Messing About With Large Format Cameras

Taken on an MPP 4x5 view camera using a Schneider-Kreuznach Symmar 150mm f/5.6 lens with the back half removed to turn it into a 265mm f/12 lens, shot on Polaroid 400 ISO B&W film, which is a couple of years out of date, at f/22 and 1/5 of a second exposure.

Looks like I got a light leak as well. It was nice to have a bit of impromptu fun under the dark-cloth though (oo-er!)

I do enjoy playing with those old, almost steampunk cameras and their clockwork lenses, doing lots of licking my finger, sticking it in the air and saying, "that looks about right", and eventually getting a reasonable photo out of it. Seems so much more ... civilised than modern stuff.