View Full Version : Show off your Large Format camera!
Pages :
1
2
3
4
[
5]
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Shen Hao 4x5, with Derogy 5.5" f3.5. Also have three modern lenses in Copal. I am a field camera kind of guy.
Kent in SD
Frank Petronio
29-Jan-2011, 18:50
My camera is Linhof Master Technika - the tripod extension under the camera is my Land Rover Defender - the journey to remote locations in the eastern Sierra Nevada, White mountains and Inyo mountains, is half the fun of capturing my images. - my truck is sort of an extension (or accessory) of the camera!
Len
Very Nice!
Old camera, but a new lens: 610mm APO Nikkor. It cost only $200.
I had SK Grimes mount it onto a Sinar Board with a spacer ring to allow movement of the Sinar Shutter.
It's sharp. Oh yeah. :)
Special Thanks to Armin Seeholzer who guided me with this.
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/APO600a.jpg
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/APO600b.jpg
Frank Petronio
2-Feb-2011, 06:58
Why didn't you simply mount the shutter on the middle standard?
It never occurred to me. The closer the shutter to the film, the greater the chance of vignetting, no ?
The shutter is smaller than the film - especially with 5x7 film. If we move the shutter all the way to the rear, then we'd see a circular image... no ?
walter23
2-Feb-2011, 08:35
That's a really interesting one... it has a prototype look to it with that diamond plate stuff lining the slot (for holders?). Amazing what people tried coming up with before the invention of roll film (or even graflex bag magazines / grafmatics). This must have been around the time that falling plate cameras already existed though, no?
cameras coming all the time, it seems...
I just got a huge old danish multi camera, called Norka.
on a half plate film it is possible to take up to 20(I think) exposures - all "automatic" - but also all manual.
the inventer was a genious! and made several different LF cameras.
up till WWII they exported many of these to USA, but I have never heard about any that have one now.. or even know about it...
on the back. you can see the mechanical contraption that enables you to take the many images...
My camera is unfortunately lacking the stand... But there's one for sale - it is an impressive sight!! (look at the last pictures)
Frank Petronio
2-Feb-2011, 08:58
It never occurred to me. The closer the shutter to the film, the greater the chance of vignetting, no ?
The shutter is smaller than the film - especially with 5x7 film. If we move the shutter all the way to the rear, then we'd see a circular image... no ?
You probably need both sets of bellows extended for that long a lens but they way I used to do it with more moderate (or sane...) focal lengths was to simply put the shutter on the intermediate standard directly behind the lens, not too far away. That way I could mount whatever lens I wanted on a simple flat board. An iris clamp on a flat board would have been the ultimate of course ;-)
Now it looks like you need a second rail clamp and one of those aluminum plates to tie it all together into a key slotted Sinar pan-tilt head on top of a #5 Gitzo or heavy duty Majestic or something massive.... Only another $800-$900 to use your $200 lens haha!
"Now it looks like you need a second rail clamp and one of those aluminum plates to tie it all together into a key slotted Sinar pan-tilt head on top of a #5 Gitzo or heavy duty Majestic or something massive.... Only another $800-$900 to use your $200 lens haha!"
You're scaring me :)
I thought I was being smart - kind of a poor-man's 600mm Fujinon C.
It seems pretty stable already with my humble Bogen tripod and Manfrotto head. I'm not going out shooting in heavy wind of course.
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/tech/tripod.jpghttp://www.kenleegallery.com/images/tech/head.jpg
While we're on the subject, here's a poor-man's 360mm Fujinon A. The lens was very cheap, and SK Grimes mounted it on a Sinar board for me. Deadly sharp at all distances, very affordable, 10-bladed aperture, fine blur rendition.
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/APO360.jpg
Armin Seeholzer
2-Feb-2011, 13:12
Hi Ken
The poor man's 610 looks quite good to me, and I know its a very good performer!
Sk Grimes did it better then I, but mine works also but does not look so sexy;--)))
Cheers Armin
Emil Schildt
2-Feb-2011, 13:53
That's a really interesting one... it has a prototype look to it with that diamond plate stuff lining the slot (for holders?). Amazing what people tried coming up with before the invention of roll film (or even graflex bag magazines / grafmatics). This must have been around the time that falling plate cameras already existed though, no?
the time for this camera was approx 1947... So no prototype there..
It was mostly used as a means to take pictures of children or family images, and as said, you could choose a lot of different "modes" for taking many exposures on a half plate film.
Very popular at the time.
I can scan an image where you can see some of the possibillities with this baby...
Jim Fitzgerald
6-Feb-2011, 21:37
Well, here are some images of my just finished 14x17. Took me 7 months to build and a great big thanks to Matt Blais for all of his help. Final assembly this weekend took much longer but that is to be expected. I still have some tweaking to do and we did not get a chance to shoot any film today but she is done. Matt came up with a nice idea to make a sliding tripod block. Camera comes in at about 22 LBS. Did the Ground glass with the acrylic and used the window frost from Lowes and it worked very well. Everything is wet sanded to 1500 grit and then waxed.
Wow Jim. That's a beautiful camera.
Jim Fitzgerald
6-Feb-2011, 21:42
Thanks, I can't believe I finished it! I can't wait to use it!
Very Impressive Jim....
Dan King
Jim Fitzgerald
6-Feb-2011, 22:17
Dan, thank you. It is nice to be finished.
Dan, thank you. It is nice to be finished.
I can imagine, looks to be quite a project - and beautifully done...
What would one do for film on a camera this size? Curious?
(I tried 8x10 for a bit, and it was too big for me - nervous wreck handling the camera, couldn't even imagine working with one this size....I'll stick with 4x5 and 5x7 :) )
Dan
Jim Fitzgerald
6-Feb-2011, 22:45
Dan, I built this camera with the thought of using x-ray film. It comes standard in 14x17. I shoot it in 8x10 and 11x14 and the negatives I get work well for my carbon printing. The 14x17 was built because I like the "presence" that a 14x17 print has and the fact that I got 500 sheets of film for $.50 a sheet! Affordable 14x17, you bet!
jeroldharter
6-Feb-2011, 23:50
Jim, That is some major craziness. Did you make a 6x6 cm roll film back for it?
Jiri Vasina
7-Feb-2011, 01:32
Jim, congratulations on finishing the camera, it looks wonderful...
Jiri
Looks wonderful-
great job-
Steve M Hostetter
7-Feb-2011, 08:18
nice Jim!
ypres.bass
7-Feb-2011, 08:34
TOYO 45G with homemade reduction a and squareplates
http://www.foto-kolarik.g6.cz/files/TOYO_red.jpg
Jim Fitzgerald
7-Feb-2011, 08:35
Thanks everyone! No,no roll film back! Hell, I still have 12 rolls of 120 to develop! Big sheets are so much easier! BTW, I made 9x9 lens boards so I can mount my big lenses. Not that I have a lot of them.
My 9x12 Voigtlander Avus'
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_V_XSy7owF9I/TVAlwhYVWwI/AAAAAAAAITw/ZKXb9ZAJpz4/s720/DSC-R1%201996.jpg
With case and 6x9-9x12 Rollex 120 film back
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_V_XSy7owF9I/TVAlwYsfU7I/AAAAAAAAITs/EcHxzrxnBuQ/s720/DSC-R1%201990.jpg
Besides the 135/4.5 Anastigmat Skopar, and the 88 B&L in the previous picture, I have the following lenses. (the Leitmeyr Weitwinkel is missing a Compur 0 retaining ring)
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_V_XSy7owF9I/TVAlJ8yqbeI/AAAAAAAAITE/h9wp6OI1oIA/DSC-R1%201974.jpg
Nice job Jim, really looks great.
Jim Fitzgerald
7-Feb-2011, 18:39
Tim, thanks. I can't wait to use it!
