Sexy Beast
☆ December 23, 2011
Every day is like Christmas when I open this box.
I included myself {and Mushy!} in this picture as a size reference, to show how huge this equipment is, but it didn’t work – it just makes me look short.
In reality, I’m 5’9″ and this stuff is as big as I am.
Behold, the 4×5.
I’ll share more about this awesome camera in later posts.
True love.
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December 23rd, 2011 @ 4:20 pm
That’s old school. I had a job in the 90’s and got to work in a dark room for 7 years. That was fun. Would you have to scan your prints to show them on here?
December 23rd, 2011 @ 4:45 pm
The passion for a craftswoman for her gear :)) Thanks for sharing, and happy holidays to you and yours.
December 23rd, 2011 @ 4:53 pm
Mushyyyy…!!!!
(I miss all your farm mates!)
Happy holidays to you, Mike, and the whole farmily, Shreve!
December 23rd, 2011 @ 5:23 pm
Ah you are still using it!
When do we get to see some results?
December 23rd, 2011 @ 5:44 pm
How can it be better than aa digital camera?
December 23rd, 2011 @ 6:09 pm
Happy holidays to you, Mike, and the Farmily, Shreve!
Loved the David Sedaris Santaland Diaries!
Cheers!
December 23rd, 2011 @ 7:22 pm
I’m not yet camera savvy so I cannot fully appreciate ‘sexy beast’, but I am very envious of your bright sunshine and blue sky.
Not too sure about the temperature. I know it’s a package deal!
December 23rd, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
Oh so jealous that you own one.
December 23rd, 2011 @ 7:45 pm
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!
December 23rd, 2011 @ 8:10 pm
MERRY ALL THE TIME and HAPPY FOREVER!
With lovingkindness to all the members of your farmily!
December 23rd, 2011 @ 8:23 pm
That camera looks awesome. Can’t wait to read more about it. Shreve, Merry Christmas to you, Mike and all your family .
December 23rd, 2011 @ 9:55 pm
@David
“How can it be better than aa digital camera?”
A 4X5 camera is generally rated at 200 Megapixels, in contrast to your 4? 8? 12? megapixel digital camera. In addition, the dynamic range of film – “CCDs and the related capture electronics will need about ten times more dynamic range (three stops) than they have today to be able to simulate film’s shoulder….This is the biggest image defect in digital cameras today.”. So when you have a a 2 gigapixel digital camera… ask again.
The above is, of course, approximate, but in any case, unless you work for some exotic government agency – you have no way of displaying the difference.
December 23rd, 2011 @ 10:02 pm
Nice! We have an old 4×5 press camera that my father-in-law gave us – he used to use it in the field for taking photos of rocks (he’s a geologist, it’s not as dull as it sounds :P) It’s a little beat up, but it still takes beautiful shots, once we figured out how to use it, and how to use sheet film – I never had the opportunity to go beyond 120 film in school. We’ve got Ilford FP4 in the fridge right now. Can’t wait to read more about yours! Yours is typically more for studio work, no? Since it’s such a pain to lug around?
December 23rd, 2011 @ 10:49 pm
Somebody is having a white Christmas and I’m glad it’s not me. Well we do have some snow but it’s mostly ice now after a big chinook. Merry Christmas everyone.
December 23rd, 2011 @ 11:49 pm
well it is important that mushy is there to supervise all the goings on. omg that looks like a portable xray machine or sumthin, that’s a gnarly set up for sure. and yeah you are a sexy beast. oh that, sorry. baaa haaaa !
December 24th, 2011 @ 2:04 am
Ah, the reliable 4×5. The large format cameras… nothing can quite equal them. The solid thunk as the film slide seats. The authoritative snap of the iris. The wonderful metal clicks and ticks as you settle it for a shot. The substantial heft. I had a Graflex Press camera for many years; spent many happy hours in the dark room, reeking of hypo and hot, drying prints on the drying drum. Congratulations on owning such a beauty!
December 24th, 2011 @ 7:34 am
Careful…Your lips will stick to that beast.
December 24th, 2011 @ 8:32 am
Sigh…I miss playing with the 4×5’s from college. Your beast is very sexy!
December 24th, 2011 @ 9:03 am
Wow, looks awesome..I think I can understand your love for photography. I love to take pictures, but your quite a few light years ahead of me in that department. My little camera still uses film, and trying to find a Black’s to get it developed….well, that’s another story. People laugh at me because I have not gone digital yet. But, that is coming.
Merry Christmas Shreve to you and Mike, and all of your farmily..A special kiss on the nose for Charlie, (whom I just love).
December 24th, 2011 @ 11:11 am
love your gorgeous winter day. Merry Christmas!
