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Linhof Kardan Standard / Schneider Symmar / Forte Polywarmtone contact print from paper negative
You know, some say that the FED 5 is the ugliest rangefinder camera ever. I don't think so. Yes, it is true that it is not a killer design like the Leica II or the Leica M, but I can't think of this as an ugly camera. What is true is that it is not a good user as a, say, an M6, because of the dim viewfinder and the primitive rangefinder, and also the rotating speed dial, but, well, if Leicas were not the best of the best rangefinders I guess they would not be Leicas anymore.
What I love about this FED is the selenium bulb lightmeter. You know, many photogs despise reflection meters built in cameras, but when I have to buy a user, I always favour metered ones. I really hate carrying a handheld meter and having to operate two gadgets before shooting. Besides, I like the look of it, makes me think of a space era artifact, when the truth is that it was designed in the late seventies and stores had them new in the boxes till early nineties. All in its look is 50ish, but it is a camera of the eighties; the design should have looked back in its day as outdated as it looks today.
Anyway, you know, this is a 9x12 contact print from a paper negative I shot with my Kardan Standard. I scanned the negative and inversed it in PS and the differences are quite obvious. Maybe I will post a comparison soon.
A 4x5 Premo A camera by Rochester Optical Co. circa 1893-1900. Bausch & Lomb f8 - f128 lens in a Victor shutter.
This is the lightest and most compact system camera that I can carry that has full movements. The kit has my Arca-Swiss 6x9 camera, 100mm and 150mm lenses, a 6x9 back, meter, and Lee Seven5 filters. Packed in a Lowe-Pro sling pack, weighs 9 pounds.
The 7” Kodak Aero Ektar is a fantastic lens. One of the best portrait lens made, and equally at home capturing landscapes. This one is fitted to an Anniversary Edition Graflex Speed Graphic 4x5. Graflex large format cameras have a well earned reputation as being well made, durable and very reliable. This one is one of 5 Graflex cameras that I own, but the only one that will accept this exceptionally large lens. Coming soon will be some images shot with this setup.
Having some small inconsistent light leak issues. Guess I need to be more diligent about draping my dark cloth over the film holders during exposure.
Toyo Field 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 Sakai Special
CM Fujinon W S 125mm f/5.6
Ilford HP5 plus @ 400iso
B+W 550/040 Orange filter
11:00 min in HC-110 (dil-h) 1:62 @ 20ºC.
Epson V800
2024013-6b
Well, if this scan doesn't sell me on large format, nothing will.
After I scanned this negative and pulled up the file on my iMAC, I was blown away by the depth of detail in this image. There is a broken piece of rope hanging (I made a note on the image) on the tree in the middle of this frame. When I zoomed in on this area of the negative, the detail in the rope amazed me. Even when I zoom in on the background trees in the distance, the detail on the tree trunks are impressive. And I didn't even scan this at a really high rez setting !
16 Mile Creek meanders through a valley and is surrounded by some beautiful wooded scenes. Initially I thought that I would focus my compositions on the creek itself but clearly the depth, detail and beauty of the surrounding woods will be worth exploring with the ShenHao 4x5.
Oh yeah ... I dog ran through the frame while I was exposing this frame. I guess at 15 seconds of exposure time, it didn't register.
Shot at f45 @ 15 second exposure.
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + D-76 1:1 @ 9 min (Tray developed, 1 min initial agitation followed by every minute)
A 4x5 film shot of the Balanced Rock in Big Bend National Park. This is a great destination for a sunrise hike. Watching the sun come up and lighing up the rocks and mountains.
Arca-Swiss 4x5 with Nikon 210mm lens and Fuji Velvia 50
The ski lifts are long shut down, and all the snow has left the hill (finally) although I do hope to get back for the Hops and Harvest Festival this fall!
Graflex Crown Graphic - Fuji Fujinon-W 1:5.6/125 - Agfa APX 100 @ ASA-100
Kodak HC-110 Dil. H 14:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Toyo 45CF 4x5", Rodenstock Grandagon N 90mm f4.5 lens, Fuji Velvia 50, Tripod
aperture: f16.0
exposure: 2 s
Sinar P / Schneider Symmar 150mm / Agfa MCP paper negative
Well, this is not a Kine-Exakta, but a more recent model, but it is more or less the same camera (as were all Exaktas until Pentacon 'praktikized' the line). I mean, do you see anything odd?
For those of you who didn't notice, it's mirror reversed. Yes, the film on the Exakta went from right to left, it was 'reversed' compared to Leica, but not only this; as you see, all relevant controls are to be operated with the left hand, which, for me, is real pain. It is a pity, because the Exakta is a camera that feels so right on my hands. It's got the 'pro feel', I mean, look at the shutter mechanism: it's one thousand times better than the one in the Contax II, not to mention the original Contax; and one million times better than that in the Leica. While the Contax sutter goes from one second to 1/1000 (yes, it was nominally 1250, but that's wishful thinking); and Leica's reaches only from 1/20 to 1/500; the Exakta can make exposures of 1/1000 on the fast side and 12 seconds on the slow...
