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this is a shot made with the little Vito II
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Impressive results. Very nice.this is a shot made with the little Vito II
That Type 55 is (was?) the bomb! (Btw, nice to put a face with the name, Stuart.)Cool shots guys! I like the minox photos. I am sorry I did not answer you all before, I did not see the thread was updated. Thanks for the comments on the 4x5, I have been shooting it a bit more lately, and it is always a great experience. The camera is an Ebony SV45Ti, which is a beautiful wooden folding field camera. I have two lenses, a 210 Apo Symmar and the 110 Super Symmar XL. Between the two, I have not really found many photos I could not take...at least not that I would really want or need to take on 4x5...
The film was Delta 100. I have a few more that I will be posting later. I had some sheets of Polaroid Type 55 still left (expired in 07), so I wanted to shoot them. If you don't know about Polaroid Type 55, it is an instant postitive/negative film. You get a nice 4x5 inch polaroid print, but you also get an incredible fine grained black and white negative. I believe it used to be Panatomic X, so a very slow, fine grained and fairly contrasty neg. I have a friend who is leaving to go back to his home in Germany, so I took some portraits of him and another friend. He in turn took these two photos of me:
Nice shots, Stuart, and I think this last one really illustrates the quality of the image possible with Type 55. Wonderful tonality, and such clarity, as see in your friend's eye in this shot.Here are a few of the shots I took of my friend: