Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : Abdul Hye March 23, 2012, 07:08:11 PM
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I bought some quarter plate film off ebay. I did not know it was quarter plate film, FP4, at the time. I know from the dimensions it was smaller than 5X4. I bided once and won with the only bid.
I intended to use them with my pinhole camera. I planned to tape them inside the 5x4 film holders. For various reasons this did not work too well. I thought the film might be small enough to fit inside the empty Fuji peel-apart film canisters. They were so I placed the film inside the canisters in a changing bag and spent today trying it out. I was surprised it worked. I used a Paterson tank and to taco method to process the sheet. I used a digital camera to scan the image. It’s not a good scan but I just want to show people to results to prove the technique works.
I will take a few more shots at 3000 and use stand development and be a little careful developing it next time.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7009073717_e827356ca5_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysnapps/7009073717/)
Quarter plate film in Polaroid Land 320 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysnapps/7009073717/#) by Tea, two sugars (http://www.flickr.com/people/mysnapps/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7074/6862956272_4648d2b6dd_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysnapps/6862956272/)
Quarter plate film in Polaroid Land 320 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mysnapps/6862956272/#) by Tea, two sugars (http://www.flickr.com/people/mysnapps/), on Flickr
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These are great results! Considering you "scanned" the negs with your camera they look really good to me.
Any chance to post a picture of the camera? ;)
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Great results! I guess you can only shoot a single sheet at a time without resorting to the changing bag, right?
It would be great to find a way to insert a diy darkslide in the film pack, so that one can carry a few packs, each with a single sheet, and change them without worrying about the light.
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I bought this camera. Worked first time, battery and all.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220975970209?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220975970209?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649)
I didn’t need to modify anything.
I can only shoot one shot at a time. It’s easy to fit the film in the canister. Getting the sheet out of the box takes longer then getting in into a canister. The changing bag a little small so there isn’t much room in there with the camera in there as well.
I have a few empty canisters from when I bought a land camera from the FPP guys. I ended up selling it on. I will load up a few and keep them in a black plastic bag, that paper comes in, and keep that in the changing bag so I can reload faster.
I have about 75 sheets left. I have seen a place that sells quarter plate film but probably stop when the stock I have runs out.
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this is just how I shoot in my polaroid 80 Land camera..your explanation is much neater than mine!! :)