Speed Graphic
My mate Greg in Toowoomba has lent me a Graflex Speed Graphic 4×5 press camera to experiment with while I work out whether I want to get my own.
A speed graphic press camera
We went for a drive out to Millmerran on Saturday afternoon and shot a couple of black and white sheets on it, and developed them yesterday. The first didn’t turn out properly as there were temperature differential issues in the developing tank, so we tried a different method and ended up with a nice crisp neg:
Railway Bridge, Millmerran - the image when clicked will open a large version in Flickr
The film used in the speed graphic is 4 by 5 inch sheet film, which allows enormous enlargement and reproduction. The above image was scanned from the negative I took Saturday, at 2400 DPI, which resulted in an image about 12,000 pixels wide - large enough to print a poster 40 inches (about a metre) wide, at 300dpi.
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