Post Photos of YOURSELF with your camera

[Vaughn]

Found an old print of myself with my then-new Rajah 4x5 (exact duplicate of a Deardorf Special)...but before I found out that the back leaked light. About 1980, perhaps May. Damn -- I looked good so many years ago!

I then took the camera to New Zealand for 3 months of hitch-hiking -- oh, well...if all most all my the film had not gotten fogged, I probably would have been disappointed with the sharpness of many of the images (I did not have the funds for a better tripod!)

[Sal Santamaura]

...Rajah 4x5...exact duplicate of a Deardorf Special...the back leaked light...So Deardorff Specials had leaky backs and Rajah copied that too? :D

[Luis-F-S]

So Deardorff Specials had leaky backs and Rajah copied that too? :D

No, the Deardorff didn't leak. That's why you don't buy a copy!

[plaubel]

Me, my 30x40cm Reisekamera, and some really important large format tools :-)
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[Vaughn]

So Deardorff Specials had leaky backs and Rajah copied that too? :D

Okay -- I wish it was an exact copy!! But I did get a Deardorf 5x7 back for it and it fit right on perfectly (and did not leak)!

[Vaughn]

No, the Deardorff didn't leak. That's why you don't buy a copy!
Yeah, but $525 new with a new incredibly sharp 210/6.7 lens in a Copal 1 shutter? I should have caught the problem before I left, but I was still too green. The San Diego camera shop owner was very appologic, when I got back from NZ -- he fixed the camera and gave me a good deal on a Gitzo tripod. And I (hopefully) learned a good lesson or two.

[Corran]

Reviving this thread. More pics of you all w/ your camera needed:).

Here's me last night w/ the Wehman and 720mm:

https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/bcab54d6370f8bae5983fc89d0e3db87/5AF188AE/t51.2885-15/e15/26864400_544348792608301_3390663821612810240_n.jpg

[Mark Woods]

I'm happy it's back!

[baronvonaaron]

Intrepid 4x5 and me in the Maine wilderness last autumn.

I've got a Cambo SC 45 too, which I had used for about 7 years before making the switch to a field camera. I've gotten far more use out of the intrepid, solely based on the fact that it weighs nothing and I can take it anywhere.

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[Vaughn]

My backside and my 11x14 last week in Fern Canyon. And no, that is not a bipod.

I accidently had my meter set on ASA100 instead of the 25 I would have preferred. The film was Efke 100IR, but is slower than 100 and teamed up with a large reciprosity failure (30 and 60 sec exposures), I am not expecting much. Perhaps an excuse to drive back up there -- we have had more rain which will make the creek crossings more fun.

Thank you, Levi Barker (nephew), for the image

[jp]

I love seeing a little taste of each person's adventure in these photos!

[Mark Woods]

Nice.

[DG 3313]

With the Sinar F2.


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[Luis-F-S]

Me with the V8 trying to take a photo of the "family" at the beach. Not exactly a fashion statement, but WTH! L

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[Mark Woods]

Love the V8!

[Merg Ross]

Ross @ Lassen Park, California --- 1967
Photo by G.L. Prather

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[Tin Can]

Like!

[dodphotography]

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[Corran]

Me and my Wehman yesterday, shooting portraits at an Arts in the Park event I put together in conjunction with the arts organization I am chair of:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/artsinthepark-810.jpg

[pau3]

With my beloved Wehman, hiking around Mallorca.

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[Corran]

Hat trick!

One more:

http://www.garrisaudiovisual.com/photosharing/bg8102s.jpg

[pepeguitarra]

Here I am with my Century 8x10. Jose Luis is looking at me.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47684321141_e9af1d8951_n.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2fDGBnX)MEET&GREET BY Tri Tran (https://flic.kr/p/2fDGBnX) by Palenquero Photography (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palenquero/), on Flickr

Korona Field 5x7 1908

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33857196808_2e924e45c6_n.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/TzQZ3y)Tío Pepe & the 5x7 Korona Field (https://flic.kr/p/TzQZ3y) by Palenquero Photography (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palenquero/), on Flickr



Intrepid 4x5 Mk II
https://live.staticflickr.com/4898/32707739268_054ac8b797_n.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/RQgHn7)The Making of a Selfie with a Large Format Camera. (https://flic.kr/p/RQgHn7) by Palenquero Photography (https://www.flickr.com/photos/palenquero/), on Flickr

[RenoAmiens]

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With the intrepid 4x5 during last holidays int the French Alps

[Tin Can]

Real action

Like!

[Jason Greenberg Motamedi]

More than a decade ago... I found it while emptying out an old phone.

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[alt.kafka]

Here you go ...

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[jmontague]

And another... that is me under there.

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[scheinfluger_77]

There’s a stick in your lens.

[Armin Seeholzer]

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Me and my Burke & James 8x10 in my atelier in front of a mirror!

