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Horseman L45
Fujinon SW 90mm
Ilford Ortho Plus
Rodinal 1+50, 15mins (slightly lower agitation per min)
Epson V850
Fotocamera: Banco ottico Toyo View 45G
Pellicola: 4x5 Fomapan 100
Sviluppo: Fomadon Excel @ 6min.
Digitalizzazione: Nikon D7100 - 40mm macro
Camera: Toyo View 45G view camera
Film: 4x5 Fomapan 100
Developing: Fomadon Excel @ 6min.
Digitization: Nikon D7100 - 40mm macro
Oaks, draped in Spanish Moss at Riverside Park, in Vero Beach, FL
Cambo Camera, 90mm lens, Foma100 film developed in SP76 with SP445 tank. Scanned on Epson V800, finished in Lightroom and exported as 5300 pixel JPG.
Initially settled in 1814, Post's Corners (or Postville as it became known in 1857) formed at 7th Line (Trafalgar Road today) and Dundas Road. At its peak, the hamlet boasted a general store, post office, steam-powered mills, an Inn, Drill Shed, School, several homes and farms. This house was built by James Appelbe, who arrived in Postville in 1866 and quickly became a leading citizen, running the general store and acting as postmaster. He helped lay down a plank road on 7th Line and served as the Justice of the Peace and Treasurer for the Trafalgar Township. The Appelbe house is all that remains of the former hamlet of Postville and was moved 95m back onto new foundations in 2016
Graflex Crown Graphic - Fuji Fujinon-W S 1:5.6/150 - Arista EDU.Ultra 400 @ ASA-200
Ilford Ilfotec HC (1+47) 7:30 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
The town of St. Thomas offered up a 25,000$ bonus to CASO if they would build their central station, headquarters, and rail yards in their town. Plus it only made sense as St. Thomas was located in the geographic centre of Canadian Southern's mainline. Completed in 1871 the grand St. Thomas Station was far larger than the average station as the second floor housed all the offices needed to run a railroad. The station itself, built in the Italianate Style in an age where Beaux Arts, Second, Empire, or Romanesque were popular among railroad stations. The beautiful station offered up multiple waiting rooms and a full dining room (at least until 1925). The station remained in operation under CASO, NYC, and MCR. All operations ceased in 1980 and in 2005 the Station became home to the North American Railroad Hall of Fame who continues to maintain and restore the station in addition to housing a museum it is also available as a venue for events.
Graflex Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Ilford HP5+ @ ASA-200
Pyrocat-HD (1+1+100) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Linhof Kardan Standard / Schneider Symmar / Agfa MCP paper negative
Some things in the world of cameras will neer stop to amaze me. Up here, you see a clear example: this is a regular FED 5 modified by some nuts camera repairman in the Ukraine into a EURO 2012 Football Championship commemorative edition. It even has a brand new serial sumber (the original one cannot be found anywhere), mine is 24, so if you wanna try, maybe there's still some on evilbay. Or maybe it is one of a kind disguised to be part of a series.
I guess if the forgers in Russia and Ukraine really think that people in western Europe and America believe that these cameras actually left the factory like this, as it is of public domain that the FED factory, as well as all other major camera factories in the FSU, have left consummer camera business by now. Anyway, in ebuy you can find dozens of 'leica copies', which mainly fall in three cathegories:
-Special Edition Leicas; FEDs and Zorkis with all sorts of crazy leatherettes resembling wood, snakeskin, ivory or the like; the chrome parts, including the lenses, are usually polished to give the cameras a 'luxury' look. The coated collapsible Industars are engraved Elmar, ofter they're also painted in colors mathcing the body. Now add all sorts of crazy engravings, mainly nazi paraphernalia in the form of swastikas and military engravings (luftwaffe, kriegsmarine, panzerkampf...) or commemorative ones (most seen is the 1936 Olyimpics). Sometimes you can find some copies with mispellings, reversed Ns and forgotten cyrillic engravings in the baseplate. I am amazed at how this things find a market, especially with all the nazi markings. Not all of these are FED o Zorki 1, as there is the occasional later model in this guise.
