The real shutter speeds of mechanical shutters often deviate from the numbers you find printed on the dial. Hence to decide if you need to get your shutter cleaned and adjusted, and to know which of the speeds deviate most [...]
In this final part of my report on my first large format photography adventure with the Tachihara 4×5 camera, I will present some of my first images taken – acceptable images but also some obvious failures. The images are rather [...]
On the last 3 weekends I did my first tests with the Tachihara 4×5 camera and the Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 5,6/150 and the Super-Angulon 5,6/75. As these were mere technical tests, I chose some historical palaces castles and churches which are [...]
This is a short report of how I develop black and white film. I can only encourage everyone to just try it at home, since it is not very complicated. And it is really fun! Recently I found some old [...]
Since I started my large format photography adventure a couple of weeks ago with the purchase of the Tachihara 4×5 field camera, I spent a lot of time hunting for second hand equipment, such as sheet film holders, wire releases, [...]
After having spent so much time with 35mm film and so-called full-frame (digital) sensors, I finally start taking first steps into the land of large format photography. The idea for this experiment arose pretty early, long time before I started [...]
Website relaunch 2011! Today is the day, and I just about managed to get the new site up in time before the end of 2011 – a deadline I set for myself to build up some pressure. The idea to [...]
When scanning through my old images recently, I came across some old photographs of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, taken in December 1999. So this was less than 2 years before the tragedy caused by acts of terrorism in [...]
One of the advantages of living in Düsseldorf (Germany) is that you can easily visit the biannual international Photokina trade show in Cologne. So these last two days I spent several hours at this large trade show where every manufacturer [...]
Here you will see the more visual aspects of the Photokina trade show – at the booths of the various manufacturers of photographic equipment you could find posing models, exhibitions and still life and objects ready to be captured on [...]
