My first outing with the 4x5

[Xia_Ke]

First, let me just say I have a new found respect for shooting LF in the field. We got about 14" of fresh snow on Monday. Talk about a challenge trying to go through composing to shooting while trying to keep everything dry and out of the snow...lol

I spent a few days last week testing for film speed and development times. I'm now using Ilford FP4+ in Rodinal 1+25 and plan to stick solely with this for a while for my B&W shooting. I have full shutter speed test sheets for my lenses so I didn't need to test for both lenses (different shutters). Turns out for my workflow, it comes in at ISO100 and 7 minutes development at 68 degrees instead of the box rated ISO125 and 9 minutes development.

I'm having some slight development issues, which you can see in the shot with the tree where the development is a little uneven. Still trying to get used to the whole tray developing thing. Anyway, here's some shots from farting around, trying out the new rig...