-Modified FEDs. Yes, they're FEDs and not Zorkis because, for some reason, the forgers think the FEDs have more cache. These include the FED 'Siberia', the 'Standart' and the '250 reporter special'. Somtimes they're also engraved Leica, but you don't usually find them with Nazi engravings. Too much work, maybe. Many of these are simply wonderfully done. They require very specialised craftmanship, and often they're sold for faily high prices.
-Finally, the commemorative editions. That Euro 2012 FED up there falls into this cathegory. If you see a shiny brand new soviet camera commemorating some landmark event in Soviet history, you can bet your boots on it, it's a fake. Well, sort of, as there ARE some commemorative editions (Moscow 80, for instance), but these only sport tiny markings, and never special edition serial numbers, special paint or anything like that. There are also post-FSU editions like the one above, in Leica's best tradition of celebrating the most whatever events with specially engraved/painted cameras with edition serial numbers. Needless to say that I don't think these are legally sanctioned as official merchandise or anything like that, the engravers would simply choose one random event and make the job.
You know, I bought this one because it looked like a superb job, and in many ways it is. All the chrome, including the lens, has been given a shiny coating, the decorative rim in the body has been painted dull silver. There are very well made engravings in four differents places, including the lens barrel and the lens cap, not just tipography, but also the logo of the event. The original leatherette has been replaced with a more glossy one and dull metal parts on FEDs have been painted shiny black, like the winding lever. The nameplate has also been repainted in a new style, without the model name, just the brand name. It is not obviously new, as there is some dirt in the most difficult places to reach, like the innermost parts of the body or the insides of the tipod socket, but it has been cleaned with care.
It is, anyway, a FSU technician job. The devil is in the details: the dull silver paing in the rims is out of the line in some spots, whcih is visible when you remove the back; the shiny leatherette is peeling here and there, and is not well cut, the paint in the nameplate is the weakest point, as its edges are a little bit rough. The rangefinder flares badly, but this is not as much a finish issue as a planning mistake: the glossy coating causes reflections that blind the rangefinder. All this work just to end looking sloppy because of small details.
Well, but what has really amazed me is the fact that, bad or well done, someone has put a pretty big amount of time CLAing and modding this FED 5, and it was sold to me at a price well under 100$, shipping included, when here where I live no repairman would even touch a RF for that much. Oh well.
Shot this negative back in Oct '2013 and developed 7 years later
Banks of 16 Mile Creek. I exposed for the shadows here, tough shot as extremely bright out.
Captured with my ShenHao HZX45-IIA & Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 lens
f32-45 @ 8 second exposure
Arista EDU 100 @ 50 iso + HC-110 H @ 8 Min
The Belleville Station is unique among the Grand Trunk Stations. Having been originally completed in 1856, constructed from Trenton Limestone, it always only served passengers. It never had a telegraph bay added, instead a Second-Empire Mansard Roof was added in 1881, all traffic control was done from a seperate building as part of a larger yard. Belleville marked a divisional point being half-way between Toronto and Montreal. The station's interior was signifigantly renovated in 1980 and lost most of the original finishes. The station closed in 2012 with the opening of a new VIA Station.
Crown Graphic - Fuji Fujinon-W S 1:5.6/150 - Ilford HP5+ @ ASA-200
Pyrocat-HD (1+1+100) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Developed some Plus-X which expired back in 1979.
This time I used a yellow filter which introduced a little more contrast into the negative which seemed to be helpful in breaking through the fogging on this old film and made the negative jump out a little more.
Captured with my ShenHao HZX45-IIA & Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 lens
Shot @ f32 @ 1/2 sec exposure with Yellow Filter
I exposed the film at 25 iso and developed in HC-110 H @ 14 minutes
4x5 View Camera with Type 55 Film. Sadly the Polaroid film is so fragile and this negative is in a bad state.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Tmax-400 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810Hd field view camera fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens and a #25 red filter.
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!
