Large Format Landscapes

[Jmarmck]

Nice Bryan. Looks like the Spring Creek Park at Colquitt? I have been looking for a 9x12 or wider. I'd take a back for the Zone VI. Now, I will have to look into the 135. Where can one find unbranded film?

[Ken Lee]

Massachusetts, July 2014
Tachihara Field Camera, 200mm Nikkor M
4x5 Kodak TMY, D-23

[StoneNYC]

Corran, kudos on the sprocket hole exposure! The composition benefits from this unusual format.
Coincidentally, I made these 35 mm adapter thingies myself the other day from a 120 film spool; I just cut and ground one to fit a 35mm canister. However, I find that even in a 6x7 back (let alone 6x12), the film just won't stay flat enough to obtain good focus over the entire surface. Maybe this is because I use expired (and therefore old) film. Do you recognize this problem at all? If so, how did you fix it? If not, I'll have to look at how the Horseman back does its film tensioning/flattening; perhaps the Graflex I use just isn't very good in that department.


Expired Fuji Superia 200 print film in Graflex 6x7 back, Schneider Symmar-S 210/5.6, developed in Rodinal, 4990 scan. Obviously, this combination of film and developer will result in pretty horrible tonality and very coarse grain, but this was a 'shits & giggles' enterprise. The strips around the sprocket holes come out badly focused and with reflection artifacts because the film just won't stay flat in this back.

@AlexGard: thanks! And you bet I'll be here more in the future! It's much more active in the 4x5 department than our other hangout

Are you using it in a 220 back? Remember that with normal will film there is backing paper for 120, so you have to use a 220 back which pressure plate sits closer to the film and therefore would keep it a little flatter or at least in theory that should help alleviate some of your issues.

[Corran]

Marty, I was actually at Reed Bingham State Park in Adel. An okay park. I will have to look into Spring Creek!

As for film I'm not sure now since Arista isn't repackaging Kodak film anymore it appears. I have some FP4+ on tap for when my Plus-X gets used up. Not sure what their film edges look like.

[Jmarmck]

Massachusetts, July 2014
Tachihara Field Camera, 200mm Nikkor M
4x5 Kodak TMY, D-23

That ..............is cool! Nice clouds. The grey adds to the paint of the building.

[TXFZ1]

Massachusetts, July 2014
Tachihara Field Camera, 200mm Nikkor M
4x5 Kodak TMY, D-23

Inspirational, nice use of the near/far.

David

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Home made 4x5 camera with Schneider SA 47 xl, Fomapan 100

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Imageschack is now completely diferent, I didn't use it for a while, I can't anymore use it the way I used to do, can someone tell me, please, another way to upload photos here?

[h2oman]

Yeah, really nice, Ken. One of my favorites of yours.

[Corran]

Another nice one Nana! Sadly I know nothing about ImageShack.

Here's one I took last week. Linhof MT, Nikkor 90mm f/8 w/ polarizer and both a 4x and 8x ND filter, Velvia 100F and then converted it to b&w with a "virtual" red filter: