Camera Porn - Toyo Field 45CF
Number one in a series of my film camera porn: Toyo Field 45CF with a Fujinon 90mm f/8.0 SW lens. After deciding last year that I just wasn't happy with digital for a lot of my personal work, I started looking at which film cameras that I was going to get. I knew that I was going to want a large format camera for doing fine art landscape and after much research I settled on this wonderful piece of photographic hardware. While many of you may think that film is dead and that this is some old piece of equipment that I stole from a museum, think again. This is a brand new, state of the art design with a carbon fiber body that weighs in at a mere 3.5 pounds (1.6kg). It folds up nicely and can do so with many of the normal sized lenses attached.
While there are definite advantages to digital photography, if you are looking for the absolute best images that you can get in resolution, color and contrast, then you owe it yourself to try shooting large format with one of the professional slide films available from Kodak or Fuji...I think that you will be impressed. For a sample of what a camera like this is capable of doing, just take a look in my set 'Large Format'.
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8
Exposure: 1/40 sec @ f/4.5 ISO 400
Lighting: Canon 430EX off camera right with custom light modifier and fired with Canon ST-E2
This image is © Douglas Bawden Photography, please do not use without prior permission.
Enjoy my photos and please feel free to comment. The only thing that I ask is no large or flashy graphics in the comments.
Camera Porn - Toyo Field 45CF
Number one in a series of my film camera porn: Toyo Field 45CF with a Fujinon 90mm f/8.0 SW lens. After deciding last year that I just wasn't happy with digital for a lot of my personal work, I started looking at which film cameras that I was going to get. I knew that I was going to want a large format camera for doing fine art landscape and after much research I settled on this wonderful piece of photographic hardware. While many of you may think that film is dead and that this is some old piece of equipment that I stole from a museum, think again. This is a brand new, state of the art design with a carbon fiber body that weighs in at a mere 3.5 pounds (1.6kg). It folds up nicely and can do so with many of the normal sized lenses attached.
While there are definite advantages to digital photography, if you are looking for the absolute best images that you can get in resolution, color and contrast, then you owe it yourself to try shooting large format with one of the professional slide films available from Kodak or Fuji...I think that you will be impressed. For a sample of what a camera like this is capable of doing, just take a look in my set 'Large Format'.
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f/1.8
Exposure: 1/40 sec @ f/4.5 ISO 400
Lighting: Canon 430EX off camera right with custom light modifier and fired with Canon ST-E2
This image is © Douglas Bawden Photography, please do not use without prior permission.
Enjoy my photos and please feel free to comment. The only thing that I ask is no large or flashy graphics in the comments.