Post your (LF) trains!

[SamReeves]

First 8x10 image, portra 160

Very cool.

[stradibarrius]

Very cool.

Well done!

[Steve M Hostetter]

color negative! nice

[johnmsanderson]

Thanks dudes. There's so much detail in the 8x10 neg it's unbelievable.

A friend let me borrow his 8x10 for a week. Hopefully I can get my own soon.

[Two23]

An interesting composition. Did you find 8x10 much harder than 4x5?


Kent in SD

[johnmsanderson]

An interesting composition. Did you find 8x10 much harder than 4x5?


Kent in SD

Hi Kent

It was definitely more cumbersome (but considering the increase in quality, it's worth it).

I only had one lens to use, a 360mm Nikkor, a bit longer than normal for 8x10. My most used lens on 4x5 is a 135mm, followed by the 300mm, so I was a little out of my comfort range.

I do love how the magnification is so intense in 8x10 (things do look a little more flattened out, there is a greater feeling of immediacy from distant objects so it's quite a different feeling from 4x5 even).

I had to get used to adding more tilt than with 4x5, as well as counting longer focus distances on the rail.

I was using generally 2 or 3 stops smaller than with 4x5 so the increase in shutter speed requires calm wind.

-nathbdp

[SamReeves]

Now you need to drag out the 8x10 when a long coal drag goes by.

[jmooney]

Now you need to drag out the 8x10 when a long coal drag goes by.

I agree!

[johnmsanderson]

Now you need to drag out the 8x10 when a long coal drag goes by.

Unless it's a class y6b going up blue ridge i'll wait till it passes. i hate diesels.

besides this was in montauk on the LIRR -- no freights just boring double deck passenger trains.

[bbuszard]

An old York & Richmond engine and caboose. It's in the middle of nowhere, just outside the Pamunkey reservation in Virginia. It was refurbished by a private individual, along with an entire faux depot, including several outbuildings, a caboose, this engine, and NO PEOPLE IN SIGHT. I expected Rod Serling to come out of the depot and start monologuing.

I wasn't sure how I felt about the wide-angle skew in the upper left corner, but it's growing on me.