December 24th, 2011 @ 11:12 am
Awesome post. That camera(!), You(!), Mushy(!), the snow, the sky… all so beautiful. Mushy is cuuute as she keeps you company. Talk about size reference and perspective – she looks like a little owl back there. Ha.
Merry, merry Christmas to all of you darlings: you, Mike & his farmily, Charlie, Eli, Chloe, Ranger, Daisy, Sir Baby, Flicka, Frisco, Rue, Mushy, Kettle and Fiona.
December 24th, 2011 @ 12:54 pm
Oh, Shreve, the shot of you giving it a kiss will keep me happy for days. I’m very happy for you that you have it, and I’m sure you know just how to use it. Can’t wait to see the results! Do you already have a darkroom?
Mushy sitting in the snow watching you is just great: how many cats will wander off in the snow with their humans just to watch what’s going on, and especially to sit on that cold wet stuff!! Another example of the ways your farmily are each individuals, true to their full characters (when so many domestic animals are limited by their circumstances to a smaller range of behavior due to having to conform to certain expectations.) You don’t require anything from them, hence they can be who they are.
Please share camera results soon! And the best of the turning of the year to you and yours.
December 24th, 2011 @ 1:20 pm
aahhh, it’s so satisfying to have the perfect camera, saw, kiln, brushes, or whatever tool it takes, to do your thing! all tool freaks understand the feeling.
Happy Everything to you and everyone there.
December 24th, 2011 @ 4:13 pm
Merry Christmas to you and your farmily and the best for the new year.
OOOOOOh all that lovely snow. I don’t suppose you could send some of it my way?? Not too much, just a couple of inches for Christmas.
Perhaps the first picture should be of Mushy. she appears to be sitting there quite patiently while you set things up.
December 24th, 2011 @ 7:01 pm
Are you using sheet film with that 4×5? We have one, from Fred Picker’s Zone 6, made out of walnut – a thing of beauty with a Schneider lens.
December 24th, 2011 @ 7:32 pm
Where does one get one of these beauties? I’m dying to do some equine photography with one!
December 25th, 2011 @ 12:04 am
During my law enforcement days, my crime scene photography mentor raved about his 4×5 and how well it captured detail. But it still takes the eye of the photographer to select the details. You, my dear, have that eye.
May your Christmas be peaceful and filled with friends ( 2 legged and 4). Merry Christmas, Shrreve.
December 25th, 2011 @ 8:39 am
Drooling so early is quite unattractive! Oh I can’t wait to see the results from this shoot.
Merry Christmas to you, Mike and the whole gang.
December 25th, 2011 @ 12:56 pm
That is SO awesome! I’m with Patr, shots, shots! :)
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2011 @ 9:51 pm
You are beautiful! I love your camera, too.
December 26th, 2011 @ 10:21 am
Nothing is better then getting to use the tools you love, to be the artisan you are, to create what you love!
I don’t think it gets better then that!
Happy Holidays!
December 26th, 2011 @ 10:45 am
Happy holidays to all. Have fun to get Charlie to stand and pose for his picture with your new toy, as we get older our toys get larger, but more rewarding. Have fun.
December 26th, 2011 @ 12:47 pm
Geez. How can you haul that box around without wheels. Or…a sled?
Sorry but it still looks huge.
I’ll assume it uses print film (probably black and white) and you develop it yourself?
That is one serious camera.
Gud Yule to all. Hope you day was special.
December 27th, 2011 @ 10:18 am
interesting. can’t wait to learn more about it!
December 27th, 2011 @ 11:58 am
perfect
December 27th, 2011 @ 12:43 pm
Looks like your Yule was super cool (in every sense of the word!) Glad you got the lovely monster out to take more shots and hope you got my card okay. Thank you for enriching all of our lives all year long with your unique view of the world.
December 28th, 2011 @ 3:29 am
Awesome camera. Awesome scenery. We don’t know what snow is here in Western Australia. My thermometer shows 100 degrees and it’s still two hours to sunset!
December 31st, 2011 @ 6:34 pm
We have a vintage 5X7 Corona View view camera and gear that made a living for the people who owned it through the depression. I would be a great great granddaddy to your ‘sexy beast’. Love your photos. Happy New Year to you, Mike and the whole Farmily.
December 31st, 2011 @ 6:35 pm
Left the t off of “it would be the great…”
January 3rd, 2012 @ 4:06 pm
yes, the camera is cool… but I’m in love with your sweater! Where did you get it?!
January 3rd, 2012 @ 5:11 pm
thrift store!!
January 21st, 2012 @ 10:33 pm
Love it!
December 17th, 2012 @ 9:04 am
mr. cybermediaboy –>
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