4x5" Camera Half Day Experience (No Film Processing)

Title: How to use a 4x5 inch plate cameras and make an exposure
Audience: Beginners. This is an introductions to 4x5" inch plate cameras. We do offer a more comprehensive course
Duration: 4 hours to include a mid break
Maximum number of attendees per session: 2.
Additional attendee per session costs £150 each.

Explore and experience one might say the total opposite of photography today:

Slowing down – plate cameras take time
1 hour technical demonstration and discussion
Looking – setting up the camera on a tripod an framing requires you to really focus and frame. Using a viewer or fame, start looking through the rectangle and really look at what is before you
Inverted world – in this experience the world is viewed in the camera literally upside down (inverted) giving you a very different perspective
Exposure - no electronics allowed. You will learn how to read light with a light meter
Setting exposure - no automation here. Exposure requires two settings based on a third factor the sensitivity of the film. You will understand how the ASA of the film (sensitivity) interacts with the speed and aperture settings
Loading film - learn how to use a double dark slide and how to load it into the camera
Tactile – We will post your negative/s and contact prints - no emailing here just the real deal
Notes - take home printouts from everything covered.