That Calumet view camera would definitely fill the sidecar. It’s bigger than it looks and is cumbersome to use, at least until I’m more practiced.

It’s always good for a man to have hobbies….

Hauling the big camera and related gear may indeed turn the Vespa into a sort of wagon train mode of transport. We’ll see.

I’ll likely document what I’m doing though not sure I’ll go to the video form of documentation. Fuzzy and Richard both are more advanced than I am. Even though I spent a decade as a producer/director making films I have not been interested in using that form here. Yet at least. Maybe someday.

For now I’ll try and keep things simple!

I bought the 8×10 Calumet C-1 camera last summer I think on eBay. I was putting my toe back in the large format water and didn’t want to spend a lot at the time though now I’m realizing that I should have just gotten what I wanted. It’s a heavy bugger. Not as bad as my last one but certainly something that calls attention to itself.

The BTZS tube is simple to use. Processing involves continuous agitation which means you’re spinning the tube in a tray of water the entire time. When I was working in 8×10 the last time I had a JOBO CPP2 processor and I ran the film in an Expert Drum. Nice but fussy. I’m more of a tray or tube processing guy.

I’d love to know more about that photographer. Always nice to have people who have blazed a trail that you can follow!

I made the color shots with my Canon G15. It’s a nice, sturdy, full featured point and shoot camera that I use to make almost all my blog pictures. It has one of the fastest zoom lenses I have seen — F1.8 at wide angle and F2.8 at telephoto.

Almost the same kind of camera — that was a 4×5 inch version. This one is 8×10 inch. We’re a long ways from Gibbons Street. Man, time flies…

I have five film holders but seldom, if ever, shoot that much 8×10 film at once. I’ll probably take three holders with me. I only have one lens right now and am not sure this is the right camera. Wasn’t thinking ahead when I bought it and may need to get something that I can use with a short focal length lens.

I certainly hope you’ll be sharing images of your… Progress?… Discoveries?… (For a riding / photography project, “discoveries” seems more fitting.)

Yeah, I certainly hope you’ll be sharing your discoveries via your blog, or–taking a cue from one of RichardM’s recent comments on Fuzzy’s blog–is it a phlog?

(Yet then you might be causing all sorts of confusion when you invite folks to visit your online phlog, or your phlog site, because they could–understandably, of course–be hearing “flog”, and… Well, one can easily imagine the possible confusion.)

So when and how did you acquire the 8″x10″ and if you don’t mind me asking from where?

The photography of your hoodie over the camera on the tripod is perhaps the most evocative of any image including the snow covered Junior.

How you expose the actual image is perhaps as important or perhaps far more important
than the end result. Thinking the number of turns of the tube while doing the processing is as much an important part of the process done before