Heespharm
7-Feb-2011, 20:45
Jim!!! (jaw drops, hits floor, rolls down the stairs) amazing... The lemon was worth the squeeze!
Jim Fitzgerald
7-Feb-2011, 22:57
Yes, the lemon was worth the squeeze! I just hope I did everything right! I'll find out soon enough. I need to load a holder and shoot something!
cosmicexplosion
8-Feb-2011, 00:23
Yes, the lemon was worth the squeeze! I just hope I did everything right! I'll find out soon enough. I need to load a holder and shoot something!
that wins the cake, can you make me one...please!
ps have to ask, on behalf, what lens do you use?
Jim Fitzgerald
8-Feb-2011, 08:11
that wins the cake, can you make me one...please!
ps have to ask, on behalf, what lens do you use?
Well, in the pictures I have what I thought was a 610 Nikkor on the camera but it may be longer than that so stay tuned on that one. I put on my 24" Artar and it covers just fine. Looks to be a bit of a wide angle!
Jiri Vasina
10-Feb-2011, 00:03
This one arrived the day before yesterday...
http://www.vasina.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/550D-img05082_web.jpg
Seneca Improved Whole Plate
I hope to put it to good use. There seems to be very little to stop me... apart from fitting one of my lenses to a suitable lensboard... :) ...and finding a some time in a family program...
Jiri
Jim Fitzgerald
10-Feb-2011, 08:28
Jiri, that sure is a nice one. I have the Seneca Improved 8x10 and I love it. Find some time to use it!
Armin Seeholzer
11-Feb-2011, 04:26
Just made a self of me and my Burke & James with Sinar shutter in old style! As always I have in winter long hairs not so in the summer;--))) I do not like cold ears!
Jim Fitzgerald
11-Feb-2011, 07:34
Armin, nice looking shot. Camera looks good. BTW I don't like cold ears either!
Some more photos of the Goerz 5x7 strut camera now it's finished...
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/SAM_0776.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/SAM_0762.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/SAM_0763.jpg
These are the same as shown on the Goerz thread showing my butchering of the camera.
anglophone1
11-Feb-2011, 15:19
Ash, this looks v. cool.
Clive
GabrielSeri
11-Feb-2011, 15:46
This morning I took my first picture with my new - old Kodak 2D 5x7. I got a new ground glass for it today as well. I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship. :)
http://www.silverpiscis.com/Photography/5x7/5x7Field.jpg
Thanks Clive, nice to hear from you. If you're passing through soon let me know and I'll bring it along to the coffee shop.
Frank Petronio
11-Feb-2011, 17:17
Big demerit Ash, open up the freaking shadows for us blind buggers. It looks like it might be cool but I can't see it. Save those dark pix for eBay when you go to unload it.
Brighten your monitor Frank ;)
PolarBear1973
12-Feb-2011, 05:33
Crown Graphic set up for a still life
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/PolarBear1973/CrownGraphicStillLife.jpg
Ash, with all due respect, I thought they were a little hard to see as well.
I'll take some more photos outdoors soon and upload them, so it's clearer. Indoors the digicam doesn't like to make black into grey.
rdenney
12-Feb-2011, 14:58
I'll take some more photos outdoors soon and upload them, so it's clearer. Indoors the digicam doesn't like to make black into grey.
Try a little available light, like the light produced by any available flash.
Rick "who also could see through the darkness" Denney
Happy now?
These are the four I lightened a little for the blog so they're watermarked as well.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/aSAM_0762.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/aSAM_0764.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/aSAM_0765.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/lfpf/aSAM_0776.jpg
Frank_E
12-Feb-2011, 15:13
Ashley, that is better. I found them dark also and I had the brightness up pretty high...
Frank Petronio
12-Feb-2011, 15:21
I don't know Ash, maybe you should try some college courses in photography. Ask Albert Watson what he thinks?
Frank have you tried photographing girls with their clothes on? I hear it's all the rage...
Much better, appreciate your effort.
Frank Petronio
12-Feb-2011, 15:36
Ash, they make these button on digital cameras... they're called exposure compensation. I know you use Canon so it's probably buried in the menu system and in Japanese but you might want to go a-looking for it!
Wrong again Frank, it was a Samsung! Explains it all really.
Could be worse, it coulda been Panasonic....
Ken Lee
13-Feb-2011, 06:23
It seems pretty stable already with my humble Bogen tripod and Manfrotto head. I'm not going out shooting in heavy wind of course.
Here's a test shot (http://www.kennethleegallery.com/html/aponikkor610/Nikkor610Test.php) I made from around 1 mile away with a 610mm APO Nikkor. I think the lens is very good. Only one tripod, and not a heavy one.
I made the image with a Sinar Shutter at 1/60 second. I pressed a yellow gelatin filter against the front of the lens with one hand, while tripping the shutter with the other. So whatever vibration was there, was there.
The enlargement is roughly 8x, corresponding to a print much larger than I would ever make without a professional scan. If I were planning to make prints at that size, I would also use a finer-grain film.
Another option is to use this lens on 5x7, for landscapes - instead of a 450mm lens on 4x5. Less enlargement, more lines per mm.
Armin Seeholzer
13-Feb-2011, 15:18
Ken is it not also the 610mm APO?
Cheers Armin
Ken Lee
14-Feb-2011, 09:02
Oh My - You're right Armin.
I forgot ! I will correct it now.
Thanks !
(610mm may seem like a strange length, but it's really a 24-inch lens, which is 610mm)
Ken Lee
14-Feb-2011, 12:52
I figured out that the detail section represents an enlargement of around 12x: a print roughly 4x5 feet in size.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5217/5383459457_c0ee6c6dc5_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zboumeester/5383459457/)
Love the portability of this thing. And it's in great condition too.
Jim Fitzgerald
14-Feb-2011, 22:53
Wow! I'll say it is in nice condition. Congrat's!!
Thank you! I was quite surprised when I got it. Even people who don't know photography comment on it's condition. The ground glass is the worst part. So I ordered a new one from canyonlandgraphics (now lakesgraphics) on ebay.
elliottimages
22-Feb-2011, 00:24
I really like your camera. It's has a great look.
Family portraits Glasgow (http://www.elliott-images.co.uk)
Darren H
2-Mar-2011, 06:23
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5292/5491769782_4c85ed35fb.jpg
My Arca-Swiss Discovery in Canyonlands National Park overlooing the Colorado River and the distant La Sal Mountains. The nice afternoon clouds meant I was using some Efke 25.
Darren H
2-Mar-2011, 06:32
My camera is Linhof Master Technika - the tripod extension under the camera is my Land Rover Defender - the journey to remote locations in the eastern Sierra Nevada, White mountains and Inyo mountains, is half the fun of capturing my images. - my truck is sort of an extension (or accessory) of the camera!
Len
That is a cool set up!!!
Darren H
2-Mar-2011, 06:34
Wehman 8x10 in Southern Death Valley.
Great location shot!!
Scratched Glass
2-Mar-2011, 17:34
My heat robbing Linhof Technika V from this morning. My poor little fingers.
http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z422/sabaia29/Linhof.jpg
8x20_Pano_Shooter
2-Mar-2011, 18:11
My Arca-Swiss Discovery in Canyonlands National Park overlooing the Colorado River and the distant La Sal Mountains. The nice afternoon clouds meant I was using some Efke 25.
. . .looks like you're on the top of Mesa Arch!
Darren H
3-Mar-2011, 05:16
. . .looks like you're on the top of Mesa Arch!
Susan, nope not Mesa Arch. This is near the Buck Canyon Overlook, which is not too far from Mesa Arch. I did photograph through the arch but was not about to try large format from the top of it.
Here is when I was at Mesa Arch
Frank Petronio
3-Mar-2011, 07:32
Ha do you have to jostle those wimpy DSLR shooters out of the way?
