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This Photo was taken on a Linhof Kardan Camera on Fuji Provia 100F Film.
Lens: Schneider Symmar-S 150/5,6 MC
Sinar P / Schneider Symmar 150mm / Agfa MCP paper negative
See my article about this camera in my blog at
C'mon, give it a try!
Omega 45D
Rodenstock Sironar Copal #1 210mm f/5.6
expired Agfa APX 100
Fast flowing Grand River through Caledonia at the Argyle Street Bridge
I’ve got to confess, I’m in love with this picture. But I can’t be objective, so I’m not sure how good it actually is. The picture is a first for me in many ways, and it came to be under less than ideal circumstances. It was the first time I ever shot Fuji Provia (back in the 90s I only shot Kodak 35mm slide film). It was literally the first exposure I made. It was also the first time I manually metered for slide film. I actually metered several times, as the sun was slowly but steadily disappearing behind clouds as I was setting up, taking all the beautiful light away. It was also the first time I ever developed colour film myself, so I didn’t expect anything good to come out of it. Despite reading through the E6 kit’s instructions many times, I used a wrong agitation scheme for most of the first — and most critical — development stage. However, once I took the slide out of the development tank, I was just blown away. It was still looking a little foggy, but that cleared up as the film was drying. It was in the middle of the night and I couldn’t wait to scan the picture the next morning. Looking at this photo on a hi-res screen is insane and makes me want to get a 40x50 inch print. It’s almost as if I can reach out and touch those leaves.
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
San Diego, CA, USA
Ikeda Anba 4x5
Nikkor-SW 75mm f/4.5
Fujichrome Velvia 100
Developed at Northcoast Photographic Services, Carlsbad, CA
Did you know there's a canyon on Milton? There is a small canyon between two sections of the Niagara Escarpment one day I'll hike that trail. Not with the 4x5.
Graflex Crown Graphic - Fuji Fujinon-W 1:5.6/125 - Agfa APX 100 @ ASA-100
Blazinal (1+50) 10:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Sinar P / Schneider Symmar 150mm / Agfa MCP paper negative
I really love 'third party' lenses for Leica screwmount. Some of them are very desirable, like this Arco Tele Snowva. It's just so beautiful.
You know, third party lenses for screwmount are much scarcer than orginal Leica lenses, and are great fun to look for and to hunt. Geez, I hope I will some day have that SOM-Berthiot collapsible lens...
An iconic and long standing funeral home in Milton. Founded by Scott Early, who sadly passed away last year.
Graflex Crown Graphic - Kodak Ektar f:7.7 203mm - Ilford HP5+ @ ASA-400
FA-1027 (1+14) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Linhof Kardan Color 4x5 Monorail
Later version with two-piece monorail and extra wide angle bellows folds.
Sony A7RII
Sigma 45mm f:2.8
4x5 View Camera with Type 55 Film. Sadly the Polaroid film is so fragile and this negative is in a bad state.
Manufactured between 1947 and 1973 by Graflex, Inc. A 4x5 view camera for field use. The Crown Graphics have only a front shutter with the lens—there is no rear focal-plane shutter. This example has the top mounted Graphic rangefinder which indicates it was manufactured after 1954. This one is fitted with a Graflex Optar “W.A.” 90mm f/6.8 lens in a Graphex/Wollensak shutter. The shutter supports speeds of 1 sec to 1/400 of a second, has special M and X settings for flash and has an “open” feature for focusing. While the rangefinder is nice, the sports finder get’s you pointed and the focusing scale on the bed can be calibrated, I prefer the ground glass on the graflok back (you kinda get that “Ansel Adams respect” from people in the field when you put this big thing on a tripod and flip your cape over yourself to focus!). This camera is not just a collectable, but a working model. I use it for landscape photography using a Polaroid back. I purchased it from a Canadian professional photographer who used it to shot images for several of his books. A beautiful camera.
See also: graflex.org
©2009 Gary L. Quay
This one was taken from the floating dock that sits near the Eastbank Esplanade in SE Portland. The water was still enough to take a 6 minute exposure. I was there with my friend, Mike, who also posed for the "East Berlin" image on my photostream. He shot with his Yashica-Mat, and I with my Deardorff.
Camera: Deardorff V8
Lens: 12" Kodak Ektar.
Film: Ilford HP5+ developed in Clayton F76+
Uploaded sharper version 2/23/21.
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This biting Winter freeze is making me yearn for the Summer months even more and even though I'm not much of a "beach person" I still wish to feel that warm sand between my toes right now.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.photography/4x5-for-365
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in a Copal B shutter. Yellow filter on the lens to improve contrast.
