My Journey with Medium Format
This image was shot on Kodak Gold 200 with the Pentax 6×7. I also took a similar pic with the GFX 100s, but like this image more. There’s just something about film. Larger image below: Below is the similar image shot with the Fujifilm GFX 100s and GF 63mm f2.8. I prefer the film colors…
Wachusett Mountain, shot with the Pentax 6×7 and 55mm f4, @f4 and 1/500s. Kodak Gold 200. Shot on Memorial day on the way to the summit. Larger image below. The image below is resized for the web. The original image scan is 400mb. There’s something about this image which is so much more pleasing than…
My wife and I took a trip to Wachusett Mountain today. The clouds were beautiful and I was using my GFX 100s as a meter for the Pentax 6×7. The resolution of the GFX 100s is very impressive. That little spec on the cloud is an airplane. With 102 megapixels you can crop the way…
Here’s an image of me shot by my wife. If you don’t have a medium format camera, or large format 8×10, you can still create images that don’t look like they were shot on smaller formats. In fact, I doubt this image could have even been created on 8×10 and would have actually needed a…
While not medium format, I really enjoy contact printing with my 8×10 view camera. There’s something special about making a direct print without any kind of enlarging, nor scanning process, and the level of detail is astonishing! This is a portrait my wife took of me. I often use the quality of an 8×10 print…
These are 100% crops. The image on the left was shot with the Hasselblad 500cm with Kodak Portra 400 film. The image on the right was shot with the Fujifilm GFX 100s. Lenses were the Zeiss 80mm f2.8 on the Hasselblad, and GF 63mm f2.8 on the GFX 100s. These images were shot on two…
Here is a lake shot I took today with the Hasselblad 500cm. Film was Kodak Portra 400. This scan was wet mounted on the Epson V850 and scanned at 1600 ppi. I missed a small bubble in the top right-hand corner of the photo. This was taken at Wachusett’s Reservoir. Link to larger image below:…
I’ve taken a few test shots with the Pentax 6×7. The feel is completely different than my Hasselblad 500cm. Not worse or better, just different. It took me a bit of time to get the film loaded properly. Once loaded I didn’t have the counter all the way to number 1, and thought the camera…
Today’s not a great day for photography as it’s raining and my Hasselblad has no weather sealing of any sort. I really enjoy photographing in the rain but need to find ways of keeping the camera dry. I also have some b&w developer trying to expire so I need to get out and shoot regardless….