Buckshot’s Blog

continuing my experimenting with flashes, the silver paint on the Subaru responds very well to the flash hits!

Here’s my ‘first’ run of the speedgraphic with the stroboflash, also my test run with the grafmatic film holder (which seems to be working perfectly!).  These were shot f5.6 at 1/200th, with Adox 25ISO Orthochromatic film (not sensitive to reds).

I shot this about 1/2 a year ago along a side road on I-10 in Arizona, I really like this photo because it has the clouds that were gathering before a storm, such a nice feeling in the desert!

8×10 Tmax 100 with a 240mm lens I believe.

I don’t know all the details about this structure, but from what I heard it’s some sort of monument to ‘art’, or something similar to that.  If anyone knows what it is, feel free to correct me   4×5 tri-x, 90mm on Chamonix 4×5.

a 4×5 photo, of a 70 pound case  of Ukranian 7.62x54R ammo

I’ll be hauling this combo around to some vintage auto races as well as other events/gatherings/projects in the near future!  I haven’t weighed the entire setup yet, but it’ll probably build some nice forearmes    I’m still waiting on the correct clamps for the flash handle and a way to securly mount the flash head to the flash handle, I should have both of those worked out in a week or so, provided I get over my cold soon!

For anyone interested in the flash setup, it’s been modified by Al over at stroboflash.com to take modern rechargable batteries (which go inside of that thing  next to the camera sitting on the floor, the powerpack and electronics are 1/2 the size of a car battery!)

This is my second 4×5″ speedgraphic.  This one appears to be one of the later models, as best I can tell (I haven’t really gotten to much into the history of these things).  It’s got some nicer features to it compaired to my other speed. Shutter trigger on the camera body, focal plane shutter is easier to adjust, more sturdy viewing hood, flash sync on the lens instead of the lens solinoid, a working shutter on the lens, and overall a camera that looks to be in a cleaner shape.  Hopfully I’ll be giving it a good new lease on life!  They are so cheap to come by, I bought a 2nd one!  My first one is reserved for shooting barrel lenses (and as such, I’ve stripped off the rangefinder, and some of the other features) and now I have this model to use for my vintage flash shooting

Should have some results soon!

And here’s my first two exposure tests, f8 at 1/4 power on the first shot, and 1/2 power on the 2nd shot.   The negatives were a little thin, but that might have something to do with my developing since I haven’t yet nailed down my developing times for the Adox ISO25 Orthochromatic film, developed in Rodinal.   I’ll do some more tests later, for now I’ve just got the flash head taped onto the handle…. hah!

*update*

Here’s the flash head with the PVC mount onto the flash handle.  It’s not pretty, but it’ll do until I find the real mount.  In the mean time, I may paint the PVC black just so it doesn’t look like pumbing… hah!