Wanderlust 4X5 Travelwide

[Courtlux]

First picture with my new Travelwide 4X5
Angulon 90 mm Fomapan 100 Rodinal 1:50

[redshift]

Excellent!!

[Ben Syverson]

Awesome! Great first shot!!

[Corran]

Here's the first two sheets I scanned, freshly developed this evening and shot Monday afternoon with my new Travelwide. I was on vacation in Mississippi and my GF and I decided to stop and tour the USS Alabama in Mobile for old times' sake.

The first shot here is the screw of the ship, and it shows the strength of the TW I think. This was shot @ f/32 at 1/25, on HP5+ and developed in Acufine - easy enough to handhold on this camera:



Sadly I discovered that sometime in the last month, since using my 90mm Angulon last, the lens has developed massive separation in the front element. Not sure what causes this spontaneously. It had no problems whatsoever last month when I shot several sheets with it. So, as I found out, this causes some issues with regard to flare and patterning in the image when shot stupidly like this:



By the way,for those curious, here is a 100% crop (3000 DPI scan) of the first image. No, it's not as sharp as a tripod-mounted modern optic. Who cares?

[wojszyca]

This is my very first shot, please have a look at description on flickr for full details but it is rather a failure, still my first ever LF shot:
The first 4x5 in my life. by Wojtek Mszyca, on Flickr

[wojszyca]

And here is a fresh scan of the first frame I am quite satisfied with.
Enjoying the view. Another Travelwide 90 test shot. by Wojtek Mszyca, on Flickr

[Ben Syverson]

And here is a fresh scan of the first frame I am quite satisfied with.

Absolutely gorgeous, Wojtek. This is what I was hoping for when I first sketched this camera. I'm speechless!

[wojszyca]

Absolutely gorgeous, Wojtek. This is what I was hoping for when I first sketched this camera. I'm speechless!

Ben, you made my day, thank you so much! Thank you again for making the camera, it is awesome and I already love it.

Thank you Colorado CJ and D-tach as well! Much appreciated, some encouragement is important at the beginning of my adventure with LF. I will probably waste a lot of sheets before I will master the process and kind words like yours will help me get through the failures and keep on trying.

[Steve Pitchford]

Hello to Everyone, but mostly to the followers of the Travelwide camera by Wanderlust and the thread:"Using and Modifying the Travelwide 4x5 Camera".

Yesterday I posted a reply to a post from Drew Bedo and then I attempted to attache photos that I had recently shot with my TW. I couldn't do it without up loading to this forum first. So hopefully here are a picture of my TW setup and several first try's of rocky shorelines. I am open to all comments and questions.

, shot of camera, jpeg

Ok, I had scanned my negs after processing them and I failed to ask the lab manager to give me JPEG proofs and the scans are in TIFF. I didn't notice that until now and will have to convert the images before I can post them. Sorry once again

Happy trails,
SteveP

[D-tach]

And here is a fresh scan of the first frame I am quite satisfied with.

Top notch!!!