My scanner will not take an 11x14 print but I do have a crop of a shot taken with the camera in the Ojai area. It was done with my Hybrid Voigtlander 18" Euroscop @ F-45. (I basically have the rear element of this lens and a +1 diopter for the front element). It was printed on some old Azo contact paper. I just got back from the Redwoods and have some images that are drying and I'll try to scan them when I can. My digital camera is dead so I can't photograph the prints and post them.
The print does not show well on the web but looks good when you see it.
Working with 11x14 is way slower than 8x10. The size and bulk slows you down even more.... but I love it!!
My scanner will not take an 11x14 print but I do have a crop of a shot taken with the camera in the Ojai area. It was done with my Hybrid Voigtlander 18" Euroscop @ F-45. (I basically have the rear element of this lens and a +1 diopter for the front element). It was printed on some old Azo contact paper. I just got back from the Redwoods and have some images that are drying and I'll try to scan them when I can. My digital camera is dead so I can't photograph the prints and post them.
The print does not show well on the web but looks good when you see it.
Working with 11x14 is way slower than 8x10. The size and bulk slows you down even more.... but I love it!!
Jim
Looks good. The mountains around Ojai are full of wonderful places to photograph. My late wife's sister and her husband used to live in Ojai, they had a Christmas tree farm on the east end of town just past Soule Park. Unfortunately I wasn't into photography the way I am today, but I do have a few good shots of the area. I really used to enjoy the scenic drive on Highway 33 going north out of Ojai. It brings back a lot of wonderful memories.
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Jim, Is that a leather bellows on that baby? And did you make it yourself? Pretty camera. Robert
Robert, thanks. It is not a leather bellows. Some sort of synthetic I guess. It is very light weight and extends about 36"+ and I think the seller said it was from Camera Bellows or Western, I'm not sure. I got it off of e-bay for 100.00 from a guy in Texas. The great thing about this bellows is that it fit perfectly to my frames when I got it. I had already built the back box and bellows frame and it was like it was made for my camera. Luck was finally on my side. I love the 11x14 format. Harder to set up than my 8x20 but when you look at the ground glass (TV screen!) you are hooked!
A few years back, I got the panorama bug and recycled a pair of four dollar J66 Polaroids....I cut two cameras to produce two long halves, then bolted them together. With a simple internal wind mechanism and a 6x17 mask it worked rather well and despite being an unwieldy beast, it produced some amazing shots. The 'no fuss no focus' method using the hyperfocal distance principal was cheap and effective
I know it was no LF, but it came close....I know it was no Linhof either, but the results were much the same..and it only cost eight bucks plus a lens and finder.
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