by Ben Horne | Jul 31, 2020 | Ben Horne, Educational
It’s best to keep things simple when working with a large format camera. Over the years I’ve developed a ritual of sorts when working in the field. As Alan Brock mentioned in an earlier post, one such ritual is test firing the shutter before pulling the...
by Ben Horne | Nov 29, 2019 | Educational
View cameras are simple, do not require batteries, and working with this medium allows the photographer to step outside the obsolescence cycle of digital imaging. That’s one of the things I love about large format. This isn’t to say that I’m opposed to...
by Ben Horne | Mar 31, 2019 | Ben Horne, Educational
As Alex Burke mentioned in last month’s blog post, setting up a view camera in the dark is an enormous challenge. The image on the ground glass is incredibly dim, and it is nearly impossible to see the composition. Back in 2010, I developed an incredibly simple...