Darren H
3-Mar-2011, 08:27
Ha do you have to jostle those wimpy DSLR shooters out of the way?
Frank, no they usually let the big dog cameras have their way and any spot they want. :-)
That day there were only three other photographers there so it was easy. One time there was 50+ people there by sunrise....... It was like the press corps. But even then I was the first person on location so I was able to get the premier spot.
Here's my 'dorff 5x7 on assignment and the image from the shoot...
and then another from the same day...
J
Darren H
7-Mar-2011, 08:08
Here's my 'dorff 5x7 on assignment and the image from the shoot...
and then another from the same day...
J
Looks like a great weather day. Gives your camera images a somewhat minimalistic look that is rally cool.
vpwphoto
10-Mar-2011, 15:15
I'm a photographer that built a sailboat... I think I'll keep it that way. Nice job on this camera.
Emil Schildt
12-Mar-2011, 09:00
I have several big studio cameras.
This is a nice one (no name as I recall), and it is placed in the school's studio. It is the one my students mostly use.
Amazingly it didn't brake yet...
The lens on it is my Cooke 350mm F3.5 soft focus lens.
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/196828_10150105275376927_623616926_6968603_733919_n.jpg
closer look
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/196828_10150105275381927_623616926_6968604_6326379_n.jpg
Andrew Plume
13-Mar-2011, 07:11
lovely Emil, just lovely....................
is it a half plate?
regards
andrew
Emil Schildt
13-Mar-2011, 07:50
lovely Emil, just lovely....................
is it a half plate?
regards
andrew
no Andrew - much more convenient...
Central European in making= 13x18cm.
My Polaroid 110B conversion, just developed fist six shoots from grafmatic - everything is fine.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_m0WwPG8F3xE/TXDx3FDNm-I/AAAAAAAACSc/EwJThBbUbGU/s720/IMGP3491.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_m0WwPG8F3xE/TXDx8PCJIHI/AAAAAAAACSg/eNtob7zqBCc/s720/IMGP3492.jpg
In cold shoue is Gossen Digiflash attached.
My first, only, and probably last 8X10 - Fulmer & Shwing.
Sheldon N
1-Apr-2011, 20:08
It's so awesome to see that this thread lives on! Almost 3 years later... over 1000 posts and 350,000 views.
I had no idea it would carry on like this. :-)
Frank Petronio
7-Apr-2011, 12:47
Nude Linhof Technika IV -- Stripped, repaired, adjusted, and awaiting my cameraleather.com order! And waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the cameraleather.com order....
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/8647/linhof_stripped_xenar.jpg
Barry Kirsten
7-Apr-2011, 13:00
Frank, I made my own leather panels for a 6x9 Linhof years ago. I picked up a bag of garment leather offcuts of $5 and still have some of it left which I use for lens pouches etc. The only problem doing it yourself is the time involved, of course. Whether you cut your own panels or not, it's advisable to use a glue which can be heat softened, particularly for rangefinder models, where it's necessary to lift some of the panels to make adjustments. Linhofs look great with real leather panels.
Barry.
Frank Petronio
7-Apr-2011, 13:03
I probably should have done that, this guy is ridiculous.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/charly57/Untitled-5asm.jpg
Modded Contessa 5x7 + Charly
Shot on the Pentax 67ii
drew.saunders
7-Apr-2011, 15:06
Modded Contessa 5x7 + Charly
Shot on the Pentax 67ii
I'm sorry, I don't see the camera in that picture...;)
I'm sorry, I don't see the camera in that picture...;)
This may be a problem for a few of you.... look at the girl, then follow her gaze across the picture. There's a square black thing, which doesn't look like a pretty girl.
imagedowser
7-Apr-2011, 16:45
Frank, Morgan at Cameraleather is slow, but worth the wait.
Thats a nice WALS/WABH :D
Emil Schildt
16-Apr-2011, 14:39
Family meeting.... ;-)
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/216962_10150155423666927_623616926_7226477_5624052_n.jpg
anglophone1
16-Apr-2011, 15:39
Speechless............
anglophone1
16-Apr-2011, 15:46
I probably should have done that, this guy is ridiculous.
Was going to redo my Technika in RED but not sure now, recoverd my 3 Epson rd1s with camera leather kits and they were fast enough with them ........
J
Armin Seeholzer
16-Apr-2011, 16:02
Gandolfi I'm a bit overwhelmed,I have to show it to my wife, then she knows then that I have almost no cameras;--))))
Cheers Armin
Emil Schildt
16-Apr-2011, 16:24
thanks all
Here I am joining the meeting...
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208263_10150155441936927_623616926_7226573_1752053_n.jpg :cool:
akvamakc
16-Apr-2011, 23:17
My ФКД 18х24 cm camera
Here I am joining the meeting...
No offense, but I like Ash's addition better. :D
- Leigh
ps - neat collection
thanks all
Here I am joining the meeting...
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208263_10150155441936927_623616926_7226573_1752053_n.jpg :cool:
I challenge you to make and publish one photograph every day, with a different camera or lens, until you run out of cameras and lenses. You should be busy for a while. The impossible project?
The imaginary octogenarian and his vapour ware camera.
Gem Singer
17-Apr-2011, 15:31
Me and my Canham MQC57 in Pilot Point,TX. Photo by J.B.Harlin. Fall, 2010.
Gem Singer
17-Apr-2011, 15:33
Sorry David, the first one did not upload.
BTW, where is the picture of your camera?
Emil Schildt
17-Apr-2011, 16:28
I challenge you to make and publish one photograph every day, with a different camera or lens, until you run out of cameras and lenses. You should be busy for a while. The impossible project?
not impossible, but it would take a while (Unless I am allowed to use images allready taken....)
Something to think about..:cool:
(for now, I am trying tp put names on all the cameras (not difficult) and lenses (takes a while..) on the photo..)
I have a 5x7 Nagaoka which I am very happy with because I can walk around the district with it over my shoulder in the evenings, as I did with my old 4x5. It replaced a 5x7 B&J and a 2D which are both nice cameras but not fun to carry around. It is a perfect match for the 210 on the front. A tripod and a small bag with film holders, lens, darkcloth, light meter & camera and you are nearly as good as an 8x10, about the same weight as a 4x5 but with a much more comfortable aspect ratio. If you want something boxier all you have to do is crop to 5x6 as Paul Strand did sometimes, or slap on a 4x5 reducing back. I doubt I will be buying another camera in a long time. Nice size for contact printing too.
Brian C. Miller
17-Apr-2011, 19:34
I challenge you to make and publish one photograph every day, with a different camera or lens, until you run out of cameras and lenses. You should be busy for a while. The impossible project?
You call that a challenge? That's not a challenge, that's just how to keep busy!
Gandolfi, I dare you to use all of them in one day! (But since you do studio photography, you'll be done before noon.) OK, have a unique image on each exposure.
That'll make you break a sweat!
:D
tgtaylor
17-Apr-2011, 20:01
thanks all
Here I am joining the meeting...
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208263_10150155441936927_623616926_7226573_1752053_n.jpg :cool:
Jeez, and I thought that I had a lot of cameras: 5 LF, 2 MF, 3 35mm, and 1 digital P&S. But this guy has that many on the first table on the left!
I'm impressed but not jealous.
Thomas
Emil, do you know who has more stuff? You or Ole?
Did some design/build cheating and built the camera around the backs used on my Calumet C-1. So I can go vertical or horizontal, 4x5 or 5x7 with the reducing backs. And old laptop bags are ideal for carrying 8x10 holders in the field.
If you build another you could make the box big enough to hold the film holders for traveling to and from the location. From what I see it's a great use for the C1 backs. I have a Calumet C1 with the 8x10 and 5x7 backs. It would be nice to just carry the film holders and a camera box for a change and leave the massive mechanical behind. Nice work.
