Antique 8x10 Camera in Utah: Large Format Photography on the Sevier River
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2023
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Three (maybe a few more) things I love Adam.
1. the fence is fantastic. Really well seen and done.
2. The “I hope I don’t fall in the river”
3. Leia under the camera on shot two.
4. F6.3 on an 8x10 and something is in do us! Chapeau!
5. The ubiquitous glass of bourbon.
Thanks a lot, Lee! I think this response is some sort of time record for me haha And yeah, we had already saw two snakes and Leia was making me extremely nervous.
I find your videos very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing them.👍👍
You're most welcome, Terry. Glad you enjoy them 😊
Love it man!
Thanks a lot, my friend! Looking forward to getting back out west for winter and hopefully meeting up again. You're going to shit yourself over this 11x14 man....
American ingenuity!!!!😇😇
love your "magic arm" attachment of the umbrella to the tripod leg!, great innovation, esp. to keep the holders dry.
Hey Andy, that little umbrella was one of those things I purchased last year "just in case." I went for months without using it and considered getting rid of it in order to save a little bit of room in the vehicle and then boom...used it four times in a single month with a few of those being more or less instances where I REALLY needed it. It's been a great little gadget.
@@AdamWelch yes, but, as it's asymmetric you can also use it in sunny conditions, to both shade the holder, and for glare on the lens side, without it protruding so far in, it shows on the image.
@@andyvan5692 Which image, Andy?
@@AdamWelch I wasn't talking about a specific image in this video, just a suggestion in general, as in it doesn't shade part of any image, as the shade is not in the general cone of coverage of the lens; but if put to it, I would say the one of the fence, when the light got brighter, second shot?, I think, but is an all around good thing to have in use in all sunny and glare prone shots.
❤ Great video.
"You will do well, Del. You will do well, if you don't get in too much trouble with all that hair."
Thank you very much. Followed you on principle of your CZcams handle.
@@AdamWelch My all time favorite movie . Saw it in the theater when I was a 10.
Right up there for me as well. Watch it every couple of weeks. Team Milius for life.
And a side note: what a thrill to have watched it in the theater.
@@AdamWelch yea I was thinking about that. Can’t remember how I got in at that age. My friend was 13 but I think his Mom took us. Still was great. Seen the Wild Bunch with Dad at the Drive In. Mom was gone with my sisters for the weekend. Took me for a steak dinner then to the drive in.
Enjoyable video - Is that a KOJAK Dumb twice camera? You said x-ray film, are you using blue or green type? My personal choice is a Grundloch Korona with Fuji Green and a Wollensak (wollysack) 13" Apochromatic Raptor. Keep up the great work ,love it.
The fact I instantly knew what camera you're referring to is both satisfying and disturbing.... I am fairly certain those holders in the episode were loaded with some of the final sheets of green-sensitive AGFA. I am/was currently using Fuji HR-U (also green-sensitive) in my 11x14 and was using it in the 8x10 Korona prior to putting it into storage.
Those are the same films I use in my cameras (5x7, 4x10 and 8x10). Not that I'm psychic (possibly just a bit psychotic) just an old man showing a deep interest in old field cameras and lenses. I collect and use mostly WWI era Cooke along with 1940's and 50's Wollensak and Kodak lenses and I still think you did a great job in making that video, good sense of humor too.@@AdamWelch
@@jamesmoore9511 Very nice indeed! Also thank you for the kind words. And be as psychotic as you like here. This is a safe place, James...just don't start biting the heads off of chickens or anything.
Do you have a preferred developer you employ for your radiographic film? Always curious to know what folks are using. Also, what make of camera is your 4x10 camera if you don't mind me asking? I'm steadily growing more and more interested in wider formats.
one other suggestion, if you have to tilt "Winston" down that far, add a clamp to the tripod leg, and, like a tent, peg it down with string, so you have extra protection, and also a 'counter-balance' to the off center weight.
Stake it down into mud?
@@AdamWelch yes, if deep enough, and you angle the stake, like campers do (this increases the resistance the ground has), all this is is a safety so the whole rig doesn't fall over, or at least gives you enough time to catch it.
@@andyvan5692 Do much camping, Andy?
@@AdamWelch I did some when I was doing a 'Surveying' course, but sorry, not much, but I have done some boating too, and they anchor in mud too, so the principle is not impossible, just giving some suggestions; but Yes, get your point, perhaps a weight clamped to the opposite leg may do the same thing, like a sandbag on a light stand.
@@andyvan5692 Sounds great, Andy.
another innovative idea people did, was use 1/2 darkslides aka for multi-exposures, passport photos (4-on, 8x10); this would solve the foreground issue, with a top\bottom 1/2 slide, replace the normal slide with the 1/2 one, lower 1/2 dark that way you get the water only; then to do the other 1/2 turn the holder 180 deg. then use the 1/2 slide again.
this above idea also allows one to shoot more on the limited amount of double darks one can carry in ones bag, so if you only have one holder left, you can get 4 shots (4x10"), not just two, so allowing you some more time.
The fuck are you talking about, Andy?
@@AdamWelch Sorry, I was talking about the shot of the branch in water, the one you couldn't get close enough to shoot. I was suggesting to use only half of one film, so you could get the shot without having all that blank foreground.
@@andyvan5692 When you say "blank" could you be as specific as possible please?
@@AdamWelch I was aligning with what your comments where in the video, that, having the "hypothetical empty space", at 23:35, and if my assumption of this was right, in black and white, an uninteresting tonal range, or monotone subject, with low contrast or detail ( that grey limp grass in the foreground) ; that removing it, if impossible by shift/rise, could be 'blocked out' by using this method, of exposing half of a frame, hence using only the top area to expose, using that area to 'focus' the frame on the subject, aka a way of subject isolation. (you said that lens was the only one you had, so by extended thinking, changing perspective, to remove this foreground grass {by moving the tripod and isolating it with a long[er] lens, like studio photographers do, would be impossible}, so this other method of "cropping" in-camera, came to mind).
@@andyvan5692 Sounds great, Andy.
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Hello! Can the rear group of Plaubel Peco Universal 3 810 be translated left and right?
If I understand you correctly I think you're referring to left/right "shift" movements? If so, I found a manual for the Peco Universal 2 (not 3) which states both the front and rear standards of the 8x10 model have a left/right shift of approximately 1.8 inches. I would assume this would be similar to the Mark 3 model but of course I can't confirm that.
Thank you! If you can get one, you can do a review.@@AdamWelch
@@user-yl2ey7it4k Why?
If you have the opportunity to come into contact with it in the future, help me try its features. Because it is currently unavailable in China. thanks@@AdamWelch
@@user-yl2ey7it4k Always happy to help when I can but I'm afraid with my current nomadic lifestyle I likely won't be procuring any more cameras for the foreseeable future.