[Vaughn]

A couple images from my last workshop. We spent a day photographing with my 8x10 to get negatives to print with in the Carbon Printing Workshop. I'm taking notes, so that I'd know how to develop the film...mostly SBR, and another image of me showing how to shove the holder down. The image for that one was the tree (from just below the shadow on the trunk upwards) with the background out of focus. The sunlight areas on the branches were almost bullet-proof on the negatives, but printed wonderfully.

Photos by Mark Shaw, my assistant for the workshop and maker of the carbon print of the tree.

[jchabalk]

(This is about 12 years old - and that shirt held on until about 2 years ago)

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[Mark Woods]

Nice. How about the photo of yourself from the LF camera?

[jchabalk]

Round about summer 2006

i didn't have film in it during that first picture i posted. i was just using it as a prop for the sofobomo (if you remember that project - "solo photo book in a month"). Although thinking back on it i shot medium format for that project so i don't know why i used the 8x10 for that "about" picture.

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[Mark Woods]

Because you can!

[Vaughn]

Taking a photo of friends at our campsite in the Russian Wilderness (in California, just in case you are wondering). From this last summer.

[Mark Woods]

Nice shot! Nice format!

[Vaughn]

Nice shot! Nice format!

I was told the hike in to the lake was 2.4 miles...it ended up twice that, which usually would be no big deal, but I decided to carry the 5x7 camera on the pod over my shoulder along with my backpack for the 'short' trip in...no room in the pack due to food and beer. I took the heavier pod and head, too (by a couple pounds). First part of the trail was steep uphill with many fallen trees (burnt area). So glad to get to camp! Camera in the pack on the way out, tripod strapped to the outside -- a breeze!

The B&W image is just a digital shot by one of my friends -- cropped and made B&W by me.

[John Layton]

Cropped Iphone pic - taken by my wife last Sept., which she's titled "Star Island Cliff Dweller"
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[RLangham]

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This is me with my '47 Pacemaker Speed 45, a mere 51 years older than me. If you zoom in you can even see that the price sticker from the antique store is still on it (permanently) and no, your eyes do not deceive you, it says $15.00.

She's in good shape despite having apparently been wet at some point, with a crisp back shutter that I CLA'd myself. Unfortunately the front shutter barely works and there is some damage to the coating on the Optar. It could also stand to be Graflok-equipped, but I can always buy one at some point and install it.

Recently, I've even got the rangefinder calibrated for mid-range shots!

[Tin Can]

Very good, glad to see a smile!

You have found https://lommen9.home.xs4all.nl/graflex/ I hope!

[Tin Can]

I just looked back to when I joined and I never posted myself. I was once posted by a friend with a new camera I sold...

This is a mirror shot, I think it's HP5 but code looks wrong, scanned V700 in color, which I usually convert to B&W, but like this as is.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4610/39986387971_c57df1f1fa_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/23VsG3g)Color selfie (https://flic.kr/p/23VsG3g) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

[RLangham]

Very good, glad to see a smile!

You have found https://lommen9.home.xs4all.nl/graflex/ I hope!

No, I hadn't. Thanks for the link!

[don mishler]

me and my trusty Canham, shooting Ben's Chili Bowl in D.C.
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[Bernice Loui]

From quite a few years ago:

Guess the camera, tripod, lens, film format.
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Bernice

[Keith Pitman]

From quite a few years ago:

Guess the camera, tripod, lens, film format.
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Bernice

Sinar bigger than 4x5, probably a F1 or F2. Sinar tripod head from Norma era. As far as I can go. Finally seeing a pic of Bernice on here, although I saw one elsewhere.

[Keith Pitman]

Deardorff 5x7.

[Tin Can]

Maybe 5x7 Sinar P2 C with F1 front on Sinar tilt head

Lens is impossible on my monitor, as is anything below the tilt head


From quite a few years ago:

Guess the camera, tripod, lens, film format.
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Bernice

[jmontague]

From quite a few years ago:

Guess the camera, tripod, lens, film format.
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Bernice

In was going to say Leica until I realized that Bernice was not actually holding her camera.


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[Tin Can]

Now I see the Sinar mechanical shutter, a barrel lens, perhaps a 16" Artar

Also just saw the file name ...


In was going to say Leica until I realized that Bernice was not actually holding her camera.


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[Bernice Loui]

Camera is a 5x7 Sinar C2 (P2 rear, F2 front) with Sinar mechanical shutter, 10 3/4" dagor in barrel (circa 1930's). The tripod is a modified Dutch Hill surveyor's tripod with a Davis & Stanford column (which later got dumped due not being as stable as it needs to be. It was replaced by a Bolex cinema leveling head) with a Sinar Pan-Tilt head.

Forgot who took that picture, in hand is a Minolta spot F meter, figuring out exposure of this building:
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Here is another picture of me helping a friend learn LF.. Same camera, same tripod, 8-1/2" Kodak Commercial Ektar_Ilex shutter.
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This Sinar can now be configured to 4x5 or 5x7 in a host of ways by combining P, F and Norma components, various bellows and related Sinar bits.


