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Well... there is something strange in the title? Perhaps this is because it is one of my first attempts to shoot with my brand new VDS 810 large format field camera. The technology is ancient and pretty expensive to get film for this size therefore I shoot to fomaspeed photography paper (as negative) and convert to positive it after scanning. It gives some problems that are solved in the early 20s, one hundred years ago... For instance, this paper sensitivity is about ISO 3 or so... and it more sensitive to UV and blue than any other visible lights

So, as the EXIF was non-existent in film cameras (or papers) here are some techie notes:
Camera: VDS 810 foldable field camera by VDS Camera Manufactory
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar-S MC 240 f/5.6 with Copal 3 shutter
Material: fomaspeed RC 311 matt paper cut to 8×10", used as negative
Developed in Tetenal chemicals
Scanned with a cheapo Canon LIDE 220 scanner
Cleaned up in... er... no, it isn't. This is just a "technology demonstrator" anyway, to show where am I now with large format photography.

Paid download incules the 2976×2376 px scanned size positive version without my watermark.

Note you can order your own, brand new, personalized field camera from VDS if you want to go into large format thing.

Description
Well... there is something strange in the title? Perhaps this is because it is one of my first attempts to shoot with my brand new VDS 810 large format field camera. The technology is ancient and pretty expensive to get film for this size therefore I shoot to fomaspeed photography paper (as negative) and convert to positive it after scanning. It gives some problems that are solved in the early 20s, one hundred years ago... For instance, this paper sensitivity is about ISO 3 or so... and it more sensitive to UV and blue than any other visible lights

So, as the EXIF was non-existent in film cameras (or papers) here are some techie notes:
Camera: VDS 810 foldable field camera by VDS Camera Manufactory
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach APO Symmar-S MC 240 f/5.6 with Copal 3 shutter
Material: fomaspeed RC 311 matt paper cut to 8×10", used as negative
Developed in Tetenal chemicals
Scanned with a cheapo Canon LIDE 220 scanner
Cleaned up in... er... no, it isn't. This is just a "technology demonstrator" anyway, to show where am I now with large format photography.

Paid download incules the 2976×2376 px scanned size positive version without my watermark.

Note you can order your own, brand new, personalized field camera from VDS if you want to go into large format thing.