I sure agree with you that we need to preserve wild areas. Here in Vermont, where I live, there are no areas of old growth forest remaining. Tax laws encourage land use like logging and development. Government calls it a “working landscape” - I call it hacking up the earth and burning it. It’s extremely difficult to experience peace and quiet and clean air in the USA.
Learning a lot from you and a few of the other. large format players here on YT. I got a circa 1907 Conley 5x7 box camera a couple years ago and just shot my first exposures yesterday. I got a long way to go to get it right via trial and error but I'll get there. Thanks for the videos!!
Another great video Mr. Todd. I have to admit I really love the 5x7 cameras. The negatives are large enough for contact printing and some of the cameras are fairly easy to carry around. I really like the final images. Thank you for making and producing videos for us.
Indeed, and back in the film days I did shoot a lot of Velvia here, although looking back some of it is very punchy and contrasty, but it does look great.
I took an Amtrak train from Chicago to Seattle a few years back and we drove along pretty close to the boarder of Canada near Alberta before the Rockies. It was absolutely gorgeous views as the sun was starting to set. Really is gorgeous out there.
Great video Todd! I remember watching this when it came out and being fascinated with the older view cameras. Chance would have it that I stumbled across a fairly similar Eastman View No.1 and am hoping to replace the ground glass and bellows it as you did. Hence I am back watching the same video again😂
Just finished all your videos started with the oldest and worked my way up...this has been my entertainment in the evening for the last two weeks, subscribed now looking forward to the journey.
That’s awesome, I can tell my wife someone binged watched my channel! Thank you. I am working on 3 videos right now. It’s been a busy summer, I’ve been out of the loop for a bit. Cheers
I love the 5X7 format and I have a few lenses which will easily cover it with movements, but I can not find film holders for it for love not money. I am based in the UK. Great photography BTW.
Awesome results! I need to visit Alberta and check out that NWMP outpost. I also miss the USA, my wife and I are already planning our next trips to the US, NYC first then Disney World.
Would that be a Senica 5x7? If it is I use it's brother (The Black Beauty). One of the best made and technically advanced cameras of its day. Thank you for not wishing our world to degrade.
I love seeing repaired and resurrected old cameras getting opportunities to be used again. And the output that camera have is incredible! It's making me just want to take a trip to rural upstate new York, or small Town new York, and shoot some re-rolled 620. I might just go for it with the cleaned up jiffy six-20. I found inspiration to make a cleaning video from your video. So thank you, stay safe keep shooting, and let me know what you think of the cleaning video. I'd love your feedback and cleaning tips. Jason
@@toddkorolphoto thanks! Small towns upstate are just great fun to explore. Many of them are time capsules, and it's just nice to get away from the big city sometimes. It really makes you stop and think is what you're shooting. And I love that 5*7. It's gorgeous and I'm happy it's getting a second life.
The camera is a Korona, right? Looks very much like my lovely 4x5 Korona, circa around the same time. I confess I'm a traitor to film, haven't used that nice old Korona for 18 years, but I just like to look at it now and then. The 5x7 aspect is very attractive.
They are indeed attractive, it's such a cool camera. Mine is a Gundlach-Manhattan Criterion, made in 1909. In case you haven't seen it, I also did a video on it on the restoration process on my channel.
@@toddkorolphoto Ah yes, the Gundlachs were made by the same company, I think. I had a friend whose Gundlach looked identical to my Korona. This link has a bit of history: www.piercevaubel.com/cam/gund.htm
great photos, and great camera, what make is it, and where do you get the film holders?, who makes them; as most of youtube does stuff on 4x5" or 8x10; even Matt marrash,Mat Day, Nick Carver, and others, so not much, esp. for those new to this format, like myself (old Linhof Technika iii 5x7"), so even trying to source the film is harder, let alone the holders ( I also live in Australia, by the way); and their own compatabillity with the camera, as the age of some spring and other backs makes some holders unusable. ( the Tech iii comes with a "6x12/6x17cm" style 5x7" format back, where the Groundglass frame is hinged downwards, & a spring bar on top holds the single sheet metal holders in place for exposure, the 4x5" reducing back also is a "spring back", NOT the 'international' style, so this can't have the Ground Glass panel removed, and a grafflok roll film back installed).
@@toddkorolphoto oh nice ! I am a Canadian too, from northern Québec, and would love to discover the landscapes of Alberta and to improve my knowledge in large format photography… at the same time :-) I’ll try to keep my eyes open and not miss your announcement.
Great episode Todd! I’m fairly new to your channel. I’m curious about the process you go through deciding between 4x5, 5x7 or 8x10? At the moment I’ve only used 4x5 in large format. I’ve considered 8x10 for contact prints. Where does 5x7 fit in for your work flow?
I have actually gotten this question a bunch of times, I think I might do a video about it. But to answer your question, for me the subject matter decides on the format and the look I want to portray with that. 4x5 falls loosely into more of my photojournalism work, portraits and landscapes of an editorial nature. My 5x7 work is strictly landscapes, I love working with the bigger negative than a 4x5 and not the weight of an 8x10. The 8x10 is for contact sheets and when I want to do portraits of people and really control the background, either in or out of focus. Plus I simply love the tonality from the 8x10. So that's another factor when I really want to create a look that only that format can give. Short answer but good question, yes i think I'll do something on that.
@@toddkorolphoto Thanks Todd! Really helpful insights there! I certainly see how one could end up using all these formats. For now I feel I’ll stick with 4x5, it’s the largest neg I can print in the darkroom I use locally. Loving the channel and will certainly tune in for more!
Great video. I'm familiar with the Montana side of the border, and love seeing that country through your lens. Some of your photographs remind me of paintings done by an artist out of Helena, Montana named Dale Livezey. Check out his work, I think you'd enjoy it!
Oh sweet thanks for the tip. I will check out his work for sure. I too have been to the Montana side looking at Canada it’s beautiful. I actually have a print on my wall from that side.
Another very inspiring video - thanks a lot for the work! A question: the grasslands-photograph (beautiful!) is looking sharp all over the frame. Were you using tilt to get all in focus? And a more general question: are you using tilt in landscape-photography at all? That's a topic I'm highly interested in. Kind regards from the Baltic Sea!
Great video again, beautiful landscape. I'm curious what is the main reason to shoot B&W? Because it's cheaper, to develop it on your own or it's because of the B&W image itself?
Another great video and beautiful photos! At 4:38 when you said "bump up the development..." you're saying that you will develop the film longer to give an extra stop to the highlights? How do you calculate the extra time?
I pretty much make a judgement call. If the light is all the same and flat, then I will develop it more by 10% longer than the time. If it’s really flat or darker then I might bump up the development by 20%.
Hi Todd, I'm a new subscriber. Love your channel. Do you have any videos on bellows compensation? Exposure calculations etc..? How and when to determine it? Thanks in advance!
@@toddkorolphoto I've shot a Korona in the past, its first cousin. I'm curious how you dated it to 1909. In examing catalogs, it they were made until 1926 or so. Good shooting!!!!
Went back and forth on that. Some people really liked it. And I’m the end, I let my kid edit it and make all the decisions. But you try some things and in the end see what people like. More coming soon.
