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wakefield, massachusetts
1958
transitron engineers
(damaged negative)
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
My latest monstrosity. It's a fully automatic 4x5 camera.
This project was pleagued by multiple breaking parts. I might have the flange to film distance off by about 1mm. Hopefully it won't affect infinity focus too much.
france
late 1950s
entrance, local home
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
4 negative (4x5 xray) panorama on the top of Goldenberry hill. This was shot with a 4x5 zoom pinhole but my curved film plane '4 in a box' does the job better.
4x5 negative scan from a picture I took back in the mid to later 1980s. This one has me puzzled as I have no idea where I took the picture, nor do I recall taking the picture. Most certainly New England, probably in Massachusetts.
I'd guess the film used here was Kodak Tri-X which I probably developed with D76. I scanned this using two passes on my Canon 8800f scanner (which does not cover a full 4x5 negative), then merged it into one image using PSE, followed with some very minor editing using NIK Silver Efex Pro.
Tell you, it is wonderful how nicely these 4x5 negatives scan into digital format. I find small branches at the end of tree limbs something of an 'acid test' as to the quality of a scanned negative. Even with medium format negatives I often find the end result wanting. Here the branches are right there with little distortion, crisp and clear (even when I greatly enlarge the original JPG). Makes sense I suppose given the area of a 4"x5" negative being some 20 inches . . . plenty of 'analog data' to be leveraged by a scanner.
While Flickr is STILL being cranky, I'll just upload some random stuff like this 4x5 test shot.
I was trying out a three-flash setup while attempting to nail down the EI and development times for this old "aerial reconnaissance" film. That actually seems to be nice stuff! Super sharp and grainless.
The funky eBay lens is looking decent too. You'll need to go large to check out that shallow depth of field. I have no idea what the story is with that horrific banding in the background. I'm hugely overdue to move up to 16-bit grayscale though.
Big Boy Bob belonged to my late friend Gordon. I remembered him buying one of these on a housemate-reunion trip we took to Harbor Springs many years ago. After I posted this photo of Gordon & Big Boy, his sister contacted me and said, "hey we found 'Bob' when we were going through his stuff--I'm happy to send him to you."
That was really touching--I actually snuck Bob into one of the illustrations for my MAKE Magazine article on the pin-o-rama camera. It turned out that the Harbor Springs Bob was just the first of what became a small collection of Bobs, and Precarious Burger Bob was a later acquisition.
I am trying to become more familiar with large format. That means some experimentation. Taken with a tilt/shift modified speed graphic.
Incredibly fun with the details you get on these negatives. But frustrating with all the dust and scratches. Have something to learn adout accuracy :)
Fomapan 200 developed in R09 (1 +100 stand)
First 4x5 image taken with a Chamonix N2 on Portra 160 with a nikon 210mm f5.6 lens. I've decided to teach myself 4x5 format any advice is greatly appreciated
unidentified
late 1950s
chairlift
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
gloucester, massachusetts
1958
lanes cove, lanesville
(damaged negative)
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
4x5 Palladium print on Arches Platine paper from in-camera negative.
Camera Crown Graphic Special, film Ilford HP5+ processed 20 min in D-76 (1:1)
boston, massachusetts
1957
acorn street, beacon hill
(positive)
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Reviewing 4x5 negatives I got from an estate sale Saturday, I found that combined, they were more interesting, and surreal.
My scanner can not scan the entire negative, so this will have to do. Shot at 1/250 sec at f8 in bright sunlight this afternoon at about 10" from the lens.
I built this pinhole camera several years ago. The black box is made of matboard and it fits into a groove into the wooden frame. A standard 4x5 film holder drops into a velvet-lined slot for the exposure. There's a tripod screw in the bottom of the frame (the rock shown in the picture is just to prop up the front for the photo!). I didn't glue the box on the front, but just squeezed it into the groove using matboard shims to pressure-fit it, but with age and use it has gotten loose, hence the rubber bands. I should probably just glue it.
The focal length is about 4 inches, and the pinhole is about 0.017", for an aperture of about f/256. The field of view is about 75 degrees, similar to a 28mm lens on 35mm. It is predictable enough that I have shot Ektachrome transparencies with quite good exposure.
Viva la pinhole!
I missed focus a little with this one but it was fun to get my 4x5 out again. Crown Graphic 4x5, Schneider 210mm APO Symmar f/5.6, Ilford Delta 100 in 510 Pyro 1:100
Granny squares block in purple, plum, and gray with gray background. Used Blue Elephant Stitches tutorial:
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