color negative! nice
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.
An interesting composition. Did you find 8x10 much harder than 4x5?
Kent in SD
In contento ed allegria
Notte e di vogliam passar!
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
Now you need to drag out the 8x10 when a long coal drag goes by.
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.
Bradley Buszard
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