For the Soft Focus lovers

[Jim Galli]

...a new page at my website with a bunch of field work done with a Kodak 405mm Portrait lens!

How do you take a 405 Kodak in the field you say, and shoot it wide open!! with a Packard Shutter as your only source of control???!!!

Read 'em an weep. It's quite do-able. Or maybe only if you live in the desert at 5800 elevation and have a stash of Panatomic X film to burn at asa32.

For fun I've also thrown in images done with a $22 mirroscope lens, and also a bunch done with a beautiful little wide field 250mm Bausch and Lomb Rapid Rectilinear in a shutter. It'll appear for sale soon.

So, for those of you who were concerned I was dropping out of large format and you might never get to see a new page of rambling blog with weird photos.........here goes for both of you.

http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/29..._A_071312.html

[Jimi]

Good to see you're not lost in the garage darkness all the time. The car looks really good, by the way.

[Jim Galli]

Thanks Jimi

[Shen45]

Great images Jim. Very nice subject and 100% appropriate lens and location. How is the "T" coming on? Thanks for doing the images and sharing them.

Steve

[cosmicexplosion]

model a and porch, no-name BnL RR rear group alone, wide open

great work, i like to see your experimentation, they came out great. sure makes me want to go for a drive, class act all the way!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

After looking at these I may just keep the 305 in shutter that I was thinking of selling. Guess I'll get the CLA done. Thanks Jim

[mandoman7]

I love this set of photos Jim.

[jp]

Looks great!

[Jim Galli]

Thanks guys. Means a lot, especially from this group.

[Tony Karnezis]

The closeup of the grill is especially nice. Thanks for posting them, Jim.