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[Latinbob]

I have noticed lots of activity in the LF/MF forum, but you are all unregistered. Please join up and post! Ask questions and share your work. So if you are a 4x5 fan, a Hassy-head, or even a Holga nut, let's hear from you!

Bob

[Latinbob]

Ok, to get this started, I'll go first. I shoot digital most of the time, with a Nikon D200, but I really enjoy Medium Format film. You don't necessarily have to spend thousands to get a good MF camera, or even hundreds. Here is a shot I took with a $40 Lubitel 166b on Velvia film.

It is hard to see in this web sized shot, but there is plenty of detail from the Lubi's simple glass lens, and the Velvia colors are unmistakable.

Anybody else have some MF on a budget shots to share?

Bob

[Mr. Pickles]

I don't have any to share. But this is a neat shot, even web-sized. Colors are incredible here. Film is still cool.

[stdon]

Ok, I'll bite. I'm a new member to Camel and just found this forum. I have the Busch Pressman Mod.D that was my Dad's warhorse since I can remember.
At around 5yo in the mid 50's I was his "assistant" at everything from wedding to funerals. He was a Pro from the 1930's till retirement in 1974.

It's a wonderful body with a lot of memories. I still have the old flashgun and even some bulbs. Two boards with lenses and a bunch of other stuff. I've fired it up every once in awhile but haven't in a few years. I'm going to get it out again and devote it to B&W but like I said it's been awhile and most of my wet room things are gone.

Any ideas on the easiest way to get back into the swing of things?

Don

[Mr. Pickles]

Easiest way? I'd guess buy some film (BHPhoto?) and give it a sample run...?

Oh, and post the results so people can see, learn, or educate accordingly.

Helps them get out and wanna shoot film too

[Latinbob]

The easiest, but not the cheapest way, is to get a Polaroid back, as long as the Pressman D will take one. It should, but I'd check before just ordering one. I have a Pressman C and it has a springlock back. You can get a box of 4 x 5 film and play that way.

The cheaper but more expensive way is to buy some 4 x 5 sheet film and film holders if you don't have any.

I need to get mine out too. Polaroid is the quick way, and least messy.

Bob

[Ricky Ricardo]

Originally Posted by Latinbob

Ok, to get this started, I'll go first. I shoot digital most of the time, with a Nikon D200, but I really enjoy Medium Format film. You don't necessarily have to spend thousands to get a good MF camera, or even hundreds. Here is a shot I took with a $40 Lubitel 166b on Velvia film.

It is hard to see in this web sized shot, but there is plenty of detail from the Lubi's simple glass lens, and the Velvia colors are unmistakable.

Anybody else have some MF on a budget shots to share?

Bob

Unmistakenly Velvia.
Did you scan it, or re-shoot the trannie with the D200 and a macro ?
I picked up a box of Velvia 50 on the weekend for my newly acquired Mamiya 645, so hopefully in the next 2 weeks, I'll get something on here.
Rick

[walter23]

Gotta love that Lubitel. That cheap little lens really is sharp, I've got some nice shots from mine.

That lomography company (that made, or at least tried to make, the Holga & the LC-A so fashionable) is selling them for two or three hundred dollars!

I got mine for $5 from Ukraine. I do have the solve the back door light leaks on it someday (should be a simple enough fix). Would also help to calibrate the film advance dial so I wouldn't have to look through the rear red window.

[Latinbob]

Thanks, Rick. It is a scanned shot.

Walter, I got mine from the Ukraine too, but for about $35 more. It's still worth it though. I put two strips of Velcro on either side of the back to snug it up. Lomography.com really has something going with the Lomos. It's craxy that people will spend so much for an LC-A!

Bob

[walter23]

Oh yeah, I know I got really lucky with the $5 one. I actually felt kind of bad for the seller given that every other auction at the same time was going for at least $30. I don't know how that happened.

Originally Posted by Latinbob

Thanks, Rick. It is a scanned shot.

Walter, I got mine from the Ukraine too, but for about $35 more. It's still worth it though. I put two strips of Velcro on either side of the back to snug it up. Lomography.com really has something going with the Lomos. It's craxy that people will spend so much for an LC-A!

Bob

[Latinbob]

You get lucky on eBay sometimes.

Do you have any Lubi shots you can share?

Bob

[sean_buerger]

I got some medium format gear, which is mostly collecting dust. One of it is the Chinese Seagull TLR. That camera is actually very usable and has travelled with my to Greece and Egypt before.

On a budget the Pentacon Six can deliver nice results, due to the high quality lenses available. The mechanical reliability of the system is infamous - the film transport. Once used to her shortcomings, the P6 will reward you with pictures of great tonality.

The picture shown is a public British Sculpture exhibition in the Ambras castle park in my hometown (Innsbruck / Austria).

Cheers, Sean.

[sean_buerger]

The above picture is with the P6 with KODAK GOLD. The picture here was done with the Seagull on AGFA ULTRA. Sean.

[Latinbob]

Very nice shots. The P6 and Seagull shots show you don't have to spend a fortune to get some very nice MF gear!

Bob

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

Two from me than
Mamiya 645AFD/II with 120 Illford Delta 400


and one with Kodak Portra400


Greetings,
Frank

[SecondFocus]

Frank,

I see you continue to embrace film!

What was old is new again!

Great photos by the way!

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

Yeah,
I love the look of film although it's ALOT of work.
Waiting for development (2-3 days), scanning etc.

But then again B&W is just amazing.

[stdon]

What piqued my interest again is stumbling across a photographer. Google "Jay Dusard" and you can see what a Busch Pressman D can do in the right hands and the right processing.

On the advice given I am going to get back into the swing of things. I know a Polaroid back will work as I had seen my Dad use them many times. So will start again there. Now with digital and the different types of processing this could be very exciting.

Thanks,
Don

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[Reindeer]

Originally Posted by Latinbob

I have noticed lots of activity in the LF/MF forum, but you are all unregistered. Please join up and post! Ask questions and share your work. So if you are a 4x5 fan, a Hassy-head, or even a Holga nut, let's hear from you!

Hi all MF-fans, I've been lurking around some time now, I must confess. I shoot with 40D which is great, but I have an old Rolleiflex (TLR) with 75mm Carl Zeiss Tessar collecting dust, just love that camera, must be the best camera I've ever owned. So, should I start shooting film again, after twenty odd years... One problem that pops to mind immediately: I should scan my film, shouldn't I, but with what, are there MF-scanners around, if so, they must be prohibitely expensive. Digital MF, like Frank said, prices of MF digital backs may come down quite soon but still, five years, ten years, who knows exactly.

Still, great to have found such a forum with so many MF fans lurking around here, in what must be one of the darkest recesses of the net...

One question: Does anyone have experience of Rolleiflex 6800 Integral (with AF), I'd love to try out that camera...

[epatsellis]

a few from my RB last friday:







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