Curt
Emil Schildt
18-Apr-2011, 03:30
Emil, do you know who has more stuff? You or Ole?
I honestly don't know - I suspect he has a lot...
But I am sure many in here has much more.. and much, much more expensive stuff...
I also have more (my Sinar cameras - graflex - 135mm cameras and lenses..)
Apart from this I also have some beautiful assecories from way back in time..
Robert Hughes
18-Apr-2011, 13:49
Yikes! That photo is the first one that pops up when you Google: "Gear Acquisition Syndrome".
Andrew Plume
19-Apr-2011, 09:25
thanks all
Here I am joining the meeting...
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/208263_10150155441936927_623616926_7226573_1752053_n.jpg :cool:
Emil - how about taking us through them - say just the cameras with the lenses attached..................
andrew
Ole Tjugen
19-Apr-2011, 09:51
Emil, do you know who has more stuff? You or Ole?
Emil has more. I've been downsizing instead of upsizing, after I discovered that 30x40cm was too big to carry - and a babystroller just won't work in these parts of the world! So my biggest camera is 24x30cm, going down (LF and plate cameras only) to 6x4.5cm.
Lenses - I think Emil has more big stuff. I may have more small lenses, and casket sets...
Emil Schildt
19-Apr-2011, 12:44
Emil - how about taking us through them - say just the cameras with the lenses attached..................
andrew
will do - preparing an image as we speak...
Gandolfi is certainly a hard act to follow...
'40s Deardorff w/ seldom used 4x5 reducing back & Fuji 450 c
Emil Schildt
19-Apr-2011, 14:26
so - here's the picture (I forgot to change the image of me to a naked girl, sorry...) where I have tried to put names on some of the stuff...(by memory - the stuff is still in my studio....)
Can be hard to read, so a much bigger version is located here:
http://www.emilschildt.com/cameracolletion.htm
Heespharm
19-Apr-2011, 15:40
Wow compared to that my camera collection/fetish seems sane... Beautiful setup emil
Emil. You should set ALL the cameras up facing a naked girl. Then take the photo. Then provide a giant print of all the angles of the photo :)
Andrew Plume
20-Apr-2011, 01:07
so - here's the picture (I forgot to change the image of me to a naked girl, sorry...) where I have tried to put names on some of the stuff...(by memory - the stuff is still in my studio....)
Can be hard to read, so a much bigger version is located here:
http://www.emilschildt.com/cameracolletion.htm
that's really decent - thanks - truly enjoyable
regards
andrew
David R Munson
20-Apr-2011, 05:30
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/272024806_0ccdb85442_z.jpg
This is not a current photograph, though I sometimes wish it were. This is from about 4.5 years ago. I have almost none of the equipment pictured here any more. I have the Mamiya 645, the smaller light meter, and the old Konica SLR that belonged to my grandfather. Otherwise, it's all been sold or given away. I've since switched to Canon for 35mm and digital, added a couple half frame cameras, an old Canon rangefinder, and a Pentax 67. Soon will be adding a Chamonix 4x5 as the long-overdue replacement for that lovely Linhof monorail.
Emil has more. I've been downsizing instead of upsizing, after I discovered that 30x40cm was too big to carry - and a babystroller just won't work in these parts of the world! So my biggest camera is 24x30cm, going down (LF and plate cameras only) to 6x4.5cm.
Lenses - I think Emil has more big stuff. I may have more small lenses, and casket sets...
Ole, what kind is your 24x30 cm? I purchased a lot of 24x30 cm X-ray film, would be nice to have an option not to cut it down.
/gth
Ole Tjugen
20-Apr-2011, 06:01
gth, my 24x30cm camera is an old unnamed German "Reisekamera". Wonderful thing which can use any focal length from 47mm to 800mm! Rigid front with double-sliding lensboard, limited movements on the back. Here it is, with a 360mm Symmar convertible for scale...
Frank Petronio
20-Apr-2011, 06:45
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/272024806_0ccdb85442_z.jpg
This is not a current photograph, though I sometimes wish it were. This is from about 4.5 years ago. I have almost none of the equipment pictured here any more. I have the Mamiya 645, the smaller light meter, and the old Konica SLR that belonged to my grandfather. Otherwise, it's all been sold or given away. I've since switched to Canon for 35mm and digital, added a couple half frame cameras, an old Canon rangefinder, and a Pentax 67. Soon will be adding a Chamonix 4x5 as the long-overdue replacement for that lovely Linhof monorail.
How long did you try to sell that Linhof for? And what did you end getting? Quite an epic sale lol....
David R Munson
20-Apr-2011, 06:53
How long did you try to sell that Linhof for? And what did you end getting? Quite an epic sale lol....
I actually traded the Linhof for a Mamiya RZ67 kit, which I then sold a year later due to financial troubles.
gth, my 24x30cm camera is an old unnamed German "Reisekamera". Wonderful thing which can use any focal length from 47mm to 800mm! Rigid front with double-sliding lensboard, limited movements on the back. Here it is, with a 360mm Symmar convertible for scale...
That's a sweet camera. Thanks!
I googled the format after my dumb question and came up with a few European studio cameras, so I guess it was not all that unusual format back in the day.
barnacle
23-Apr-2011, 13:30
I've seen one or two mentions of British MPP cameras in the last hundred-odd pages, but I've never seen another Press camera apart from the owner's club website... both a shutter in the lens and a focal plane shutter, focussing on the glass or with a cam rangefinder or from a scale, and a sports finder for good measure.
It's slowly getting worn - I've had it nearly thirty years, and it's probably sixty years old now - but it still all seems to work quite nicely thank you...
800 wide 'thumbnail' http://www.nailed-barnacle.co.uk/bigimages/0037-bigthumb.jpeg and the full-sized scan at http://www.nailed-barnacle.co.uk/bigimages/0037.jpeg - don't download that unless you have at least a gigabyte of memory, preferably more, through the download is only 10MB
Neil
Philippe Grunchec
24-Apr-2011, 04:23
Chamonix 810
Thank you, Hugo (and Christian)!
Jim Fitzgerald
24-Apr-2011, 08:29
Can't remember if I posted a group shot of the "three boys" I built. Fitting I guess as I have three son's.
SamReeves
24-Apr-2011, 08:40
Can't remember if I posted a group shot of the "three boys" I built. Fitting I guess as I have three son's.
Those are real beauts Jim!!
Jim Fitzgerald
24-Apr-2011, 09:09
Sam, thanks. The funny thing is that the cameras each have their own personalities just like my son's!
Scott --
26-Apr-2011, 11:17
The latest completed rehab - a Start Camera Manufacturing Company 10x12".
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5149/5657827825_2412c2fa03_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott--/5657827825/)
IMG_1622 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott--/5657827825/) by Scott -- (http://www.flickr.com/people/scott--/), on Flickr
Scott --
28-Apr-2011, 06:06
Thanks, Ash. That, of course, should read "Star Camera Manufacturing Company"...
Nikola Dulgiarov
28-Apr-2011, 09:49
This is my DIY monorail 8x10and me beside it for scale (:
http://photo-zona.net/images/user63930/album22385/large/1304009150_hefw4100_fb.jpg
EdWorkman
28-Apr-2011, 11:48
Very cool Nikola- show us some photos of Bulgaria too please
regards
Ed
Frank Petronio
30-Apr-2011, 15:46
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/data/8647/linhof_st-e.jpg
All cleaned up, new-old Linhof ST-E ($295) and 3D head ($188). I am so glad you guys hate heavy and bulky, (or are they precise and strong?) monorails, lol.
Struan Gray
2-May-2011, 23:55
Frank: Norma still misses you....
http://struangray.com/miscpics/verito.jpg
4x5 Sinar Norma and 12" Verito.
Odd how 4x5 can seem awfully small, and yet awfully heavy at the same time.
