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1998 expired 4x5 film take with a scratch up lens that's from the 50's. Large format on a budget. Half second exposure at f22
The first camera in the family
The camera of my dad which I am very fond of.
I used it for enlarging.
Dutch:
Mijn vader gebruikte deze camera om te fotograferen ( al voor de tweede wereldoorlog) en ik veel later (vijftiger jaren) als vergrotingsapparaat. Wat ik nog steeds opmerkelijk vind is dat mijn vader die zuinig was toch een camera voor mij huurde(!!) zodat ik op reis mijn eigen foto's kon maken. Dat zag ik andere vaders nog niet doen! (een Exacta spiegelreflex) Hij deed dat omdat hij vond dat ik gevoel voor fotografie had. Ik mocht zelfs zijn camera gebruiken, daar zou ik zelf moeite mee hebben denk ik.
Een volkswijsheid: Je grammofoonplaten, je camera, je paard of je vrouw mocht je immers nooit uitlenen
Nu ben ik aan het kijken of ik meer te weten kan komen over de herkomst. Hij kwam uit Berlijn dat is wel zeker en dat het een ICA camera is.
Mijn vader ontwikkelde zelf de glasplaten.
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If you follow me on Instagram you will know I have a brand new film camera.. I will write full details in a blog post but it is a UK made 4x5 wooden large format camera.
This was the first Intrepid 4x5 photoshoot so I shot 6 sheets of 4x5 film and then a roll of 6x7 in a roll film back. The film back was not a tight fit so I missed a few shots (and the crop was tighter than expected (I thought I had marked it exactly but no) but I still quite liked this photo
Intrepid 4x5 large format camera + Symmar-S 180mm f4.5 lens + 120 roll film back + 120 Fomapan 100 film
Developing - 1:3 Xtol + 1:300 Rodinal, 10min at 23 degrees, Epson v800 scan
Polish model Aneta
See my Instagram story for all the film cameras I was using :) www.instagram.com/mrleicacom/
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
January 2021.
Kodak Portra 400.
Developed Cinestill C41 kit.
Chroma Camera Carbon Adventurer 4x5 + Nikkor W 135/5.6 + DAYI roll film back.
Two weeks after appendectomy surgery, I'm still homebound.
So, my contribution to this years' Pinhole Day is a still life.
1.5 minutes exposure on Agfa HDR x-ray film.
Developed in VERY old Rodinal 1+100 at 22C for 7'min. in a tray.
Homemade 4x5 camera
Focal Length 75mm
Pinhole diameter 0.3mm
f/250
I love how this Collodion Image pendant turned out! The silver in the
Image just shines and glows on top of the gorgeous green color of the
semi precious natural shaped agate.......And I think the organic look of
this amazing plant is a great fit with the stone, sturdy Sterling
silver Chain and Sterling Bail.
I met Carlo a few months ago as I was looking for some honey and I discovered this passionate beekeeper lived only half a mile from my home.
As we got to know each other over time, I found out that this amazing 84 years old was a true genius in building anything out of wood and metal in his well-equipped workshops.
I asked him to help me tame the biggest and heaviest lens I own, so that I could finally mount it onto a 4x5 camera and give it some use.
A few years ago I actually devised a way to mount this beastly lens, but I was never entirely satisfied with the results, as they lacked the solidity such a heavy piece of glass demands.
Carlo was able to quickly solder together a metal cone, permanently attached to a clone of a Plaubel lens board (which he cut and carved by hand !) where the heavy 12 Inch Aero Ektar f2.5lens would snugly fit.
The lens was to be further supported by a metal bracket that Carlo created, inspired by a plastic telescope lens bracket I had showed him earlier, but much, much sturdier than the original one.
Now came the shutter: we opted to drill a hole in a pine wooden board the size of the large packard shutter we were going to use (1/10th of a second maximum speed !!!).
To attach the “shutter board” to the lens Carlo hand-carved a slot of exactly the same diameter of the lens front element rim on the back. Once the rim slid into this groove, a couple of elastic bands were sufficient to stabilize and firmly attach the entire contraption to the camera body.
The heavy 12Inch Aero Ektar Lens can be a wonderful tool, giving you a very Shallow Depth Of Field and a Creamy Bokeh at a great Focal Length for portraiture (at 12 Inch FL this lens does cover 8x10 although I prefer using it on 4x5 and even 6x9, something I am able to do on the old Plaubel Supra camera by just changing the back).
It’s just that the lens is freakin’ big and heavy to mount anywhere but on a military aircraft!
Carlo was able to find a really good and elegant solution (in a retro-post-industrial style) that I truly love !!
My heartfelt THANK YOU to this wonderful, genial, inventor friend of mine!
Scan from a contact print on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag coated with Mike Ware's Cyanotype formula.
Using the same in-camera negative from which I printed the silver gelatin contact print in my previous post.
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[Notes from last post:
More often than not, I make two identical exposures of any scene I deem worthy, so that I get a second chance if processing goes wrong on the first negative.
In this case, the first one came out ok (way back when), so the duplicate was kept aside to be used for testing.
The negative that made this print was developed last week, more than two years after exposure, which speaks volumes for the stability of the latent image on exposed xray films (or at the very least on this particular film, Agfa CPG+).
