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10x8 street portraits from last Sunday. 10x8 Sinar with shutter behind the 36cm Voigtlander Heliar lens, approx f8 for these, Fomapan 400 @ ISO 200, Rodinal 1+25. Lighting was extremely flat which is why I used the 1+25 dilution.

Street portraits from last Sunday, Darlot lens on 10x8 Sinar with a shutter behind the lens as close as I could get it but it's still vignetting. Notice the sweet spot of focus and rapid fall off. Most likely a projector lens, fixed f4 aperture. Very old FP4 (no expiry date on the box), ISO25...

So I thought I'd help out a bit. These are Portra 160 negs, quick and dirty scan (lost my blower) just for reference and a couple of crops. Shot on an MPP mk Viii and a Nikkor 90mm 5.6 & for the vertical it was a schneider 150mm 5.6

In my pursuit of discovering and trying different techniques to capture the light, yesterday I've tried, again, the historical process of tintypes. After few unsuccessful attempts, it seems I finally got some satisfactory images. There's obviously a ton more to learn. I'm really lucky to have...

A few years back I was able to acquire via a well known on-line auction website my first (and so far only) Large Format camera in the guise of a Calumet CC-400 monorail. I bought the camera from a guy called Terry McGrory in Liverpool, who had imported it from Iris Point Cameras a dealer in in...