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Stranger 14 of 100
This is Varnya (pronounced Vania, "it's the Australian spelling") and Cass (short for Cassidy)!
I was walking along Queen St. during my lunch, and it started getting a little toasty. I had the Crown Graphic slung across my body to my right and my bag slung over to my left, tying my coat down on me. I stopped by a bench to put my stuff down and take off my coat. Sitting on that bench was a woman playing with her child.
"Look at that big camera!" she said, and her son looked over and smiled. I asked him if he's seen one that big before, and he shook his head. "That's the biggest camera in the world!" he said. I told him that it was bigger than my face, and he smiled.
When I asked him how old he was, Cass replied "three and three quarters!" I told him I moved to Canada around that age, from Hong Kong. "Now THAT'S a cool city!" Varnya exclaimed. She's visited Hong Kong before, but Cass has only flown over it when travelling from Australia to Canada.
Varnya and Cass are visiting from Vancouver Island, though they're originally from Toronto. They're in Toronto visiting a few friends.
"We love Toronto," Varnya said.
I told them about my summer in Vancouver and how my girlfriend is from there. I told her that we visited Pender Island, which I felt had a creepy vibe to it. "Definitely, it does!" Varnya said.
The two were headed to see the CN Tower today, a Toronto landmark that I haven't visited yet.
Graflex Crown Graphic | 135mm f4.7 Graflex Optar | Arista 400 EDU | Epson 4870
I love old, mechanical things, with dials and switches. That's why I love old cameras. This is a painting of a Rolleiflex View camera, introduced, I believe, in 1949 featuring "the original twin-lens reflex". An advertisement from the day boasted, "In all fine photographic collections, most places of distinction are held by Rolleiflex pictures." I don't know if that's true...I just dig old cameras.
According to an article on Wikipedia,The Rolleiflex TLR film cameras were notable for their exceptional build quality, compact size, modest weight, superior optics, durable, simple, reliable mechanics and bright viewfinders. They were popular and widely imitated. The high-quality 7.5 cm focal length lenses, manufactured by Zeiss and Schneider, allowed for a smaller, lighter, more compact camera than their imitators[citation needed], further differentiating the Rolleiflex TLR from many of its competitors, who were forced by inferior optics to use 8.0 cm or 8.5 cm focal length lenses.
Gelatin -silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 100 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera fitted with an Apo-Nikkor 610mm f9 lens working at f128. Titled, signed, and stamped verso.
The former weighmaster's house (left) and the oil house (right) on the grounds of the Lockridge Furnace Park in Alburtis, Pennsylvania. The Furnace opened in 1868 during the peak of the anthracite iron industry and operated until shortly after World War One. Since 1970, the 59 acre site has operated as a community park while the original blast furnace building # 7 now houses the Lock Ridge Furnace Museum which is open on a limited basis during the Spring through Fall months.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.com/4x5-for-365/
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Rodenstock Geronar 150mm F6.3 lens in a Copal 0 shutter. Yellow filter on the lens to improve contrast.
Film: Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Negative Film, shot at 200 ISO.
Exposure: 1/4 second @ F45.
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.
This image is a part of six image series from 1998, shot on large format film with a view camera and then made into photopolymer gravures.
11x14" print from 4x5" Tri-X320 B&W negative shot through a Sinar monorail view camera with a vertical raise and a forward tilt to the front plane. Exposed for 1/60th at f/32. Burned on the stairs significantly, and dodged on the pair of teachers at the middle left.
I did not have a lens wide enough nor the correct time of day available to mimic the original picture as precisely as I would have hoped.
Here's my Burke&James Grover Large Format 4x5. It's been recently rescued from my parents home, and is living with us now. Just needs some lens cleaning and some polaroid type55 :)
Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.2cm X 16.3cm, from a 4x5 Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider 75mm f5.6 lens and IR680 infrared filter. Titled and signed recto, stamped verso.
I often say "flickr made me do it" when I make a post. In this case it was paws22 who was the vehicle for a four image addition to my photostream.
This is the view of the top of the French statue of a photographer with his view camera that I have posted. The cut-away top of the camera shows the surprising face of the photographer. We think the gaunt face and pointed goatee looks rather devilish so we call him the devil photographer.
