bcooter do you mind me asking what G stock is?
It was a Kodak paper stock I fell in love with for portraits. It has a beautiful texture and if you developed it with care and lot of rinse it was beautiful.
Kodak killed it off before digital took hold so I searched and found a 3 or 4 cases, maybe more. I have a friend that is an analog freak, one of these guys whose loft looks like the mad scientist with humdifiers, or dehumidifiers everywhere, backup power and filters, etc. etc. and he keeps it for me. One box (not case) got kind of screwy where some of the edges are damaged but the rest is intact and I don't do much with it but keep a lot of film and paper.
It's hard to throw away paper or film, even if I don't use it.
I have a ton of super 16mm fuji motion picture stock which is not made anymore as kodak owns the mp world, but super 16 fuji looks better than 35mm kodak (imo), it's just hard to load as it's physically thicker than kodak film.
Yea CB, me and my wooden camera. I love the deardorff, the bellows will stretch across the room and it weighs nothing. Downside is only the front has rise and fall, so perspective change you have to adapt to, which I'm use to so it's no problem.
Love it, though not for commerce even in the film days. Using 8x10 for people became a hard sell, due to film costs. I'd have the assistants load about 100 holders, and you'd load them and client's would just go crazy about the costs, so we moved to 4x5, then . . .well we all know that everything is smaller where 645 is considered large format.
I laugh when people who look at my 1dxI(s) and the new II and say what a big camera.
No 8x10 was big, but nothing was more fun that shooting people 8x10. It's interesting that our starting assistants are carrying around film rangefinders to get the film experience, but wouldn't know a view camera if it landed on them. They don't know what they're missing.
This was one of the last gigs for commerce shot 8x10 and all the movement was in camera, not post production. The only post production in photoshop was coloration as we did this in a monotone look and also colour. Even Nikon picked it up for their own promo use and paid serious money (back in the days camera companies paid serious money for use).
BC
PS CB is doing some seriously beautiful large format images and they are well worth looking at. Like everything CB doesn't mess around jumping from the low board. He goes to the top and dives in.
