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@chabry.bsky.social

📸 1950 4x5 RHS Camera
🎞️ Kodak Kodabromide F5 paper negative
🧪 Caffenol CM
#photograph #papernegative #4x5 #antiquephotography #photography #portrait #car #lomo #tonneins #cars #vdub #vw #vwbug #classic

September 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM

T. Chabry Vintage photography 📸🎞️

@chabry.bsky.social

📸 1950 4x5 RHS Camera
🎞️ Kodak Kodabromide F5 paper negative
🧪 Caffenol CM
#photograph #papernegative #4x5 #antiquephotography #photography #portrait #car #lomo #tonneins #cars #peugeot #peugeot403 #classic

September 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM

T. Chabry Vintage photography 📸🎞️

@chabry.bsky.social

📸 1950 4x5 RHS Camera
🎞️ Kodak Kodabromide F5 paper negative
🧪 Caffenol CM
#4x5 #papernegative #caffenol #blackandwhitephoto #analogphotography #vintagephotography #fordmustang #mustang #66mustang

August 22, 2026 at 9:37 AM

Onno

@onnoweb.bsky.social

The things you need to make a print...

#papernegative

June 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM

Gaétan Cormier

@imageslatentes.bsky.social

It's been a minute since my last visit...
📸 Folmer & Schwing Home Portrait Camera (with 5x7 back)
🎞️Paper negative (positive via PS) Ilford MultiGrade paper
#largeformatphotography #stilllife #papernegative #largeformatfeed

June 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM

Return to... whatever

@returntoroot.bsky.social

#largeformatphotography #8x10camera #papernegative

May 26, 2026 at 12:48 PM

p v ..i.,

@kzoofilmphoto.com

#pinhole taken at lake copneconic, fenton, mi

#PaperNegative #LargeFormat #BelieveInFilm

black and white photo of a small fishing boat by a dock on the shore of a lake on the left of the frame with a bare tree towering in the right of the frame

May 4, 2026 at 11:48 PM

ba1deag1e.bsky.social

@ba1deag1e.bsky.social

An image from my series Italians gone Surfing. Image taken with Chamonix 4x5 large format camera and a Schneider Symmar 210 on photographic paper inverted with the scanner.

#portrait #photography #largeformat #4x5 #papernegative #analog #chamonix #symmar #darkroom

April 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM

ba1deag1e.bsky.social

@ba1deag1e.bsky.social

Portrait for my series Italians gone Surfing. Taken with a Toyo 4x5 and a Schneider Symmar 210 5.6. This image is a paper negative inverted with the scanner.

#portrait #photography #largeformat #darkroom #analog #linhof #technika #4x5 #papernegative

March 31, 2026 at 6:28 AM

ba1deag1e.bsky.social

@ba1deag1e.bsky.social

Some years ago I was totally crazy for this images that are just 4x5 paper negative of diatoms taken at the microscope. Very few people do or know how to do such kind of things in the digital age.

#photography #analog #4x5 #papernegative #diatom #microscope #zeiss #photography

March 12, 2026 at 6:58 AM

John Alton

@johnalton.bsky.social

“Just a Trace”

The sun traces an arc across a blue sky.

Haliburton, Ontario

Solarcan Puck (Pinhole), 14 hour exposure of a paper negative, scanned with IPhone and inverted and tuned in Snapseed.

#filmphotography
#believeinfilm
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Sky
#pinhole
#solarography
#PaperNegative

December 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM

Chad Hill

@chadhill.bsky.social

Muhlenverg’s Encampment, Valley Forge, Pennylvania 2025

B+J Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6mm, Lupex Contact Printing Paper (rated at ISO .02), ~6s @ f2.7.

#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegative #LargeFormat

3 old-timey cabins in a row along a blurry and distorted road.

November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM

Chad Hill

@chadhill.bsky.social

Plonk plonk, Philadelphia 2025

B+J Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6 meniscus lens, Adox Lupex paper negative (rated @ iso .02!?!?!),

A selfie test. 1500ws flash on full just out of frame @ f2. 😅 the slowest image i’ve ever shot. 😅😅

#PaperNegative #SilverChloride #BelieveInFilm #SoftFocus 🎞️📸

A man plays a banjo and looks up at the top of the frame. Black and white soft focuse image.

November 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM

Chad Hill

@chadhill.bsky.social

Testing (romanescu broccoli), Philadelphia 2025

Burke and James Grover 8x10, Wollaston 125mm f1.6 (@~f7), expired Kodak rc paper negative

Testing a new pairing with Reinhold Schables 19mm-equivalent fast LF meniscus at macro distance! 😅😅

#BelieveInFilm #LargeFormat #PaperNegative

A black and white closeup image of a weird vegetable.

Head on view of a Wollaston meniscus lens.

View of the same image on the ground glass.

A setup shot showing the romenescu broccoli under the 8x10 camera with the camera propped against a joy of cooking book and the subject is lit by a bright directional light.

November 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM

p v ..i.,

@kzoofilmphoto.com

bond falls

#BelieveInFilm #PaperNegative #Pinhole #LongExposure #LargeFormat

black and white pinhole photo of Bond Falls in Michigan's upper peninsula

October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM

p v ..i.,

@kzoofilmphoto.com

haven falls

lac le belle, mi aka land traditionally occupied the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ and Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ peoples

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #Pinhole #PaperNegative