Comments on: Large Format

By: Nolan Smock

Nolan Smock — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:39:37 +0000

Ah! Got it!

And Mathew, I’m doing the same thing soon. I’ve been seeing a lot of 8×10 negatives/contact prints and they are incredible. It’s hard to go back.

I think it’s the closeness to painting which really attracts me, process-wise. It’s possibly a bit distancing, but there’s a lot of work I want to do which calls for that, I think.

By: Mathew Savage

Mathew Savage — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:08:16 +0000

I’d love to have a go with some large format stuff.

Maybe when the student loan comes through.
I can’t any of it making it’s way to be spent on things realted to studying.

By: john the monkey

john the monkey — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:48:11 +0000

Nolan, “faff” is a British colloquialism, used both as noun and verb.

In this context, I’m using it as a noun to indicate a series of small, slightly annoying, time consuming tasks. As a verb, it tends to mean to behave irritatingly indecisively, e.g. “It took ages to take the portrait, because the photographer spent twenty minutes under a hood faffing about.”

By: brendadada

brendadada — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:11:06 +0000

Oooh 10×8 transparencies, now there’s a thing to ponder…..

By: Nolan Smock

Nolan Smock — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:53:05 +0000

what is ‘a faff’?

By: outallnight

outallnight — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:36:35 +0000

I’ve been using a 4×5 camera for a little while now and they’re great fun to use! It is a hassle to carry around all the time though! I’d dearly love a Deardorff 10×8 to shoot tintypes on instead of my Speed Graphic.

You might like this link for plates http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/bestvintage/multimedia_vid2.html