Something DIfferent - Film!

Colorado CJ

I haven't really posted here lately. I've been bitten by the film bug and have been spending a lot of time fooling around with all sizes of film cameras, from 35 mm up to large format.

I even have a full darkroom, complete with two enlargers (I DID say I was bitten, and pretty bad ).

Anyway, I just received a scanner and the last couple of days have been shooting film, developing and trying to digitize a few negatives. I thought I'd post a few examples here.

I'll continue to shoot color with my DLSR, but for black and white, it will have to be film from now on.

First off, here are a couple I just finished scanning.

This one was taken with a Mamiya RB67 medium format camera and a KL 180mm F4.5 lens with a red filter. Film is Fomapan 200 (arista edu 200) developed in Rodinal at 50:1.

Grand-Canyon---Mamiya-RB67 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr


This one was taken with my Rolleichord Vb medium format (TLR) camera. Shot on Fomapan 100.

Freya---Rolleichord-Vb by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Here are a few I shot in the past few days. This time with a new to me large format camera, a Zone VI 4x5. It is a beauty of a camera and it is hard to take pictures with it. Not because of the camera itself, but because of all the people that show up and talk your ear off, making it hard to actually take a picture

Loveland-Feed-and-Grain-1891 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Storms-Coming by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Above-Timberline-19-July-2014 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Rushing-Mountain-Stream-26-July-2014 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Old-Camp-26-July-2014 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr


And one of my new pride and joy itself, the Zone VI 4x5.

Wista-Zone-VI-1 by Colorado CJ, on Flickr

Sam

I really like your black and white images, but that camera is fantastic!!!! I don't even care if it works. It is a fine art piece that I could just sit and stare at.

Sam

redleash

What Sam said!

Colorado CJ

Thanks guys! Yeah, I am almost afraid to use it for fear of scratching it, but it is with my in a pack everywhere I go. The best part, is I bought it for $525.00 from KEH. I couldn't believe the price and snatched it up as soon as possible.

This was the first photo taken with my new (to me) Zone VI 4x5 camera. I rushed out to a local lake after unpacking it, anxious to try it out "in the field".

This is somewhat of a hybrid photo as it was scanned into the computer and worked on in photoshop a little. I think, with some practice, and a little luck I could achieve something similar in the darkroom, using toners and some burning/dodging and contrast papers.

Shot using a Nikkor SW 180mm F5.6 lens on Fomapan 200 at ISO 160 through a red filter. Processed in Rodinal at 50:1 for 8 minutes.


An-Evening-by-the-Lake by Colorado CJ, on Flickr