Photographs by Timothy S. Allen
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A photographer goes into his backpack to get a film cartage to slip into the back of his 8×10 view finder camera. YoloArts – ArtFarm event Pleasants Valley Farm, Vacaville, CA. June 24, 2018.
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Wow! Some serious folks out there (like you 🙂 ). And is the *really* an 8×10? Methinks you doth exaggerate 😬.
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You’ve caught in an unknown and an attempt to guess. What would you would be the size?
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Looks to me to be a 4×5 (inch) view camera. An 8×10 would be really quite large. You can get an idea from this old photo of Ansel Adams by Cedric Wright: https://binged.it/2yEjpkR
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Yes, I do believe that you are correct. Comparing the image of Ansel Adams camera to the one in my photo definitely shows that Adams’ camera is much bigger. Thank you for the clarification.
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If you haven’t used one, you should experiment with one. 🙂
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I’ve not. This is the first time I’ve taken the opportunity to talk with someone about using a view finder camera. This is also the first time I’ve been out with this group. Hopefully I’ll see him again and can gain more knowledge.
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Just loading the film is a chore that is done in the darkroom buy feeling the notches on the sheet of film. Then there is hand development, again in the dark. But, the quality. There is nothing like a well exposed piece of sheet film. If that guy is working in 8×10, think about it. An 8×10 piece of paper is made like a contact sheet.
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I watched him load his camera with the plate and adjust and measure, etc. He was using a hand held meter and a digital camera set to see b&w as a way to compare readings for his view camera. He said that the cost of 50 film sheets was $115.
I used to shot b&w film and prepare file cartridges and then develop in a dark. If we’re old enough most of us did this.
His camera is a 5×7 not an 8×10.
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the setting up when you think no one else is looking…
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True although I suspect he know I was taking pictures. It was a rather small group of photographers.
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great view
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Thank you for your comment.
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