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Home made 4x5 point-&-shoot camera, Schneider SA 47 XL, center filter, red filter, Fomapan 100, developed in Rodinal 1+50.
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Home made 4x5 point-&-shoot camera, Schneider SA 47 XL, center filter, red filter, Fomapan 100, developed in Rodinal 1+50.
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Pehoe Lake, Torres del Paine. Ebony SV45 Ti, Nikkor 90mm SW on Kodak EPP, I perfer the black and white version.
Dear Nana and spiky247,
Great scenic images... :)
Well done to both of you.
jim k
Nana,
Is there a little lens flare along your horizon about 1/3 of the way from the left to the right? I see what looks to be some out of place light areas there. Just wondering.
No Diane, there is no flare at all, in this photo, however, I must say that this does not happen often, normally I have flare problems with this lens, because it's extremelly wide.
Flare, with this lens, when it happens, it leaves no room for doubt!!!!:)
Anyway, I darkened the sky a lot, it was extremely bright, ( I will do the same burn in the enlarger, obviously) I think that white "spot" is one of the brightest clouds reflected on sea surface.
This is a camera I built with parts of old cameras, it's a "point-&-shoot camera because it has no focusing ring, it is fixed focused for about 10 feet. I made it about 6 month ago and I did not make any photo without a tripod, yet!!!! :)
I think I must rename it as a "Home made Tripod-&-point-&-shoot 4x5 camera"!!!!:D
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...me+made+camera
Nana,
I always wondered about having a fixed focus camera. I know that most early box cameras were built this way, but I always worried about having everything in focus. It appears that if you are focused on 10 feet, you have found the sweet spot! I used my DOF calculator, and your 47mm lens should have a near focus of 4.421 feet, with a far focus of infinity, at F8. Not bad!
Do you use a center ND filter on this lens?
Jon
First photo posted on this forum. I have only shot a couple dozen photographs with a 4x5. This was photographed with a B&J 4X5 press with a Kodak Ektar 127mm f/4.7 on Agfa RSXII 100. The stream is Upper Pine Bottom Run which parallels Rt 44 north of Waterville, PA.
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First attempt at E6 Processing at home. Velvia 50, Chamonix 4x5, Rodenstock 150mm, cropped to 5:3 aspect ratio.
Dear Diane,
Merci... :)
I have a couple more images in the bin from that day, and I will try to present them later this month and, or early next, once I complete the development process. Valentine's Day was filled with overwhelming opportunities, but as fate would have it, the fog base would repeatedly break and reform, causing long periods of wait time for an image to reappear, and eventually I simply ran out of gas, light, and frost.
jim k
Stanage Edge in the Peak District, UK.
This was part of a test to compare 12 year out of date Astia with fresh stuff. There was actually little difference, even given that one was Astia 100 and the new stuff 100F.
This is the 1998 vintage...
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I've written a blog about using out of date film, if you're interested you can read it here
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Here is another one from the Torres, Ebony SV45 Ti + Nikkor 90mm f4.5 SW on Kodak E100VS.
Great capture Spiky...outrageous landscape!
UniB I read your blog. That's good to know, as I have expired (5 or 6 years old) E100VS and Tmax in my freezer. I was wondering if it would be any good. I was gonna shoot it anyway- in fact I did some this past weekend, as I am still in the learning process with 4x5.
Thanks
Amazing, Spiky.
Oldie but goodie from May of 2000 at Lassen Peak, California. It was still a snowy summer up there as I remember.
Tachihara 4x5 Field, Nikkor 150mm ƒ5.6, Kodak Tri-X.
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Brad Bireley, I stole your post/image to illustrate a point in a different thread. You may want to check it out. I hope you don't mind...
Vaughn
Link to the post: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...39&postcount=4
Well, the camera is performing very well, when I made up my mind and fixed the focusing point for 10 feet, it was because if I shoot with 400 asa film and f11 (this lens has maximum aperture at f5.6 and minimum at f32) I will have a good optical resolution plus good DOF and even with the center filter (wich yes, I use all the time, because vignetting is 2 f-stops from center to borders) I can shoot with 1/250s (without center filter it would be 1/1000s) on a sunny day.
As Mr. AA said, it is safer to shoot handheld 2 f-stops above the focal distance of the lens (for 35mm format). This lens is equivalent to a 12mm in 35mm format so, the "safe" shutter speed for handheld shooting would be 1/60s, according to Ansel's statement. That allows me to shoot safelly with yellow and even orange filter and, probably even with a 25A red filter, as long as I keep the lens at f11.
However, I didn't make any handheld photo with it, yet!
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Took this at Yzerfontein on the South African West Coast. Just recently have built up my darkroom so that i can start developing stuff. Currently using a Graflex 4x5 that still smells of mothballs. Still in working order though.
by the by. Everybody heading this way for the World Cup and want to know about some nice locations can contact me anytime. I am sure most of the Saffas on this site will be glad to help all visitors.
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this one from a national park on the south african west coast.
Drink a little wine, shoot some 4x5, watch some football. Sounds perfect. Unfortunately, I promised the kids I would take them to Denmark, of all places...
Next time...
Nice photos.
Much as I would like to visit and see the saintly Steven Gerrard lift the World Cup, unfortunately I haven't got the money.
However, I hope it all goes really well for the hosts, and that England win it.
(Still, so long as we slaughter the USA in the group stages, I guess that will be something.)
Another one of those Valentine's Day hoar frost images... :)
jim k
Beautiful!!
Mike
Just catching up after a crazy work week (or two, or three :( )
Nice work guys, Nana, you are making great results with your home made hand held.
Spiky, very nice.
Jim, I really like the Willow, man you make a lot of really nice pictures!
Huyana Potosi (Bolivia)
Chamonix 45N, Fp4, Schneider 135
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Very nice. I really like the composition around the three distinct tonal ranges.
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The clouds eluded me today but saw this newly planted vineyard w/mustard on the way home.
16 1/2 Red Dot Artar; HP5, D76+
Dear John,
Nicely done... :)
jim k
My last frosty image... :)
jim k
That's another beauty, Jim. You've been holding out.
Dear gevalia and John,
The frosty images were done with TMY, and not TMY-2, since I had one half dozen pieces of TMY left in the fridge, that I obviously forgot about... :)
This image was first in, and last out, during my last development session.
Again, thank you for your comments.
jim k
Bolivian Alti-Plano
Chamonix 45N, Schneider 135/8, FP4