The well know and widely published back mark for the California photographer, S. A. Wolf. must have been based on this 7" metal statue. I am also posting scans of a Wolf cabinet card of a child and the back mark of the card.
Thanks paws22 for the nudge to do it.
This guy was setting up a 4x5 mono-rail view camera. What a great morning for it. Looked like fun, but I came for the 200k ride.
Experimenting with the yellow filter this time which didn't pull as much detail out of the sky & clouds as the previous post with the orange filter.
Also tried a shallow depth of field but could have used a wider aperture to get a little more separation between the foreground bush and the tree in the background.
f11 @ 1/60th sec + Yellow Filter
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + Rodinal 1:50@ 7 min (Tray developed)
New Work.
4x5 Ilford FP4
Expect a lot of new work over the next two days and a lot of old work. I developed a bunch of negatives that were lost when I moved. Crazy at the stuff I found.
Another shot of our backyard pond and waterfall. I think I was trying some depth of field experiments on this shot. I'm not happy with the way the end of the waterfall turned out but I'll have other chances to improve on that.
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: 1/8th second @ F22. 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.
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A well worn and weathered corn crib sits out behind a barn.
4x5 for 365 Project details: greggobst.com/4x5-for-365/
Camera: Calumet 45NX 4x5 large format monorail view camera.
Lens: Rodenstock Geronar 150mm F6.3 lens in a Copal 0 shutter. Yellow filter on lens.
Film: Arista EDU 100 Ultra B&W Negative Film, shot at box speed.
Exposure: 1 second @ F32.
Development: Self Developed in Kodak Xtol 1+2 dilution in three reel Paterson Universal Tank using Mod54 six sheet 4x5 insert. 10 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.
Wishing her sailor boy hadn't sailed away.
---Negative scan and neg cleared with sodium sulphite solution which ruined my negatives, made them cloudy and streaked. So I'm embracing the tragedy of my negs having been ruined...
Poohlaroid. One day I'll actually break down and buy a battery from the FPP store and see if this flea market find still works. I have pack film for it.
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 to improve contrast.
Film: Ilford HP5+ 400 ISO Negative Film, shot at 400 ISO.
Exposure: 12 seconds @ F32.
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 @ 1/2 power.
Development: Self Developed in Kodak Xtol 1+2 dilution in Paterson Universal Tank using the Taco Method. 13 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. Cropped to taste in Lightroom 4.
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.
I will be putting it up for sale soon on the evil-bay, after I finish some other parts.
its up for sale now.
Wide angle bellows for using all dslr to Linhof Master TL camera
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The kind and patient Mr. Lane Anderson of Cloudstone Photography. Taken with a 4x5 view camera on Fujichrome Velvia 100F slide film. At the Strobist Flashbus talk, no less. Lighting: David Hobby, right side about 300 ft away.
f32-45 @ 4 seconds
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + Rodinal 1:100 @ 50 min (Jobo Tank, 1 min initial agitation followed by 3 turns @ every minute for next 4 minutes, slight turn at 30 minutes, stand developed)
Camera: Toyo-View 45GII, Schneider-Kreuznach Super-Angulon 90mm f/8. Film: Rollei Ortho 25, developed in Rollei RLC Low Contrast.
Flintlock pistol ca. 1760, transformed to percussion ca. 1825.
Camera: Toyo-View 45GII, Fuji Fujinon NW 125mm f5.6. Film: Adox CHS 100 II, developed in Rodinal 1+100, 24min @ 21.5°C.
This German made egg features a duck with a view camera on a tripod photographing a cat and rabbit. A chick looks on in the foreground. The two part egg is filled with cellophane grass and can be opened to hold a gift of Easter candy.
I recently finished a bottle of HC-110 so I thought I would give Rodinal a try again as I haven't used it much. I immediately noticed that Rodinal produced more grain in the sky compared to negatives I developed in HC-110 under the exact same lighting conditions.
f22 @ 1/30th sec + Orange Filter
ShenHao HZX45-IIA + Fujinon-W 135mm f5.6 + Arista EDU Ultra 100 @ 50 iso + Rodinal 1:50@ 7 min (Tray developed)