Bernice


From quite a few years ago:

Guess the camera, tripod, lens, film format.
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Bernice

[Tin Can]

The Spot Meter usage looks exactly like a selfie snap on cell phone

I HAD the P 5X7 C but sold it as I didn't like it at all, the bail back BIT my damaged fingers too many times...

The Norma is a much nicer camera, just got an old green Norma lens board, finding it interesting as it had no backside ribbing like newer Sinar OE boards and a bit lighter. It came out of South Korea

My Norma Kit is complete and now matching...



From quite a few years ago:

Guess the camera, tripod, lens, film format.
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Bernice

[Kurshpetow]

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[Tin Can]

Like!


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[Pechoretc]

У меня есть всего один снимок, на котором я держу в руке Horseman 45FA с видоискателем - я начинающий любитель большого формата....
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[Courtlux]

Technika Foma 100200940

[dodphotography]

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[Corran]

Shooting the new 12x20 Wisner on the Chattahoochee River:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7dHoWJ0ADPo/X96RGrgMD3I/AAAAAAAANN0/_YT6l6-EAFwvmU9V7xl3VEp6W8hmgKC2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s700/1220wisnerportrait.jpg

[Michael Kadillak]

Shooting the new 12x20 Wisner on the Chattahoochee River:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7dHoWJ0ADPo/X96RGrgMD3I/AAAAAAAANN0/_YT6l6-EAFwvmU9V7xl3VEp6W8hmgKC2ACLcBGAsYHQ/s700/1220wisnerportrait.jpg

The adequate support for your Wisner 12x20 is a Majestic 6x7" base or a Ries 250 6x6" tripod head base with a 3/8" make up screw on improved tripod legs to properly support this ULF camera in the field. The base of the camera is enormous and needs a much improved surface / contact area to adequately work with it. I owned this camera for several years and can speak from direct experience. The Manfrotto 475 B (or the new model 058B) is good up to 8x10 but beyond that it is challenged. Just my $0.02.

[Corran]

Thanks for the input Michael! The tripod I have works great! ;)

[Luis-F-S]

The adequate support for your Wisner 12x20 is a Majestic 6x7" base or a Ries 250 6x6" tripod head base with a 3/8" make up screw on improved tripod legs to properly support this ULF camera in the field. The base of the camera is enormous and needs a much improved surface / contact area to adequately work with it. I owned this camera for several years and can speak from direct experience. The Manfrotto 475 B (or the new model 058B) is good up to 8x10 but beyond that it is challenged. Just my $0.02.
My thoughts exactly, but he'll probably figure it out once he sees the negative. L

[dodphotography]

Man, the people here are weird... just sayin...


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[Sal Santamaura]

Thanks for the input Michael! The tripod I have works great! ;)It's a big country. The high winds Michael regularly experiences out west don't seem to be much of a factor where you're shooting. What works, works! :D

[Corran]

More specifically this tripod was heavily modified by the original purchaser of the camera and is way heavier duty than "stock," but you can't see anything in this little photo. Either way this isn't a thread about tripods :).

PS Luis: the negatives are perfectly sharp, thanks for asking!

[Michael Kadillak]

Thanks for the input Michael! The tripod I have works great! ;)

I only mentioned it because my Wisner 12x20 took a gust of wind while photographing in SW Montana a number of years ago and was in the process of going over while on this identical tripod and fortunately I was able to catch it in the process. Scared the B Jesus out of me and it happened out of nowhere completely unpredictable. The surface area that the wind has to push against the surface area of a ULF camera is incredible and the ability of the heavy camera to rotate over the mid point of two leg extensions can happen in a second. I call it risk mitigation. From that point I only put my ULF cameras (12x20, 8x20 and 11x14 V11) on the Rise A100 or the Majestic. Whatever works for you.

[Exploring Large Format]

My first and only darkroom print so far. Welcoming critiques.

Made with Crown Graphic and Schneider Xenar 135mm f/4.7.


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[Merg Ross]

Agfa-Ansco 8x10, Lassen Park, 1967

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[Tin Can]

Wonderful Merg!


Agfa-Ansco 8x10, Lassen Park, 1967

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[T.Chabry]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50937303987_805d63a63d_b.jpg
(https://flic.kr/p/2kB9ZR6)

Me with a no name 5x7 camera. Unlike what it seems, my left hand took that photo with 4x5 camera placed on the other side.

[Ron (Netherlands)]

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50937303987_805d63a63d_b.jpg
(https://flic.kr/p/2kB9ZR6)

Me with a no name 5x7 camera. Unlike what it seems, my left hand took that photo with 4x5 camera placed on the other side.

Great one!

[Dugan]

With a tip of the hat to Arthur Tress.