More Fun with Large Format Film Images!

[chrism]

I'm going to have to wash and dry this one again as there are some goopy drying marks visible in the sky.
Chamonix 10x8, Nikkor 300/f9, HP5+, Diafine, V850 scan:


Blue Sea Landing by chrism229, on Flickr


Chris

[Fredrick]

This was shot in the Dolomites in 2014. Truly a beautiful place. This is 8x10 Delta, rated at EI 50 and developed N-2. The lens was a 300mm Rodenstock Apo-Sironar N f.5/6

Dolomites by Fredrick D. Fjeldsbø, on Flickr

[Shreyas]

4x5 Ilford FP5 developed in home-made Monobath developer
Camera Wista SP-45 Epson V700 Scan

[Shreyas]

Ilford FP4, Monobath developer

[gnuyork]

Same spot, two different lenses:

90



210


both are Velvia 50

[gnuyork]

Some type 55:

[MGrayson]

This thing entered my life:


I love the idea of hand-held 4x5, although it's not a great idea for landscapes. Just the view out the window, but it works!
HP5+, 135/4.5 Schneider Xenar, 1/200 sec @f/16.


--Matt

[Shashin]

This thing entered my life:


I love the idea of hand-held 4x5, although it's not a great idea for landscapes. Just the view out the window, but it works!
HP5+, 135/4.5 Schneider Xenar, 1/200 sec @f/16.


--Matt

Matt, handheld 4x5 landscape photography sounds like a great idea. Although it will take a bit of practice.

[MGrayson]

Actually, this works better than I expected (with a cable release).



I love the 1958 camera with tripod right out of the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet (obvious Krell design! ) New carry-around kit!

--Matt

PS. Leica Q in Macro mode.

[StoneNYC]

New here, hi everyone

8x10 | TMY-2 | 150mm

[Shashin]

Actually, this works better than I expected (with a cable release).

I love the 1958 camera with tripod right out of the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet (obvious Krell design! ) New carry-around kit!

--Matt

PS. Leica Q in Macro mode.

Actually, it looks like left over parts from Robbie the Robot.

Is that a sports finder built into the front standard?

[MGrayson]

Actually, it looks like left over parts from Robbie the Robot.

Is that a sports finder built into the front standard?

I always pegged Robbie as a Krell design implemented by Morbius. I was thinking of some of the other lab machinery as well. Disney did a great job! Not until Kubrick's 2001 (12 years later) were its special effects surpassed IMHO.

Yes, it has a sports finder with parallax correction, a working rangefinder (I have to get a different rangefinder cam to install a 90mm lens instead of the current 135mm), a ground glass screen with removable hood, and a rotating back. It's an amazingly competent little camera. It even has an electrically operated shutter button, but it needs two 22.5v batteries that are $25 each. I'll stick with manually tripping the shutter! The front standard has a pretty wide range of rise/tilt/swing. Sideways shifts and fall for wide lenses is a bit limited. The bed drops for very wide angles (I think a 65mm will work on it). It's not far off from the Tachihara field camera I once owned, but that was definitely tripod only.

--Matt

[Shashin]

Matt, you are making me miss my Wista VX technical camera. I certainly appreciate digital photography, but we lost a lot of things with film.

Nostalgia isn't want it used to be...

[MGrayson]

The seller of my Super Graphic kindly threw in a Fuji instant film back, 6 shots remaining, and an unopened box of film. Here's my first try (I know it's upside down - I like the composition better this way):



Part of this is not pulling the dark slide out all the way (it was in backwards), but how much of what you see is due to wildly expired film and how much is user error. I have no way to judge! Oh, the central vertical line is actually there - that's not an artifact.

Thanks,

Matt

[Shashin]

...but how much of what you see is due to wildly expired film and how much is user error. I have no way to judge!

Well, it was free... I'm am weighing massively to the slide of expired film. It has all the hallmarks.

