LomoGraflok, Reveni Labs Spotmeter, Viewer Mail, and More! - Large Format Friday
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Today I'm covering some large format news and channel updates that otherwise wouldn't have made it to a separate video.
My 1st Roll of Kodak Gold 200 in 120: marrash.com/blog/2022/4/20/my...
High Res 617 Scans: www.flickr.com/photos/mat4226...
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One-on-One lessons now LIVE! - marrash.com/one-on-one
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2022 - pinholeday.org/
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Content by Mat Marrash: www.matmarrash.com
#largeformat #filmphotography #fujifilm #kodak
00:00 Intro & Help!
01:10 Viewer Mail
02:30 Kodak Gold 200
03:30 LomoGraflok BTS
04:50 Reveni Updates
06:25 One-on-Ones LIVE
07:14 WPPD 2022 
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YES to medium format Mondays!!!!
Medium format monday-yes, please!
Yes definitely to medium format Monday!! I shoot large format as well as medium format. It would be awesome. BTW, I can’t get enough of your content. Love the videos. Thanks
A medium format Monday would be awesome!
Yes Medium Format Monday for me🙌🏻
Thanks for the vote of confidence! :)
Definitely “Yesss!!” To MFM!! 👍🏽📷. Keep the great content going. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!
Hey Matt, only chance to avoid 100% Newton rings is doing wet scanning. The problem is the clear glass below your sheet. For my knowledge there is a wetscan holder available for your Epson (I am scanning wet up to 4x5 with an old schooled Polaroid Sprintscan 45ultra).
This is your layer sequence:
- Epson scanners glass
- wet scan holders clear glass
- fluid (eg. Gamsol, it's a substitute for expensive Kami-fluid, evaporates residue free)
- your sheet, emulsion side towards the fluid/glass
- your AN glass, etched side towards your sheet backside
You need a soft roller to eliminate any air bubbles in fluid layer, in this step temporary put a mylar sheet on top of your sheet to avoid any scratches.
Before buying Gamsol or a similiar fluid you can do a test with cheap lighter fluid, it's nearly the same.
This should work ;-)
The appearing of Newton rings depends on several factors as your film material brand (shininess of emulsion side), humidity, temp ...
Love you, love your attitude, love your energy, Rock on!!!
Yes to the medium format Monday !!!!!
Great to see someone is supporting incoming Pinhole Day on YT.
Medium Format Mondays - YES!! : )
I am working towards large format, but at this point I am shooting almost all my film in 120 (Holga, pinhole, Autocord TLR). Thank you!
Another YES vote! :D
it's always good to see quality new content for photography - so, yes, your take on medium format would be a nice addition
but add a warning label - with the variety of great medium format film cameras out there "MEDIUM FORMAT CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR WEALTH"
I'm never going to financially recover from this "hobby".
Ben Horn uses a cutout plastic pet food bowl mat he got at Target as an 8x10 homemade negative carrier for his Epson 850. I've actually looked in Target for the item and was not successful, but maybe AMAZON. Search through Ben Horn's old vids for the one on his scanning technique and equipment. I would think with the film not touching anything,that the newton rings would be gone. But I'm just a 4x5 guy, so I don't have the problem... 😀 Hope that helps.
Yes to the medium format Monday. As for the furnule rings in the scans, I had the same issue with my 700 scanner. Mine I think was caused by the cleaner solution, ( windex). I used straight ammonia on a clean rag, very lightly, and it corrected my issue. Good luck, let me know if it works
Thanks GP, I'll give that a try since I did use a glass cleaner on my scanner glass. Funny that it's only with big sheets of color, B&W show none!
Mat you can tape the corners of your film to a piece of ground glass. Then shim the ground glass above the scanner bed to match the height of a standard Epson film holder. The order would be light source , glass, film. airgap from shims, scanner bed. Nick Carver has some good videos on scanning. That's where this comes from. The larger the film base the larger the problem of the center bowing down and going out of focus of course. Good luck.
I jump straight to direct-to-scanner-glass fluid mount no matter what quality level I’m looking for. It’s so easy to do and takes care of a lot of scratch and dust problems. Just order some Kami fluid and plastic sheets from Aztek
Some medium format shows would be great.
I totally dig the LomoGraflock back ... I bought a Cameradactyl Rex so i can use my Polaroid 600 SE lenses and use it like a point and shoot!!! So many cool things can be done with this!!! I love WWPD, I have been doing it for years, even made an 8x10 pinhole camera for fun!!!
Wet scanning is your key. The layer of liquid matches refractive index well enough with the glass that there won't be any reflection, hence no interference rings. It's not free, but compared to a box of Portra 160 in 8x10, it's not terrible -- you'll need an adapter, some lint-free wipes, and some scanning fluid (the stuff evaporates clean, from both glass and film, after scanning). The wet scan adapter for the Epson scanners is available online.
I have scanned 8x10 using a mat board template with the film taped at the edges. This will suspend the film slightly over the glass. I think I made mine from Ben Horne’s template as mentioned already.
I got some rubber sheet that is the same thickness as Ben's mat and used his template. It works great if a bit fiddly.
@@RogerHyam Yes. Silicon rubber catfood mat (buy two!), cut to the template. About 2ml thick. Tape rebate of film to mat all around with strips of clear 3M scotch tape. Works perfectly. Using Epson V850 with this for three years. No need for fluids or glass or any of that stuff.
Big yes to Medium format Mondays!
Would love medium format Mondays as the the cameras I mostly use are a Mamiya RB67 and a Kiev 88. I especially love the RB67, for me it's a great compromise between the ease and economy of 35 mm and the image quality of 4x5.
