent” to get an approx- imate 28mm wide angle. On Four Thirds sys- tem cameras with their even smaller sensors, a 28mm lens is equivalent to about a 55 mm lens (multiply by two). A 28mm lens on a point & shoot compact camera with its very small sensor is an effective 140mm (approximate) small tele, so look for a model that has a wide angle end of the zoom on the order of 6mm, which will be close to a 28mm equivalent. (As with DSLRs, individual compact camera crop factors can vary from about 4.5 to six, but to simplify matters use an average of five.) For medium format film cameras, you will
need a 55mm lens to have an effective 28mm wide angle capability (multiply by half), and the fixed 75mm or 80mm lens commonly found on a TLR will give you an equivalent 35mm angle of view.
Pros and Cons of Wide Angles
With lenses much wider than 28mm (35mm equivalent) you will get very noticeable dis- tortion. Anything wider than about 21mm
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