[jdphoto]

New here, hi everyone

8x10 | TMY-2 | 150mm

This is a great photo.
Composition, lighting etc. I love the location too, wild, remote, but not - like your looking up through a basement. I appreciate these film threads as these take skill and understanding photography from a purist form that's so intimately tangible. I sold my Ebony SW45 and have been considering 8x10 for contact printing. There's a reason I never sold my Pentax 1% meter for using the zone system and I think this photo just made me realize it. Shooting digital has it's merits, but the intrinsic value of film as an art is something imo, that digital can never match. The overused HDR or tone mapping and the ability to shoot without really having any understanding of the fundamentals of basic photography. Thank you for rekindling this passion!
I develop my own film with a Jobo 1000 ATL, but that won't do for 8x10. Any suggestions on a drum developer with a roller?

[MGrayson]

Another try with instant film - this time the pos/neg New55. Alas, I need practice. The print was very overexposed, the negative also overexposed (could have sworn it was ISO 100...) But you need a tray of concentrated (and thus expensive) fixer to develop the negative, and it's a slow process, and...



I'm sticking with good old-fashioned negative film. The SP-445 makes developing 4x5 B&W film very easy and doesn't use a lot of chemistry.

--Matt

[jduncan]

Sitting in the sun:


045N-2, Apo_Sironar N 210mm/f5.6, Ilford MG paper and developer.

Chris

Hi,

Beatiful picture. Is the figurine a Lladro ?

Best regards.

[chrism]

Yes, a Lladro.

And for jdphoto, an easy way to develop 10x8 is to use BTZS tubes from https://viewcamerastore.com/
There's a video on their use here.

Chris

[chrism]

Pippa 2017 #4 by chrism229, on Flickr
Chamonix 10x8, Nikkor-M 450mm/f9, Impact EX-100A strobe, Ilford HP5+, ISO 640, Diafine, BTZS tubes, Epson V850 scan.

I see it's time to filter my Diafine solutions again.

C.

[chrism]

Chamonix 4x5, Schneider-Kreuznach 127mm/f4.7, FP4+, Rodinal 1+50, X1 scan:


Mr. Maitani's Children by chrism229, on Flickr

C.

[chrism]

Chamonix 10x8, Nikkor 300mm/f9 @f64 for 30 secs, Galaxy Hyperspeed Paper, ISO100, Ilford Multigrade Developer, Epson V850 scan:




Best Nikons Ever by chrism229, on Flickr


C.

[AlanS]

Good to see you shooting Large format again Chris, or are you posting elsewhere?

[chrism]

Good to see you shooting Large format again Chris, or are you posting elsewhere?

Mostly, I've been using those F6's pictured above! But since I bought 200 sheets of the Galaxy Hyperspeed paper through their Kickstarter, I have to use it up. It was a fun session. My incident meter swore I needed only 8 seconds at f64 with the two monolights I was using. The 300mm lens was extended to 480mm, so it seemed like I needed another one and a third stops for bellows compensation, and then for reciprocity - how much? I had no idea, so I used four sheets of paper, all pre-flashed for four seconds through a sheet of plain white paper in front of the lens, then exposed for 8, 16, 30 and 60 seconds. Just as well that the 30 second exposure turned out nicely, as it seems I placed the paper in the holder the wrong way round for the 60 second exposure (it was a negative, but it was the right way round left to right, and it probably got the equivalent of 2 seconds actual exposure). Fun, fun, fun. That's why we do it, no?

Chris

[AlanS]

Well it's got me smiling! It can be hard work but it pays off when you can sit down and enjoy the results.

[foveon]

Chamonix 4x5, Schneider-Kreuznach 127mm/f4.7, FP4+, Rodinal 1+50, X1 scan:


Mr. Maitani's Children by chrism229, on Flickr

C.

nice shot, but why are the lenses near the left and right downsided corners that distorted?

[chrism]

If you mean the two 50mm lenses seeming to point outwards as well as upwards - I suspect it was that I used quite a bit of tilt to get everything in focus.

