[baro-nite]

great stuff - particularly considering it's film, so more done in camera - very impressed

Thank you! Personally, I find the limitations of slide film very liberating.

Nice subtle images there

Thanks much!

Very good! And a variety of P/S digital to large format film at that. The Shen Hao camera is very interesting, this is new to me, looks like a pano camera using 120 film and large format lenses? I lusted over large format gear back in the day, but never pulled it together. I'm afraid I am too entrenched in digital now to do any film work.

Yep, a 6x17 format camera, with all the same movements as a 4x5 field camera. 4 exposures per roll of 120. Since I already had a 4x5 with lenses I didn't have to buy new lenses, nor even lens boards (I have everything on Technika-type boards). I barely used the 6x17 in 2017 (just one roll) and didn't use the 4x5 at all, but I intend to correct that this year (indeed, I've already had the 4x5 out for a weekend). It did seem odd to go "backwards" from digital to film, but it's just another set of photographic tools and I enjoy it all. Prices might not be quite as rock-bottom as a few years ago, but much large-format gear is still amazingly cheap compared to what it was in the film era.

A wonderful collection. I agree with @KC0PET - I hope you will add another two at some stage. The fact that you posted only 10 in previous years is a poor reason to confine yourself this year!

Thanks! OK, when I get those last two rolls back I'll see if I can find two more to add, whether from those rolls or elsewhere.

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3. The magnificent snow-gum woodland in the Victorian high country is still recovering from major fires in 2003 and 2006, but it is heartening to see some of these old giants living on. Bryce's Plain, Alpine National Park, January. K-S2 + DA 18-135.

Our one visit to Australia was in 2006. We planned to spend time among the snow gums but had to change plans because of those fires. This is a wonderful image.

8. I've taken this spectacular vista (looking from our place towards Corner Inlet and Wilson's Promontory) many times, but the sight of the inlet and valleys coated in fog in the early-morning light in March was still special. K-S2 + DFA 100.

We stayed a couple of nights in a cabin somewhere just outside the park entrance, probably out there in the fog somewhere. Again, beautiful, brings back memories.

[savoche]

I think more people should see this thread - for them to see the wonderful images posted here, and to get some more contributions

[KC0PET]

Yep, a 6x17 format camera, with all the same movements as a 4x5 field camera. 4 exposures per roll of 120. Since I already had a 4x5 with lenses I didn't have to buy new lenses, nor even lens boards (I have everything on Technika-type boards). I barely used the 6x17 in 2017 (just one roll) and didn't use the 4x5 at all, but I intend to correct that this year (indeed, I've already had the 4x5 out for a weekend). It did seem odd to go "backwards" from digital to film, but it's just another set of photographic tools and I enjoy it all. Prices might not be quite as rock-bottom as a few years ago, but much large-format gear is still amazingly cheap compared to what it was in the film era.

You aren't kidding! Just doing some poking around and a used basic 4 x 5 and maybe a lens or 2 can be had for a song compared to what they were back in the day. And the film is fairly reasonable also.

And I wouldn't call shooting film "backwards", just something different. And until someone makes a true large format sensor, how else are you going to shoot large format?

[Des]

I think more people should see this thread - for them to see the wonderful images posted here, and to get some more contributions

Need to keep bumping. More please!

[baro-nite]

Got my final rolls of slide film back, a bit disappointing. So to fill out my set I add two from a December trip to Zion National Park with the K-1, which I had acquired just a few days before. Both were made with the Pentax "K series" 30/2.8 lens, a favorite of mine whether on crop or full frame.


River Rock


These Carven Walls

[clackers]

I think more people should see this thread - for them to see the wonderful images posted here, and to get some more contributions

Okay, I'll keep it going ... a mixture of the K-1 and K-S2:



















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[Jonathan Mac]

There are a lot of really great images in this thread - thanks to everyone for posting.

2017 was maybe the most photographically varied year of my life, mostly due to the amount of travelling and other things I've done - trips to Edinburgh, Japan, Aragón in the north-east of Spain, my first ever music festival and a trip in a hot-air balloon... I also shot quite a bit of film as well as digital, and I hope that my photographic and post-processing skills have improved too over the last trip around the sun. If so, then some of that is no doubt due to the great discussions and input on this forum, and I don't just mean the discussion that fuels my LBA

So picking just twelve images from such a year was extremely difficult, but I think they represent my year fairly well. I've put them in (more-or-less) chronological order, so that they tell the story of my year (at least for me).

I hope 2018 is as productive, and we kicked it off with 11 days in Italy, which is not a bad start. I have my fingers crossed to manage a short trip to Paris (photographic heaven??) in February too.


Looking out by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


IMGP7732a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Mad Cool 2017, SFXn, Superia Premium 400 020a (Ryan Adams) by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Mad Cool 2017, SFXn, Lomography CN 400 071a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Tokyo by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Tokyo by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Tokyo by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Japan Pentax MX Ilford Delta 400 037a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


Japan Pentax MX Ilford Delta 400 149a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


IMGP9302a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


2017-11-06_10-56-26 by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr


IMGP3212a by Jonathan MacDonald, on Flickr

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[sergeremy]

trips to ... Japan

I really like those b+w's in Japan!

[baro-nite]

I really like those b+w's in Japan!

+1, very nice work.

[Des]

Okay, I'll keep it going ... a mixture of the K-1 and K-S2:

Superb collection Clackers. They are all excellent - every one - and the diversity is very impressive. I'll single out the Powerful Owl shot because many people won't know that this is an uncommon and hard-to-find bird (despite being 1m tall), and to see one with captured prey (poor corella!) is quite rare. And it's just beautifully captured with subtle use of flash.

So picking just twelve images from such a year was extremely difficult, but I think they represent my year fairly well. I've put them in (more-or-less) chronological order, so that they tell the story of my year (at least for me).

Wonderful set Jonathan. They tell a story of a great year, photographically.

[clackers]

Superb collection Clackers. They are all excellent - every one - and the diversity is very impressive. I'll single out the Powerful Owl shot because many people won't know that this is an uncommon and hard-to-find bird (despite being 1m tall), and to see one with captured prey (poor corella!) is quite rare. And it's just beautifully captured with subtle use of flash.
.

Thanks, mate, I'm treating learning photography like an undergraduate degree - pick up as many styles as possible even if they don't seem relevant. The owl of course I ended up doing as a portrait, complete with flash. Some of my cycling shots are really landscapes. There's crossover happening all the time.

While there's that amazing humpback moment you captured, that pademelon has me welling up. (Sniff) Sorry, think I've got something in my eye ....

[Jonathan Mac]

I really like those b+w's in Japan!

+1, very nice work.

Wonderful set Jonathan. They tell a story of a great year, photographically.

Many thanks. The B&Ws in Japan are a repeat post, you can see the full thread here if you like: Pentax MX and Ilford Delta 400 in Japan - PentaxForums.com

2017 was also the year I discovered Ilford Delta 400.

[Doundounba]

As February nears its end, and CP+ approaches, I'm giving this thread one last bump, to see if anyone else would like to share their twelve favorites of 2017. I so much prefer to see pics than read the bickering in rumors threads...

[savoche]

I so much prefer to see pics than read the bickering in rumors threads...

If those people would just go out and shoot instead of complaining...

[timb64]

If those people would just go out and shoot instead of complaining...

....or use the equipment they so proudly collect