Richard Mahoney
3-May-2011, 02:49
Strong, crude and functional. Completely lacking in refinement. Very fond of it.
http://camera-antipodea.indica-et-buddhica.com/about/equipment/monorail-view-camera-bw.jpg
Best, Richard
Frank Petronio
3-May-2011, 04:38
@Struan - So you put the Sinar shutter on the intermediate standard in between the two bellows? Still, it looks like some engineering work went into the lens mounting.
Hard to beat Sinar Norma for that, especially with a large, heavy lens.
Struan Gray
3-May-2011, 05:34
@Struan - So you put the Sinar shutter on the intermediate standard in between the two bellows?
Yes. Reversed and snugged up to the rear of the lens to minimise vignetting. It ends up a bit tilted on a Norma intermediate standard, but I'm too mean to buy anything else.
Still, it looks like some engineering work went into the lens mounting.
It was mounted when I got it. The flange just squeaks inside the lensboard clips. The cheese head bolts were there for some other purpose, but removing them still won't let me use the lens directly in front of the shutter (it hangs out the back of the board too much) and the bolts plug the holes as well as anything else.
Hard to beat Sinar Norma for that, especially with a large, heavy lens.
It's an arrangement I've used with a variety of shutterless heavy lenses. The weakest point is the tilt lock - it tends to droop if I'm daft enough to walk around with the rig over one shoulder.
William Whitaker
3-May-2011, 08:01
Yes. Reversed and snugged up to the rear of the lens to minimise vignetting. It ends up a bit tilted on a Norma intermediate standard, but I'm too mean to buy anything else.
Struan,
Since that Verito is mounted at the back of the rear cell, do you not have room to mount the Sinar shutter directly behind the front standard?
I use this same setup with the intermediate standard on the Norma for barrel lenses which extend behind the lensboard. However, my Sinar shutter interferes with the tilt angle indicator on the Norma intermediate standard and won't seat. I have an F standard which works fine. But I'm going to replace the tilt indicator with a thick washer so I can stick to Norma bits.
Struan Gray
3-May-2011, 12:02
Since that Verito is mounted at the back of the rear cell, do you not have room to mount the Sinar shutter directly behind the front standard?
It's actually a 14.5" Verito, if that makes a difference to those who know their Wollensaks. It projects a 1/4" or so behind the lensboard, which is enough to press on the front plate of the shutter if you try to mount the shutter unit in the normal place (on the back of the front standard). A smaller diameter lens fits inside the circular hole in the shutter, which gives you an extra bit of room before you meet the shutter blades, which are at the rear of the shutter unit in this orientation.
I use this same setup with the intermediate standard on the Norma for barrel lenses which extend behind the lensboard. However, my Sinar shutter interferes with the tilt angle indicator on the Norma intermediate standard and won't seat. I have an F standard which works fine. But I'm going to replace the tilt indicator with a thick washer so I can stick to Norma bits.
Interesting. My intermediate standard has the projecting disc indicator for the tilt angle, but the shutter does not interfere with it. To be clear: mine is a Norma era shutter without the aperture control 'filler gauge' on the side; and I mount it reversed on the front of the intermediate standard.
I'm on a tinkering kick at the moment, and the nice thing about the Sinar system is the ease with which you can play about with oddball configurations.
I'm using the Verito because there is loads of space in the middle - I'm mucking about with putting filters and oddly-shaped aperture stops in there. The Verito iris works pretty well as an adjustable clamp to hold mounted filters. I have also used my shutter as a simple spacer to jury rig a point and shoot for wide angles, although I'm wishing that one of the eBay manufacturers would make an adjustable Sinar-compatible spacer: essentially two lensboards back to back with a scissor strut and a short bellows between them.
William Whitaker
3-May-2011, 12:05
...mine is a Norma era shutter without the aperture control 'filler gauge' on the side...
That would be the difference. Thanks.
My 4x5 Homemade camera,lens Fujinon 75/8.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_CwrkxrLxEsA/TcVlJHuj9cI/AAAAAAAAAIc/ZgzzvTajSLs/s576/01-S.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_CwrkxrLxEsA/TcVmSZdP9-I/AAAAAAAAAIg/0Wi0iDeSG8s/s576/02-S.jpg
Great looking camera, it looks really well made and extremely purposeful-
Roger Thoms
9-May-2011, 14:53
Here's my latest acquisition. It a Graflex 3x4 RB Super D. It's in pretty nice shape, did need a little cleaning and lubing. The shutter and aperture were both sluggish but I have them working nicely now. Next project is to cut some film down and try the camera out.
Roger
Here's mine. I really like my 1938 Deardorff 5x7 (Thanks Ken H) and didn't want to buy another one as a backup. I decided on the Chamonix 57 horizontal, and I'm very happy with how it works and how simply it sets up. I'm hoping it lives as long and happy a photographic life as the Deardorff.! :)
http://www.f64.nu/photo/tmp/lff/img352.jpg
My speed graphic setup on easter for outdoor environmental portraits. Kids weren't liking posing that day, (sugar fueled pandemonium) so it was mostly a decoy while I had fun with the TLR.
My speed graphic setup on easter for outdoor environmental portraits. Kids weren't liking posing that day, (sugar fueled pandemonium) so it was mostly a decoy while I had fun with the TLR.
Exceptional Image...Just love it...
Thanks for sharing,
Dan
Mick Noordewier
21-May-2011, 20:23
I owe it all to Frank.
My previously Petronio-owned Norma 8x10.
Or did you actually want to see pictures of the camera?
-Mick
Armin Seeholzer
22-May-2011, 03:51
Even blonds can have fun;--)))
You can now visit the red bellows section on facebook, and get a member of it!
Cheers Armin
atlcruiser
22-May-2011, 16:25
I owe it all to Frank.
My previously Petronio-owned Norma 8x10.
Or did you actually want to see pictures of the camera?
-Mick
I own one of Frank's old cameras.....is the blond on her way to my house? Better tell the GF to go for a walk :)
atlcruiser
22-May-2011, 16:27
This is my 'dorff 810
mamiya 7/80
trix @200
rodinal 1:50 18 min roller
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5270/5629649217_1ee08772de_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/5629649217/)
cc mid155.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53092319@N04/5629649217/) by urbanlandcruiser (http://www.flickr.com/people/53092319@N04/), on Flickr
akfreak
22-May-2011, 16:57
My custom 617.
Please excuse the image quality. Like me, it's better in behind the camera, rather than being it!
This is my dream camera, Man I am green right now!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2596/4103796074_9aaeed2055_z.jpg
Chicago Bean 2008 - Speed Graphic
Craig Roberts
27-May-2011, 20:24
Here is Candice Nirvana with the "beast". Craig
Emil Schildt
29-May-2011, 05:05
No offense, but I like Ash's addition better. :D
- Leigh
ps - neat collection
:D
allright - here's one more..
"The three Graces"
Pol pos/neg solarized.
http://www.apug.org/gallery1/files/4/8/8/7/stinekamera.jpg
(this image is also shown in the May still life thread, but it belongs here)
I'd love a copy of a photo like that Emil. Hope to come see your work for real again some time.
Emil Schildt
29-May-2011, 09:38
I'd love a copy of a photo like that Emil. Hope to come see your work for real again some time.
that's a deal Ash.
Ole Tjugen
29-May-2011, 10:03
Emil has more. I've been downsizing instead of upsizing, after I discovered that 30x40cm was too big to carry - and a babystroller just won't work in these parts of the world! So my biggest camera is 24x30cm, going down (LF and plate cameras only) to 6x4.5cm.
Lenses - I think Emil has more big stuff. I may have more small lenses, and casket sets...
