One Month, 5,000 Miles, 150 Photos: Capturing Autumn in Large Format
Autumn is something I never miss when it comes to photography. I may be working on other projects …
Autumn is something I never miss when it comes to photography. I may be working on other projects …
From my beginning days in photography, roughly 1969, I had the ambition to travel and make photographs. Somehow, I felt a great satisfaction in producing photographic art that came from within.
The folks over at Lomography have just unveiled the LomoGraflok 4x5 Instant Back: the world’s first Instant Back for 4×5 cameras that's designed to use Fujifilm Instax Wide film. As Lomo puts it, "large format photography just got a whole lot easier, less expensive, and more accessible!"
Our minds are so rarely silent. For those of us with anxiety disorders, the noise is constant. From what we’ll cook for dinner to the specifics of how our lives will end, there’s no shortage of things to worry about. But how does the creative mind function amid all this static?
In an early morning press release, Kodak Alaris has announced that the recently revived Kodak Ektachrome E100 film stock is now available in medium (120) and large (4x5) formats in addition to the 35mm format that launched last year.
Photographer Usman Dawood of Sonder Creative recently teamed up with film photographer Adam French to put together an intriguing portrait comparison: high-resolution full-frame digital vs 4x5 large format film. They shot both cameras at about the same FF equivalent focal length, and then compared the resulting images side by side for your viewing pleasure.
If you have a bunch of 35mm, 120, and even large format negatives lying around in your attic, slowly succumbing to the ravages of time, Ricoh has a solution for you. It's their newest "film duplicator," and it'll let you digitize all that film using your DSLR or digital medium format camera.