It’s mid-December 2020 and a bearded, touqued figure stands silently on the side of a frozen lake looking off towards the rising peak of a distant mountain as the sun begins to rise. A wooden camera stands atop a carbon fiber tripod waiting for the film holder to be slid home and its shutter to […]
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5 Frames… With Kodak Ektar 100 (EI 100 / 4×5 format / Chamonix F-2 4×5)
Like several others who have shared their 5 Frames here, I started my exploration of photography before digital was an option. As a teenager, I shot mostly black and white 35mm film, which I developed and printed myself. Only later in the 1990s when I started shooting professionally did I experiment with color films. While […]
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Camera review: teak wood meets carbon fibre, the Chamonix C45F-2 4×5
After my first exposure to working with large format sheet film in a DIY pinhole camera, I decided to explore this line of film photography a bit further.
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5 Frames… With IMAGO Direct Positive Paper (EI 6 / 4×5 format / Chamonix 45n2)
My name is Montague, I was born in picturesque Basel, Switzerland but moved to Beijing in 2003, where I live and work as a director for film and advertising.
