A bit smaller this time

With the same lens as in the 5×7 box camera, the 4×5 box camera.

Sample images:

Something different

All images posted until now have been done in 8×10” format. I will include a couple images made in 5×7” format with a DIY camera sporting an Schneider Super Angulon 75mm for a change.

The camera:

Images:

Yet another half-lens image

Again the front of a Petzval lens offering 300mm focal length at f5,6.

New B&L Petzval lens

I have been meaning to find a longer version of this lens for some time at a reasonable price. It will have to be this 10” Petzval for now.
A series of still lives I am recently working on in various sizes.

Half a Petzval

Taken with the front cemented part of a Petzval lens. Focal length of 300mm and maximum aperture of 5,6.
Eastman View nº2 8×10”.

Sitges “kamaku”

Sitges Kamaku* is a large format photography project I have been working on this past year. It will be a collection of photographs of my hometown Sitges all done with large format cameras and vintage lenses.

Here’s a take of the old quarter in Sitges taken with a Eastman View nº2 8×10 camera. The lens is an Euryscope IV nº3 at ƒ6.

*kamaku is the provisional name we’ve come up with to name this project. It sound like “how pretty” in Catalan language.

Sant Sebastià 23

Another beautiful house in my home town Sitges through the Bausch and Lomb Zeiss Tessar 6½ x8½ at ƒ22.

 

Back to the B&L Zeiss Tessar

A beautiful house in my home town Sitges through the Bausch and Lomb Zeiss Tessar 6½ x8½ at ƒ45.

Voightlander Heliar 210mm

Here’s a lens not made for 8×10. This lens covers up to 5×7 format and this is why it vignettes when used on an 8×10 camera focused at infinity.
I used a combination of filters (yellow, polarizer and ND-X4) to extend the exposure time up to 18 seconds.

Kinoptik Aquilar Aerial Lens

I recently aquired a new Aerial lens by french lensmaker Kinoptik called Aquilar.
The lens is 260mm focal length and its maximum aperture is ƒ3,5.

According to the Lens Vade Mecum it is a Tessar type lens and the results very much look like one.
I did a quick test using a very large Packard shutter placed in front of it. The lens came with a big red filter too.

Here is the lens itself with the large red filter.