Describe your favorite memorable medium format shots and, hopefully, share the results or kit used.

Let’s share you favorite memories of medium format shots, your “war stories” as it were and read the way others handled their photo chores.

Claude, albino alligator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 2009??, I think. Yashica-D with Yashinon, Fuji Neopan 400 film.

The Academy had been renovated and expanded and recently reopened. They had kept the Southern Swamp exhibit, including the Art Deco railing, etc. Added the lower level viewing window.

This couldn't be taken today for two reasons. A guard told me that parents would put their children on their shoulders and lean over the opening above the exhibit, so they added safety netting to keep kids from falling in.

And Claude died last December, RIP.

Dan Daniel said:

Claude, albino alligator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 2009??, I think. Yashica-D with Yashinon, Fuji Neopan 400 film.

The Academy had been renovated and expanded and recently reopened. They had kept the Southern Swamp exhibit, including the Art Deco railing, etc. Added the lower level viewing window.

This couldn't be taken today for two reasons. A guard told me that parents would put their children on their shoulders and lean over the opening above the exhibit, so they added safety netting to keep kids from falling in.

And Claude died last December, RIP.

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Outstanding camera bag material.

It must have been exciting to be making images and realizing the potential for a once in a lifetime capture of misadventure.

New Instax back for my RZ67II! (Big picture is latest batch of SX-70 Polaroid)

Dan Daniel said:

Claude, albino alligator, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 2009??, I think. Yashica-D with Yashinon, Fuji Neopan 400 film.

The Academy had been renovated and expanded and recently reopened. They had kept the Southern Swamp exhibit, including the Art Deco railing, etc. Added the lower level viewing window.

This couldn't be taken today for two reasons. A guard told me that parents would put their children on their shoulders and lean over the opening above the exhibit, so they added safety netting to keep kids from falling in.

And Claude died last December, RIP.

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Claude is a cool dude!

mshchem said:

Claude is a cool dude!

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Was...............a cool dude!

John Wiegerink said:

Was...............a cool dude!

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Forever in our hearts

In 2016, I had the lo-fi film itch.

Holga 120N


Fujifilm Instax Mini (did you know that highlight recovery works surprisingly well with scanned Instax film?)


Lomo LCA-120

My favorite memory was taken with a Hasselblad 501, years back, when the were new to the market, and a Polaroid 100 back with type 55 film.

I was at the S.C. North Myrtle Beach sea shore, together with my niece's dad, a white haired ex-Navy Seal and had the pure white Symoyed hound i had just given my sister as a birthday present a few months back.

Buddy, my sister's boyfriend was walking him on a chain and had just taken a seat on the foremost wooden post which swept away of to the left about 10 feet apart from a row of several similar short posts and the dog, sat in front of him also to the left, and completed a composition like you would find in a book of fine art.

I was using a 150mm lens, together with an adjustable lens hood, far enough back to have a wide view of the scene, and a polarized filter on the lens.

The deserted beach and ocean grasp the long curve of posts and blacktop road and the sky was very interesting, in layers and wisps of clouds, a study in Grey's.

The negative was lost but the positive was beautiful and I was disappointed when it disappeared, only to discover my sister had taken it in and put it in a drawer full of photographs.

I haven't seen it in twenty years but I'll alway have the memory of it to motivate me at composition in all following photographs, particularly in b&w.