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I shot a couple of sheets of FP4 at the weekend and made some contact prints. Result: not good. I'm not sure if I underdeveloped the negatives. They looked dense enough by the standard I am used to with 35mm and MF negatives, but the prints were very low contrast compared to a set of 6x9 negatives I...

I don't have a proper darkroom, just a bathroom that can be made light-tight quite easily. So I can tray process the negatives, and process my own prints. However, I don't have space for an enlarger, and probably won't for a while, so part of the appeal of large(ish) format is to make contact prints...

Ditto. I'm borrowing a 5x4 from work to take out this weekend. I've done a little studio photography with large format cameras at work, but that has been with digital scanning backs attached, and without making use of movements; so shooting with dark slides and using camera movements will be a new t...

Hi Rupert,

I'm also in London. I just joined the forum this week and am likely to be in the same position as you re: the dubious questions!

Cheers,

Matt

Hopefully I can figure things out! I'll probably tray develop at first, at least, and see what happens. I already have the stuff to contact print the negatives. I expect the tricky bits are likely to just be the mechanics of the particular camera I have on loan. I've shot a lot of medium and 35mm fo...

Thanks! I've managed to acquire a brief loan of a 5x4 field camera from work -- I'm not a photographer, but I work alongside photographers and we have a lot of old analogue kit lying around -- so I can experiment a bit over the next few weeks and see if larger formats work out for me. So I expect to...

HI, I'm a slight fraud, I don't actually shoot large format at the moment, although I do shoot a lot of 120. I've been experimenting a little recently with contact printing 6x9 negatives made on a little folding camera that has some limited rise and fall and at some point soon I'm probably going to ...