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A Forgotten Potato We found a forgotten potato in the kitchen that had fallen behind something. So it looked ripe for a photo. The LS45 was on the Speed Graphic camera. Santa Clara, California, USA LS45, 4x5 large format digital back...

Miss Z Pano I wanted to try a Brenizer method pano, but I ended up doing a regular pano with a tripod. This is large format digital, so we're making it Ultra Large Format. It is about 12 shots, stitched with Autopano. The effect is a bit wide. Later I'll use a longer...

Succulent Plant I walked past this plant every day, and then I thought it'd be a nice photo. Stopped down all the way on the Optar lens on the Speed Graphic. Ambient lighting. Santa Clara, California, USA LS45, 4x5 large format digital...

Crayola Crayons in Natural Sun I got a bit of natural sun ligting coming in a window, so I just used that for the crayon shot. Sunlight is really the best. This is the monochrome LS45 and I used the Color Box with 3 Kodak color filters to take red, green and blue...

Enlarging software: The LS-X4-Enlarger-DNNSR The new LS45 sensor will have 6.7 MP while the LS911 is 12 MP. People ask for more pixels. After a bit of searching  we have adapted a great neural network enlarging solution, we call it the LS-X4-Enlarger-DNNSR. It is...

Tree in Morgan Hill Tree in the south of San Jose. 120 images 1/30s averaged into one in camera.  23630 McKean Rd, Morgan Hill, California. https://goo.gl/maps/BTzdmuZsrPFCzwRu5 LS45, 4x5 large format digital back mounted on Svedovsky 8x10D camera. San Jose, CA,...

Barn at McClellan Ranch, Cupertino, CA Tank House at McClellan Ranch, Cupertino, CA LS45, 4x5 large format digital back mounted on Svedovsky 8x10D camera. Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm 7inch lens. www.largesense.com #4x5 #largeformat #largeformatphotography #Svedovsky...

LS45, 4x5 large format digital back mounted on Svedovsky 8x10D camera. Model: Wxntar. Santa Clara, CA, USA. Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm 7inch lens. www.largesense.com #4x5 #largeformat #largeformatphotography #Svedovsky #largesense #bw #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography...

I took out the LS45 for some photos with the Kodak Aero Ektar 7 inch 178mm. I made an Ektar to Wine Country Camera filter holder mount. It is important to use ND filters with this lens in the sun. Using a Schott BG38 filter. LS45, 4x5 large format digital back mounted...

LS Image Enlarging SoftwareEnlarging software: The LS-X4-Enlarger-DNNSR The new LS45 sensor will have 6.7 MP while the LS911 is 12 MP. People ask for more pixels. After a bit of searching  we have adapted a great neural network enlarging solution, we call it the...

Usually behind the camera in video production, the lovely Holly returns to star in our longest large format video so far. This is a set of clips made with the LS911 digital camera. Each part has a bit of different style applied.Also see the behind the scenes video:The...

A person interested in the LS911 was asking for some sharp portraits. While I love wide open photos with part of an eye in focus, I can see the appeal for sharpness. To take a sharp portrait I used a Schneider Kreuznach G-Claron 9/305 f/9 and stopped down to f/90....

Using the LS911 with a Carl Zeiss Jena DDR Tessar 4.5/ 250 mm. The lens has pleasing out of focus areas. Trying a new photographic style with Tina.

We took the LS911 over to Santa Clara University to take a few photos. The university is home to Mission Santa Clara.Used movements to get everything in focus:Used some front movements:Camera: LargeSense LS911 Pre Production Large format digital camera (single shot...

Halloween candy tri color, combined red, green and blue filtered photos. Every since last Halloween I've been waiting to take this photo. After Trick or Treating the kids spilled all their candy on the floor and I thought that'd make a nice photo.   Now that the...

LargeSense cameras are different than other cameras. I put a video together to show how to take a photo. More operational videos later. Reading thr…LargeSense cameras are different than other cameras. I put a video together to show how to take a photo. More...

Click for full size images.Using front tilt:Used the camera in sequential mode to take 30 photos with a 1s delay between each image. The idea was to later find the best poses but the merged images looked interesting.

I tried to take a similar image. The local stores don't have oddly shaped sensual peppers, so I had to do with a modern pepper. Then I didn't have a large funnel so I used a tapered horn from my antique record player. And it has been cloudy lately so I used flash and...

Just a few sample photos from the LS911.The bike photos were shot in afternoon sun for more contrast. Looking at the parts of the bike that are in focus have a nice solid 3D look.   Taking color photos involves taking 3 separate images with red, green and blue...

Ellie in the LargeSense Studio. I was trying out a test camera stand to use while we build a quality camera stand. The Petzval lens is about f/2 and I used ISO 6400 so I had to turn off most of the room lights and used a modeling light to give directional light...

The 500mm Wollaston Meniscus lens lens has a nice look to it even stopped down. It is never very sharp, but it is a soft focus lens. Sometimes we like the look and not the sharpness.   And we tried a 3 color image using the color wheel in manual mode. She did...

The final prototype LS911 case is going into powder coating. The case and a more final software should be ready in February.Meanwhile the LS55 prototype sensor should be ready by the end of March. More updates to follow.   Here's a photo of a Mr Robot toy that...

I wanted to go back and take a better spaghetti on the head photo. At f/22 I noticed that the DOF was rather small, so I set the camera on an interval timer to take images every 3 seconds. This is a built in feature of the LS911. The model was told to move back and...

LargeSense cameras are currently monochrome, and while later color will be offered, it would be nice to convert some images to color. A friend sent me a link to code that automatically colorizes images. http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/#perform_comp   It...

I read about the photo "Potato #345" by Kevin Abosch which sold for a million Euros. So, I was thinking, I'll take a photo of a potato with a large format digital camera and give it away for free. My potato didn't look as interesting as Abosch's, so I asked my...

Someone suggested that I take an up close wide angle portrait wide open. I gave it a try with a Taylor-Hobson Cooke 8.25 Inch 4.5 Series II Aviar Lens. Next time I'll try using a Kodak Aero Ektar 7 Inch F2.5 lens since it covers 9x11 inches up close. This face is not...

Tobie with Spaghetti and Colander on HeadCamera: LargeSense LS911-3a Pre-Production CameraLarge format digital camera (single shot sensor, size bigger than 8x10 inch)Lens: Schneider Kreuznach G-Claron 9/305 at f/45Paul Buff Flash UnitsPhoto Taken: March 7,...

Mar 2, 2016Bill I've been inside for a while, I decided to go out and take some LS911 photos, so I drove to Saratoga looking for some ferns to photograph. Ansel Adams fern photos have been on my mind for a while. I wasn't able to find the fern I was looking for, but I...

Having a monochrome camera gives better monochrome images than converting from a Bayer filtered image. Since the LS911 is a monochrome, and that is great, there are still times when you want color.   There are methods of getting color:   Using a color wheel....