18x24cm negative (double sided, green sensitive), developed in Ilford MG paper developer (1+50) in a Jobo 2830 drum for 8'min.]
Possibly a self-portrait? I don't really know, but I absolutely love that I found this shot. Best guess for this one would be late 1950's, possibly early 60's. It was not labeled.
Here is an experiment : a portrait taken with a Radar Special Extreme Wide Angle Anastigmat Lens (4.5 inches) on a very rare 8x10 Wide Angle Korona camera. This was the widest lens available at the beginning of the 20th century, with an angle of view of 110 degrees. Hardly a suitable lens for a portrait, I hear you say ! Well, inspired by Bill Brandt's iconic nude portraits he took with a similar extreme wide angle lens, I decided to experiment. The subject was at a mere 10 inch from the camera and the photograph was taken on 8x10 x-ray film rated 50 ASA at an aperture of f 64 (exposed for six seconds). I was surprised about the relatively low distortion the lens has, compared to more modern wide angle lenses with a similar field of view.
SG AE kodak Tri-x pan expired 1984 +2 stop
One late afternoon a few days ago ....
Sara today is very patient, I take this opportunity, watching me while I place the fill-panel and mount the Speed G, looking for the right cut ... She stops, fascinated by my doing, he already knows well.
I'm ready to shoot .... I find under a tree an old wooden cage ... I put it in his hands, everything is perfect now, load the shutter...shoot.
'Dad what is this box?'
'It's a cage for birds ... so they can keep them in the house x hear their chirping'
'It is not right .... Dad is too small ... they can not fly in the sky ... and if singing is because they are sad'
'.......'
'I'm tired .... if you want to do another photo hide away this cage ... no longer have to find ....'
My large format camera - as seen from the front - instead of my normal view (through a loupe on the ground glass). :)
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First with Salted paper technique, second print with Kallitype technique.
8x10 film printed on #berggercot320 paper
Both prints gold toned
Nice day today so I ran out to try a few shots with the Ansco and Kodak lenses I recently picked up.
Testing the Kodak Wide Field Ektar 250mm
Ansco’s a pretty heavy beast.
Ansco 8x10 View Camera + Kodak Portrait 305 mm 12” f4.8 lens + Kodak Wide Field Ektar 250 mm 10” f6.3 lens
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Kalanchoe Thyrsiflora – Flapjack Succulent on Kodak Process Plate - Inverted- ISO 0.5
It has taken a long time of experimentation to get an image on these old Kodak “Process Plates”.
Using X ray film developer diluted at 1:4
normal strength.
Full strength developer blackens the plate without any exposure to light.
Trial plates to be re-cycled for whole-plate Wetplate collodion.
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I took this shot while waiting on sundown for the lighting of the old light on the Pigeon Point Lighthouse. I had brought my Toyo 45CF down to capture the light from the Fresnel lens, but as you can tell by looking at the flags, the wind was blowing pretty good. So, instead of chancing that the big camera would have a hard time staying steady for a long exposure after dark, I shot the film I had loaded during the day when I could do short exposure and not worry about the wind. While both the flag pole and the lighthouse appear to be leaning towards each other, they are not. What you see is the result of the wide angle lens that I used without making any adjustments in the camera movements.
Mother Nature was giving those of us waiting for sundown quite a spectacular show with the clouds that afternoon. I guess that she felt bad as some had showed up as early as 6AM that morning to claim their spot to take photos from. Me, I was a lazy one and arrived at 2PM, but I still got a great spot as you can tell if you look a bit further down in my photostream.
Camera: Toyo Field 45CF
Lens: Fujinon 90mm f/8.0 SW w/Seiko #0 Shutter
Exposure: 1/500 Second @f/16
Tripod: Benro A-169 w/B-0 Ball Head
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Scanner: Epson V750-M Pro
This image is (c) Douglas Bawden Photography, please do not use without prior permission.
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Kodak Folding Brownie 3A. Back is rusty from AgNO3 corrosion at wet plate collodion technic, but exactly that creates an amazing effect at edges. Check it out on this link: borutpeterlin.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/wet-plate-collodio...
December 1st, 2010 is World AIDS Day and in honor of this fact, many cities across the globe have illuminated major landmarks in red. The City of San Francisco was no exception and did this wonderful job lighting City Hall in a very deep red. I wasn't able to shoot from my favorite spot in Civic Center Plaza, as the city was in the process of erecting it's Christmas tree and the unlit tree and hydraulic lift was smack dab in the middle of the shot. So, I moved to the northeast corner of McAlister and Polk. If it looks like I was standing in the street when I took this shot, it is because I was. I did this to keep the electric lines for the buses from cutting across the top of the dome. Luckily there was a couple of available parking spots and I parked my Jeep in one spot while I stood in the spot in front of my Jeep to get the shot.
It looks best on black, so go ahead and click on it!
Camera: Toyo Field 45CF
Lens: Fujinon 90mm f/8.0 SW w/Seiko #0 Shutter
Exposure: 8 Minutes @f/64 metered with Gossen Lunasix 3 light meter
Tripod: Benro A-169 w/B-0 Ball Head
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Scanner: Epson V750-M Pro
This image is (c) Douglas Bawden Photography, please do not use without prior permission.
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This is the second of the series of photos that I took with expired film. I have no idea why it's so foggy? If anybody has any ideas why this film turned out this way let me know?
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
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