I can confirm that the Lomograflok will also fit into the Canham wood 4x5 (non-graflok) spring back with the Canham ground glass protector inserted as advised by Keith for use with Graflok compatible adapters of all types. Yes to Medium Format Mondays but you will need to decide which show a medium format roll film back on a 4x5 camera will be allowed into, lol. Decisions, decisions.
Roll film adapters get a pass on LFF...unless they're smaller than 6x12! ;)
Absolutely medium format Monday! I shoot large format but shoot way more with my rolleiflex
The yeses keep pouring in!
Yes to Medium Format Monday! Have a happy Pinhole Day 😁. My new 4x5 55mm pinhole camera is still hidden inside a block of wood but I have a pinhole lens that I can use on my Intrepid this Sunday.
Very cool Philip, have fun with the block-o-wood pinhole this weekend!
Newton rings is one of the main reasons why I don't use a flatbed scanner but bought a good copy stand and scan with my digital camera in high res mode. There may be differences in scan quality, but I must say I can't see them.
Medium Format Mondays? A definite yes!
I’m scanning my 4x5 film with an Epson V500. I use a 3D printed mask and do 2 scans top/bottom and join them with Hugin free software. It’s cheaper than spending $1300 on a V850
8 minutes??? Why? ;-) The panoramic camera is great!
I have not done 8x10 on my Epson, but I have done 6x12. For that I used emulsion side down directly on the scanner glass, and laid the ANR glass sitting on top. That gave me no rings, after I cleaned the glass with cleaner that left zero residue. Windex caused me problems.
I see others have mentioned suspending the negative, and that is obviously preferred, but I expect that is difficult with 8x10. Since the difference on v7x0/v8x0 scanners is 2300 vs. 2700 real-world PPI, I would lean toward placing it right on the scanner glass.
*ALSO* if you look up Figital Revolution 2.0 youtube channel, he has a video that covers how to raise the glass on your scanner so that you can use the high-resolution CCD when scanning with film directly on the scanner bed. I haven't done it, but 99% of the time I'm using raised film holders.
To anyone saying to camera scan, the one viable option I could see using for large format would be to look at using a camera with built-in compositing. You would get ~56mpx (~8600x6900) when scanning 8x10 using an Olympus EM-5ii in-body hi-resolution mode. Those cost $275 for the body, and yield enough resolution for a 30" print, so perhaps that would be enough. There are many other cameras with compositing - Panasonic is great, Sony is a pita, Pentax is weak, etc. etc.
Cheers!
Would love to see some 6x17 medium format!
I have the Reveni labs spotmeter and have been feeding back my concerns regarding the poor performance in low temperature for a while. I'm a trifle miffed I didn't get a notification about the new battery compartment as here it can cold mornings and evenings even in summer. I'm also hoping there will be a soft neoprene-style case to help protect the meter from knocks and make it more pleasurable to hold.
I took an old matt board that had an 8x10 ole in it for prints and that got it off the glass.
I never noticed that my scans on the V850 had NRings . Maybe the glass on this model was different, maybe I am lucky.
Making a gallery show sounds fantastic. Why not? Hehe
I think Newton rings come from the distance between the glass and film stock being too smooth - I don't have a scanner, but adding a bit of fluid between them should work, provided it can't drip into the scanner. I'd use distilled water, or pure ethanol/isopropanol if it doesn't damage the film.
You won’t believe what I did… I came to Turks and Caicos with a Voightlander Bergheil, a century graphic 2x3, and a Leica iiia. What type of film? NONE! It’s all in fridge in the US…. 🤦🏻♂️ thank goodness I still have my Sony a6600.
Man, get Ben Horne’s spacer template and have someone make a plexiglas spacer for you, I had one made and it works perfectly on my V850, good luck!
Thanks for the tip!
You should check with Ben Horne as he does it all the time I believe.
Try to angle the negs though it might cut off a couple of the corners
Can you get plastic frosted on both sides between your scanner bed and negative. I use frosted glass from the frame shop to make contact prints that prevents Newton rings. Plastic with a matte finish on both sides. What does your setup look like?
Sigh, I don't think I'll risk the lomograflok back for instax on my Wista 45DX, it's too valuable. Easier just to pick up a Crown Graphic! Yes to medium format Mondays, I shoot a lot more with my Bronica GS1 and Yashica D than my Wista (except for Jason Lane's new black glass dry plates!)
Did you try wet scanning to get rid of the Newton rings?
Not yet, it's the one thing I've been putting off, but now might be the time to try!
@@MatMarrash fingers crossed it helps!
Like other have suggested, suspend your large format film above the scanner glass. Like other have suggested, see Ben Horne's video
Have you tried fluid mounting the film?
It's my "last resort" option that I've been putting off for years. May just have to give it a go!
@@MatMarrash It will work insofar as preventing newton rings but it is definitely a bit of a hassle. ANR glass should work but I guess the sheer size of 8x10 makes it difficult to keep perfectly flat.
@@Amaraldo I'm thinking that's the case with 8x10. The ANR glass is great for medium format strips and 4x5.
HI Mat, my name is Ainsley Edwards, I need some advice I am looking to start a RUclips channel on a film camera, but for me, I am in Trinidad & Tobago and on my research, it has not many film photographers in Trinidad should I still push on please give me some advice on this.
Hi Ainsley thanks for the comment. The fact that there aren't a lot of film shooters in Trinidad could be a good thing, offering viewers a unique perspective. Location helps, but no where near as much as the message of your videos.
A medium format Mondy would be cool but don't spread yourself too thin. How about a medium format Monthly.
Jaime that's a great idea, still trying to figure out a format that makes sense for the channel, but expect to see a few new things here soon! :)