Why I Love Shooting Large Format Photography | 5 Reasons You Should Try It Too

Fair play to you, I love watching you guys but I put film behind me many years ago and don't plan to return
Far too much hassle at my age 📷👍

Great video! :)

Up to 6X9 cm the backs are sold at a reasonable price, about £150.00 mark. For some reason, once you go up to 6X12 and 6X 17 , than you are talking about £500.00+. It doesn't make sense , but that is how it is, sadly.

You called it "four by five." OMG, America is taking over the world! 😂

Good video. You covered the salient points very well, I think, especially since you use the white side of the dark slide to indicate "exposed" as I do. It isn't our fault everyone else does it wrong! 😂

Another great one! Look forward to hearing your opinion of FPP Mummy! Your shots looked great; it's no Ilford, but at half the price (at least here in the US!), it's great for just getting out and exposing sheets

Great video! Lots of good information. I started shooting 4x5 about four years ago and really fell in love with it. I should started fifty years ago but I was always kind of intimidated by large format for some inexplicable reason. 😁

I love seeing all you guys use 4x5s. My biggest worry would be what lens to buy and how to get it developed and converted to digital. What would be best for shots in woodlands? Does the quality suffer when its scanned?

Considering the inability to shoot fast-moving subjects as a negative for 4x5 is like considering the inability to eat soup with a fork as a negative. It comes down to common sense when you are choosing your tools. Other than that, excellent points.

Hi, I've been binging your videos and was inspired to dip my toes into large format photography. I finally got my Intrepid 4x5 camera, the DAYI 6x17 back (My local lab only does 35mm/120 film, not sheet film) and two lens Fuji 90mm and Fuji 150mm. I was hoping you might be able to help troubleshoot/confirm an issue I'm having. With the 90mm lens I have the front standard mounted as close as possible to the rear and even when I turn the focus knob all the way back I don't have infinity focus on the DAYI 6x17 viewfinder. If I handhold the front standard and manually "focus" I can achieve infinity focus if I practically have the bellows completely collapsed. To hopefully remedy this situation I've ordered a recessed film board from Intrepid because I don't see how I can get the front standard any further back. Do you have any similar experience with this scenario to confirm if this is the correct/best course of action? The 150mm lens visually looks great on the ground glass and doesn't need as much bellow collapse as the 90mm. I'm hoping to get out in the real world and take some shots soon! Cheers from Florida, thank you!

Been there done that

Learn to use you dark slides correctly. White side out, unexposed, black side out, exposed. Everybody follows that convention that way you could hand your dark slide to anybody and they would know the state of the film.

By the way it five/four and ten/eight.

f11. You could have used the front movement to drop the focus from the foreground to infinity.

Valid point regarding the amount if pictures people make. Just because you can make lots of pictures doesn't mean you should.
I'm still contemplating embarking on 4x5, I made a start when I made a 4x5 pin hole. So I have the holders and the kit to develop just no camera or lens 😁

one thing, with asa 400 don't you need an ND filter?- to kill the glare off the water, and as it is technically a 'high key' scene.

the first shot is quite nice...not sure about the others.. no idea of your previsualization and why you wanted to take the shot. what is the image saying... what are the relationships of the subjects, texture etc... you said nothing on this.
Also... you mention exposure triangle at the end, but in the first shot, you changed the aperture of f11 to f16 with faster speed film.. not sure why.. your focusing at infinity for that photo, dof you said at the beginning you wanted the scene to render soft with the mist and fade away? for the wind.. a faster shutter speed would of been taken care of with film choice.. why you stop down for??!