Show off your Large Format camera!

[Mike Castles]

Nice Jiri, great way to show the power of the 5x8 format (of course the results are great) Thanks for sharing.

[Steve M Hostetter]

Nice one Jiri..!

[Allen in Montreal]

Very nice Jiri,

[Monty McCutchen]

Jiri,

I'm glad you took the time. It's nice to see a picture of the guy who's work is so damn good.

Monty

[Jan Pedersen]

Agree, nice to see you Jiri.

jan

[BarryS]

I like the pair of images. It's interesting seeing the setup and the final shot--and the final shot is beautiful. Only downside is it makes me want a Chamonix 5x8.

[Erik Larsen]

Me on a chilly day at my local spot in Colorado with my 11x14 Gundlach.

[Jiri Vasina]

Thanks guys, but here the praise should go to my wife... she managed to get a decent shot of me and also the target of my concentration

As to your wanting a Chamonix 5x8 camera, well for example when I see Erik's Gundlach 11x14, I want a camera this large also. It would be a joy just to look at the groundglass, let alone on the processed negative, the details, the clarity, the tonality. The Chamonix is not a perfect camera, but is reasonably close. For me, it should have been larger (that is, for larger format size). But it's better to be content with the tools at hand - if they work well for their purpose. I have now forced myself to stop looking in the FS section here, to stop going through photographic section on eBay. Because anytime I look there, I see something I want, or worse, something I need.

(But on the other hand, I have never made so good photos with my Pentax 6x7cm, when that was the best tool at my hand. Not a single one...)

[nathanm]

Shen-Hao 4x5 with 300mm 5.6 Schneider which is a ridiculously large\heavy lens for this camera. It's like a big fishbowl hanging off a miniature diving board. I guess it worked, though.

Jumbo size:
http://nathanmarciniak.com/End_Of_A_World_setup.jpg

[Eugene van der Merwe]

Me and my Ebony SV45ti, and the result (I think, i made quite a few images on this occasion and i'm not sure that this is the right one... )