Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Never give up – a 300mm Zeiss Tessar project with lots of fails
In todays video I documented my fails (wood working and 3d printing with sidewinder x1 – also building plate change of the sidewinder x1) while I tried to mount my new lens on my camera. I got this lens, because I do more and more wet plate family portraits and for that I wanted a sharp affordable lens. Normally I would show you guys how I did a family wet plate portrait(its online now, scroll down for the second part). But I couldn’t do it, because of our lockdowns. So I worked on a self portrait. To make this easier, I turned my studio into a darkroom, so I can move without getting a ghosty image on the plate. Because I put metal sheets into the ceiling during my studio renovation, I could mount the red light easily with magnets. To see the whole story, watch the video 🙂
First Part
Second Part
To find all the tools I used, check list.mhaustria.com
May 8th, 2022 at 13:11
I built a Frankenstein large format wet plate camera from scratch for photographing ghosts - Ifolove said:
[…] publicity was a bit extra trendy, but additionally ought to get the ghost look. For that we used a Zeiss 300mm F4.5 Tessar lens. This lens is fairly new (about 2ß-30 years outdated) and could be very crisp. I assumed that […]
May 8th, 2022 at 16:43
I built a Frankenstein large format wet plate camera from scratch for photographing ghosts – serious-deals said:
[…] double exposure was a bit more modern, but also should get the ghost look. For that we used a Zeiss 300mm F4.5 Tessar lens. This lens is pretty new (about 2ß-30 years old) and is very crisp. I thought that makes more […]