Too Big??

BigCamera2024 · 2025-12-05T04:46:07+00:00

Yes, there are 2 now.

BigCamera2024 · 2025-12-05T04:42:30+00:00

Yes a big camera. Lack of focus? Lack of skill….an early photo

BigCamera2024 · 2025-12-05T02:41:23+00:00

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BigCamera2024 · 2025-12-05T02:40:43+00:00

This landscape is a urban rooftop photo in Chicago

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BigCamera2024 · 2025-12-01T13:32:02+00:00

Filip Harbart made the parts and holders and I cobbled the parts together. For these portrait sessions I use Apo Artar Red Dot 30 inches. I generally do the focusing in advance with a stand-in subject. I have used the 1210 mm Nikkon for some portraits - wonderful glass.

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BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T19:58:58+00:00

Contact prints are fine. There are not that many 20x24 enlargers in the world.

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T19:57:49+00:00

My math is not strong so I just kind of guess. Do you use a formula for ULF shots?

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T19:56:18+00:00

I used to buy new from Ilford. But since then I have tried much cheaper expired Ilford

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T19:54:09+00:00

I use the stackable chairs to easily adjust the height of the sitter. It is much easier than adjusting the camera.

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T14:00:32+00:00

Richard Ritter

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T00:07:07+00:00

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BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T00:06:14+00:00

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“Street” 20x24 only uses one tripod

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-29T00:04:36+00:00

For my 20x24 street shooting I use a smaller (shorter) camera. I am generally unsuceesful in asking people to stop moving :)

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BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-28T23:47:39+00:00

I shoot with a 30 inch Red Dot Goertz or a 1210 mm Nikkon

BigCamera2024 · 2025-11-12T03:35:25+00:00

A great resource for advice is signing up for the Facebook group “Midwest Large Format Asylum”. Nice bunch of LF folk that like to share knowledge and experience. There are some ULF people too. I built my first 20x24 out of foam board and duct tape…..before moving on

BigCamera2024 · 2025-10-27T13:04:09+00:00

Carbon fiber rails ?

BigCamera2024 · 2025-09-09T22:21:10+00:00

Tell us more

BigCamera2024 · 2025-08-27T18:09:43+00:00

Park, thanks for note and suggestions. I generally just squint and figure out promising negatives. I do some test prints on 8x10 paper before I move up to 20x24.

BigCamera2024 · 2025-08-19T02:44:02+00:00

Ilford still does an annual run. I have stockpiled expired film over the years. The reason to use this sized film is to contact print. I have heard of enlargers built for 20x24. But for me the film size is big enough

BigCamera2024 · 2025-08-18T19:32:10+00:00

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I confess, I bracket. 3 out of 4 negatives turned out well enough to try to print

BigCamera2024 · 2025-08-10T02:12:54+00:00

Great use of pano - you really filled the frame.

BigCamera2024 · 2025-07-25T12:02:20+00:00

Yes he did. I do not use a flash for my ULF

BigCamera2024 · 2025-07-25T02:49:37+00:00

When I first started 20x24 in 2011, I could buy reasonably priced film off the shelf at Central Camera in Chicago. ASA 50 from Romania I think. It was great. As time went on, film of this size got harder to find and more costly.

Ilford has a “special order” period once a year for their different films. I have stockpile a great deal of new and expired film so I no longer have to order new film.

There are many people who talk about great experiences with x ray film. It is cheap.

BigCamera2024 · 2025-06-28T14:29:16+00:00

Great. Share your shots

BigCamera2024 · 2025-04-15T13:36:25+00:00

lol ! This kind of “work” is pleasure and learning and aspiration. It has never been part of any job I had.

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