Here's some more of my old stuff. And some newer stuff. There wasn't room for me on the cupboard with the lenses, so I can't do a "Gandolfi pose"
Emmanuel BIGLER
30-May-2011, 05:15
Not my camera, but a friend's (http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/index.php?post/2010/05/31/OS01)
Henri Gaud's tricolor US-made Hauver beam-splitter camera, 5x7" format. probably manufactured in the 1940's. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/43175600@N00/5750130087/sizes/l/in/photostream/)
The camera has been overhauled and works, although there are some parasitic refections in the renewed beam-splitters that very hard to remove.
Landscapes (http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/index.php?post/2010/09/20/Hauver)
Portraits (http://trichromie.free.fr/trichromie/index.php?post/2011/05/08/CBH)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/strut57/accident-me-asm.jpg
William Whitaker
4-Jun-2011, 09:51
5x7 Gandolfi with a Schneider 110mm Super Symmar XL. The neighbor's flag was reflecting in the center filter and I couldn't resist.
http://wfwhitaker.com/tech/110ssxl57_1.jpg
TheDeardorffGuy
11-Jun-2011, 15:56
I've posted this pic elsewhere but just found this thread today. Here I am with a few of my Deardorffs.
I've posted this pic elsewhere but just found this thread today. Here I am with a few of my Deardorffs.
Wow....a few you say :)
Sirius Glass
11-Jun-2011, 16:13
I've posted this pic elsewhere but just found this thread today. Here I am with a few of my Deardorffs.
Would you adopt me, please?
TheDeardorffGuy
11-Jun-2011, 17:43
Wow....a few you say :)
Well.....yea its a few.......Actually its a third of the collection and a whole lot of them were traded for. These are some cameras that were owned or used by famous photographers. Years ago I became the factory historian of Deardorff. One of my self imposed dutys was to unravel the history according Members of the family and fact.
Theres a line in the play and movie spoke by Ben Franklin to John Adams "Don't worry John, The history books will clean it up". After the factory closed in 1988 thats what I did. I simply called the photographer who I was told a story about. Asked why, I said I wanted to learn the true story and I collected Deardorffs and the history and they often said "would you like mine?" Could I say no? Most of the stories will be published on my site but not till the last of the story tellers are deceased for 5 years. I have a long wait to go.
Sean Galbraith
13-Jun-2011, 07:50
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5188/5790220283_fed9abbb8d_z.jpg
I caught this naughty Shen-Hao trespassing in a coal mine in Germany. Bad camera!
Joe Forks
21-Jun-2011, 07:33
Will an 18" Cooke fit on a Folmer and Schwing 12x20 w/ 6 3/8" lens board? The answer is yes, barely, and there's enough bellows to focus down to about 6' - 7' :) Focused at that distance it looks like coverage galore on the ground glass.... I think, hope, these two end up spending a lot of time together.
Michael Roberts
27-Jun-2011, 13:48
1899 Rochester Optical Company King 11x14
front rise/fall, front tilt, rear tilt and swing
one of the last 19th century US made English-style folding cameras
kurtdriver
27-Jun-2011, 16:03
Just you're basic monorail, a Cambo SC-45, with a Symmar -S 210 F5.6 lens, but not very heavy. It sure does get stares carrying it up the street. This was the first time I had it out, giving it a good run through, trying to figure it out.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5262/5660016044_d2c1073465_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtdriver/5660016044/)
johnielvis
27-Jun-2011, 18:31
1899 Rochester Optical Company King 11x14
front rise/fall, front tilt, rear tilt and swing
one of the last 19th century US made English-style folding cameras
My my my...that is beautiful---how much extension does it get--does that have separate rear/front bed focus or does only the inner bed move---either way---it folds up nice and skinny---wanna maybe sell that thing---it is beautiful to look at (having been hefting other clumsy 11x14 bohemeths for too long)...that thing would be a pleasure to walk with I'm thinking---of course that 's what I thought with all my others too.
Michael Roberts
27-Jun-2011, 20:21
Thanks John! I think it's beautiful, too. All mahagony, with a honey colored, glossy finish and plated brass. Weighs 10lbs and change. It has front and rear focus, but only the inner bed moves (just like my Ikeda Anba 4x5, oddly enough). So the rear focus works for lenses around 16 inches and shorter and the front focus works for longer lenses. 30 inches of extension.
That's a Turner-Reich 15-24-36 on the front.
johnielvis
28-Jun-2011, 04:36
Thanks John! I think it's beautiful, too. All mahagony, with a honey colored, glossy finish and plated brass. Weighs 10lbs and change. It has front and rear focus, but only the inner bed moves (just like my Ikeda Anba 4x5, oddly enough). So the rear focus works for lenses around 16 inches and shorter and the front focus works for longer lenses. 30 inches of extension.
That's a Turner-Reich 15-24-36 on the front.
AHHHH..10 pounds---man is that nice---I didn't think it was so light as that as well--it LOOKS light. You cannot appreciate such a thing till you've used the competition. With these larger cameras, I'm finding, that one "do everything" camera does not exist--one design cannot handle all focal lengths--takes much different design for long as for short lenses.
SamReeves
28-Jun-2011, 08:17
Just you're basic monorail, a Cambo SC-45, with a Symmar -S 210 F5.6 lens, but not very heavy. It sure does get stares carrying it up the street. This was the first time I had it out, giving it a good run through, trying to figure it out.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5262/5660016044_d2c1073465_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurtdriver/5660016044/)
C'mon you got steady hands. Hold that up! :D
Daniel Stone
28-Jun-2011, 10:29
New(to me) fluid head with new(to me) Calumet C1 on top. Great combo, rock-steady, and much easier to use than my prior 3-way Gitzo head...
http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy161/mr_danielstone/new_rig_2.jpg
-Dan
Robert Hughes
28-Jun-2011, 10:47
So big it takes 3 parking spaces!
Sirius Glass
28-Jun-2011, 11:07
Is the car in the background a stretch limo?
Daniel Stone
28-Jun-2011, 11:34
So big it takes 3 parking spaces!
5 if you drive a Smart car ;)
-Dan
Robert Hughes
28-Jun-2011, 13:23
5 if you drive a Smart car
But they're digital - they don't count.
David R Munson
2-Jul-2011, 01:41
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6002/5892699471_3cc3623ef7_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrmunson/5892699471/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrmunson/5892699471/) by David R Munson (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidrmunson/), on Flickr
New (to me) Chamonix 4x5 arrived here yesterday from the US. I am officially back to large format!
David R Munson
4-Jul-2011, 09:17
This thing is just too sexy not to photograph.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/5901607300_98c533c3db_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrmunson/5901607300/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrmunson/5901607300/) by David R Munson (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidrmunson/), on Flickr
Frank Petronio
4-Jul-2011, 09:47
Your Linhof was better ;-p
David R Munson
4-Jul-2011, 09:48
I do miss that Linhof :(
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/380267936_789933a551_z.jpg
German Engineering (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidrmunson/380267936/) by David R Munson (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidrmunson/), on Flickr
Someone should tag this thread Not Safe For Work! :p
http://www.aeos-photo.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/L1002990.jpg
http://www.aeos-photo.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FilterSetup.jpg
http://www.aeos-photo.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Christmas.jpg
Andrew Plume
11-Aug-2011, 06:43
aaah
an Ebony, I presume................................?
andrew
goamules
11-Aug-2011, 11:25
Century Grand 5x7 with early Goerz Dagor in Volute shutter. About 1904. Front rise, shift, tilt, and rotating back. More bellows than any lens I can think of that would fit ever needing.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6074/6032563795_2bca3723e6_b.jpg
alaskadav
11-Aug-2011, 12:17
59823
4x5 Speed Graphic with the mighty 172mm f2.5 Aero Ektar. Custom lens board from Jo Lommen and a modified front standard to allow swing. This is just a show off picture, not enough coverage to pull this off.
