Any film photographers here?

@HumanEarth wow that's a beauty! Its rather larger than my 35mm cameras! What do you photograph and what film are you using?

With this camera is uses 11x14 and its a Glass plate negative camera and it can use the Wet Plate Process or the Dry Plate Process.

@HumanEarth Do you still use it? You're a very committed photographer if you're still using wet plates!

Wet plate negative making is a big pain in the ass. I can do it, but it's really a hassle. Dry plate is better, because its more like film and can be made ahead of time and stored. Unlike wet plate, you make it and use right then and there. There is no storing

And yes I just used this camera last fall

@HumanEarth i'm seriously impressed. What do you photograph? Isnt calculating the exposure a challenge?

It could be if I paid attention to the science of it. I just wing it and learn as I go. Been doing that my whole life.

I'm more a doing it learner. Then a book learner

@HumanEarth shame you're so far away. It'd be good to watch you work. Presently I'm using a couple of Pentax MX cameras with Fomapan, FP4 and HP5 and investigating different developers ... Rodinal, LC29 and ID-11 so far. Its been an interesting switch from my Nikon dSLRs (which I still have and use ... mainly to scan my negatives and do macro shots).

I hate digital cameras, it kills at art

@HumanEarth Agreed! You're so much more involved with the whole process with film and its a much more creative and cognitive experience. Digital has its place, but i much prefer film.

@nzjim What I love about digital is the ability to stitch multiple shots together and perspective correct the assembly. I shoot when we travel, often church or historical interiors. Stitching allows me to construct a larger field of view; perspective correction allows me to remove keystoning and make the vertical lines in reality be vertical in the image (yes, you can do some of this with a shift lens).

In my mind's eye, the columns in a building are usually vertical and symmetric about the main aisle. It's nice to make that happen in the image.

@HumanEarth I shoot both. I use alot of old film camera lenses on my mirrorless.

But I also shoot 35mm, 120 , and 4x5.

Nice camera. 8x10?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow It's a 11X14 with a 4 X 5 lens board set up

@ElwoodBlues i have stitched scanned negatives with good success. I recall "stitching" back in the '80s with multiple prints glued together to create a panorama. At the time i only had a 50mm lens and some of the ancient Ronan ruins of the forum etc really needed something wider than 50mm to put the columns and buildings in context.