terrythomas

I also have an FG Nikon and hope to find a MD14 winder for it sometime.

I have a definition of what I call art. I think if an artist or anyone who paints, draws, writes, builds, crafts, sculpts, photographs, etc. can intellectualize about what they've done or created: it's Art.

I shot weddings back in the 1960's. Most of the time I shot with a 4x5 Speed Graphic and heavy strobe,and sometimes with a roll film back, other times with sheet film. There was never any doubt who was the photographer for the wedding. Occasionally I would shoot a wedding for another studio using their rangefinder camera (not sure if it was 120 film or 35mm). A few people would ask me "is that your camera?). So size matters with cameras too.

Thank you 10986431, jochen, rodeo_joe/1, Sandy Vongries, Steve_gallimore/1, Ricochetrider, AJG, and Glenn McCreery for your input. I have enjoyed checking photo.net daily to see your ideas and responses. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Interesting-thanks.

It would.

The problem that worries me: How do you turn your light emitting screen off, while you mount the paper on it and get it to display just that however prepared image you had in mind? - Regular photo paper should be way(!) too sensitive for a "oh just be swift, the regular exposure takes 5+x minutes, so the paper mounting instant shouldn't matter"

Folks using paper in cameras with lenses tend to have shutters (and be those just a black hat assisting their dark slides.

At some point in time positive paper must have existed - Cibachrome... But I never worked with such.

Another app.

Wouldn't that require an app that maybe even messes with the core or iOS's (miss)behaviors? - I am using Android smart devices and have none, that would display an (uncluttered) image, when I hit the power button.

I wonder if Ricochetrider was thinking on the order of a contact print from the Ipad and maybe from the there to developing trays, stop bath, and fixer in the darkroom? Photoshop on the Ipad could convert the image to a negative. It's been a long time since I was in a darkroom but when I exposed photosensitive paper under an enlarger and then developed it, it became a positive.

How about custom cutting photo sensitive paper to iPad screen size and exposing directly from iPad to paper?

I like that.

You should apply for a patent for that.

Maybe get back to that? - Touristic consumer field cameras of the pre-WW2 era seem kind of portable. X-ray film might be a cost cutting option.

Digital meeting analog muscle memory can feel odd. - I noticed myself turning a camera with flippy screen into the wrong direction due to being used to WLFs.

At least with a view camera you knew the picture would always be inverted.

How about custom cutting photo sensitive paper to iPad screen size and exposing directly from iPad to paper?

I like that.

You may be able to come close to what you want. There are many portable printers designed for wireless use with phones and I Pads. I gave my daughter and daughter in law versions last Christmas. I know the Canon Selphy does a good job. Might achieve the substance of your idea.

Thank you.

Hasn't 8x10" Polaroid film been discontinued for quite a while?

What is the appeal of screen to Polaroid contact printing? - Myself I'd just be tempted to shoot the 4K screen, displaying dedicated inverted GIFs with Multigrade loaded into the 13x18cm.

Errr, what am I missing?

 

In order to be displayed on an LCD screen, an image has to be already digitised. Therefore it can be sent to a printer for a hard copy, and printed at whatever size you like. With no need for polaroid, or any other type of film.

 

There's usually a keypress combination to capture a screen shot to a permanent file. On an Android pad/phone it's volume-down+power. Neither know nor care what the combo is on Apple kit.

Hasn't 8x10" Polaroid film been discontinued for quite a while?

What is the appeal of screen to Polaroid contact printing? - Myself I'd just be tempted to shoot the 4K screen, displaying dedicated inverted GIFs with Multigrade loaded into the 13x18cm.

Hasn't 8x10" Polaroid film been discontinued for quite a while?

What is the appeal of screen to Polaroid contact printing? - Myself I'd just be tempted to shoot the 4K screen, displaying dedicated inverted GIFs with Multigrade loaded into the 13x18cm.

Thank you for your reply. I guess my post was a romanticized fantasy of the 1960's when I photographed and worked in the darkroom with 4x5 and 5x7 film.

Errr, what am I missing?

 

In order to be displayed on an LCD screen, an image has to be already digitised. Therefore it can be sent to a printer for a hard copy, and printed at whatever size you like. With no need for polaroid, or any other type of film.

 

There's usually a keypress combination to capture a screen shot to a permanent file. On an Android pad/phone it's volume-down+power. Neither know nor care what the combo is on Apple kit.

Thank you for your reply. About 50 years ago I did some large format photography and darkroom work. My recent purchase of a 12.9" Ipad Pro got me fantasizing about the old days. I hope to get a heavier tripod, focusing cloth and Ipad tripod mount and relive part of the 1960's. I guess my post was more of a romantic fantasy than anything. I remember the time it took to plan and execute a shot and the pleasure I received. It's not about digitizing or keypress compinations for a screen shots. It's about seeing that inverted image on the groundglass.

I wish there was a way to attach a 8x10 sheet film back to a 12.9 Ipad Pro and put Polaroid instant film in it for large format photographs. No...I have not been drinking.