Still enjoying this little Petzval Projection lens I got from Jim, here it is again on the speedgraphic!  This time I gave some rise to the front standard so that I could move the center of sharpness down onto the tip of the shoe, which made it vignette only on the top.

(edit) oh it looks like it's not showing all of the image.  Here's the direct link to the image, click here.

Getting back into experimenting with lenses again!  The speedgraphic is amazing for this, shutter speeds up to 1/1000th!  Very hand for shooting large diameter lenses outside :-D  Sometimes holding up a sheet of ND filter are still required though. 

First two shots are from a Bausch & Lomb lens I aquired from Mr. Jim Galli, (thanks Jim, I'm enjoying it!)  the 3rd image is just an achromatic doublet stuffed into a piece of cardboard with a hole cut into it.  I don't quite like how the image just smears off the edge into space, I'll see about putting another element (probably another doublet, mirrored?) behind the first one to see if the edges will do something a bit more interesting.

So, I'm sure like alot of other people interested in photography, we've all at one point or another shot pinhole cameras (or regular large format cameras) with paper instead of negatives.  I enjoyed doing this in college (pinhole cameras) but I never liked the negative image on the paper.

My interest in shooting paper has been revived when I saw Efke is selling positive paper now!  I got mine from freestyle, here:  https://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_search.php?q=positive+paper&catsel=all&

My only trouble so far, has been in dealing with the very high contrast of the paper!  much more than one stop over and one stop under, goes to white and black.  This works quite well for subjects of very low contrast, but is tricky for subjects of even moderate contrast range.  I've been developing with Dektol, various dilutions don't seem to make much difference, though I've noticed as the dektol gets exhausted, I think the contrast seems to be reduced.  I'm going to be trying Selectol developer soon, to see if a softer developer will yield less contrast.

 In any case, here are some of my better results, scanned to match the prints as close as possible.  all on 8x10.  I was careful to meter for the highlights, to keep as much of the water detail as possible.  I really hope I can find a developing solution that will yield a bit less contrast, working with this positive paper is so much fun!

The christmas tree at work, taken with a Cambo 4x5 and Aero-Ektar 7" at f2.5.  Red filter was used to supress the greens of the tree and let the funky lights stand out more.

This one is a test image for some large aperture lenses I'm working on.  This one, about 4" across on a 4x5.