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This is what happens when two guys try to test a new large format camera while:

- being a bit drunk,
- using a negative that had its best days more than 10 years ago,
- being tired.

Setting all the stuff up (lights, umbrellas and the dreadful large format) took us like 1,5 hour, then we took 2 shots (not only photos, shots of vodka as well) and developed it. The guy who sold the camera to Przemek gave him a box of old Ilford PAN 400 but he said this film expired like 10 years ago and told him to treat it as ISO 100. We exposed it like ISO 100 and developed like ISO 100... but apparently we should develop it like ISO 400 or at least much much longer since there was almost nothing at the negative sheets after we took them out of the development tank :((( Anyway... there was something and you can see it here.

Well... Large format is fun :) Just setting it up is such a pain in the ass... let alone framing where everything is upside down :/... And well, I thought framing and focusing with my Seagull is pain... won't complain about it again ;)

In the photo: my friend and proud owner of the large format Plaubel Peco Supra camera, Przemek

Sorry for poor quality, we didnt have a flat negative scanner so we just took a photo of the messed up negative using a digital camera.

Aahhh :)) I forgot to brat that I used a tilt in the camera for this one :))) First time in my life ;) Daamn, it's fun... such a pity I can't use it for street photography ;)

Note to self:

I have to start wearing glasses because I really have problems with focusing these days... maybe it's just general fatigue :/

Although a state of the art DSLR camera can now take 10 pictures per second and a large format camera would probably take you 10 minutes for one picture, I still value the use of a large format camera. Some may say it's because of its quality for large size printing sort of things, but I would say "it makes you think!!"

Yes, digital camera is so easy to use and because there is no waste of film, we think less - we're less serious about the light meter reading, the composition, etc. before we click the shutter. We see what we got immediately on camera and take another one if it didn't work or we didn't like it.

However, I don't think I will go back to use large format camera (since there are really a lot of adjusments before you click) but I'll think it as a "Photographical Contemplation" activity. Perhaps once in a while to let me feel the "root" of photography.