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Enja Peterlin portrayed in Wet Plate Collodion technique with large format camera 5x7". I used two studio lights of joined power of 2250Ws. More about the process and the picture on my blog: borutpeterlin.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/great-day-to-portr...
Camomile flowers shot with a Rittreck View and a 90mm Super Angulon.
13x18 x-ray film (green sensitive Fuji HR-E).
Rotary development in Ilford MG 1+50 in diy PVC tube for 8min.
Scan from contact print on Ilford MG Warmtone paper at grade 2.
This morning I got off my bus a block earlier than usual when I saw a man taking photographs with a large-format camera, which was mounted on a tripod in front of the Wells Fargo building. I had never seen one of these cameras, so I got out and made a beeline for the photographer, with whom I chatted for several minutes as he took a few pictures of the Old Courthouse. Although the camera fascinated me, I think I will stick with digital. The photographer told me it costs about $15.00 to develop one image taken with it, and that it weighs about 30 pounds, although I don't know if that is just the camera itself or including the tripod. (I assume that is just the weight of the camera.) It just isn't the kind of camera one could use, say, to take snapshots of a family barbecue or the kids' soccer games. And can you imagine trying to photograph hummingbirds or butterflies with this thing?
One of my co-workers spotted me as I got off the bus, and she was smiling when I heard her say something like, "I knew you'd be going after that!" Later we had an exchange of e-mails, in which she told me she wished she had had a camera of her own to record my grin for all the world to see. I asked her if it was really that conspicuous, and she said yes, adding that as I emerged from the bus, I looked like a kid in a candy store.
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The first camera in the family
The camera of dad which I am very fond of.
Dutch:
Mijn vader gebruikte deze camera om te fotograferen ( al voor de tweede wereldoorlog) en ik veel later als vergrotingsapparaat. Wat ik nog steeds opmerkelijk vind is dat mijn vader die zuinig was toch een camera huurde (een Exacta spiegelreflex) omdat hij vond dat ik gevoel voor fotografie had.
Nu ben ik aan het kijken of ik meer te weten kan komen over de herkomst.
Mijn vader ontwikkelde zelf de glasplaten.
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My Toyo Field 45A 4x5 large format camera, fitted with the Rodenstock 210mm F5.6 lens. I also use it with 65mm, 90mm, 135mm and 150mm Schneider and Rodenstock lenses. It currently doesn't get the use it should. I shoot a mixture of cut film in holders, Kodak Readyloads and Fuji Quickloads. Photographed at an Aylesbury Camera Club practical evening.
5x7" Wet Plate Collodion Mixed Media Tintype shot with Large Format Bellows camera and Dallmeyer Brass lens.
Large Format (5"x4") Agfapan Black & White Film. Scanned - Heidelberg Drum Scanner (Taken from the top of Bonnie Prince Charley's Monument at Glenfinnan)
Aha... busted! The story on the Speed Graphic camera I got from my father a handful of years ago is that he got it from his work - it showed up on a table full of stuff others in his department were offering up for free. When he gave it to me, I asked him if the had ever gotten around to shooting with it. He told me he wasn't sure, but didn't remember ever shooting with it. So I took that as a no. Well, I was sorting some (new to me) old family photos and found a handful of 4x5 Polaroid photos - undoubtedly shot with the Speed Graphic. And then I spotted this photo - with my dad in the background holding the aforementioned Speed Graphic in his hands. So, Dad... you DID shoot with it after all. Very cool.
This scene was from inside the college library where I was majoring in photography. In the middle of the image, you can see a film projector silhouetted against a window. One of the lessons we had to do was to make our own pinhole box camera out of cardboard, and they would employ cut-down 8x10 photo paper, which would yield four 4x5 inch “negatives” per sheet. I remember I made the pinhole out of an aluminum Coca-Cola can, but I don’t remember the size of the pinhole. These cameras seemed to work pretty good and had lots of clarity, at least mine did. Most of the shots I took with my camera were in and around the college because you could only take one picture at a time before you had to remove the exposed image and reload another shot. Unfortunately, I don’t still have the camera. It eventually fell apart, being made of cardboard, and I lost all the pieces.
This shot was taken with my twenty-fifth camera.
Camera: 4x5 Inch Pinhole Camera made out of cardboard (Made in approx. September 1979)
Lens: Aluminum Can
Film: Cheap photo paper (to help save the college money)
Shutter Speed: “B” (bulb) approx. 1-2 minutes (?)
Date: circa September, 1979
Location: Southeastern Illinois College, Harrisburg, Illinois, U.S.A.
Box Library 1df
This is what I have been trying to achieve! - I’m very pleased to get the large Petzval lens to produce what I had hoped it was capable of - lovely softness and bokeh. On Ilford MG IV glossy paper 7”x5”, developed in Bromophen at standard dilution. Exposed for 11s (ISO 2) F 4.5 illuminated with one LED flood light and one fluorescent studio light.
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.
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!
Crab Apple blossom photographed on #xrayfilm with my antique camera - #thorntonpickard Imperial full plate #largeformatcamera #studiothreegallery
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
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The camera is a Kodak 2-D tailboard camera from around 1920-30. It is heavily modified so all movements, except focus, are screwed down.
The lens is a 1860 Petzval of around 150mm focal length made in Vienna, using Waterhouse stops which were fitted later.
Film stock approx 5 ASA. Removing the lens cover to expose the film takes circa 1-2 seconds exposure time.
Many thanks to Gerard, the photographer, for the info on his camera/technique.
Photo - Lincoln Steampunk Weekend, 2022 - Lincoln Cathedral.