Please share your 4x5" photos!

JPD said:
Mackinaw, that photo made me say for myself that it's the first "reenactment" photo in the thread that looks believable. Then I read the date 1915.
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Hard to believe these glass plate negatives are more than a 100 years old. They’re in remarkably good shape for their age, considering that they were stored in less than ideal conditions (damp basement and hot attic). There are more, which I’ll post from time to time.

Jim B.
 
From a collection of 4X5 glass plate negatives we found in the basement of my parent's condo years back. A 1915(?) Studebaker someplace in Detroit. The dark area to the lower left is a piece of the glass plate that broke off sometime in the past.

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Jim B.
 
Taken with a Kodak No.4 Folding Cartridge made in 1898-1900. It is a roll film camera, but I can use it with 4x5 sheets, as it's size it's precisely that one. Ilford FP4 Plus 125.

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For a camera made over a hundred years ago^^^^^this should give some of us pause as we talk about recent and relentless “advances” in photography.
Nice shot. But, he’s a bit too tidy, obviously hasn’t been to Belleau Wood yet.
 
My friend represents a soldier of the 32nd US Infantry Division, "The Red Arrows" / "Les Terribles". Freshly arrived from across the ocean.

They had their baptism of fire in the Elsas and later fought in the Meuse-Argonne offensive.
 
Rick,
It’s nice, and becoming rarer, to find someone whose sense of history extends backward, past the day of their own birth.
Always enjoy seeing your re-enactment photos, and your Contax information. Keep it coming .
 
I'm inspired by this one: 8x10" film, 480mm Xenar lens, prolly natural light. Ultra large format fidelity, and depth of field as thin as a sheet of paper. This technique only works with very cooperative patient subjects.

480 Xenar 8x10" Portrait from the Internet by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is the type of large format portraiture I like to do. Printed 16x20 it is stunning to view up close. This inspires me to dust off my Sinar Normas in my retirement. I have much to do. Typically I study the ground glass for a very very long time before exposing a few sheets.


480mm Xenar, Sinar P2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Bernice has a 480mm F4.5 Xenar. I'd buy one if I could find it! Lovely rig Sinar P2 (Perfection) Black 5x7" here, I believe.
 
Mamiya 127mm on MPP VII

Mamiya 127mm on MPP VII

Mango was only 4-5ft from me, rangefinder focused, hand held Adox CMS100. No tripods needed.
 

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