Large format photography.

wire-screw · 10 May 2014 at 10:04

Anyone here interested in large format? I'm currently getting into it by making my own cameras. I made made a camera and had been shooting medium format 6x7 on it and have recently made the investment to upgrade my camera so it's capable of 4x5 and the film processing to go with it. Currently things are slow with exams! I'll post some pics later.

Logsi · 10 May 2014 at 13:23

I've shot some large format in the past. Nothing quite like the look and feel of large format prints. Gorgeous is all you can really say about them.

V-Spec · 10 May 2014 at 16:27

*raises hand*

I shoot exclusively large format (for landscapes) and have done since 2010,

My kit list is:

Linhof Technikardan 45s

Schneider super-angulon XL 72mm
Nikkor SW 90mm
Rodenstock 210mm
Schneider tele-xenar 400mm

I use a seconic spot meter, and mostly shoot Velvia 50 transparency film, however they no longer make it - I only have 5 boxes left in the freezer so when that runs out i'll be going back to digital again.

I like large format because of the movements, and it really teaches you to take the best photographs you can (the cost of film/processing/scanning) and the technicalities of using it, (composing images upside down).

My kit:

at the grand canyon with a longer lens and long bellows:

Derek W · 10 May 2014 at 16:31

^^ He's rather good at it as well!

Hxc · 10 May 2014 at 16:35

Presently not, but since New55 got funded I am very interested in moving into it. Researching how much I need to get a half decent setup together at present.

Willis · 12 May 2014 at 13:45

I shoot with a 1930's Speed Graphic and have attached a Dallmeyer Pentac 10" f/2.9 Aerial Lens to the front which gives a haunting look to the images.

Process all my negs at home with a MOD54 in a paterson tank (takes 6 negs at a time)

Also just picked up a Arca Swiss 4x5 but have yet to use that

V-Spec · 12 May 2014 at 14:21

omg there's someone else in the world who does this?

Literally bursting to get out with my rig, was planning on a Devon trip for this weekend but the tides don't look optimal, so will probably hold out till the week after, want to photograph Welcombe mouth again - but it needs specific light and tides to work..

Aside from that, waiting for a big trip in September to the US southwest again, going by myself the way I did in 2010, I'll probably use up my remaining stock of film before switching back to digital, but I hope to do it justice..

Incidentally, the only other person I've ever met who shot large-format was a guy shooting a 7x5 camera out in the de-na-zin wilderness in new mexico, I've never seen a single other LF photographer in my life, forever alone ;_;

Willis · 12 May 2014 at 14:23

V-Spec said:
omg there's someone else in the world who does this?

Literally bursting to get out with my rig, was planning on a Devon trip for this weekend but the tides don't look optimal, so will probably hold out till the week after, want to photograph Welcombe mouth again - but it needs specific light and tides to work..

Aside from that, waiting for a big trip in September to the US southwest again, going by myself the way I did in 2010, I'll probably use up my remaining stock of film before switching back to digital, but I hope to do it justice..

Incidentally, the only other person I've ever met who shot large-format was a guy shooting a 7x5 camera out in the de-na-zin wilderness in new mexico, I've never seen a single other LF photographer in my life, forever alone ;_;

Haha there is some of us about

wire-screw · 12 May 2014 at 16:02

Very interesting there are some guys who shoot large format here! I should be one of you in a month or so.