chris00nj
4-Apr-2010, 22:10
Okay, my Miniature Speed Graphic is not technically Large format since its 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 sheet film is about the size of 120 film, but I'm sure operation and everything else is nearly identical to its 4x5 brothers.
So after some fiddling around and some questions on here (thanks for your help), I have my first photo. Everything went well, but I need a sheet film tank as I had to develop photos one at a time in my Patterson tank.
The only issue I see is some tiny black marks on the negatives, only visible when scanning at a high resolution. I've seen white marks on scans and that is from dust on the scanner. Are black marks tiny specks dust on the negatives while loading the film? Any advice on preventing it? I photoshopped them out, and luckily then weren't too big or in too critical of a location.
The reason I got one is that my grandfather made a copy 60+ years ago. I wanted to try to use it, but didn't want to break it and figured I could learn on a different one as they only go for around $100 on eBay. If anyone is interested in seeing photos of the copy, I wrote it up in a blog (http://photosttl.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-grandfather-built-camera-back-in-day.html#comments).
So here is the first photo. Efke 100 develop in D-76. I just scale focused, since the rangefinder is off, ground glass focusing is so difficult, and the subjects are so impatient. I did use ground glass focusing on another photo which is drying.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4492512964_4361543f5b_b.jpg
So after some fiddling around and some questions on here (thanks for your help), I have my first photo. Everything went well, but I need a sheet film tank as I had to develop photos one at a time in my Patterson tank.
The only issue I see is some tiny black marks on the negatives, only visible when scanning at a high resolution. I've seen white marks on scans and that is from dust on the scanner. Are black marks tiny specks dust on the negatives while loading the film? Any advice on preventing it? I photoshopped them out, and luckily then weren't too big or in too critical of a location.
The reason I got one is that my grandfather made a copy 60+ years ago. I wanted to try to use it, but didn't want to break it and figured I could learn on a different one as they only go for around $100 on eBay. If anyone is interested in seeing photos of the copy, I wrote it up in a blog (http://photosttl.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-grandfather-built-camera-back-in-day.html#comments).
So here is the first photo. Efke 100 develop in D-76. I just scale focused, since the rangefinder is off, ground glass focusing is so difficult, and the subjects are so impatient. I did use ground glass focusing on another photo which is drying.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4492512964_4361543f5b_b.jpg