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This evening I (sort of) finished the re-assembly of my Deadorff V8. Now I just have the epic task of constructing an 8x10 tapered, square cornered bellows.
Camera: Toyo-View 45GII, Fuji Fujinon NW 125mm f5.6. Film: Adox CHS 100 II, developed in Rodinal 1+100, 27min @ 20°C.
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Kodak Plus-X negative exposed in a home assembled Bender monorail camera fitted with a Schneider Kreuznach Repro-Claron 305mm f9 lens.
Just finished refurbishing this Graflex Crown Graphic. Bare wood finish fresh wrinkle coat paint job, complete with swing modified front standard and a cool wooden tripod. Old brass lens from Kodak 5x7 camera.
its up for sale now.
Wall Paintings Project 01
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Vandalism caused the lost of a third of the painting by blackening at night the part reachable from the ground. Neither those criminals nore their motives are known.
Negotiations to restore are ongoing.
The unsharp districts are distinctivly choosen by camaratechnics to emphasize the concentration on the photographic subject!
Cambo ActusMini was used with Zeiss Contax645 35mm f/35 lens frontstandard tilt minus 5 degrees/lenstilt +15
Located in Montgomery County Pennsylvania and not far from Philadelphia, the Bryn Athyn Cathedral is home to the General Church of New Jerusalem (New Church). It was constructed between the years 1913 and 1928 with work on the stained glass windows and interior decoration continuing into the early 1940s and beyond. The building was dedicated in 1919.
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Camera: Calumet CC-401 4x5 large format monorail view camera
Lens: Rodenstock Geronar 150mm F6.3 lens in a Copal 0 shutter
Film: Arista EDU 100 Ultra 4x5 B&W sheet film which I shot at 64 ISO
Exposure: 1/4 second @ F32. Metered with a Pentax 1 degree spot meter.
Development: Self Developed film in Kodak Xtol 1:2 in Paterson Universal Tank using the Taco Method. 9 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 parts and merged in Photoshop CS5 since the V600 doesn't natively support scanning 4x5 sheet film and I haven't stepped up to the V700 yet.
This is What I am going to refer to as my 4x5 Rule of thirds / Fibonacci Numbers view screen grid app. all it required was a ruler and a sacrificed film negative to create a guide for the engineering pen to follow and 10 minutes of time. hope it helps with the inverted and backwards view through the Speed Graphic film camera for reasonable compositions. It is a compromise between two compositional schools of thought. The 62 year old mint condition Bausch and Lomb ultra Wide Field Lens is now at Forsters Camera Repair getting Cleaned/Lubed/ and Adjusted. Looking for a dark cloth that doesn't cost and arm and a leg, may just use my jacket for a while.
The only part of the Fibonacci set is the measurement increments from the sides of the frame as they advance towards the intersections in a rule of thirds grid. The placement of the hatch marks in the main field are spaced according to Fibonacci, and they are coincident with the rule of thirds only inside the intersections of each quadrant. Perhaps it is why both popular compositional schools of thoght seem to work for creating strong compositions. I just wanted something that would get me into the ballpark of stronger compositions just to see if it really improved my compositions. Still a work in progress.
Ordered a used copy of Using the View Camera ... for Dummies ... Me, seems to be a good book to use as a reference.
I picked up a few filters ... green, yellow and orange to experiment with on the ShenHao 4x5 and my Fujinon 135mm lens.
I also got a lens attachment to allow me to use some of my ND and Graduated filters on the ShenHao.
Should be fun experimenting with the filters.
A gift from a work colleague. A lovely chunky view camera from the late fifties. One of the big things about this viewfinder camera is it's large and clear 1:1 viewfinder. Sadly this viewfinder is useless. It's like looking through the dappled, frosted glass of a bathroom window.
Seems the two rear elements in the rear of the viewfinder have seperated. Whatever held them together has deteriorated leaving the cloggy adhesive behind. Beyond a bit of a clean.
Nowadays these cameras can be be had for not much, around £20 or so. Depending how the first roll of film goes, I might look into buying a problem one but with a decent viewfinder and swap it over.
This camera belonged to my friends late father, so I'm determined to get some action out of it.
Meanwhile to aid functionality I'm using an external 50mm finder.
*Update* Everyone can now sleep easy as I bought a donor camera. The donor has problems but the viewfinder is clear and as it should be. It is now transplanted into this camera.
Now that's a Camera!!! Deardorff still being made in the USA, started in 1916 in Chicago. Now based out of Athens, TN.
Large format Portraits
Busch Pressman D, Foma 100, stand dev
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See the wiki article on Calumet Manufacturing of Chicago. In this era, still specialists in large-format equipment at moderate prices.
Barns located at the Pennsylvania German Cultural Center located on the grounds of Kutztown University. Shot back on 11-30-2013. There is a local vintage tractor club called the "Old Time Plowboys" that holds several vintage tractor shows on these grounds each year. The shows sometimes include "tractor square dancing" where tractors are driven during the dance instead of people dancing. It's all very skillfully synchronized and a real treat to watch. Yes, I know you city folks are shaking your heads right now.
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Fujinon-W 210 F5.6 lens in a Copal B shutter. Tiffen # 25 red filter on the lens to improve the sky contrast. The red filter really didn't add as much to the shot as I had hoped it would but it was very overcast and not much blue in the sky to work with.
Film: Arista EDU 100 Ultra B&W 100 ISO Negative Film, shot at 64 ISO.
Exposure: 1 second @ F45.
