{"id":84,"date":"2021-01-09T19:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T18:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2021-01-09T23:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T22:45:59","slug":"snowy-magnolia-with-the-classic-combo-of-graflex-speed-graphic-and-aero-ektar-178mm-f-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Magnolia with the classic combo of Graflex Speed Graphic and Aero-Ektar 178mm F\/2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1012\" src=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC4541-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" srcset=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC4541-1.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC4541-1-300x237.jpg 300w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC4541-1-1024x810.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/DSC4541-1-768x607.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First snow covering the magnolia in our garden on January 6th 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of my very first shots taken with the 4&#215;5 large format camera &#8211; a 1941 Graflex Speed Graphic and 1943 Kodak Aero-Ektar 178mm F\/2.5 aerial lens. Both the lens and camera are American and from the era of second world war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I shot the magnolia tree on our backyard both wide open and slightly stopped down (above) to F\/5.6 and due to the shot with larger DOF i chose the above one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not having a proper film scanner for large format, this was &#8220;scanned&#8221; with Nikon Z6 and 55mm micro-nikkor lens using Philips bright light for illumination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shot is taken on Kodak TMAX-100 and home developed with Adox Rodinal + Adofix, using SP-445 developing tank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was not supposed to be the &#8220;final&#8221; scan from the negative &#8211; please forgive the white blobs from the <em>film holder<\/em> (aka my fingers) on the top left corner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First snow covering the magnolia in our garden on January 6th 2021. This is one of my very first shots taken with the 4&#215;5 large&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/?p=84\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snowy Magnolia with the classic combo of Graflex Speed Graphic and Aero-Ektar 178mm F\/2.5<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,2,9],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/retrofocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}