The Linhof debute.

[zewrak]

My first exposure with the Linhof. Using an Ektar 203mm. It is shot on a grade 4(!) paper, since I am yet to recieve the film I ordered.

Image is unedited, except for made positive in photoshop and removed a few spots.

[womble]

That is a gorgeous image. Excellent stuff. K.

[PaulC]

I presume you have tilt on it to blur the background at the top. The car is certainly sharp but it all looks rather surreal.

I read the other day that photographic paper is orthochromatic, so it responds primarily to blue light. As a result the blues will tend to be blown out. It is the same way B&W film worked a century ago.

You should have a lot of fun getting to know that camera.

[zewrak]

Yes the front standard is tilted to blur the top of the image. As you said, blue is easy to blow out on paper. The bottom half is green all over thats why it looks like night time. Lucky me it had blueish lights in the car too, so it made it seem like the lower part is in the middle of the night, while the top is daylight.

Knowing id blow out the sky and the church in the background, I chose to blur it. Amazing how you notice stuff on a huge groundglass compared to the tiny 35mm viewfinders.

This will be fun. Tuesday or wednsday I get my shipment of 100 sheets.

[fish4570]

Woo-hoo! Good image ...

[Katastrofo]

I think it looks surreal fine to me. Looking forward to more! The car looks
like a toy, is that an old Volvo, remember seeing them way back when.

[Nesster]

...looks like a Skoda or Renault to me... Excellent first result, you might as well burn the damn camera now, you'll be hard put to match the artistic quality here

[zewrak]

[zewrak]

[kansalliskala]

You people don't know Renault Dauphine?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Dauphine

[Nesster]

Yes that's what I had in mind... didn't remember the model name...

[lulalake]

[luisalegria]

Well done !

You got better results on paper than I have.

What paper/what developer ?

[zewrak]

[lulalake]

Question:

What weight paper do you use? I want to try paper in my Graflex however I don't know whether single or double weight works.

Thanks very much

Jules

[cooltouch]

I spotted the Renault right off. Back in the day the Renaut Dauphin was almost as common as VWs around these parts. Even rear-engined too.

Question about the Linhof: which model is it? Linhofs are ultra cool, usually with prices to match.

[Himself]

Man, that picture of yours makes me think more and more at buying a LF. Not a Linhof but a Graflex. Much cheaper.
The other option would be to buy the 17/4 TS-E but it's friggingly expensive.

[cooltouch]

If you're looking for a field camera, a Graflex is a great way to enter the format, but there are studio cams and monorails that can be had for cheap too. A couple of which are also Graflex, interestingly enough . . .

Me, I'd like to build my own. Plans are scarce, but I finally found a site on the Internet where John Grepstad, the author to a book on building large format cameras, has posted pdf's and .doc files of his book.

Here's his home page:

http://home.online.no/~gjon/jgcam.htm

[lulalake]

[cooltouch]

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[zewrak]

The camera is a Linhof Kardan Color.
Looks like this. I paid about 300€ for it, including lens and 10 film holders.

The paper I have used is as thin as possible. Since you are basically trying to emulate film, which obviously is thinner then paper. This particular paper was a Fortespeed RC plastic grade 4 semi matte paper.

In my experience matte paper works well.

I am also planning to build my own camera. An 8x10. There is really only one measurement that is critical, and thats the film plane. I would recommend getting those parts and build a camera around that. Also the bellows would be sweet to have from start.

[lulalake]

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[cooltouch]

[zewrak]

Its ok. I find it very interesting since I am into the process myself.

I am making mine in aluminium, mostly I think.

Lets gather resources and cooperate

[cooltouch]

Sounds good. We should start a thread about DIY large-format cameras. I've already found quite a few resources on the Web.