Assignment: Conceptual/Theme
For our last shooting assignment in the class, we have to create a studio setup with at least 5 items that illustrates a theme or idea. This is the most wide-open assignment we've gotten all session, read: main opportunity for creativity. I chose to do a formal Scottish type thing, or my kilt and it's various paraphernalia.
Do you like a mystery? I purchased this unmarked camera from a gentleman who had obtained it as part of an estate sale. He had attempted to identify the camera, but was unable to. I thought, hey, why not try myself. So here’s what I do know: It is a plate camera (and included a “Premo style” pack film back, too) that is 9X12cm (based on the ground glass size on the rear). If folds shut. The rail and focus transport appear to be nickel plated. It has a focusing scale marked for a 135mm lens which would match the “Jos. Schnieder & Co. Kreuznach No. 186454 Radionar Anastigmat 6.3/13.5cm” lens. The lens is set in a Vario “25,50,100,B,T” shutter made by AGC and having the AGC trademark (a symbol of three half-open shutter blades). It has a fold out finder with a round peep sight and an optical viewfinder on the front with a spirit level attached (and it still works!). The front of this camera is fully adjustable left/right and up/down. The leather case has a strap on the top. And, no, there are no markings inside the camera at all…
Doing a brute search through my copy of McKeown’s, I find it similar to the Nagel (Dr. August Nagel Camerawerk, Stuttgart, Germany) Recomar 33, Agfa Isolar Luxus, (Minolta) Nifca-Klapp and also the Leonar Kamerawerk (Hamburg, Germany) Leonar 10x15cm. The rear peep sight is identical to a Kuribayashi Tokiwa Hand from 1930. The side struts that fold the camera open are identical to a Emil Busch Folding plate camera from 1907. That places this camera in the 1907 to 1930 timeframe.
Any ideas?
Self made mini View Camera using a (d)SLR as a back and various manual lenses , among them cheap Russian Medium Format ones that are the best Value/Money I could find for the purpose . Some more info here bluescargo.gr/geometry/
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Apo-Nikkor 610mm f9 lens.
This is a test print only. Need to get a new contact printer, my glass is finally fatally scratched. Going on line now.
4x5 view camera photo.
original photograph by betsycontent, 1987.
Copyright © 2009 betsy content bogert moelders
Oct 1987, I wish I could scan some of my shots with this camera, but my Cannon 8800 will not scan 4x5 negs or chromes. But if I tick it I can scan half, but that's only good for a couple shots.
Esta cámara para placas o película de 3¼" × 4¼" (8x10,5 cm) fue desarrollada por el escultor inglés Frederick H. Sanderson. Su interés por la arquitectura le llevó a diseñar unas cámaras que, a través de los fuelles y de la manipulación de una serie de tirantes y tornillos, se posibilitasen movimientos horizontales, verticales y de basculación, consiguiendo así diferentes distancias relativas de los paneles del objetivo y de la película para obtener fotografías de obras arquitectónicas sin que se produjesen distorsiones significativas.
Esa solución que patentó en 1895 como "Swing Front" (Frontal Basculante), hizo que este tipo de cámaras superaran limitaciones de otras muy similares.
Camera: Chamonix 45n-1
Lens: Rodenstock 180mm f/5.6 Apo-Sironar-S
Film: Ilford FP4+ @ ISO 64
Exposure: 1/30 sec @ f5.6
Date: April 29, 2017
Identifier: lf_2017-04-29_003
Seashell in a cianotype made from a 9 x 12 cm negative. Fomapan 100 in a Sinar A1 camera, 150 mm Symmar S. Silverprint cianotype paper
Camera: Toyo 45 GII, Polaroid MP-4 105mm, f32, 3min exposure, 179mm bellows extension. Film: Agfa Ortho 25 exp 01/2013, developed in Caffenol (Washing soda 40g/l, Vitamin C 9.5 g/l, Nescafé Gold Deluxe 40g/l, 13:00 @19.5°C.
The lens was part of a Polaroid MP-4+ system for the photodocumentation of electrophoresis gels. I cut the lens board that came with the system to match my camera. The MP-4+ system was in a pool of equipment from a lab of our research department that had to move to another building. As nobody else was interested in the lab's old analogue photographic gear, I "volunteered" to rescue it from the waste container.
In this photograph from the "Sunlight and Darkroom" Album, the same bearded man in the previous photograph faces the photographer with a cable release in his hand.
Toyo 45CF 4x5", Rodenstock Grandagon N 90mm f4.5 lens, AGFA RSX II 100 slide film, Tripod
aperture: f16.0
exposure: 4 s.
Drum scan on ScanView ScanMate 11000, 16-bit RAW scan.
Another shot for my summer portfolio. I obviously went a little Scheimpflug crazy! I had the lovely Callie Ramsay model for me. I was going for a sweet, lazy, summery feel.. Hopefully it was achieved!
