I'm Neil; been making photographs for pushing forty years now, almost always monochrome and more often than not in some oddball mix of old and new technologies: I have no qualms about using a computer to print an A4 negative on cell and using that to make cyanotype or gum arabic prints... Just weird, I guess.
Twenty-odd years ago I came across my MPP Press 4x5 in an antique (posh word for junk, usually) shop with four glass plate holders - I guess that's what made it antique? - and hacked up some metal frames to allow me to use film in them; only recently have I obtained some modern plastic holders. I'm not convinced that either of the holders is *quite* correctly registered though it could be that my scanner is slightly off; I don't have the proper holder for the negatives and I suspect they're too close to the glass... something else for experimentation.
The last time I used the camera was ten years ago in Brasil; the humidity and the temperature gave me a lot of grief managing the negatives so some of the images on my site show processing errors. However, I wanted some decent shots of a new granddaughter so I dragged it out again and stuck half a dozen sheets through to check everything was OK.
Brazil 1999
Hemel Hempstead 2011
My favourites are probably #0037, then #0011, #0015, #0023, and #0029 on the Brazil shots. WARNING - do not click on the 'thumbnails' unless your computer can cope with 11,000 x 9,500 images - 10MB download but about 400MB when unpacked for display!
I like the look of the old ortho films; as I'm in Berlin at the moment I've picked up some Adox CHS-50 to see how it looks... the stuff above is all Ilford FP4+ exposed either at 125ASA (Brazil) or at 50ASA (UK). I wish Ilford would make Pan-F in sheet film...
Aye well, apologies for the long intro...
Neil
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