4x5 Crown Graphic Press Camera

This is what newspaper photographers used to use up into the 1960s. Now that took some serious knowledge and talent. Back in the 1980s I made my first venture into owning a 4x5 camera when I bought this great 4x5 Crown Graphic press camera from Allen Jablonski a good friend of mine. The camera was originally owned by a professional photographer from Oregon. Sadly I forget the guys name. What was it Allen? In any case I moved on to a 4x5 field camera and created some beautiful images with it. It's been quite awhile since I have put any sheets of film through either one of them. Maybe it's time to break into that box of film in the fridge and do something! God's love and blessings upon your weekend, chris Image created with a Canon 7D and a Canon EFS 17-85mm lens at 41mm. AV mode, ISO 100, F13.0 at 1/6th of a sec. Subject placed on a black sweep with two LED light panels. One light on each side with blag flagging to keep light off of the background. #teamcanon

A Look Into the Not So Distant Past (Depending upon how old you are now.)

Wow, Digital Photography has really changed the way images are made. In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of images and how they are used. My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica that used floppy disks and could hold about ten images. Now a cell phone can produce and hold hundreds of high quality images and video. It can be uploaded and used in an ad or on a social media website in mere seconds. Today's image harkens back in time when I was photographing with film. In addition to my 35mm film cameras I had two 4 x 5 cameras. A wooden field camera and this wonderful old Crown Graphic press camera. I loved to use that camera because it had a built in hood on the back for viewing the ground glass and didn't need a cloth hood like the field camera. Both of these cameras shot 4 inch by 5 inch sheet film both black and white and color transparencies. I mostly shot color. Here is an image of the Crown Graphic photographed with a Canon 7D and a Canon 28-105 lens at 70mm. Camera settings used. Spot metering, Av mode,ISO 400,F 16.0 at .3 seconds. Two LED light sources and a black backdrop were used.Camera was placed on a Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with a Bogen 3055 ballhead.