Photographer brings 104-year-old #KodakCamera back to life: https://zorz.it/YQzzy

#JeremyGray #Kodak2D #analog #EastmanKodak #ViewCamera #LargeFormatCamera #MarkusHofstaetter #photographer #equipment

#Godland (2022), currently on BBC iPlayer.

The film speaks to me on many levels. Among other things, it offers the most compelling, visually most congenial representation of the "photographer's eye".

Late 19th century, a young Danish priest comes to a remote part of Iceland. He is confronted with an imposing, beautiful and unwelcoming natural enivironment, and with deep cultural, political and personal conflicts. The narrative is slow and poetic, brutal at times, supported by intense visual imagery of the Icelandic landscape.

The priest carries with him a wooden large format camera, along with glass plates and the whole wet-plate processing equipment. The film's camera work lovingly reproduces the perspective of a photographer looking at the groundglass of their view-camera, using a 4:3 framing with the rounded corners of a typical ground glass. Magic.

Director #HlynurPálmason, camera #MariaVHausswolff.

#Iceland #Photography #ViewCamera #WetPlatePhotography

Via Film Friday at The Online Photographer (TOP) comes an introduction to the work of Paloma Dooley.

She shoots large format film (8x10) in Los Angeles.

The video in the link is well worth a look (coming from someone who prefers not to sit through a video, I clicked it on the TOP recommendation and yes, it's not a waste of your time)

https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2025/04/film-friday-50-per-exposure-.html

she has a selection of contact prints for sale at what seem very reasonable prices, even after international shipping cost)

#photography #film #viewcamera