Show off your Large Format camera!

[Frank Petronio]

Looks like Darth Vader's hippie cousin....

Hanging out on a roof top in Detroit

[Helcio J Tagliolatto]

My Tachihara (bougth from this forum), a Ross 5x8 Rapid Rectilinear (Packard inside).

[Armin Seeholzer]

Now you can see all my light catching machines in one pic!

Cheers Armin

P.S. From left to right: Sinar P 8x10/4x5 conversion, Burke & James from Chicago 8x10, Sinar F1 4x5, Horseman HF 4x5, Hans Fröhlich Portrait Studio Camera 4x5!

[Sean Galbraith]

Looks like Darth Vader's hippie cousin....

ha! I can see it.

[atlcruiser]

A few weeks ago I went to Birmingham, AL to visit a friend and to see the Edward Weston exhibit in Huntsville. My friend took us to Sloss Furnace (http://www.slossfurnaces.com/) a former iron smelting plant which is now a National Historic Landmark. Here I am with the Deardorff shooting part of the structure. Also did a portrait of my friend.

Please forgive the crappy photos; I took iphone photos of the negs on the light table, inverted and adjusted them in Photoshop. Once I get real prints made I'll post them.

If you are anywhere near Birmingham (Alabama, not England) and you like to photograph old structures this place should be on your list. They only ask for a donation to photograph on the grounds.

Nice stuff Thom! I wish you had called me; we could have met you over there

[Thom Bennett]

David, Thanks! I certainly will call next time. This was kind of a quick trip and I was on someone else's schedule but I do want to go back to Sloss Furnace and spend a day or so shooting. Maybe in the Fall or early Spring? Hope all is well. See you at Wal-mart.

[cyrus]

Show you my camera? Oh, you mean this ol' thing? (cough cough)

[rdenney]

Here are the results of my Speed Graphic project. I took a top-rangefinder Speed with a cam for the supplied 127mm Optar, and added a Kalart rangefinder. I calibrated the Kalart (with some difficulty and with initial failures) for an Ilex Paragon 8-1/2" f/4.5. This is about the biggest shutter I think can be mounted on a Graphic board without removing the shutter release (which cannot be used with this shutter in any case). The lens is mounted on a SK Grimes flange which is attached to the board with five screws. Works fine.

The rear shutter is accurate except perhaps at 1/1000.

Here is the thread discussing the Kalart experiment:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=80545

Here is the thread discussing the testing of the rear shutter, which turned into quite an interesting discussion:

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=62916

Rick "ready for an initial Fujiroid test" Denney

[Vaughn]

Show you my camera? Oh, you mean this ol' thing? (cough cough)

How to you dare show yourself in public with a lens board that does not match the rest of the camera? For Shame!!!! (say the fellow that makes some of his lens boards out of mat board)

[SamReeves]

My Tachihara (bougth from this forum), a Ross 5x8 Rapid Rectilinear (Packard inside).

The lens definitely suits the body!