C.

[ndwgolf]

One of my first 8x10s shot with ilford HP5+ and developed in LC29. I have this printed on my wall in my house at 50x40 inches....enjoy

Neil

[ndwgolf]

Here is another 8x10.........this time I did not print this one, for obviously reasons Again with HP5+ and developed in trays with LC29
Neil

[ndwgolf]

Here is one of my Chamonix 45N2 pictures...........just love working with this camera
Ilford Delta 100 LC29

[ndwgolf]

My beautiful wife shot with my Chamonix 45N2 developed at home for the first time with C41

[ndwgolf]

Another portrait of a friend of our family shot with my Chamonix 8x10 and developed in trays with LC29

[AlanS]

Great to see some activity in this thread again, nice work. Love the girl (nude) in the interior, I would love that one on my wall

[ndwgolf]

A few trees
Shot in FRIM which is a nature trail in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Chamonix 8x10 Trix 320 with D76

Neil

[ndwgolf]

Chamonix 4x5 Ilford Delta 100 in LC29

[ndwgolf]

Aisana shot with Chamonix 8x10 ilford HP5+ with LC29

Neil

[chrism]

Chamonix 10x8, Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 360mm/f6.8 @ f6.8, 1/8 second, one Impact strobe, Galaxy Hyperspeed paper at ISO 50, pre-flashed though plain printer paper (same exposure as for taking), Ilford MG developer, Epson V850 scan:




Thomas 10x8 by chrism229, on Flickr


Chris

[chrism]

When two people have to sit through a few iterations of a 10x8 photo they don't look so good. Chamonix 10x8, Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar-S 360mm/f6.8, Galaxy Hyperspeed @ EI 50, preflashed through plain paper for same exposure as taking exposure, one Impact strobe and one Impact continuous CFT light, Ilford MG Developer, Epson V850 scan:


Canadian Gothic by chrism229, on Flickr

Stick a pitchfork in it and it would be done.

C.

[ndwgolf]

A couple of Chamonix 8x10 on ilford delta in LC29 taken in Kuala Lumpir Malaysia

[DougDolde]

Just reworked this 4x5 Fujichrome Provia shot. Joshua Tree National Park

[darr]

Linhof MT 3000 + Docter APO Germinar 9/240mm + Polaroid Type 55

This image has been cropped square on purpose for my, "A Photo A Day Project." I am busy downsizing and emptying out my old film stock. I have had 1-1/2 boxes of Type 55 in the crisper drawers for over 10 years. Even with all the hurricanes that brought weeks of power outage, the film so far has held up. I do miss the availability of this film.

Kind regards,
Darr

[Bruno Gil]

The São Domingos Mine is a deserted open-pit mine in Corte do Pinto, Alentejo, Portugal. This site is one of the volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt, which extends from the southern Portugal into Spain. It was the first place in Portugal to have electric lighting.

Wista 450 + Fuji 210mm + Portra 400

[JoelM]

One of my first 4x5 images years ago. I also took it in color, but I think the B&W looks okay. Shadows are blocked up. This love of LF eventually led to 12x20 and pt/pd printing. I miss those days.

Joel

[DougDolde]

"Yoda" in the Jumbo Rocks Campground, Joshua Tree National Park. 4x5 Fujichrome Provia
View full screen here:
http://www.douglasdolde.com/-/galler...d8603a749-yoda

[huyu]

One of my first 8x10s shot with ilford HP5+ and developed in LC29. I have this printed on my wall in my house at 50x40 inches....enjoy

Neil

Crazy detailed. Great capture !

[DougDolde]

The Blue Mesa in Petrified Forest National Park. 4x5 Provia 100F, Super Symmar XL110mm lens (my all time favorite lens for 4x5)
View full screen here
http://www.douglasdolde.com/-/galler...-the-blue-mesa

[JoelM]

This was an 8x10 negative that I was practicing platinum printing back in the day. I tried to recreate it with software, but it isn't the same.

Joel