An appropriate subject for my first blog with google... At last after an absence of 25 years I have a 5x4 camera again. For those of you who don't know, this is a camera with a film (yes, film) format of 5" x 4", resulting in extremely high quality images - the scanned negative usually produces a file of around 80 mb!
The camera is an MPP Mk Vll, with a 150mm schneider glass. I intend using it primarily for portraiture. Although I have been pleased and surprised by the quality of image I can achieve with my Canon 5D mk ll, nothing digital (particularly in my price range) comes even close to the quality that can be achieved by a 5x4 camera.
Although the MPP has a reasonable set of movements, I don't imagine using them much in the portraiture, at least not with my current project. The project?.. I'm preparing for my first submission to the National Portrait Gallery's 'Taylor Wessing' portrait prize. I have one photo ready for printing, shot with the 5D. Several more are in the planning stage, 2 on 35mm and 3 on 5x4. I'll keep you informed of progress.
You can see a variety of my pics, including some for the prize, on my Facebook page 'Peter Northall Photography'. If you like what you see there please click the 'Like' button on top of that page.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment