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Plus another from the next look from the same day. Not so keen on the hair in this, also there was a lot of re-shaping of facial features and the neckline to make it geometrically follow the crossing...

Done on a shoot for the UK Wella Trend Vision Hair Awards last month.

D90 85mm 1.8 and Nikon's beautiful CLS Flash system. I think the whole setup shoot and post took around 20mins in the end....

I've had a couple of press's now. They are real love or hate cameras. You pick them up love the big viewfinder etc ... then hate them for not fitting in a bag properly!

Did a quick wee shoot for wella trend vision last week.

Nikon D90 softboxed sb600 + bare sb600.

I think 85mm 1.8

Thanks for the responses guys. Looks like it's 1960 according to the Schneider dating charts (totally forgotten about that one!)

Frank, On the handheld at infinity thing, I have been thinking...

Oh and stay away from the Jobo Sheet Film Reels like the plague. I have had too many problems over successes to ever recommend one to anyone.

I use the near free taco in the twin 120 daylight tank.

Providing you use bands of a good size and face all the tacos in a similar way there is no scratching and all the other woes people talk of....

Diafine all the way. With FP4 rated at 200, or 160 for highlight bloom. It's a real winner. Try running a 120 film as a tester.

Plus Diafine also has the major advantage of the 'as long as it's...

It's probably been asked many times before, but I just picked one up for a steal.

£40 ($60) with a box of 64T polaroid and a polaroid back. Plus the shutter was serviced 2 months ago, was pretty...

The filling the card worry is when I shoot a wedding. Not having enough there to satisfy the newly-weds.

Has anyone heard on the grapevine if kodak are to release their new 100 color print film in sheet form?

Looks pretty darn sweet by all accounts.

thanks a lot guys. Looks like I know what is on my shopping list.

Just out of interest what would this be like in a head to head with a Rodenstock Ysarex 127mm for quality?

I've been looking at older 135mm symmars (linhof shuttered one).

Would these cover 4x5 or are they from the 6x9 technicas?

Not overly bothered about movements.

Andrew I love the tonality of your shot.

I'll maybe pick your brains on how to get that light but rich feel sometime.


Now for my shot. Nicely un-traditional back of the head portrait from...

With my return to Large Format I have realized a few facts before doing it.

1: I had no camera but 20 boxes of film in a drawer.

2: I love the creamy spacious tones of larger film and as much...

I just bought an arca swiss from MXV yesterday and regularly use ffordes.

MXV the guys are really honest with opinions as are ffordes.

I would say MrCad although really good, they tend to price...

A nice driving home shot.

The rain had just moved in front of me, the sun chasing it's tail. My fuji S5 was sitting on the passenger seat with the nice $100 arsat tilt lens from fleabay.

I get...

Shot on a yashica 124g (can't justify a rollei!) Delta 3200 at 1000 in diafine then scanned on the epson V700.

the two more creamy light shots were handheld at 1/8th or so with very dim window...

Well the camera has arrived.

Overall it is incredibly compact and fits very happily into my usual Lowepro mini-trekker pack with 4 DDs meter, cloth and general daily stuff.

The lens covers just...

Do the older arca rails collapse? Or will it probably require "mods"?

We have to deal with this issue in work all the time. The best way as stated many times before is to watermark and use web-sized / quality images.

Then if you find them being used and someone has...

it great to know the love has sparked here.

That's me just come back LF after a year's hiatus and totally excited slowing down and going through all the pain of loading processing etc ... as I...

yeah that was the only one I had found. It's annoying enough to not really show enough to work out the scale of it.

My Sinar was the same. I never thought it would be as big as it was. This Arca...

oh well. cropping it is then :)

yeah, its the ysarex.

Really all I'm after is a bit of tilt or swing. It's going to be used for either portraits or maybe a bit of skateboarding stuff.

More or less I've bought it to burn up...

Hey guys,

Almost a year I think since I last shot a sheet of film, but looking in the house I have about 30 boxes unexposed, a polaroid with a 127mm and £150 spare.

So hey ho I ordered an arca...

yeah ... the lighter / heat source underneath is safer with sx-70 :D

I used to heat sx70 whilst it dried with a lighter, maybe not the same effect, but gives a beautiful crazing to the emulsion. No doubt read it in a 70's photo/darkroom book :)

Well not quite LF...

Mr Wang is true hero of mine I have to say! Incredibly innovative and really seems like a good all round guy when sharing ideas.

On the scanning back side, kodak did make a battery powered scanner...

just read this one "An alternate approach is to pick up an old 4x5 film pack holder (free to 50cents)"

Anyone have a free pack holder going begging?

Or more to the point with the recent...

btw ash ... is that GG in upside down there? seems like ground side is outwards.

Well I'm halfway through the dismantling now.. An as I can see from your pics and what I have found is the GG will sit perfectly into the rail areas. Just I hate cutting metal so I might have to keep...

Hi guys,

Long time since I posted anything here, but with about 500 sheets of film in a drawer a jobo reel and 7 fidelity holders I thought it about time I started back into the LF game for a...

cigarettes and coffee. Keep me warm awake and occupied :)

Oh and my iPod for long time wasting

Britain is nice and relaxed too. Scotland especially as there are no trespass laws apart from on military property. As long as you are open and honest about what you are doing here I have found...

Before I ditched it my bag was my hand when using the speed graphic.

135mm on the plate, 4 film holders in my back pocket and a lightmeter round my neck. Oh and a simple plastic bag for rainy...

Ash, I'm still seriously jealous of the razzle by the way :) Third Shot is great, crop a bit off the left and some of the headroom you have a very Dazed and Confused looking location shoot.

Man that Fuji pack film is great.
I was shooting the flaming lips for the magazine I work for. I turn up in the pit and have this conversation with the local press guy about things in general. He...

Unfortunately with companies releasing digital cameras that can be used in courts as evidence (some trackable file type meta data) and the polaroid money pot ( the average brainless fool who goes...

It sucks.. but I hope we will all learn to adapt. The rights and production equipment are for sale and I'm sure someone will buy them saving the day... if not, I'll move on.