No more 4×5 for me

January 21, 2008 | Category: Lighting, Photography

Last night I made the tough realization that I need to sell off ALL of my 4×5 stuff I just haven’t been doing any large format stuff lately and being a starving 24 year old that basically eats crap for camera equipment, I’ve decided to cut down my kit. Plus the cost for 4×5 e6 development is like $2-$3 a shot!

And since I converted my darkroom into a digital printing/matting room/office, I figured I’d ditch film all together.

In preparation for the online auctions I’ll be putting together, I did some nice product shots of the equipment. Below is my 180mm APO Rodenstock lens.

Here is the setup:

Basically, I’ve got two strobes through softboxes on either side of the lens, which is sitting on a clear piece of glass I borrowed from a frame. The glass is on top of black velvet. To give a really nice clean specular, I placed some foamcore behind the lens and shot a speedlight into it.

Tags: 4x5, Dan Newton, lens, nevada, photographer, Photography, product, reflection, Reno, softbox, studio

3 Comments

Randy Jones
on July 9th, 2008
1
Superb lighting, gives the final shot plenty of impact. I’m impressed.
Tyler Paul Photography
on December 28th, 2010
2
So i live in the Sacramento area and still have all my old 4×5 gear, amazing toyoview, but the lab the a really trust is in santa barbara and I dont trust myself with color processing, Where did you take your stuff in Reno?
Dan Newton
on December 30th, 2010
3
When I shot 4×5, there was a good lab called Reno color lab. As far as I know, they have closed down since. Gordon’s is the only other lab in town and they send their 4×5 out to a lab in California called Swans.