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I ordered a new lens board for the Meniscus lens (posted below) and both the lens and the board arrived in the mail on the same day ... go figure !
Now all I needed was some time to shoot a couple of frames to test this new lens out ... not so easy as I have been busy as hell.
I was able to shoot one frame this weekend ... speed shooting ... park car, grab camera bag & tripod, set up quickly. Pick a scene in less than a minute, compose, set lens to wide open at f4.5, take meter reading and fire away.
Pack up ... run back to car.
Not the most interesting scene or subject and the light was very flat. I will be interested to see what the results are like in contrasty light and I will have to experiment with aperture settings to get the ideal balance between sharp focus on a particular area of the negative versus the soft focus qualities of this lens.
f4.5 @ 1/15 sec
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Antique 4X5 Achromatic Meniscus Lens + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + Rodinal 1:50@ 8 min (Tray developed)
I must say, for a little nuthin' still life, er, still death, this has nice a nice smoove tone. *pat pat* Thank you "Yellow Father"!
Audio triggered flash. Chamonix 4x5 camera with Rodenstock 240mm lens. Kodak Portra NC160 film scanned on a V750.
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
San Diego, CA, USA
Ikeda Anba 4x5
Kodak Wide Field Ektar 100mm f/6.3
Fujichrome Velvia 100
Developed at Northcoast Photographic Services, Carlsbad, CA
11x14 with two Speedotron 2403x power packs on full combined power for each strobe, putting out a total of 4800 watts per second of face-melting light
Taken with a t2i and a custom made (Read hot glued) adapter made out of a recessed board and $10 extension tubes on the back of a Toyo 45 C with a Caltar II-N MC 150mm f/5.6 @ f/8
Edited in Lr. Slight sharpening because it was shot in RAW. Slight vignette added. No color or saturation correction.
I could have paid more attention to depth of field, but you get the idea that was behind this camera.
Can anyone out there tell me something about this camera, possible age, history, and type of wood used. The lens has "Charles Chevalier" engraved on one side of the lens, and the other side has "J.J. Pyne 63 Piccadilly Manchester"
Sinar P1 4x5, Schneider-Kreutznach 210/5.6, Kodak Portra 400
Sorry about the magenta cast... I edited it on a less-than-properly-calibrated screen.
Full Aspen color near Independence Pass. High altitude -- above 11,000 feet. From the original 4x5 color transparency.
Topaz clean.
Another school assignment is to check out one of the view cameras and take pictures with it for homework. I took one this weekend out to the Arboretum. Here it is set up on the wetland boardwalk; you can just see the inverted image of the boardwalk on the camera's ground glass back. I'm anxious to see and print this negative later this week.
89/365
Porsche, There is No Substitute.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.com/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-Green filter on the lens.
Film: Fuji Super HR-T 30 medium speed green sensitive X-Ray film. Purchased as 8x10" sheets and cut down to 4x5". Film rated at 100 ISO.
Exposure: 35 seconds @ F45 after compensation for filter factor, bellows extension and film reciprocity.
Lighting: Lit from a constant light made up of four 25 watt daylight balanced CFL bulbs in a four socket adapter placed on a light stand and diffused through a home made diffuser made of white bridal satin around a pvc pipe frame positioned to camera right. Above the subject was placed an Alien Bees B800 studio strobe in a 22" white lined beauty dish with diffusion sock with just the modeling light on @ full power. The reflection of the black background causes the mirror surface to reflect as black.
Development: Self Developed film in Rodinal (Adox Adinol) 1:100 in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert. 6 1/2 minutes @ 20 degrees Celsius with minimal inversions. Kodak indicator stop bath. Ilford Rapid Fixer. Photo-Flo. Hung on shower curtain to dry on film.
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 Lightroom 4.
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With many thanks to my friends Rachael and Duncan (leafpeeker) for the shell.
Taken with a D700 mounted (with extension tubes and super-glue) to the back of a 1947 Speed Graphic 4x5. Lens was a 250mm Fujinon (large format), racked out fully, released with self-timer and focused on live view (which is very easy as you can zoom in to perfect focus before stopping the lens down, and it will even meter if you want). 15 seconds at f22.
I think this is a terrific macro and portrait set-up for studio, given the tilt/shift and rise possibilities to manipulate or optimize the plane of focus. The same idea applied to a view camera would be great for architecture.
600W photofloods + 80A filter.
The colors on the print are perfect; the scan doesn't do it justice.
Burke & James 5x7 view camera with 4x5 reducing back, 8" f/7.5 Graflex Optar, Polaroid Type 59.
Testshot with my "new" DAGOR, a 125mm F:6.8...I must say I was quite lycky to get such a short one, often you tend to find them in 135mm and longer.
It came fitted in a pneumatic shutter that have about 2x faster speeds so its 1/1-1/100 speedrange should become something like 1/2-1/100 (i dont think the top speed is affekted.). Hopefully it is somewhat linear...until I am certain I have to make a few tests. The shutter is in unfinished brass (!) and the aperature scale is standard and not the goerz-scale.
I think this shot was taken at about f8 or f12
The camera used is a Linhof 6x9 Super-Technika IV.
The film in efke OP12, a ortocromatic lith-film exposed at 6asa in this case and developed in kodak technidol. Native 6,5x9 sheet-film.
The 1024 of flicker only gives a "preview" of the scan and my crappy 9000F doent even get near the resolution of this neg so there is quite a lot to get from this lens.
My boots, cover, patches, and coins from my last two deployments.
Calumet 4x5 view camera
Provia 100 ISO color transparency film