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Fantastic pictures JP! I slightly prefer the Hyperion to the Verito on my Monitor, would love to see prints up close. Ether way both pictures seem to talk me into buying a soft focus lens myself..
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Can someone explain to me why "chemical focus" was different to optical focus? Intriguing..
Is it because the lens doesn't focus all the colors on the same plane but the orthochromatic emulsion...

Interesting and informative replies here! Here´s my two cents:

In my experience it´s best to look at your favourite focal length for formats you already shoot and buy appropriate for 4x5. When you...

Hey seezee, you got it the wrong way around with the M ;) Vf is on the left so you can use your right eye comfortably without digging your face into the camera back :)

Back to OP. Side mounted...

Second part:

My DIY 4x5 camera with helical focus mount sporting a Schneider 65mm f8 lens.
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Shooting hand held 4x5 is fun and all but sometimes I just love the quietness of field camera...

Here is my Collection.

Graflex Anniversary Speed Graphic with RF coupled 165mm f2.7 Zeiss Tessar lens and with my lovely non descript Petzval lens (about 180mm not RF coupled obviously)...

Hi,

Street photography with 4x5 sure is possible (see my flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/57493810@N00/) but the wista 45n would not be my camera of choice for that.
The wista 4x5 is a...

So, project is finished now. Just added all the bells and whistles I know I need. handles for better stability and as a bump protection for the lens. A tripod mount is epoxied into the wood and I...

That's cool! Actually, getting a MF lens for the focus ring was plan b. I was hoping to find a 35mm lens that is large enough just because its much easier and cheaper getting a scrap one.

Do the...

oh my it´s late.. still, I have proof that the camera works, success!!

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4162/34742837135_e99ec0e578_b.jpg. by Friedrich Schiller, on Flickr
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Lovely cameras. Love the graflex back :)
47mm, wow, now i understand why yours is so shallow! I only ever shot 47mm with a 6x9 alpa, was basically the same as i have now with 65 on 4x5. 47mm on 4x5...

Very cool!!! They sure are silblings!! Which focus mount did you use?

This morning I finished the Camera and now I´m sitting at Work waiting to get out and shoot the damn thing :-)

Focus goes from infinity down to 0.6m, travel on the mount is almost 9mm.

I will...

Hi Everybody!

My Name is Fred and I´ve been absent from this forum and photography for about 4 years. Recently my interest in photography reignited and I started to shoot 4x5 Largeformat Film...

Thank you for your replies!

Joe:I examined the lens carefully but there is nothing to be found on any of the elements, mounts or inside the barrel. I´ve attached some detailed shots and a picture...

here are some sample pictures.

the one with the mother and child is the first (wrong) configuration of the rearmost crown glass.
after turning around the crown glass the defects were much better...

Hi,

A few months ago I bought a Petzval lens from a retired viennese pharmacist whose mother ran a photo studio in the 1930s.
The first pictures I shot with it left me pretty unimpressed since...

Half a Year late to the conversation...

I´m about to start converting a 900 myself and wondered if you are able to collapse the front door with the Xenotar 135 attached or if you have to remove...

great compairson jim, theres a very dreamy feeling without that IR filter and those lenses! I like the Holmes shot without the cone most...now how about portraiture and the BL scan back? how long...

glad you like the test Boris! exactly my thoughts and the reason I posted this here :-)

OMG...do you compare the output of a bayer matrix sensor to a RGB film scan? I won´t go there..no way!

IMHO Having first hand experience will allways be preferable to repeating "independent" lens...

Hi Walter! exactly what I´m thinking...close enough to be compelling :-)

fact is...I´ll never have a scanner capable of resolving that much detail in a 4x5 sheet..a V700 is on my shopping list and...

Athiril, I don´t doubt that the lenses you specified are very good glas but to claim that they are much sharper is just bold. do you actualy have first hand experience with all the lenses discussed?...

interesting points everyone!

the reason of shooting the SA 90 at f16 is that I wanted to use my widest working aperture for the test. since the widest stop is f8 I highly doubt that it would have...

Hi

I had one sheet of film left after a photo day and had the idea to waist it on a comparison of my newly aqired Super Angulon 90 f8 MC (ca. 1991) to the very good Tele-Elmarit 90mm on my Leica...

here´s my first LF shot.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2464043342_7898b1aaaf_b.jpg

Anniversary Speed graphic + Ektar 127 f4.7, HP5 in Rodinal 1:25

I thought the speed G is a good idea...

great thread! inspiring work here

one frame from my newly aquired shen hao, shot yesterday. scan from the negative.

shen hao PTB 54
Super Angulon 90 f8 MC
Efke PL 50 in Rodinal 1:100 20min
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Ouch, thats a frightening picture mark... sorry to see the damage but glad to hear that you could continue shooting!

Arthur, I´ve made compairsons yesterday regarding the groundglass. As you know...

"Something tells me that they don't have a QC dept there "

lol .. that´s what I thought!

the 3 / 4 / 5 hole thing is very interesting! curious if the old lady has something to say about it.....

Thank you for the interesting write up!! good to hear opinions from a user that shoots with both

I also have my PTB allready and find all the remarks you made on point, cannot compare it to a...

thank you Vinny, that´s the info I was looking out for! I´ll get the bag bellows then.

Just browsed your Website and I really love the images. the "Manzanita in Tunnel" image struck me the most,...

"you (and I) will need the bag bellows for the short lenses anyway."

thats probably true Peter, just wondering if anyone tried it allready (since there are so many Shen Hao users around)

fred

Hi,

I finaly have my Shen Hao PTB "Chamonix-clone" and I´m quite happy with the camera.
however, I found that using shift with the 90mm SA compresses the bellows so much that there´s stress on...

thank you all for your sugestions!

Thank you Ron, thats exactly what I was worrying about..too heavy and too much movements...filters and expense drove me finaly away from the grandagon 115!
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thanks jbannow.

I also think of my 135 as a standard FL. compared to my 35mm on 135-film which I´m shooting most i´d even say it feels slightly longer (at least I often find myself stepping back...

Hi all!

I´m reading LFF and photographing with 4x5 for over a year now (doing well thanks to all the knowledge on this forum!) and want to finaly change from my Speed Graphics to a real Field...

I´m in the same boat as Arthur, fell in love with the Chamonix but the price of the Shen Hao is very tempting (I too life in Austria so the price difference is as Arthur explained/calculated)

Like...

double post...sorry

Daniel,
I have a few scanned pictures with said Tessar on my Flickr. Used on a 4x5 Speed with Rangefinder handheld: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57493810@N00/tags/carlzeissjenatessar165mmf27/
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I build a fixfocus P&S LF camera a few weeks ago :-)
I planned to shoot the Munich CSD with that thing but it was raining too much so I used my 35mm gear. not a single good frame shot at the moment...