I am not use to compressing an image as much as is required by blogspot. a foto post must be itty-bitty.

after several efforts at downsizeing, I have been able to post this image. a paper negative/paper positive

no foto

I did do a photo yesterday, a paper negative/paper positive, and would upload to this site, however, due to internal errors, there will be no upload

for the love of 'gear', not so much the use of...

one day soon i hope to post a photo....

yesterday i obtained a Sinar Norma 5x7, a swiss made camera produced between 1970 and 1947.

i intend to place paper negatives thru it, film maybe later, the paper negative having, from what i've seen from others, as well as a few i've done, the potential of a photographic quality of great appeal.

i have a Kodak Master camera 8x10 with a 5x7 back, which i bought specifically to do with wet-plate process, though i've been sidetracked from that pursuit the past year, i recently put some paper negatives thru it and this sparked my interest in the larger format again, thus the 4x5 linhof color and kardan-color45s, recent additions. the Sinar Norma 5x7 is however a natural size and feel to me format-wise, and i plan to further practice the paper negative process in 5x7....should i ever receive the 4x5 film holders i paid for at the beginning of may, i'll run some film...

Stellina

Curious in that I was unable to post a message on may 13, just the title which turned out not quite what I intended.

I have not put a film roll thru a camera since the March beginning. I have however, put some photo paper as negative thru the Kodak Master camera, gave me a good idea as to where to venture.

I am currently awaiting some 4x5 film holders from a particularly sluggish-shipping ebayer, the feedback shall reflect.

I did have lunch last week at a place called Stellina in Point Reyes Station, very enjoyable, and the light, seen through the windows, provided interesting relief to the ornate mouldings on a building across the street, not that I could have done anything photographically, but it was an idea, the seeing...

No film/No post

Early street use of the SWC/M. Had not got the knack of the viewfinder