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[jcoldslabs]

Another from my series taken at night in the fog in urban Portland.

Expired Tri-X 120
Argus Argoflex TLR
5 sec. exposure @ f/4.5



Jonathan

[thicktheo]

my speed graphic is being serviced, so I'm toying with smaller formats - the minolta xd-7 loaded with polypan f 50 film and the bronica sq-a (fitted with the zenzanon s 150mm/f3.5) loaded with ilford fp4:







you can see the whole set in my blog: http://thodorismarkou.com/blog/2012/02/alight/

[Jay DeFehr]

Very nice work, guys. Love the night stuff, Jonathan.

[tuco]

That's fine when shooting landscape orientation, but not so good when I try to shoot portrait.

Only with handheld. But on a tripod, it is just as easy to look through the WLF with the camera rotated 90 deg as it is horizontal unless you have the camera close to the ground. And if things are that bad, you don't even need to shoot in portrait orientation. You can just compose and crop the the final results. With my Hasselblad, I create 6:7 and 5:7 aspect landscape orientations by cropping all the time. And with my Pentax 6x7 with WLF, I just keep it in landscape orientation and crop if I want portrait orientation when I handhold.

For the Pentax 6x7, the benefits outweigh the loss of area for me. You get 100% view, a smaller and much lighter camera and better critical focus with the WLF with its magnifying glass.

[jcoldslabs]

Thanks, Jay. What continues to amaze me is how much light there is in the city at night. Sounds silly, I know, but to my eye it seems dark whereas the film, with a long enough exposure, sees a fully illuminated scene.

Jonathan

[tuco]

Another from my series taken at night in the fog in urban Portland.

Expired Tri-X 120
Argus Argoflex TLR
5 sec. exposure @ f/4.5

Jonathan

Nice night shot. With expired Tri-X, that could be TXT, 400TX , 320TXP and more and all different.

[jcoldslabs]

I'll have to go back and look at the film edge code to see which it was. I had some that expired in the 1960s, but I'm not sure if that was this roll or not.

J.

EDIT: I lied! It was expired TMY. Sorry about that. I have so many cameras loaded at one time I can't keep them all straight.

[jp]

From Seat 12J, over Midwestern United States


http://www.flickr.com/photos/austingranger/

Very nice.

Whipping out (and using) an old camera while flying is certain to start an interesting conversation with the person next to you.

[Roger Cole]

Apalachicola Beach, shot at Apalachicola FL, October, 2011. Yashicamat 124, Ilford Pan F+, EI 64 in Diafine, exposure unrecorded but metered with Luna Pro SBC. Print is on Arista Private Reserve RC paper, pearl surface (AKA Adox MCP 312) paper, developed in LDP developer and lightly selenium toned, 3.5 minutes in KRST 1+19. This is a straight scan of the print.


Apalachicola Beach 1 by Roger Cole, on Flickr

[austin granger]

Thanks jp. This was some years back so I don't remember if I had any interesting conversations, but as it was my old Pentax 67 (with its tremendously loud 'clunk'), I imagine that my neighbors were wondering just what I was doing!