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/284537_10150281690984725_280018619724_7581335_8296642_n.jpg
Ernemann Klapp 9x12
mamanton
19-Aug-2011, 05:57
Linhof Kardan Master L 13x18
Joe Smigiel
19-Aug-2011, 07:09
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpsv8zm2JC1qmnn9io4_500.jpg
Rochester Optical Universal whole-plate format
I just made the replacement bellows from some iridescent burgundy fabric.
ImSoNegative
19-Aug-2011, 07:31
so - here's the picture (I forgot to change the image of me to a naked girl, sorry...) where I have tried to put names on some of the stuff...(by memory - the stuff is still in my studio....)
Can be hard to read, so a much bigger version is located here:
http://www.emilschildt.com/cameracolletion.htm
wow very impressive!
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8307/026copy.jpg
O_O No, I didn't fully trust the tripod and especially not the head. But it was fun.
Robert Hughes
19-Aug-2011, 10:31
I bet you get a great shot of the tripod leg there...
I bet you get a great shot of the tripod leg there...
Nah, had the camera been pointing at the leg maybe. But I made sure it wasn't.
David R Munson
21-Aug-2011, 04:31
Am I the only one unable to view most photos hosted at Imageshack?
kurtdriver
21-Aug-2011, 06:55
Am I the only one unable to view most photos hosted at Imageshack?
They're all right in Firefox on Linux.
My daughter and I.
Oh, yeah, and there's a Toyo 810G in there somewhere... :)
David R Munson
21-Aug-2011, 08:19
They're all right in Firefox on Linux.
I'm beginning to suspect it's because I'm in Taiwan.
SamReeves
21-Aug-2011, 08:59
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/8307/026copy.jpg
O_O No, I didn't fully trust the tripod and especially not the head. But it was fun.
At least you'll see the world right side up now! :D
Am I the only one unable to view most photos hosted at Imageshack?Firefox on Mac OS X Snow Leopard... no problemo.
- Leigh
ic-racer
21-Aug-2011, 16:16
Horseman FA
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/FA.jpg
ic-racer
21-Aug-2011, 16:16
Shen Hao and Angulon 210:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/mounting7.jpg
ic-racer
21-Aug-2011, 16:19
Horseman VH-R
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/DSCF5570.jpg
At least you'll see the world right side up now! :D
;)
Though, there's gotta be a better way!
My old 8x10 Century no 2, sporting 165/6.8 Angulon, serving as model. Yes, it is old, has seen who knows what, been who knows where, has scars and quirks, is a bit wobbly etc but does the job for me. Made 5x7 reduction back for it as well, so I have one camera less in the trunk of the car.
Shot on 9x12cm soviet ortho glass plate from the 1980-s.
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5018/5522780270_4fc3dff673_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/werra/5522780270/)
austin granger
28-Aug-2011, 13:39
My camera. Ken Hough tells me it was made in Chicago on March 29th, 1979. I would have been eight then.
rdenney
29-Aug-2011, 05:28
Horseman VH-R
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/ic-racer/DSCF5570.jpg
I haven't seen one of those Rollei flashes since the 70's, when Rollei was trying to serve the broader market.
A Rollei flash just seems wrong on a Horseman. It ought to be a Sunpak--one their first big potato-mashers. Something like a 611, complete with remote sensor and separate battery pack.
Rick "who put two inches on his left biceps for every gig with that 611" Denney
Thom Bennett
1-Sep-2011, 10:03
A few weeks ago I went to Birmingham, AL to visit a friend and to see the Edward Weston exhibit in Huntsville. My friend took us to Sloss Furnace (http://www.slossfurnaces.com/) a former iron smelting plant which is now a National Historic Landmark. Here I am with the Deardorff shooting part of the structure. Also did a portrait of my friend.
Please forgive the crappy photos; I took iphone photos of the negs on the light table, inverted and adjusted them in Photoshop. Once I get real prints made I'll post them.
If you are anywhere near Birmingham (Alabama, not England) and you like to photograph old structures this place should be on your list. They only ask for a donation to photograph on the grounds.
They're not too shabby for iPhone photos of negs!
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/SAM_1506sm.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/second-belated/SAM_1507sm.jpg
Austin....Beautiful, So that's what they look like new. My #1 5x7 DD is from 1938
still kicking.
Rory_5244
2-Sep-2011, 21:40
Arca 8x10
http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k532/moobie1/5D2-2009-12-21-2587.jpg
These vintage cameras make modern ones seem so, um, ho hum.
jeroldharter
2-Sep-2011, 21:53
Arca 8x10
These vintage cameras make modern ones seem so, um, ho hum.
So true. Just to be nice, I will take that Arca junk off your hands. PM me for shipping details. That's a beauty.
Sean Galbraith
9-Sep-2011, 13:21
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6070/6130425334_79979e4023_b.jpg
Hanging out on a roof top in Detroit
goamules
9-Sep-2011, 17:04
Here are a couple I used the other day to take my son's birthday wetplate (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showpost.php?p=773375&postcount=38). The quarterplate Korona to test the exposure on a small plate, then the 8x10 Graflex Master Studio to take the final shot. Taken with 1950s Canon F1.5 sonnar.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6199/6118160090_ea7ed35a3e_b.jpg
Frank Petronio
9-Sep-2011, 17:31
Looks like Darth Vader's hippie cousin....
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6070/6130425334_79979e4023_b.jpg
Hanging out on a roof top in Detroit
Helcio J Tagliolatto
9-Sep-2011, 17:53
My Tachihara (bougth from this forum), a Ross 5x8 Rapid Rectilinear (Packard inside).
http://infinitapaisagem.com/Tachihara%20ao%20sol.jpg
Armin Seeholzer
10-Sep-2011, 13:45
Now you can see all my light catching machines in one pic!
Cheers Armin
P.S. From left to right: Sinar P 8x10/4x5 conversion, Burke & James from Chicago 8x10, Sinar F1 4x5, Horseman HF 4x5, Hans Fröhlich Portrait Studio Camera 4x5!
Sean Galbraith
10-Sep-2011, 14:37
Looks like Darth Vader's hippie cousin....
ha! I can see it.
atlcruiser
10-Sep-2011, 17:25
A few weeks ago I went to Birmingham, AL to visit a friend and to see the Edward Weston exhibit in Huntsville. My friend took us to Sloss Furnace (http://www.slossfurnaces.com/) a former iron smelting plant which is now a National Historic Landmark. Here I am with the Deardorff shooting part of the structure. Also did a portrait of my friend.
Please forgive the crappy photos; I took iphone photos of the negs on the light table, inverted and adjusted them in Photoshop. Once I get real prints made I'll post them.
If you are anywhere near Birmingham (Alabama, not England) and you like to photograph old structures this place should be on your list. They only ask for a donation to photograph on the grounds.
Nice stuff Thom! I wish you had called me; we could have met you over there
Thom Bennett
12-Sep-2011, 08:08
David, Thanks! I certainly will call next time. This was kind of a quick trip and I was on someone else's schedule but I do want to go back to Sloss Furnace and spend a day or so shooting. Maybe in the Fall or early Spring? Hope all is well. See you at Wal-mart. :)
Show you my camera? Oh, you mean this ol' thing? (cough cough)
rdenney
18-Sep-2011, 20:35
Here are the results of my Speed Graphic project. I took a top-rangefinder Speed with a cam for the supplied 127mm Optar, and added a Kalart rangefinder. I calibrated the Kalart (with some difficulty and with initial failures) for an Ilex Paragon 8-1/2" f/4.5. This is about the biggest shutter I think can be mounted on a Graphic board without removing the shutter release (which cannot be used with this shutter in any case). The lens is mounted on a SK Grimes flange which is attached to the board with five screws. Works fine.
The rear shutter is accurate except perhaps at 1/1000.
