Yet another in my occasional series featuring cameras in my rather eclectic collection! This time it’s the MicroPress 4×5 Large Format Press Camera,
Another one of my antique camera collection. The MicroPress 4×5 Large Format camera from around 1950. It’s hard to believe this monster was designed for use by press photographers on location. The images, though were high definition and amazing quality. Photographed under studio lights with the slightly less antique Fujifilm X-T3. More images…
Photographed under studio lighting with the Fujifilm X-T5 fitted with a 50mm Nikon lens, F=50mm, f/11 @ 1/125th sec on ISO400. RAW image processed in Photoshop.
Continuing the occasional series featuring my eclectic collection of cameras, here’s the
Jiffy Kodak VR Art Deco Camera
This fascinating little camera came into my possession when some of the remaining possessions of my wife’s late grandfather Sam Scott were being sorted through, quite a while after his death.
Hornby’s ‘SMOKEY JOE’ locomotive. Introduced by Hornby in 1983, this OO Gauge model represents the small shunters in the The Caledonian Railway 264 class. They were 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by Dugald Drummond and built by Neilson and Company in 1885, later built at St Rollox Works, up to 1902. I’ve owned this one for a long number of years, probably around 30 years or more.
I photographed it under studio lighting (2 Elinchrom heads) with the Fujifilm X-T3. Post-capture RAW conversion in Photoshop.
Here’s Angeline, photographed with the Fujifilm X-T3, against a plain black backdrop, and with only natural light, coming through a narrow window. I balanced the light with a silver reflector on the opposite side of her face.
The Fujifilm X-T4 – A Lot of Praise but One Big Niggle.
I’ve been shooting with Fujifilm X-Series cameras since 2017 when I bought my first Fujifilm X-T2. I was immediately smitten. I’d been a Nikon user all my photographic life, completely loyal to the products of the Japanese giant. I’d begun in the ‘80’s with the FM2, and progressed through the Nikon D2x to the D750. I thought it would ever be so. But when I made my first few images with the Fuji X-T2 I was quickly convinced. It was the photographic equivalent of a Damascus road conversion. Since then I’ve been shooting (professionally and for fun) with the X-T2, X-T30 and X-T3. Everyone of them has been great. But when the X-T2 began to wobble a bit, I decided it was time for a change. I kept the X-T3, sold the X-T2 and X-T30 and with the equity, invested in the new X-T4.
The Fujifilm X-T4, with leather half-case.
So, what’s special about the X-T4? It’s just a little chunkier than its predecessors, and I’ve encased mine in a leather half-case, more for appearance than practicality, but it’s still an easy camera to hold, much more ‘grippable’ than the X-T2, and that’s important when you are clamouring in and out of vehicles.
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