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For a long time I wanted to use my 4x5 and 8x10 lenses on a smaller film format, specifically 6x9, with the ease of a focal plane shutter and enough bellows extension to focus. Finally yesterday I found the time to mount on the back of an old Burke and James 4x5 camera a 6x9 Graflex back I had banging around for the longest time.
Very pleased with this simple mod, also considering that this little Graflex focal plane shutter can reliably go all the way up to 1/600th of a second, and that is without stressing the tension excessively. Another positive note is that the B&J camera, with its 5x5 lens board accommodates larger lenses such as the 14"inch Verito, the Kodak Portrait (as pictured) or the 50cm Jena, giving me very interesting results on the smaller (6x9) film size.
A mosaic of Gondwanan species litters the forest floor in Te Urewera. Amongst the species are the leaves of Red and Silver Beech (Nothofagus fusca and menzeseii) , Toatoa or Blue Celery Pine (Phyllocladus toatoa), and Dracophyllum latifolium.
Toho FC-45x, Rodenstock APO Sironar S 150mm, Fujichrome Veliva RVP 50 4x5
16x20” Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
18 March - 15 November 2020
Cradle Mountain Wildness Gallery
www.wildernessgallery.com.au/relicts-exploring-the-flora-...
Toho FC-45x, Rodenstock APO Sironar S 150mm, Fujichrome Veliva RVP 50 4x5
I promise that this is the last camera porn...for a while, anyway! Here is a shot of the business end of my Toyo Field 45CF. A 4x5 large format field camera with a high tech carbon fiber body and weighs in at a little more than three pounds (1.5kg). It can fold up and fit quite nicely into my backpack with lens still mounted and has a reversible Graflok back for portrait orientation. Many consider it an entry level large format camera, as it does not have any rear movements. However, I have yet to need those movements to make the amazing images that I get with it. Considering that it is about $1,400USD less than the metal body 45AII, it is a very appealing camera for novice or pro alike.
It looks fabulous on black, so go ahead and click in it!
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC Macro @50mm
Exposure: 1/250 sec @ f/4.0ISO 200
Lighting: Canon 430EX with custom light modifier off camera right and fired with Canon ST-E2
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Lomo LC-A / Agfa APX100
And it is. I've quit using my wonderful Sinar P in favor of the simple, sheer power of my newly acquired Peco Plaubel. The guy at the local camera store where i picked it, could not believe that I was buying it for 300 bucks. An old relic of a camera, complete with 5x7 back and ground glass, 4x5 reduction converter, a front plate, perfect bellows, rail extensions, compendium lens hood, and even a bag to carry it all. All for the exaggerated sum of 300 bucks. Sometimes I feel guilty for taking deals like this. Can you believe the guy thought he was cheating? Go to evilbay and just look for a compendium hood for this camera and you'll know what I mean.
The pic, I took it with a Russian Lomo LC-A, with a Diana+ flash attached to it. The focus accuracy is good enough, and once you get used to the way the LC-A deals with flashes, it is quite funny, but guys, never trust a LC-A viewfinder for composing.
~ Edward Steichen
So I was walking around in NYC this past August and spotted someone with an 8x10 camera. Of course I had to check it out!
I found out that it was a photographer by the name of Robert Kalman. He was working on a project and was on the lookout for subjects. I managed to snap this shot of him before he ran off after a possible subject!
You can see some of his work here.
This shot was taken on the first outing with my Toyo 45CF and was made looking south from Sausalito across the bay. The glow in the sky is the lights of the city reflecting off the marine layer that was creeping in over the city through the Golden Gate. In the left side of the photograph is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Camera: Toyo Field 45CF
Lens: Rodenstock 150mm f/5.6 Sironar-N MC w/Copal #0 Shutter
Film: Fuji Velvia 100
Exposure: 2 minutes @ f/22
Scanner: Epson V750
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Shooting self-portraits with an 8x10" camera is rather tricky…
But when it works *it works*…
Kodak Master 8x10" view camera
Symmar 360 at f11 t1/5"s
Agfa HDR x-ray film @ 50asa
RO9 (10+1000) for 8'm in 11x14" flat tray
Scan from contact print on Ilford MGWT paper
My wife and I ran across a Photography Workshop in Mosaic Canyon, put on by Michael E. Gordon Photography. They were using Large Format Cameras in this class.
We talked with Kevin Mellis, who was in the class, a photographer out of Canada that had come down to shoot in large format. He explained basically how the camera worked, which is the image is upside down in the view finder, and you have to figure out your composition in reverse.....ugh....
© Jeff D. Muth 2013
Old growth Snow Gum, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia
Arca-Swiss F-Line Field 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar XL 80mm, Fujifilm Neopan Acros 4x5 develop in Hypercat catechol developer
16x20” print on Foma Fibre-based paper
Relicts - Exploring the Flora of Gondwana
18 March - 15 November 2020
Cradle Mountain Wildness Gallery
www.wildernessgallery.com.au/relicts-exploring-the-flora-...
this is my second large format camera Zeiss Ikon Ideal 325 10x15cm - Tessar 16.5cm f/4.5. glass plate expired in 1989.
Wet Plate Collodion negative format 10x12" of Studio Pelikan in Celje, Slovenia, EU. More on my blog: borutpeterlin.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/todays-wetplate-se...
Green Intrepid 8x10 camera with a Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 1:5,6 300mm. Prontor professional shutter.
This is the railroad that runs past Union Station in Kansas City. This was once one of, if not, the busiest railroads in the country. It is still pretty busy, but now mostly freight trains, though AMTRAC still carries rail passengers to and from the Union Station terminal. This image was captured while standing on the overpass on Grand Boulevard. I used my Anniversary Speed Graphic camera with Foma 100 film. Film developed with 510 Pyro at 1:100
© Avi Das | Graflex Speed Graphic camera with focal plane shutter with a 7½" Kodak Anastigmat f4.5 barrel lens without shutter.
My Intrepid Camera 4x5 MKIV with vintage Cooke 108mm f/6 lens (Cooke series 7b)
Mounted on my 1940s Zeiss wooden tripod.
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!
New York City Easter Parade 2018
The NYC Easter Parade is a great opportunity to do portraits of fabulously dressed people in the street.
Earlier today, sporting a handheld 1930's Graflex RB large format camera and a bunch of film holders I enjoyed myself and made some new friends...
Here's some of the results, just out of the darkroom….
Happy Easter to all !!
I took my antique #largeformatcamera to Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. Thoroughly enjoyed exploring the place and looking for good images. Very pleased with this one. Looking forward to making some #Vandykebrown prints. Made using sheet X-Ray film negative (5x7) (Orthochromatic) in my 100 year old Thornton Pickard Imperial full frame camera. Negative photographed with iPhone and inverted in photoshop and a sepia tint applied. Contact print to be made using Vandykebrown chemistry on watercolour paper.