old building

Great shot Alex! Tones look good. - Jim

Welcome to LF!

Thanks, guys. This one seems a bit top heavy to me. what do you think?
And I am currently bidding on an 8X10 B&J on ebay!

8x10??? Oh no - Bob created a monster! I am working on my 8x10 cameras to hopefully have one ready for the next APUG shoot.

If you think this is top heavy an 8x10 is going to be heavier Welcome to the darkslide.

For an "old building" it looks warm and friendly. Nice going.

You sir, are DOOMED! Your bank account will be dry within weeks, you'll never get any sleep, and your better half will...

hehehe

Alex--if you're looking for a 4x5" camera, I've seen quite a few Sinar F and F1 monorails go for under $400 on eBay recently. These are really fine cameras that are great to learn on, and since everything in the Sinar system is well integrated, you'll never outgrow it. I recently got one cheaper than that by buying an estate lot for the Sinar F and selling off all the stuff I didn't need. I think these cameras are the best value out there at the moment. [This is where there ought to be a paragraph break, but the board doesn't seem to like them.]

Looking at this photograph, which I recall you were taking at the same time I was shooting a different view of the same building, I can confirm that the sun, which looks normal on your shot was completely solarized on mine. I was shooting Tri-X, which is about one and a third stops faster than Plus-X, but I rate it at 160 in ABC Pyro, but I guess I may have also given it a fuller exposure.

well, I didn't win the 8X10 camera, something came up, lost track of that bid. Too bad, my bank acount is still half full!

David, what I intend to have is a field camera, easier to carry in the backpack, view camera is a bit tough to go around. So far, shen-hao and toyo look good to me. I am going to visit China for 2 weeks, try to pay the factory a visit to see if I can get a better deal.

The highlight you see here on top of the frame is not produced by sun, it was behind a thin cloud when I took the shot. The neg has no blown highlight, so it must be the PS thing. I will make a contact this week.

I think you're right about the sun. Looking back at my shot, it's much higher in the sky than it is here. Oh well, it was a theory.