Here is the thread discussing the Kalart experiment:
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=80545
Here is the thread discussing the testing of the rear shutter, which turned into quite an interesting discussion:
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=62916
Rick "ready for an initial Fujiroid test" Denney
Show you my camera? Oh, you mean this ol' thing? (cough cough)
How to you dare show yourself in public with a lens board that does not match the rest of the camera? For Shame!!!! :D (say the fellow that makes some of his lens boards out of mat board)
SamReeves
19-Sep-2011, 09:05
My Tachihara (bougth from this forum), a Ross 5x8 Rapid Rectilinear (Packard inside).
http://infinitapaisagem.com/Tachihara%20ao%20sol.jpg
The lens definitely suits the body!
"portrait" of my toyo 45g, 12min exposure - shot with my new chamonix 045n-2
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6194500009_a103dc133c_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44054100@N00/6194500009/)
TOYO 45G (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44054100@N00/6194500009/) by Aron Lorincz (http://www.flickr.com/people/44054100@N00/), on Flickr
Scott Davis
29-Sep-2011, 09:26
Nice camera portrait - looks like it should have been an ad for the Toyo-View from the 1980s. Just shift the colors a little to neon pink and electric blue and voila! you've got an official Miami Vice studio camera!
John Flavell
30-Sep-2011, 05:28
On Cape Cod a couple of weeks ago.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/313187_258833540828522_185823228129554_849585_557763207_n.jpg
My Wehman 8x10 :)
"portrait" of my toyo 45g, 12min exposure - shot with my new chamonix 045n-2
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6155/6194500009_a103dc133c_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44054100@N00/6194500009/)
TOYO 45G (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44054100@N00/6194500009/) by Aron Lorincz (http://www.flickr.com/people/44054100@N00/), on Flickr
Great cameras! Nice shot, too.
nicokrebs
9-Oct-2011, 11:15
OK, HERE THEY COME!
ALL SELFMADE, ready to SHOOT!
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6034/6227283606_c5c4e0f87b_b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6227283266_c759834d8f_b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6113/6227293424_cb1fa1f0f7_b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6056/6227284164_8f7dcd7cd7_b.jpg
johnielvis
9-Oct-2011, 14:38
YES!!!!!
DUDE!!!! THAT' what i"m talking about...yeah....got one like that myself...they work better than the real thing cause you don't care about screwing them up.
Roger Cole
9-Oct-2011, 15:50
My rather battle weary but still functional Technika III, with Kodak 203 Ektar.
Daniel Unkefer
9-Oct-2011, 15:55
I've finally finished restoring my 5x7 Sinar Norma.
Daniel That is one thing of beauty! Love those 5x7" camera!
Nathan Appel
10-Oct-2011, 15:35
my camera that i built. i am responsible for any mechanical and technical failures, it is based off the body of a polaroid 150 pathfinder, with a polaroid 900 rangefinder. It has been welded and shaped, and looks uglier that hell. The lens is a xenotar 150mm 2.8, it shoots dedicated 4x5 instant pack films like fuji fp100c45, etc. I make these for my other photographer friends as well, but they look prettier ;)
Me with one of my babies, an east german studio monster Globica 13x18cm with Zeiss Tessar 250/4.5 I use it for BW and wet plate.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6205/6096884293_3b8b3d3b33.jpg
Robert Hughes
13-Oct-2011, 11:21
Very nice, szadow. And cool glasses!
I have two LF cameras. My Ebony RW-45 (favored child) and a Horseman LE, which I've tried selling — unsuccessfully — for several years now.
Here's the Ebony:
On assignment for Portland Monthly magazine.
http://www.wmanthony.com/lf/ebony1.jpg
http://www.wmanthony.com/lf/ebony1b.jpg
Glamour shot, giving up the sexy yet totally impractical "S-curve."
http://www.wmanthony.com/lf/ebony2.JPG
On Mt. Hood after shooting "The Overlook Hotel" (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=81578)
http://www.wmanthony.com/lf/ebony3.jpg
I love my Ebony, I will sell every other piece of gear and the cats before I ever give it up.
And despite not being able to sell it, I actually got to use the Horseman recently. A colleague and I used it on a pro-bono job he had with Doernbecher Children's Hospital/Nike.
See it here (http://wmanthony.tumblr.com/post/11278666744/nike-doernbecher-freestyle-shoes).
http://www.utahsongwriters.com/IMG_9831.jpg
My newest addition - an Ebony SV57U. It took a few years of saving pennies and horse trading a few cameras to finally get one.
Andrew Plume
17-Oct-2011, 13:46
My newest addition - an Ebony SV57U. It took a few years of saving pennies and horse trading a few cameras to finally get one.
yep, I bet, so how is it, now that you have 'the Rolls-Royce' of cameras? not that I have one myself
andrew
No "glamour" shot, just my stockpile of stuff:
http://www.oceanstarproductions.com/photosharing/BRY_0550.jpg
Steve Hamley
19-Oct-2011, 09:37
Another Ebony SV57U, in mahogany. It was my "retirement present" and has the 4x5 back too. I bought it for the versatility of using larger lenses on Sinar boards, two sheet film formats, and the 617 roll film backs. Amazingly it will use lenses from 55mm to 600mm + 4" without changing bellows. I discovered it's so versatile that I can't carry everything it will use in a car, much less on my back.
Cheers, Steve
Edward (Halifax,NS)
24-Oct-2011, 03:16
Here is my back breaking beast: a CC400. It doesn't make it far from the side of the road.
Edward
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a81/Edward_Kimball/CC400.jpg
This one is the "set up", summer 2005, the Negev (Israel's south). Drove for hours until we found the other guy's camels. Crown graphic with a 6x12 back, 75mm lens and some fill flash. used Muhammad's car jack to hold the light stand. Didn't have Pocket Wizards back then.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6240/6277373265_d4f85abb77_b.jpg
- - - - - - - - - - -
Second one is the outcome, part of a series about the "unrecognized" Bedouin villages in the Negev. Muhammad is a camel breeder and a friend.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6277373539_2213391664_b.jpg
Tal (now shooting Austrians in the mountains...)
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/610-Nov2011.jpg
Using the 610mm APO Nikkor on the Sinar P to shoot a broken tree across the lake, after the recent storm disaster. Sinar Shutter, 1/15 second @ f/18
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/img001d610.jpg
http://www.kennethleegallery.com/images/forum/610-Nov2011-3.jpg
Shawn Dougherty
5-Nov-2011, 08:18
Using the 610mm APO Nikkor on the Sinar P to shoot a broken tree across the lake, after the recent storm disaster.
Wow. I used to use one of those on my C1, must be awesome on 4x5!
This one is the "set up", summer 2005, the Negev (Israel's south). Drove for hours until we found the other guy's camels. Crown graphic with a 6x12 back, 75mm lens and some fill flash. used Muhammad's car jack to hold the light stand. Didn't have Pocket Wizards back then.
Tal (now shooting Austrians in the mountains...)is it possible to see more of the negev pics ?
Wow. I used to use one of those on my C1, must be awesome on 4x5!
It's razor sharp, that's for sure.
If the photo works out, I'll post it here.
The Crown Graphic set up on Star Dune at GSDNP:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6050/6271276964_f1a7c75d28_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/zboumeester/6271276964/in/set-72157627814468368)
GabrielSeri
5-Nov-2011, 16:40
"portrait" of my toyo 45g, 12min exposure - shot with my new chamonix 045n-2
Hey! I recognize that 75mm! That's the lens I sold you. I miss it, I want to get another 75mm Schneider soon. :cool:
Very cool shot, it does look like a brochure shot. Well done Laron.
is it possible to see more of the negev pics ?
hi Boris. yes, here are the pics from this project (http://www.flickr.com/photos/27746936@N00/sets/72157628061703884/). i store a small size batch on flickr temporarily until my new website is up.
tal
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.5 Copyright © 2025 vBulletin Solutions Inc. All rights reserved.