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macintux · Feb 2, 2024

Greetings & salutations. I'm a photography dabbler from Indiana; got into film (almost exclusively medium format) a year ago and I've been accumulating cameras and wasted film ever since.

The cameras I shoot most often are a 3D-printed 6x17 (based on the Kraken design), a Yashica Mat 124G, and a Voigtländer Bessa.

Mainly I've been perusing the classifieds here, but LF is enough of a jump (especially financially) that I'll probably stick with MF. On the other hand, this Rochester (https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...mera-lens-packard-shutter-film-holder.203236/) keeps nagging at me.

mshchem · Feb 2, 2024

Welcome! Indiana is a great place. No such thing as wasted film, I love developing film, and printing. I'm a great fan of medium format, large format is great but can get expensive these days. Again Welcome!

chriscrawfordphoto · Feb 3, 2024

Welcome to Photrio. I'm in Indiana, too. In Fort Wayne!

Don_ih · Feb 3, 2024

macintux said:
On the other hand, this Rochester (https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...mera-lens-packard-shutter-film-holder.203236/) keeps nagging at me.

It's a good price for a complete large format camera, but getting extra film holders might be difficult (since the camera was adapted to fit that, already adapted holder). It would make a swell portrait camera (if your sitter could keep still for a second). And you may have trouble getting film in that size. (I've never tried to get film that size, so I don't know.)

Sirius Glass · Feb 3, 2024

Welcome to Photrio! Please show us the cameras that you made.

macintux · Feb 3, 2024

chriscrawfordphoto said:
Welcome to Photrio. I'm in Indiana, too. In Fort Wayne!

Fort Wayne inspired me to get into film photography.

Specifically, I was passing through and stopped at the museum of art, where I found a moving piece titled Joy, by Maggie Shannon, from her project following midwives during the height of the pandemic.

Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy - Black & White Photography Award 2021 Winner | Essay by Joanna L. Cresswell | LensCulture

Casting an unflinching eye onto the realities of giving birth during the pandemic, LA-based photographer Maggie Shannon’s award-winning project is an important document of an often-unseen yet universal experience

www.lensculture.com

I have no idea how she shot it, but the incredibly rich textures of the print reminded me of large format photos I'd seen. I settled on medium format instead, bought the Yashica Mat soon after.

macintux · Feb 3, 2024

Don_ih said:
It's a good price for a complete large format camera, but getting extra film holders might be difficult (since the camera was adapted to fit that, already adapted holder). It would make a swell portrait camera (if your sitter could keep still for a second). And you may have trouble getting film in that size. (I've never tried to get film that size, so I don't know.)

Film itself is (relatively) easy, so long as I'm willing to buy Ilford (B&H has it, Delta 100), but that's most of what I shoot today anyway.

I really want a camera I can use outdoors, though, and while it looks like I could make it work, it would be a challenge.

macintux · Feb 3, 2024

Sirius Glass said:
Welcome to Photrio! Please show us the cameras that you made.

I can't take any credit for the 3D panoramic. It was purchased through Etsy, from a seller who licenses the design and makes them in a few different sizes.

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This is one of my first shots, and remains my favorite.

macintux · Feb 3, 2024

mshchem said:
Welcome! Indiana is a great place. No such thing as wasted film, I love developing film, and printing. I'm a great fan of medium format, large format is great but can get expensive these days. Again Welcome!

Thanks. I miss oceans and mountains, but Indiana has a lot to offer.

I've been taking darkroom classes through the local art center, and I enjoy using the enlargers, but when I bought the 6x17 I realized I needed to get a scanner and start doing more digital printing. A shame, but there's definitely something to be said for digital.

mshchem · Feb 3, 2024

macintux said:
I can't take any credit for the 3D panoramic. It was purchased through Etsy, from a seller who licenses the design and makes them in a few different sizes.

CameraSolutions - Etsy

Shop items by CameraSolutions.

www.etsy.com

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This is one of my first shots, and remains my favorite.

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How are you scanning your 6x17 negatives? I have an old Fujica G617 I have an enlarger for black and white but I've used a cheap Canon flat bed scanner, actually works pretty well, for Fujichrome.

macintux · Feb 3, 2024

mshchem said:
How are you scanning your 6x17 negatives? I have an old Fujica G617 I have an enlarger for black and white but I've used a cheap Canon flat bed scanner, actually works pretty well, for Fujichrome.

I picked up an Epson V700 flatbed scanner on eBay, and I've been pretty happy with a Logomography Digitaliza film holder I bought from Roberts.

I've never really figured out what each generation of Epson scanner offers over older ones, but the V700 seems to do fine.

I started out with a copy stand and my Canon Rebel, but the tedium and extra work stitching together even a 6x6 photo was ridiculous. I think I paid about the same for the copy stand as I did the V700; that was a mistake.

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