Film: Ilford Delta 100 ISO Negative Film, shot at box speed.
Lighting: Lit from camera right with four 25 watt daylight balanced CFL bulbs in a four socket adapter placed on a light stand and aimed through a large homemade diffuser constructed from pvc pipe and white bridal satin.
Exposure: 1 second @ F16 after adjusting for bellows extension and filter factor.
Development: Self Developed in Kodak Xtol 1+2 dilution in Paterson Universal Tank using the Taco Method. 13 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius. Tap water stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo rinse.
Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass. Slightly sepia toned in Photoshop.
Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Kodak TMax 100 @ ASA-100
Kodak D-23 (Stock) 9:30 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2017)
A 4x5 monorail view camera in the making
Last weekend I started building a 4x5 camera. I have wanted to do this for about two years now, and it feels great to finally have a start on it.
Sinar P / Schneider Symmar 150mm / Agfa MCP paper negative
See, this is an impossible macro rig. Well, not really, but very difficult to use correctly due to the lack of TTL meter in the Zenit C, which would make impossible any picture except in the most controlled situations; and the massive Helios 40. I just set the rig together to see how odd it looks, and to assemble a a monster with materials available in the early 60s. Classic and classy. Do not miss the M39 bellows, made by Belomo, really well made and solid. Could be used with a Visoflex too
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.]
Linhof Kardan Standard / Schneider Symmar / Agfa MCP paper negative
This is, without the shadow of a doubt, the strangest of all consummer Zenits. A body in ABS plastic, moulded like a block, a bottom hinged back that opens by pushing up the eyepiece, a cloth shutted that fired vertically, a GOST stting dial under the bottom plate, an advance lever that makes noise of grinding walnuts... And the best of all: a shutter release button in the back of the camera, right of the eyepiece, which is bad enough if you're right-sighted, but renders the camera absoultely useless if you're left-sighted (as is my case). Princelle says in his book that the Zenit 16 was a failure because the shutter was 'unreliable', without telling why. I personally found that the one in my sample works flawlessly.
All this to hold an M42 lens, which makes this camera not only the strangest Zenit but also the strangest of all M42 cameras, a highly collectible gizmo.
Taken between Big Pine and Independence just off of Hwy 395. The saddle in the middle is Taboose Pass, I am pretty sure that the mountain on the right is Cardinal Mt, and the peak to the left is Striped Mt.
Linhof Technika V, Fujinon 125mm W, CM
Ilford FP4 at ISO 100, f/22 at 1/60 sec.
Developed in Kodak Xtol 1:1 in a Jobo Processor using and expert Drum
©2008 Phillip Nesmith - A wet-plate tintype of two water jugs tied at the handles for better carrying while crossing the Arizona/Mexico border. To see how these jugs looked when I found them click here.
This artifact was collected in 2006 near Aravaca Arizona while I was working on my Borderlands photo project.
Another plate can been seen here.
The curvy nature of Sickles Avenue on the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield has always attracted my eye. I saw these afternoon fence shadows on this trip and decided to shoot it.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.photography/4x5-for-365
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Fujinon-W 210mm F5.6 lens in a Copal B shutter. No filter.
Film: Arista EDU 200 Ultra B&W Negative Film, shot at box speed.
Exposure: 1/15th second @ F64.
Development: Self Developed in Rodinal (Adox Adonal) 1:50 dilution in Paterson Universal Tank using the Taco Method. 9 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius. Kodak indicator stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo rinse.
Scanning: Negative scanned with Epson V600 in two scans and merged back together in PhotoShop since the V600 doesn't natively support 4x5 scans in one pass.
Karlos No.55 6x9 fixed flat bed SLV & Topcor Horseman 105mm f3.5 in a Seiko-SLV shutter. Cloth bellows, with lift, swing and tilt on the front and on the back, rise (giving fall on the front). Reversing back with the baby graflok fit. Horseman 6x9 film back.
Fomapan 100 @ iso 100. Adolux APH09 (Rodinal). Dilution 1:100, (4ml in 400ml), 19c, 90 minutes. Agitation - 4 inversions 30 minutes. Two water baths (stop). Alkaline fix for three minutes.
Juneau, Alaska
Galvin 6x9 View Camera, 135mm Xenotar
Agfapan film
Digitized using a Fuji GFX 50s Camera
"Eastman View No. 2 Improved Model of Century View and Empire State No. 2" by Eastman Kodak. Although it probably has the longest Kodak camera name EVER, it is not uncommon. It is uncommon, however, to find examples in such good condition. Super wood & glass. The original red bellows extends to about 24" with an auxillary rail.