Improved Seneca View Camera (1906), Carl Zeiss f4.5 210mm, DRP, Tessar lens (1914), Thornton Pickard wooden shutter (1905), 5x7, X-ray film
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.
Thirty second exposure (hence fixed expression!) taken with a Lizars "Challenge" camera in week 471 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
For the first full week in 2019 of my 52 cameras in 52 weeks project, I decided to use my dad's Lizars Challenge folding plate camera.
The film is Rollei PAN 25, an ISO 25 black and white negative film, devloped in Rodinal 1:50 for 11 minutes at 20 degrees.
After more than two years of effort , here is the prototype of the final shape of 'Geometry" .
1500 grams of weight , Asetal/aluminium construction , 15mm shift all directions and tilt/swing limited only by the lens covering capacity .
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.
Tachihara 8x10
Goerz Dagor 12 inch f/6.8
(C.P. Goerz Am. Opt. Co.)
Kodak Ektar 100
Developed at Northcoast Photographic Services, Carlsbad, California
One of my favourite homes in downtown Milton. This lovely Victorian home is one of many historic homes in the downtown although I wish I could have a shot of it without the electrical pole.
Pacemaker Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Agfa APX 100 @ ASA-100
Kodak HC-110 Dil. H 14:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
View into the garden made with a Linhof Kardan Master TL and a Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 150/5,6 MC on Fuji Provia 100F.
4x5
I'm not cleaning up the negatives because they are all not in good condition. i just felt like sharing them. So please don't point this out to me.
The Unionville Station was originally completed by the narrow-gauge Toronto & Nipissing Railroad arrived in the village in 1869; the station saw completion in 1871. A small, unassuming shed-like structure set the standard for other T&N stations, including the original station in Uxbridge. It featured a single waiting room, office, and freight room. Despite the move to Standard Gage and purchase by Midland Railroad followed by Grand Trunk in the mid-1880s, the station continued to see use. Even when Canadian National took over, they saw value in the old station, and it was never replaced. CN did cover it with red insulbrick in the 1950s. Passenger Service ceased in the 1960s. A fire in 1971 threatened the station with demolition. But the local community rallied around the station and raised funds to restore the station. It continues to serve as a railroad station for GO Transit since 1982. GO ceased using this station in May 1991, with a new station opening that same year south of the 1871 station.
Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 - Ilford HP5+ @ ASA-200
Pyrocat-HD (1+1+100) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
©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.
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...
New-Vue VC-3
Newton Photo Products
Los Angeles, CA circa 1947
4x5 view camera with Front Swing, Shift, and Rise, plus Rear Swing and Tilt and Rotating Back.
A product of post-war Southern California, with thousands of out of work aircraft workers and tons of surplus metal to work with.
I used to see these littering the corners of the old camera stores in Hollywood and LA when I moved to Whittier in 1972. Some of the old places were so packed you could barely walk through them, and we would spend hours looking under the tables for treasures in the boxes. When saw this the other day listed at the KEH Outlet I couldn't resist getting it. The dirt you see is how it came out of the box from KEH. I'll clean it a little, but I like the funkiness of it, so I won't get too carried away. I also really like the original lens board.
Now I need to find an age appropriate lens for it.
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
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.
2hr exposure of performance at Playwrights Horizons. June 2019.
Shot on an Intrepid 4x5, with Ektar film.
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
A section of a floral bouquet Denise had brought home several weeks ago.
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Fujinon-W 210 F5.6 lens in a Copal B shutter. Carl-Zeiss Softar I filter on lens to add some edge softness.
Lighting: Single Alien Bees B800 studio strobe @ 3/4 power in 22" soft white beauty dish with diffusion sock, positioned above and slightly in front of camera position. Triggered with PocketWizard Plus II radio triggers. Metered with Sekonic L358 meter.
Film: Ilford Delta 100 B&W 100 ISO Negative Film.
Exposure: 1/60th second @ F22.
Development: Self Developed film in Kodak Xtol 1+2 in Paterson Universal Tank using Taco Method. 13 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius. Tap water stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung on shower curtain to dry on film clips.
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. Toned in Lightroom.
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.
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.