While I've posted this image before, I recently re-scanned the negative for more detail in the shadows. This was taken in the fall of 1981 (42 years ago) when I first moved to Brooklyn.
The entire 4 x 5 inch negative is shown here. As for the subject matter, no caption needed given today's date.
One image © Richard Koenig.
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Amazing how far photographic tools have come - nevertheless, this is so much more beautiful than the slab design of a phone camera.
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Portrait of Widelene
By Jeff Stanford, 2023
Buy prints at:
https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/
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Additional images from my attempt to restore a very early large format photography lens made in 1850. A few gaps in the original shellac coating has allowed some corrosion and tarnish to form on the brass body, but the original engraving is still clear.
The glass has come out very clean, and shows remarkably little damage for its age. There are a few tiny bubbles in the glass, which is normal for glass from this era, and a few faint scratches on the rear of the back element - but not enough to have any impact on image quality.
The flange for mounting the lens to a lens board has some graphite markings that at the very least pre-date its mounting to the projector in the early 20th century. I think it says "Top".
And finally, some identifying marks from a previous owner: a fingerprint left in the coating at the edge of the lens hood (as well as some remaining adhesive residue I couldn't remove without resorting to more aggressive methods than I am comfortable with).
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O., 4x5 fomapan
(when your flash trigger does not cooperate..)
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“Chanticleer Point, November 2012.”
©2012 Gary L. Quay
The clouds were finally cooperating on one fine Tuesday in 2012. There are so many times when we have either total overcast, or blank, cloudless skies. At least, this seems to be the case when I have an opportunity to get out and take some pictures.
I used my 8" Cooke Anastigmat for this picture. I wanted to see how uncoated optics would render the clouds. They required a little burning in, but otherwise, they turned out just fine. It may have helped that I used a red filter.
The name reflects historic name for the viewpoint from which I took this picture. The subject of the image is Crown Point.
Camera: Senaca Camera City View 5x7.
Lens: 8" Cooke Anastigmat.
Film: Arista.edu 100 developed in 510 Pyro.
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7 day exposure, 4x5in paper negative solargraph.
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makuhane
fragility
shot on Wista 45D 4x5 field camera
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