Development: Self Developed film in Kodak Xtol 1+2 in Paterson Universal Tank using the 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. It looks like I need to squeegie the extra water drops off the negatives a little better when I go to hang them to dry. Droplets over the barn on the right, Grrrrrrrr.
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The experimentation with the new Meniscus lens continues.
I have always wanted to take some shots of this cathedral and what better format than large format.
I am still experimenting trying to find the sweet spot of this lens. The lens offers good coverage on the ground glass.
What is very cool, is that you can see the effect of opening up the lens and the degree of bokeh or soft focus real time on the ground glass. My focal point in this shot was the large circular window area. I started with the lens wide open at f4.5 and stopped down to just between f8-11.0. This resulted in the window being the sharp focal point and the surrounding negative still being awash in the dreamy soft focus effect.
This is exactly what I got this lens for, to dial in on a specific area of the negative, render it as a sharp portion of the negative while the surroundings are still soft.
Despite being quite a distance from the church, I am surprised that the depth of field is so small.
I need to do some more experimentation with different subjects, should be a fun process. Maybe introduce some filters as well to dial up the contrast.
f 8.0 - 11.0 @ 1/60 sec
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Antique 4X5 Achromatic Meniscus Lens + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + Rodinal 1:50@ 8 min (Tray developed)
Taken in either the late '90's or early 2000's with the Galvin View Camera. Not a properly exposed negative, perhaps appropriate for the subject.
My sister (left) having a friendly chat with a fellow dog-lover, while guarding my "priceless" 8x10 view camera setup.
Had the chance to walk around Westpoint Military Academy with my sister, thanks to her awesome military access. It was a gorgeous late fall afternoon, and it was just plain fun hiking around a new place.
As seen in The 52 Project, Week 26: Visiting My Sister
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Hasselblad 500c
1/125th @ f/5.6
VERY expired Portra 160VC
This summer it was the golden wedding of my parents, a 50 years marriage.
I took some pictures of the elder membrers of family and friends woth my old Busch Pressman D, just before it began to rain for the week end.
Foma 100 in rodinal (20ml in 1500ml) , stand dev. Agitation the first minute and at 30'.
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My friend Le Fras agreed to help me with a shoot and showed up with a suit on, We went to an abandoned building site and took a few photos. Shot using my DIY large format camera. Arista Ortho 2.0 film. 4 second exposure at f32.
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I had been trying to get out of Portland more for my night photographywhen I took this picture. Funny that I ended up moving there in 2015. Sadly, I had to move back to the Portland area 4 years later.
This is Cascade Ave. in Hood River.
Fuji Acros is excellent for night shots because its reciprocity characteristics are top notch.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4x5
Lens: 150mm Fujinon.
Film: Fuji Acros 100 Quickload, developed in Kodak HC-110 dilution H.
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Camera: Toyo-View 45GII, Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 90mm f/8. Film: Rollei Ortho 25, developed in Rollei RLC Low Contrast.
Wet plate collodion is one of the the first photographic processes. It requires the photographer to sensitize, photograph and process the image all while the collodion substrate is wet. During the late 1800s wet plate photographers had to design and build the majority of their own equipment - the same is true today. After 4 months of acquiring chemicals, building a darkbox (portable darkroom), crafting a wet plate camera back and restoring a +100 year old camera here is my first image.
Thoughts? Well, my technique needs some serious work but I'm amazed the chemistry and exposure were dead on first shot. The collodion lifted from the glass (not an entirely bad looking effect) - something easily rectified by intense glass cleaning. Also, there is a yellow colour cast in the middle of the image, this I suspect is either from pulling the image from the fix too early or inadequately filtered silver nitrate (sensitizing) solution.
Why my GTI? Well, it was what was in front of the garage I was working in.
In the coming weeks I plan on testing out the process' aesthetic strength - portraiture.
Poor condition with various bits and pieces missing and worn bellows. Ground glass intact.
Better photos to follow
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As promised to the CapMac Photo SIG, I’m posting a couple of old photos I shot circa 1990 using a “painting with light” technique.
This image was shot on 4x5 Polaroid film. It was shot with an Alpina 4x5 view camera. A Mini Maglite flashlight was use as the only light source for the entire image.
This was taken in my darkened living room one one night. The shutter was set to bulb and I then walked up to the subject and started "painting" the light on him, little by little from head to toe. I then stepped behind him and drew the back and forth light pattern before returning to the camera and closing the shutter.
The model in this photograph is none other than a much younger fellow flickr photographer Tom Haymes.
Description: We see three students standing on the crest of a hill with their cameras on tripods. One is under a black sheet, which allows him to composes his shot. The other two, one of whom is peeking out of her black sheet, are looking up to see into the distance. The Minneapolis College of Art and Design was previously named the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts from 1886-1909 and the Minneapolis School of Art from 1910-1969.
Inscription: recto-(in ink) "x burn-out sky?"; verso-(stamped) "Please return to: MCAD Publications" "Minneapolis College of Art and Design" "2501 Stevens Avenue South" "Minneapolis, MN 55404" (stamped and in red marker) "MCAD PHOTO FILE 19__" "Subject " "Photographer" "Negs available? " "Other Photo class at Minnesota Landscape Arboretum" (in marker) "26 (8)"
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Date of Creation:
Item Type: Still Image
Item Physical Format: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 20.2 cm x 25.3 cm
Image ID: 1980_classrooms_001.jpg
This is an image from a seven picture series (1998) which I printed as gum bichromates using tritone separation and halftone negatives.
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.