January 2013 Portraits

[Kav]

One of the Marines saw me setting up my cameras and said that it must take forever to set up a shot with the big old camera. I already had a flashbulb and film loaded. A 1 second check of the focus and I shot this:


And leaving the airfield:


Both shot with a Speed Graphic and flashbulbs.
Scale Focused

[Tim Meisburger]

At my mothers in Tucson for the holidays with nothing to do, I went out to the garage and made a linhof board out of a piece of plywood, cut a hole in it and glued on a four inch length of cardboard shipping tube, then used clear caulk to mount a magnifying glass lens I bought at the 99 cent store inside. I cut a slot in the top and made some waterhouse stops out of cardboard, then spray painted the whole thing black. Yielded a 7 1/2" f2.7 meniscus.

Here is the first shot. My little sister at the dining room table, wide open.



Now that I am back in Thailand I am looking forward to shooting this some stopped down, to see how sharp I can get.

[Jim Cole]

That worked quite well, MacGyver!

[BradS]

At my mothers in Tucson for the holidays with nothing to do, I went out to the garage and made a linhof board out of a piece of plywood, cut a hole in it and glued on a four inch length of cardboard shipping tube, then used clear caulk to mount a magnifying glass lens I bought at the 99 cent store inside. I cut a slot in the top and made some waterhouse stops out of cardboard, then spray painted the whole thing black. Yielded a 7 1/2" f2.7 meniscus.

Here is the first shot. My little sister at the dining room table, wide open.

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Now that I am back in Thailand I am looking forward to shooting this some stopped down, to see how sharp I can get.

Thats a fun story and a pretty decent image. Thanks for sharing both.

[Corran]

My friend Kaleb, putting some 120 film in protectors that he had just developed. Shot with my Xenotar 135mm f/3.5 lens and a Nikon SB-800 flash on the Pola900, with a nice new Provia 100F Quickload I just got. Just a test to check the film and my development - very happy with both!!

[jcoldslabs]

When you run out of ideas, steal someone else's! Taken tonight with the patient assistance of my wife, albeit with a Kodak Retina IIIc and not a Leica.

Toyo 45A, 210mm Sironar-N, Polaroid type 54 (expired 2004).




Jonathan

[leighmarrin]

Hee! Great swipe, Jonathan--

[jcoldslabs]

Thanks, Leigh. Polaroid film courtesy of...yourself!

J.

[D-tach]

Babs



Deardorff 5x7 - Imagon 250 - Arista EDU Ultra 200

[Corran]

Love it Jonathan! (Of course!)