Shot with a large format Sinar F1 camera on 100 ISO Fujichrome daylight balanced 4x5 sheet film.
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stouchsburg near Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. This church always catches my eye when I drive by because of the unusual shade of stonework which sets it apart from the normal red brick that most of the other area churches have. The congregation was founded in 1743.
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.
Film: Arista EDU 200 Ultra B&W Negative Film, shot at box speed.
Exposure: 1/8th @ F45.
Development: Self Developed in Kodak Xtol 1+2 dilution in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert. 12 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.
My favourite view of the Lincoln Memorial and not as crowded either which is great for shooting large format.
Graflex Pacemaker Crown Graphic - Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 1:5.6/210 (Orange-22) - Adox CHS100II @ ASA-100
Blazinal (1+25) 5:00 @ 20C
Meter: Pentax Spotmeter V
Scanner: Epson V700
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC (2015.5)
I'm pretty happy with this glassware shot, but I wish I could have blocked out the reflections of the studio in the glass. Unfortunately I didn't have access to the materials to do that. It was used for my mandatory glassware shot for my final portfolio.
This is shot on film with a 4x5 view camera.
This piece was part of my Final Portfolio at Hallmark Institute of Photography.
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Sinar P / Schneider Symmar 150mm / Agfa MCP paper negative
Yes, I'm here once more. Lomography did it again: they cheated me into buying one of their cameras. Well, in this case, a kit. I't the Ikea philosophy: you buy it unassembled and you have to put a little work into it. The image you see through its viewfinder is absolutely abysmal, being, officially the darkest image I've seen on a grond glass, but well, at f11, what do you want. Which brings me to the most disappointing point of the camera. F11? Man, c'mon, gimme 5.6, at least, because at f11 you need to be an eagle to focus through the groundglass. Don't take me bad, I kinda like it, even if I don't think it will see much use, as I have Leicas I still haven't tried with film...
A wind up musical box type of statue of couples dancing on our dining room table provides the subject for today's project entry.
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: Arista EDU 100 Ultra 100 ISO B&W Negative Film (Re-Branded Fomapan), shot at ISO 64.
Lighting: Lit from the overhead lamp over the dining room table. I think that's a 60 watt bulb in there.
Exposure: 32 seconds @ F16 after adjusting for bellows extension, film reciprocity, and filter factors.
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. Cropped to taste in Photoshop.
Arca Swiss large format camera with polaroid film back
Fuji Fp-100c instant film
model: Luciana Cáceres
After months of research, note taking, image comparisons and lots of admiration of other's results, I decided to finally pull the trigger on shooting some X-Ray film in my 4x5 large format view camera.
I bought a 100 sheet box of Fuji HR-T 30 green medium speed X-Ray film and a 12" rotary paper cutter from Amazon and started cutting each 8x10" sheet down to four 4x5" sheets. It's a process that definitely takes some practice to get the final dimensions correct while cutting but since the film is an orthochromatic film and much less sensitive to red light, you can cut the film, load and unload holders and develop all under an 11 watt Kodak Junior red safe bulb placed about four feet from the work surface. I experienced no film fogging from the bulb. The film is a double sided emulsion and susceptible to scratching in tray development if you are not absolutely careful. I normally use the Taco Method for my 4x5 development but that wasn't going to fly with double sided X-Ray film. I chose to use a Mod54 six sheet spindle insert for a three reel Patterson tank for my developing. I found no scratches on the film at all after development. I had laid a thin white poster board on top of the rotary paper cutter surface and taped it down to prevent scratching while cutting the film down to size. Earlier, I had also tried a 12" guillotine style paper cutter with terrible results so I switched to the rotary cutter and had no problems after that.
The photo was shot with a Calumet 45nx with a Fujinon-W 210 F5.6 lens in a Copal B shutter. 1/4 second @ F16 with the film rated at ISO 100(ish). It was outside in our backyard next to a small waterfall and pond we have and it was drizzling at the time.
Development was with Rodinal in a 1:100 dilution for six minutes at 20 degrees Celsius with very careful and slow inversions for the first twenty seconds and ten seconds of inversions each minute after that. Tap water stop bath, Ilford Rapid Fixer, five minute tap water rinse followed by two minutes in Photo-Flo bath, Hung up to dry for five hours and scanned in two passes on an Epson V600 then merged the pieces together using Photoshop's PhotoMerge function.
Final cost per 4x5 sheet... about 11 cents. Still lots of room for improvement. The experimenting rolls on...
This past weekend I returned to Great Falls Park, just outside of Washington DC in Virginia, which is a favorite park of mine, with lots of varied trails and things to see.
Arca Swiss 69 F line view camera, 210mm Nikkor lens with 10 stop ND filter
Fuji Acros film, ISO 100, f/16 at 15 seconds
Developed in Ilford DD-X developer (1:4) using a Jobo Processor
Digitized using Fuji GFX and Nikon 105mm Micro-Nikkor