In Praise of 5x7... Post'em !

[Reinhold Schable]

. . Brunhilda. (Yep, that's my wife Judy).
. . Brunhilda by Reinhold S., on Flickr. . 5x7 FP4 , 1935 Deardorff, 250 mm Wollaston Meniscus, Packard shutter, (developed by inspection)

Reinhold

[Tin Can]

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[rrunnertexas]

ROC Improved Plastigmat Zorki 4K by rrunnertexas, on Flickr

Camera porn! Zorki 4K captured with a Rochester Improved Model 5 x 8 camera with 5 x 7 film in the plate holder, Plastigmat lens.

[paulbarden]

Wet plate collodion negative (on glass), made with my sad old B&J Watson 5x7 and the Voigtlander Petzval. I used a home-made brass Waterhouse stop, which likely took the aperture from f3.2 to maybe f5.6 I'm guessing. In this case I used Quinn Jacobson's Collodion for Negatives, recipe.
You can view a larger version of it here.

[Miguel Coquis]

Full of aliveness !
Nice "temperature"

Wet plate collodion negative (on glass), made with my sad old B&J Watson 5x7 and the Voigtlander Petzval. I used a home-made brass Waterhouse stop, which likely took the aperture from f3.2 to maybe f5.6 I'm guessing. In this case I used Quinn Jacobson's Collodion for Negatives, recipe.
You can view a larger version of it here.

[Andrew Tymon]

Nice! I have a sad B&J Watson 5x7 too. They can still make nice pictures though.

[paulbarden]

Nice! I have a sad B&J Watson 5x7 too. They can still make nice pictures though.

Thanks, Andrew!
Yeah, my B&J Watson is in sad shape: corroded metal parts, the focus rail is loose and sloppy, and the bellows (which I expect are original) are as stiff as cardboard and full of holes. (I cover the bellows with the dark cloth) But if you make the effort to deal with its faults, you can still make a decent photo. Its not the camera, its what you make of it, right?

[Andrew Tymon]

Absolutely. Are we sharing the same camera?�� My camera has all the same faults, when I rack the back to focus the front and rear rails rise up at the ends and I have to wrestle the front standard and back to parallel.

[Ron (Netherlands)]

ROC Improved Plastigmat Zorki 4K by rrunnertexas, on Flickr

Camera porn! Zorki 4K captured with a Rochester Improved Model 5 x 8 camera with 5 x 7 film in the plate holder, Plastigmat lens.

Very nice...I've always liked those 'nifty' Zorki's :-)

[orgraph]

Full of aliveness !
Nice "temperature"

Nice!