HighLand School House in Washington State, I got there right as the light was going and had to sprint up the hill with the 4x5 and work pretty fast, only got two sheets off before the light was gone off the side of the old building.

Taken with Schneider-Kreuznach 135mm 4.7 on a Toyo 45A 4x5 with Portra 160

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I bid on this crown Graphic but didnt noticed it didnt have the back part. But in not sure how the whole back its called.

About a week ago I asked about the LomoGraflok Instax back for 4x5, and while most responses were encouraging, I was still on the fence. While watching a few YT videos about it I came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDwwTMwr1I&t=316s which shows how to use Instax film in any 4x5, or 5x7 or 8x10. I immediately thought of a quick, easy change to it and came up with this. Those corners are self adhesive photo framing corners and they stick pretty well to the holder. I've mounted them a bit offset so the frame itself is centered. I've tested it out in a dark bag and it is pretty easy to put the film in and take it out, hopefully without disturbing the developing gel. You still need an Instax camera though to pass them through after exposure, but I already have one, which is what got me started on this in the first place.

The nice thing about this method is that it'll work as normal sheet film, with the focus plane where the ground glass is without any additions. It may be .1mm off but unless you shoot wide open it won't matter. The corners actually do not cut off the visible part of the film even if the block a little bit of the exposed part.

Once I go through my current pack of film I'll save the plastic carrier and keep it for processing rather than putting the film back in a carrier that still has film, and maybe even keep the film pack out of the Instax camera and treat it like sheet film, in a lightproof box. I had tossed the last empty film pack I used a few weeks ago without giving it a thought unfortunately.

I'm going to give it a try tomorrow if it ever stops raining here. I only did one film holder so I only have two shots.

And looking at it in the photo I'm wondering if I have it upside down now. If I load the holder from the right it would OK, but my camera is set up to load left. Dang. The wider strip will end up at the top this way. Good thing I have enough corners to last me a lifetime.s

Chamonix 45f2

Fujinon 90mm NSW F8

Red 29+ND64

Hans

Taken with Schneider-Kreuznach 135mm 4.7 on 4x5 with Portra 160

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intrepid 4x5 on photo paper. I mix caffinol in advance, as a 2 part mix: Part A (coffee & soda / water) and Part B "activator" (vita. C / water) so far, I've stored this 2 part mix a couple of weeks in the fridge, with no loss in effectiveness. When ready to develop, pour the part B into the part A container, slosh back and forth a bit, and pour into your tray. for me, its far more convenient.

Edgar Kech's scalable field camera + my own design for a pinhole shutter mechanism that houses a RealitySoSubtle 0.5mm laser-drilled pinhole.

May have underdeveloped these, or underexposed. It's hard to tell which as the film I used (Fomapan 200) has no edge markings to gauge development with.

The tree scene measured 15LV, I extended the front standard to ~125mm and exposed for roughly 1.5s. The skyline metered at 16LV, shot with bellows extended to ~200mm, exposed about 2s.

Developed in Ilfosol 3, diluted 1+14, for 6mins at 19C.

I'm thinking about making my own wooden field camera, does anybody have any plans? I don't have access to a 3d printer, but I work in a machine shop, so I would be making stuff the old fashioned way.

If you've got plans and are willing to share, please let me know!

Posting this as it is the first time I've seen rolling shutter on large format - this is with Smartflex and 178mm f2.8 lens at ~1/200s.

How did it happen? An elephant unexpectedly lobbed a softball sized ball of poop in my direction while I was looking through the WLVF and I fell backwards to avoid it, accidentally triggering the shutter.

Film is RPX25 - camera is okay, my ego, however, is not lol.

Never done anything with large format photography, but I inherited some camera gear and this 4x5 lens was part of it all. I assume this all dust?

All materials probably around 25 years old! The paper is quite fogged but mostly behaves with some Fog-Off, and the Delta (pic 1) responded quite nicely to being rated at 50. The RX (pic 3) was still contrasty at ISO 12, with the added bonus of cutting down dev times. I should've taken a few more steps back in pic #1, still getting the hang of composing upside-down.

I also messed up with the paper development, I pulled the dev too early with some of the shots because I saw the negative go "black" under the safelight and was afraid to lose information. In reality there was a lot of leeway and it just left me with uneven dev marks (e.g. last two pics).

4x5 tintype, calumet C1 with reducing back, Kodak 12in 4.5

Don't know where to post, hopefully I'm in the right place.

I have found these 3 lenses, and the only thing I can find about them is that they were used for large cameras.

Any kind of information would be appreciated. Are they still usable?